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SUPPLEMENT TO THE PORT PERRY STAR December, 1961 -- Page Ten : : IN ERENT ON (REESE RRR RON OU DREW ON ROR OW PR ROWE RE PRE OW ll bl ia hd # ; a | od ') a | a oA = " ; y 2 - A A 4 Re ORS AND PATRONS 4 3 ' ¢ & - Moa y 2 Hi Jackson's Pastries pr EARL JACKSON & STAFF Py What is perhaps the nation's most reprinted editorial was written 5 : Port Perry, Ontario % in the year 1897, in response to a school girl's simple question about the validity of the Santa Claus legend. Virginia O'Hanlon, then eight years old, sent this question to the editor of the New York Sun: "Dear Editor: Some of my little friends say there is no Santa ERIN OR NEN NS RY OW NNN a =) NG in ah | 8 oN Claus. Papa says. 'If you see it in the Sun it's so." Please tell me the D .B. DYMOND, ) Erp ® truth, is there a Santa Claus?" oy os 3X a # The answer to this question, penned by an editorial writer named A M. D., M. P. P 2 Francis Pharcellus Church has become an American classic. Here : o it is, in full: 2; 5 pad. FAMILY i 9, "Dear Editor--Some of my little friends say there is no Santa it Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what Js | i 4 they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible 2 4 V 9 by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's i. ° o : 3 i 7 ci children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a 5 a i (9) mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless o 2 5 world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping on : OO) ! S$ ; C2) the whole of truth and knowledge. i df) D) PB) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as - i Savy ¢ = love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they 2 § RO & abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how : I' dreary would be thé world if there were no Virginias. There would SP tas & ¢ be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable ? >» i Hie X this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and : JEN ey ¢ to # sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would - go £2 SO * £5 Te be extinguished. . i SE. >| | MM 9 1 ea Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! =f Horo's wishing. é 5 7 You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys a holiday season 6) * SO on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus but, even if they did not see 5 ¥ Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees aglow with all the % Santa Claus, but that is no sign there is no Santa Claus. The most good things : ba real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can that h ak 2%, gl sce. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, help to make 0 S S but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or our lives brighter, imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the ! ? ; @® world. er . A 2 You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise A HAPPY HOLIDAY and a HEALTHY 9 | JUM inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. SY N strongest Ha, hob even the united strength of all the strongest men 7 a " that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, -S i R S Si i # FROM YOUR PORT PERRY @ romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the super- wee nan S : ervice d 0n IMPERIAL ESSO DEALER PORT PERRY x SA AAI RATATAT RATATAT ATA world there is nothing els re real and abiding. Western Tire Store ) i No Santa Claus! Thal od! he lives, and: he lives- forever. -A O thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continug to make glad the heart of childhood." nal beauty and glory af Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this 0 e) (3 LA A -- Molly and Joe Turbitt pA (£8 fT GT BL i it A one EAE erwin. o + a EERE 5 E) R 1. We're wis 3 y J 2) | cm absolutely 2 % as u star, core oo ) asaclo e396 56 Je See | A 3 Tripp Construction Lid. 985-2582 PORT PERRY, ONT. . SL For all our nds and neighbors we send this 5 O.: thonks ond bes . Yuletide wish. May the joy of Christmas meet A withes for very feppy We're hoping you hat ha Cha Chae hart Sha Shas St Sn Chace and mingle with the happiness in your heart, ° > holiday season to oll have a holiday season on May the spirit of Christmas ever dwell with you. © of you whose patronage brimming with life's joy. we value so highly. : A. M. Lawrence glarl . Barber Shop "Ray Hobbs -- 2 : : NE ; % WO y ' ar é tn © PORT PERRY, ONTARIO %5 PORT PERRY, ONT. A 955-2451 MANCHESTER a i aE og é | MIR 0 A A 0 A SMO STR gd : x Je Se Ne ATNTNERNTRS ATATNTNIRNG o O ow NS NS > 2 36 56 J nk those who so kindly nt during the Summer : : >. 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