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Show Open Letter to Santa Clausx This is a Christmas letter to request re-quest something for all the children of the earth.- . . . First, they are entitled to the truth about you. . . ; So let us tell them, Santa. Because it is dangerous not to. Tell them that not only is it true that there is a Santa Claus, but also that the Christmas spirit is the only true thing in the world. Tell them, Santa, that they must get along with each other, as each of them gets along with you. Santa, please do not pussyfoot the issue. ... In this 20lh century you have simply got to stand up for the rights. of hundreds of millions of children chil-dren who believe in you. '. . . You know, and I know, that this adult world is phony. But it is time that the adult world lived up to the star on the Christmas tree, instead of the tinsel in its heart. Tell the children of the world,' Santa, that all boundaries are fakes. . . , And that a line on a map means a fence around a heart. . . . Tell them that any man is an enemy of Santa Claus who thinks that he can-meet the ' Christmas spirit by substituting a toy in a child's hand instead of putting love and trust in its soul. Santa, please tell the kids the truth. That your reindeer are colorblind. color-blind. . . . That they cannot "see, and that they do not care, whether it's a- little Chinese boy in a river sampan, a Negro child in some Alabama Ala-bama cabin, an Indian girl in a wigwam wig-wam or a New York boy in a cold-water cold-water tenement; . . . They only look different to the greedy adults who crawl the earth. But they are all the. same to the children, to Santa. Claus, to his reindeer and to God. And, Santa, if there is anything left qver, give us grownups the power pow-er to live up to the love of our children chil-dren for us. . . . We have so much hope for them, and they have so much trust in you. W. W. Headline: "Vishinsky Sails for Home." Bum Voyage! . . . World War I and World War II supposedly taught us lesson. And they did. That I and 11 can add up to 111. . . . One alibi for soft-peacing soft-peacing Nazis is that we may '.eed them (as allies) in a war against Russia. How times don't change Neville Chamber-lain Chamber-lain inked the Munich pact for the same reason. . . . Top laugh in Reader's Read-er's Digest: "While anxious relatives gathered at a lawyer's office to hear a will, they heard: 'Being of, sound body and mind, I spent all my money while alive.1 " , . Washington Ticker: Insiders claim the "feud" between the President and Bob Hannegan (which both will tut-tut and poo-poo) is "so bitter" that Hannegan won't even' "coach from the sidelines" during the '48 campaign. Hannegan, ' incidentally, is the first politician ever to go to Missouri from Washington a new switch. Ed Pauley, they insist, has no part of the St. Louis Cardinals. But he was the one "who arranged the loan" which Hannegan's syndicate syndi-cate floated via a St. Louis bank. . . . Senator Capper of Kansas 'will sppnsor legislation (or hazzee?) prohibiting pro-hibiting hooch adverts in the papers, mags and over the airzones. Funny thing: Since we got the A-bomb (history's most potent weapon), Americans never felt so insecure. . . . There's a terri-fier terri-fier in the current United Nations Na-tions World mag: The latest A-bomb A-bomb is 50 times more potent than the one that splintered Hiroshima. Moscow papers, please copy. The Late Watch: Since the expose of Gen. Bennett Meyers, many' air force one-to-four starrers are wearing wear-ing their civvies off post, especially when shopping, to discourage snide comment about . war - profiteering generals. .... A staffer at Fortune mag did a little researching on the current two-buck letter fad (which rates a feneral rap) and wound up with 900 slugs! . . . Swank Nassau hotels are hiring Canadian bands (instead of Yankee crews) because they can't spend U$.. . . . About three-fifths of Equity's actors are unemployed. The number "at liberty", lib-erty", is about 5,800; the number oi Equity members is about 6,300. Great Kockne Saga: The time he got miffed over sports page notices that his Four Horsemen were "the team." Kockne (without (with-out warning) replaced the quartet quar-tet (just as the game began) with four "unknowns" and beat Yale! It's a Lovely Day Dept.: The Akron, .Ohio, Klu Klux Klan has discontinued its district-wide meetings. meet-ings. "Too much nasty publicity bj columnists!" ... In Lindy's a Suth-inuh Suth-inuh reeled up to Lucille and Eddie Roberts and called them dam-yankees. dam-yankees. She's from Virginia and his grandad was in the Confederate army. . . . You can get corned beel almost anywhers around New Yorfc on meatless Tuesdays. . . . Isn'l that Kurt Heppe taking dance lessons les-sons at Arthur Murray's? He's the chap who quit suddenly (as assistant assist-ant to Oscar at tho Waldorf) to pan Canadian gold. They say he's worth xiUions. . . . One of the Harem captains, cap-tains, John Putz (his real name) speaks nine languages and picks up side coin tutoring collegians. |