POLICE AS SANTA CLAUS
"NO CHILD WITHOUT A GIFT"
German' children have always admired and respected policemen, but Hamburg is the first city to dress up the most paternal members of the local force as Santa Claus and.send them into the poorest homes laden with gifts for the very poorest.of the child population. "'""".''.
"No child without a present and no child without a Christmas tree" is the national device which' was to make "Police Day" throughout Germany, on December 18, one of the niost memorable in the long list of special efforts in the winter help campaign. There was still money needed, to make Christmas of 1934 a bigger and.lbetter festival for the needy than was the Christmas of 1933, and the police, bei sides,collecting very large sums within their own by no means well-paid ranks, were to demonstrate,with their brat,s bands, their highly-trained Alsatian dogs, and their' horses.
In some cities the special effort was to take, the form of free seats for a Christmas fairy play, the German form of pantomime, for children: who had never had the chance' of any such pleasure in their lives.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 15
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