OCR Text |
Show SEVEK DAYS IN ITL 0L N. yT J . 4- (Copyright, 1022 by The Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) NEW YUKK. Dec. 23 You've got to hand it to this town alt. r all for being hard boiled. They arrested Santa Claus this week And on what charge do you suppose sup-pose ? Blocking traffic! Not for malicious mischief or for Inciting In-citing to riot or to robellion nor tor any of the things you'd suppose Santa j ciaus might logicall be 1 rrested tor, If you were Illogical enough to sup- poee his arrest anywoy. After a glance into our Christmas sto king ourselves have sometimes consider- .1 1 having the old saint sent to BellevUt payopathlc or at least brought 1" i'" a lunacy commission: but even Wi never nev-er thought of calling a cop and having him pinched. It Just shows how diffrr.ni alues are In this town from what th In other places. JfOU can gel with murdei here. You can 1 iren occasionally oc-casionally get away with parking your car without tipping the patrolman, but . j. 1 blocking traffic Is tho unforgivable sin. It's the offenso for which a Salvation Sal-vation Army lasslo wu.i arrested on Broadway not so many days ugo. Behold Santa, therefore. Interrupted In the midst of wishing n crowd of youngsters a Merry Christmas, arrested arrest-ed by a traffic officer, who seemed not to feel any peace on earth or good will toward men, and escorted to tho police station. At tlu heel Of Santa and the policeman, po-liceman, trailed approximately five to ten thousand children, fiO per cent of them wi'h b ars streaming down their faces, and a hundred and one of them telling tho officer exactly what they thought of him in that simple unre-stialn. unre-stialn. d manlier characteristic of the I New York youth The fact that by crowding Into the police station to j watch proceedings they were missing nn afternoon at schoob seemed not to bother tho younger set at all. The camplalni against Saota Claus was dismissed and ho was told to get a llcenso or a permit or Borne such bit j of red tape before blocking traffic again. Hard on tho hes of his arrest, for 1 example, camo tho news of the ap-pioa.h ap-pioa.h of a yet greater coal famine than that which now chills (ho town the sole of the Dewltt Clinton portrait' and the case of Michael O'Neil's Yule-tldu Yule-tldu cumjns out and going In party The sheriff mBrched Into the rooms of the board of education, took the De-jwltt De-jwltt Clinton portrait from the wall and sold It at auction to satisfy a debt of $7s tor Which the city had approprl- itlon, The debt was for automobile tiros and when the board of education approved the bill, the comptroller rein- . d to hand out th.- money, th.-n tho I sheriff proceeded as aforaald. Michael O'Neil's coming out and go-Ung go-Ung In party proved even more exciting. excit-ing. Mike, who is 80 years old, was In an institution for the aged when jhls friend, itlchard Weston though it 1 would be a nice Idea to take him out land give him a homo over the holidays jHut Weston Objected to Mike smoking In bed. Mike objected to the objec- 1 Hons and Weston charge! that Mike I finally up and shot him In the face. Two days later Mike catns out of hiding, hid-ing, went to th.- police, and said ho thought he owed Mr Weston an apology apol-ogy The police agreed with him and probably Weston, who II in a hospital, agreed with them. Three New York women divided the llmollghl among them. Mrs. William Cummlngfl Story cast u bomb Into the ranks of the I'. A P.. by announelng her candidacy lor president-gen. ral In an effort lor e, 1, r, ratio n for elmrges eonne, t. d with the affairs of the National Na-tional Emergency Belief society. She Is Indorsi d by her own chapter. Then along came Princess Anastasla of Greece, formerly Mrs. "Tin Plate" Leeds of New York, with her exiled but royal husband And finally Mi Cornelius underbill. flT . hl another handbag, th- returning of which permit!, per-mit!, d an interested world to learn what she carries around It In are a broken mirror, a card, a sample of velvet, vel-vet, while- th. bar Itself In black bro-cadeu bro-cadeu velvet, mounted In gold- Meanwhile Santa Claus since his ar-rost ar-rost has glv.n another cample of his Inverted YulStldS spirit Coal hero Is a lot more scarce than diamond tiaras, ti-aras, yet of the 900 contestants who took a chance on a ton of coal at an "Odd Fellows' carnival" who won the prise? None other than Sergeant Thomas C. Kane, U. S. A. stationed i..r the winter In the canal zone, with the thermometer at 100 In the shade. Yes, all things considered, maybe arresting Santa Claus Ifl not such a good ld a. What they ought to do Instead, In-stead, Is to get out an Injunction. |