Show iphi api anu IMAGINARY CHRIST CHRISTMAS MAS COLUMN roosevelt says sh she e believes 1131 mrs rs in telling children there is is a santa claus let them have the joy ot of believing b el ieving that santa claus he is such a does corn come e and that jolly old saint she writes writ es news item yes there is a santa claus I 1 sometimes hear people say there is not but yesterday we had quite a few friends over to luncheon and they all quite willingly came out for his existence last night I 1 motored to westbrook A motorcycle policeman held me up H he e wanted to talk about the red light but I 1 got ot him to talk about kris kringle f told him there really was a santa claus and in a very few moments he caught the spirit of the whole thing and told me to drive on today I 1 am attending two luncheons and I 1 shall bring up the matter of santa and ask for a more universal emphasis there is so IN banta lava 1 much every one of us can do about it if we only try it is always hard for me to understand people who say there is no santa claus but I 1 suppose there will always be people of that kind I 1 get around quite a bit and I 1 find the belief in the jolly saint rather general this time of year chicago kansas city dubuque poughkeepsie los angeles houston everywhere one finds this true I 1 have also noticed it in new york haverstraw chico pee falls cleveland brooklyn and golden beach s 0 I 1 also think santa claus exists in a very real way in radio indeed it is in a broadcasting station that he seems especially tangible to me I 1 never look at a microphone without seeing a little red hat on it and long white whiskers 0 0 I 1 think newspapers are full of santa clauses too whenever I 1 think of a managing editor I 1 seem to imagine him in a sleigh crying on donder on on cupid on vixen to eight tiny reindeer yes santa is very real very very real I 1 would be the last to doubt it I 1 believed in him as a little girl but he has never seemed so genuine to me as now some of my associates do not believe in him I 1 regret to say westbrook fegler for example thinks he is a fake and I 1 hear he may expose him I 1 trust not after all we are all little children some more so than others I 1 sometimes wonder if the kiddies are not smarter than the grownups grown ups so let us make this a land of children and childish illusions until the last decade not much was done about santa in an aggressive way I 1 mean it all seemed so ineffectual there was no government interest but now santa has the federal government behind him and he is a different person 0 0 tomorrow I 1 drive to carson city where there will be a council meeting for better santas and the next day I 1 go to oil city pa to help launch the federation for the standardization of artificial snow flakes if anybody asks me if there is a santa claus I 1 shall not mince words 0 0 WANNA BET the society of restaurateurs urs reports that a poll of patrons on the question of what to do to solve the problem of serving adequate meals in the crisis shows that 15 per cent favored a charge for bread and butter and 8 per cent favored charging extra for coffee or tea with dinners well we just dont believe it we have never yet encountered anybody who fume over a separate charge for bread and butter and nothing makes the average patron as sore as the 35 of tea or coff coffee ee if the gas crisis gets as bad as predicted we may yet see a fellow with a half pint of gasoline trying to get a garage to open up to let him have enough automobile for a little f fun un HOWS T THE HE HOUSE js COMING ON among the more irascible ci citizens or of the moment are those who were fortunate enough to begin building or remodeling a house this summer we know a man who has been a victim tim of so many priority lists that he is naming his new manse priorities manor 1 I cant get any plumbing shingle nails gutters radiators or door knobs he wailed yesterday tell me waa did japan get all a U r door knobs knob and nd keyholes keYl ioles too |