SANTA CLAUS
Should children of five years old b» permitted to believe in Santa Claust Dr. William Sadler, of Chicago University, a stern realist, thinks not. Dr. Sadler is a stickler for literal truth and he refuses to be a party to a fiction^ however pleasing to the childish imagination. Dr. Knight Dunlap, professor of experimental psychology at Johns Hopkins University, disagrees. He is all for Santa Claus and, if you ■will, al romantic imagination. Professor Dunlap says that Santa Claus "is one of the. most beautiful and probably the leastf harmful of childhood myths. How does Dr. Sadler or anyone else know that there is not such a thing as Santa Claus V How, indeed! comments thu American correspondent of the London "Spectat*- "
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 7
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