Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1953 — Page 26

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The True Htorp of Santa Claus — “BY OLIVER O’ BENNETT SERVER '

DEAR CHILDREN: Wherever free people live and work and love and bring children into the world, Santa Claus ie both fact and tradition. Ono empty otocMap can go a long way toward destroying faith, in the mind of a little child. Without faith, life approaches the state of hopelessness. 7/ faith is maintained and nurtured, seemingly impossible situations will be overcome eventually. Thus Sammy Clause bears the same relation to Santa Claus, that Satin bears to God. So, if you, yourself, really ( believe, you will /Ind that Sammy —by horrible example—will become an instrument to maintain faith, instead of destroying it by unanswered Questions. —THE AUTHOR.

OST folk don't even know about Sammy Claus; but, if yotr’U come up real close, I’ll tell you what a horrible, terrible, awful rascal Sammy really I*. Sam m y is even worse than a rascal. He

never brushes his teeth, nor washes his face and hands, nor combs his hair. He never even takes off his clothes, when he goes to bed. Just imagine, sleeping with all your clothes on! Why Sammy even gets wrinkles in the .wrinkles in his clothes, and he doesn’t smell very nice, either. \ Sammy never goes to church or Sunday school. In fact, his name isn’t really Sammy Claus. It was Sammy Carbuncle; but he is such a trouble-maker that he just changed it and started calling himself Sammy Claus, knowing he’d get the mailmen and other folk all mixed up, so he could spoil their Christmases for them. Once In a while he does. THAT IS the kind of rascal Sammy is. Why he’ll go down to the corner fruit store and, if he can’t steal any—while nobody is looking, he’ll buy a great big bagfull of beautiful, ripe, juicy, red apples—and he’ll just sit and look At them until they all begin to »poil. Then he starts to eat them. Saiymy lives in a tumblerdown house that leans this way and that •ay. Yes, and now I remember 'hat part of it leans the other *vay, too. The grass is nearly as ligh as the rickety fence, which Also leans thia way and that way. :n fact, the mail man has a hard ime getting through the weeds md over the holes in the porch loor, but he has to deliver Sammy’s mail, just like he deliver* t to everybody else, k He carries a :lothes-pin in his pocket, and I Lear he puts it on his nose every lay? before he goes up on Sammy’s >orch with the mail. He tells me

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most of the letters he deliver? there are in pretty scrawly handwriting, which is very hard to read. Now I suppose you are wondering why the FBI didn’t arrest Sammy long ago. So lean over, real close, because this is a deep secret and I don’t want you to repeat it. They are after him. The Head Man told me so, just the other night, when I got this far along with our facts and began wondering why the FBI hadn’t caught him already. Over the phone, the Head Man told me, very confidentially, that thty never have too much trouble catching ordinary 'crooks; but Sammy is so dumb and so lazy that he never does anything. This makes him a very hard man to arrest. y a 1 You see, if Sammy opened the Christmas letters, which he doesn’t —because he is too lazy; or, if he read them, which he doesn’t—because he was just too lazy to read; they’d arrest him in 4 minute. They did go Inside his place, several times, when he was out after more apples—to let spoil before he started to eat them. THEY EVEN picked up O lot of Christmas letters they found, right where the maflman left them; but the Head Man told me that most of the writing, was pretty awful bad—so bad that they couldn’t read very much of it—even so their newest and finest laboratory. So, you see, they really couldn’t arrest him flor anything. However, they are still after him, because the Head Man told me they were going to try . . . Gee, I promised him I wouldn’t tell about this—and we always have to keep a Dromiaa.

Sammy is such a rogue that th* postman can’t get anything on him either. He never answers his bell, which he can’t—because the doorbell doesn’t ring; and besides he is too lazy to fix it, even if he knew how. So the mailman just shoves the mail through a big hole in Sammy's front door—which is ■the same hole that Sammy’s pet skunk. Stinky, climbs in and out through; and I guess that a skunk is the only animal that could stand living in the same house with Sammy. * • • TRUTHF ULLY, they are both so terrible that I thought it over several times—and then I put perfume in my ink, before writing thia—and I really had to write it. You see, I thought it would be a good idea to tell you all about this whole situation now—just in case any single childish letter (which you, the reader, is powerless to answer properly) does go astray, on its way to Santa Claus, and ends up in Sammy’s unsympathetic hands. I pray that such a dire thing never happens to you; but, if it does, now you will know just how and why it happened. Please, don’t ever lose faith in Santa Claus, as long as you live. Dark clouds may keep us from seeing the sun rise tomorrow morning: but we all know that it will arise. Looking at those dark clouds, we all Imow that the sun is back of them—shining In all its glorious splendor—and, when ths clouds pass, its glowing warmth gives us courage and restores our faith that it was there an the time. We must forever keep the same kind of faith: in Santa Claus.

Mike Insurance PATNA, India (UP)—Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru found himself facing six microphones when he began addressing a public meeting here. He asked Bihar’s chief minister, Sri Krishna Sinha, the reason for so many. ‘‘Because you get angry with us when the mike fails,” Sinah replied. This Is Harmony? Port worth, Tex. cupj — Mayor Ydgar Deen proclaimed “Harmony Day” in Fort Worth recently, but before the day wa.t out, police reported one shooting, five stabbings and the jailing of a man who tried to burn his house. Wrong Place For Bed BLOOMFTEDD, Conn. (U>P) —A policeman started asking questions when he saw the furniture being delivered, and /*'; men were arrested on charges of furniture theft The officer said he really became suspicious when he sarw a bed being carried into—of all places—a filling station. Appreciation CRANSTON, R.I. (UP) — Postman William (“Happy”) Lippold had delivered so much good will along with the mail that when he broke his leg while painting his house friends and neighbors finished the job.

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