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Show -uu i TAFT MAKES A GOOD SANTA CLAUS Washington. Dec. 23. Prosident Taft plnjed Santa Clans today to two-score two-score policemen, more than twenty clerks, the secret service men who aro on guard at the executive offices, and dozens of other employes of tho White House To each policomnn and married man omplqjed, outside tbe off Ice 1 force, the steward presented a ilne turkoj Each clerk found an envelope ' with a $5 gold piece In it on his desk. W The President himself acted as San- Di, ta -Claus for the secret service men IRA who have traveled with him on many ":flE journeys Each guard was given a HR gold stickpin. Kr One present for Mr. Taft hlmselt v HI that reached the White House came j IJ from Postmasfer Douglas at Tusca- t'li5jj: loos,a, Ala. It was a forty-five-pound 'pm turkey, one of the biggest ever sent 'fcftatf to grace tho presidential Christmas nicr diner. ftjgtl |