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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1937
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN; LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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A Letter To Virginia--1937
Dear Virginia:
Your little friends are right, Virginia. They have been teasing you and telling you that Santa Claus is just a lot of hokum. And they are right, Virginia—there is no Santa Claus.
You see the New York Sun and other papers have only been fooling you all these years with their talk of sentimentality and Christian idealism. It's nice to write about things like sympathy and brotherly love, but it isn't to be taken seriously, Virginia. The editors are just trying to be entertaining or whimsical.
It's all a very lovely story, and it pleases the editors to believe that for a day there is peace on earth and true fellowship among men. The editors like to think that there really is sympathy and understanding prevailing in this world of ours, even though they know it isn't true.
For it isn't that way at all, Virginia. Love, kindness, sympathy, and understanding are just mere catch-words, words to be repeated on Sundays and Christmas, words to be sung in hymns, words to be inscribed on calendars and Christmas cards. And in this modern world, Virginia, these words mean nothing at all. They are only sentiments to be repeated mechanically on Sunday and promptly forgotten on Monday when the more important things take place.
Of course the men who orn our newspapers don't like to face the situation. They know that the truth never looks nice in print, so they build up stories about Santa Claus and the idealism that lives in the hearts of men, but it is all just so much tinsel, Virginia, and the itssel is beginning to wear thin.
There are numberless children, Virginia, who do not have a warm comfortable home as you have. Thousands of little boys and girls in your city do not even have stockings to wear, let alone to hang on the fireplace. Their fathers belong to the great ranks of the unemployed and have been unable to find work the last few years. It is pretty difficult to explain to a little girl like you about the employment situation—important men have been puzzled by it—but the children of these unemployed men know what it means to have no coal with which to heat their homes, to have no food to fill their empty stomachs, and no warm clothing to protect their bodies. These children couldn't be fooled as you have been with tales of Santa Claus, Virginia; they would know immediately that it was just another story-book tale.
There are hundreds of little boys who work for the editors who write these nice letters to you. These little boys sell papers on the streets, they wear ragged clothing, and the few pennies that they make support mothers and sisters. These little boys couldn't be fooled by tales of Santa Claus either. Virginia.
There is something phony about a Santa Claus who thinks that a charity dinner on Dec. 25 will make children forget about the other 364 days in which meat and potatoes are things like fairies and sugar-plum trees that little girls dream of at night. There is something wrong about a Christmas spirit which makes men dress up like Santa Claus to lure customers into department stores, yet does nothing to help men possess the simple necessities of life.
A world of love and fellowship that can function only on one day of the year must be a difficult pill for little boys and girls to swallow. Don't let them force it down your throat, Virginia.
So don't pay any more attention to the platitudes and sugar-coated phrases in the papers. They are only empty words that men have fashioned to hide the real situation. In order to get along in this world of ours, Virginia,
Hell, no, there ain't no Santa Claus.
Sincerely yours.
someone has to give you the key to the front door.
The Editor
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Vol. 35 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1937 No.65
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION. The regular weekly meeting will be held Tuesday afternoon in room C. Myers hall. All students and faculty interested are invited to attend.-Keith Davis, President.
FRESHMAN COMMISSION OF Y.M.C.A. AND Y.W.C.A. The Freshman Commissions of Y.M.C.A.
are the highest honorary degree day. Charles Wright and Betty Van Deverter will lead the discussion—Jean Robertson, President.
CREATIVE LENISURE COMMISSION; The Creative Leisure Commission will meet at Henley house at 3:20 this afternoon. The group will go as a body to the Christmas Vessers—Ruth Fengel, College Coolbaugh.
GERMAN CHRISTMAS PLAY: A German Christmas play will be presented by the German Club on Monday, Dec. 13, at 8 o'clock in Green Hall theater. There will be singing of German Christmas carols and Santa Claus. Refreshments will be served. All students of Germany are cordially invited. Axure Gericka.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL 1. The Men's Student
Council will meet Monday, Dec. 13, at 8:15 in the Pine
Room.
OFFICIAL STUDENT CORRESPONDENTS' BUILDING Correspondents are urged to attend a meeting of the Student Government and 102 Journalism building at 4:38 p.m. Dean F. T. Stockton will speak on "The University and Public Service."
ZOOLOGY CLUB: The Zooology Club will meet Tuesday, Dec. 14 at Wiedemann's for its annual Christmas party. Inbox will be at 6 p.m., and reservations may be made at the Zooology storeroom—Betty Barnes, Secretary.
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SUNDAY—Christmas Vespers in Hoch auditorium at 4 and 7.30 o'clock.
MONDAY—Kansas-Baker basketball game, 7.30. Hoch auditorium.
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DICKINSON: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday—Carole Lomel and Fredric March in "Nothing Sacred." ● Thursday, Friday and Saturday—"The Barrier," with Leo Carrillo, Jean Parker and Jimmie Ellison.
PATE! Four days starting Sunday—James Gleason and Zaui Puts in "Forty Naughty Girls," and John Litel and An Sheridan in "Alastraz Island" • **Thursday, Friday and Saturday**—Riding the Lone Trail] with Bob Steele, and "Dangerous Holiday" starring Ra Houlde.
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VARSITY: Sunday, Monday and Tuesday—"Love Is News," with Tyrone Power, Loretta Young and Don Amchee. Also Tom Brown, Kevin Scales, Alex Edwards and Stephen Hawking. ● Wednesday and Thursday—Gary Cooper and Ann Harding in "Peter Ibethson," and William Gargan and Jean Rogers in "Reported Missing." ● Friday and Saturday—"Courage of the West," with Afton Fitzgerald; also Don Terry and Rosalind Keith in "A Fight to the Finish."
Beginning with the summer session of 1938, the School of Education will begin to offer a series of courses in instructional planning of elementary school teachers.
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