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Is There A Santcr Clcus?

(This is one of the finest scrap-book pieces in literary history. In 1897 a little girl named Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the New York Sun, which letter, together with the editorial reply written by Francis P. Church, were published in that newspaper, as follows:)

"Dear Editor-I am 8 years old.

"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.

"Papa says 'ff you see it in the Sun, it's so.'

"Please tell me the truth-is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O'I{anlon."

(And Mr. Church replied.)

"Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

"Yes, Virginia, there fS a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas ! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus ! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world, would be extinguished.

"Not believe in Santa Claus ! You might as well not believe in fairies ! You might get your papa to hire men to watch all the chimnies on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world.

"You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fanc5z, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in dl this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

"No Santa Claus? Thank God! He lives and he lives forever ! A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood."

Anticipcrtion

Into the restaurant came a regular customer. He ignored the menu, but looked at the waiter and said: "What have you got that will give me the heart-burn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning?"

Friends

Isobel Field, the step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, is 91 years old, and has been bedridden for many years. But she still writes and sends to her friends her own little Christmas greetings. This was her most recent one: In my colorful life of 90 years, I've'had joy and laughter, sorrow and tears, But the best I found my whole life through, (And I'm grateful to heaven) are friends like you.

Free Speech For Russicrns

They're telling a story in Berlin about an argument between an American officer and a Russian officer over what constitutes democracy, and in which country real democracy is practiced. Here's the way the American ended his argument:

"Why, back home a fellow living out in the midwest could jump on a train, be in Washington in a couple of days, walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, enter the White House, knock on the President's door and say, 'Mr. Truman, you are a stupid man.' He could do that and he wouldn't even be arrested."

Here's the Russian story:

"That's exactly the kind of democracy we have in Russia. A peasant from any small village could start out for Stalingrad, reach there in a couple of months, maybe, spend another couple of months getting to Moscow, go to the Kremlin, walk in, knock on Generalissimo Stalin's door and say, 'Mr. Stalin, President Truman is a stupid man.' And, believe it or not, he would not even be arrested."

(From "Family Times")

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