Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1946 — Page 7

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Desi Editor \ Tams years old. Some of my Tiele friends ay there ve . Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in "The Sun’ it's s0.™ Please tell me the wth, is there a Santa Claus?

. Virginia O'Hanlon

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seginia, your lintledr . 1 wrong. They have been affected by the shepuicil'st's skeptical age. They do not believe except the sos AI minds, Virginia, whole they be men's or children’s 850 file. Tn this geeat universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant ia his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him ie Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love’ and generosity and devotion éxist and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Abas, how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus == as drearyas if) there were no Virginias . . . The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. § 1). believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe’ in. fairies . . . Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is, no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see . . . There is a veil covering the) unseen world which not the strongest man . . . could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain . and picture the superual beauty and glory beyond. Is it all veal? ‘Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and he loves forever. A, thomand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years] from vow, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.”

FRANK P. CHURCH

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