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Show Mothers GirdJorJKar on CynicalJClan Which Tells Kiddies -There Is --No Santa- Cynics who beard Santa Claua In his own den children'! heart Tuesday discovered they had put their head in a lion's mouth they reckoned without the children's chil-dren's mothers. Embattled women cudgeled critic crit-ic of the Santa Clau myth, attacked at-tacked those who tell children Santa doesn't exist and began a campaign to enshrine St. Nick forever on the altar of childhood love. But they unmasked the old gentleman, gen-tleman, too. They showed him to be not a fat, whit whiskered fellow fel-low who squeezes down chimneys once a year, but the spirit of love which exists everywhere. And they "i -tittrrt that there is a Santa Claus, even If, Dr. L. John Nuttall Jr., city superintendent super-intendent of schools, said. St Nick has no part in the school curriculum. . Spearhead of the women's attack at-tack was a resolution passed by the central committee of the American Mothers' Sentinel league condemning an asserted "controversy over teachers telling tell-ing the children there Is no Santa Claus." Hurt by tears In the eyes of their children who assertedly came home from school recently with the news "teacher told us there Isn't a Santa," the league went on record: "Whereas notices have appeared In the daily press regarding controversy con-troversy over teachers telling the children there Is no Santa Claus, and whereas, we the central committee com-mittee of the American Mothers' Santinsl Isaguc believe that the American idea of Christmas and Santa Claus is such that no American Amer-ican child ever need be told there is no Santa Claus ... we do hereby here-by condemn and oppose the prac tice of telling any child there la no Santa Claus." - The petition bore signatures of Mrs. Elna D. Openshaw, league president; Mrs. J. Parley White, vice president: Mrs. Mary B. Bowman, Bow-man, secretary: Mrs. J. W. McGinn, Mc-Ginn, treasurer, and 16 others. Dr. Nuttall refused to comment on the pros and cons of teaching 4 children there la a Santa Claus, but he did say: "Santa Claus Isn't part of the school curriculum. It does not enter the school program bo far as I know." Not so Miss May Anderson, superintendent su-perintendent of the L. D. 8. Primary Pri-mary association. "We teach our children there la a spirit of love and kindness," she . . .... ssiu. vie ici mem enjuy tne myth. I am sorry for those who teach children there la no Santa Claus. They rob not only the children's chil-dren's lives but their own Uvea of frr-" j Mrs. A R. Curtis, president of the Salt Lake City Parent-Teacher association. "Children should be taught the spirit of giving, and Ssnta Claus Is the best means of that teaching. I do not believe In robbing them of the Joy of Santa Claus." Mrs. Openshaw said she knew of several instances where teacher teach-er have told children there la no Santa Claus, and added that "the teacher who does that disregards the relationship between mother and child." The American Idea of Christmas and Santa Claus. the league member mem-ber said, "is the most beautiful any where.' Children should be Uught not that Santa Claus Is an old fellow who cornea down the "Thrmney once ayear: Me -hnftr ' But he Is the spirit of love and giving, and children should be taught he exists everywhere. "Any little child can be a Santa Claus," they concluded. i n hi t ;' V. t V , W jfc w Hb . ';' . . i-: V vf U ; M SANTA CLAUS IS REAL TO RICHARD JONES St. Nick listens to Richard's hopes for Christmas TROUBLE AWAITS CYNICS WHO WOULD... . Debunk Santa Claus and break children's hearts |