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...Virginia . . ." In Great Bend, Kans., six weeks after a jolly old gentleman with white whiskers drove off without paying for a tankful of gasoline, Service Station Owner Jack Ames got a letter containing $3.31 in cash and a message: "Thank you for the loan . . . Santa Claus...
...Christ Child). Between times, they observe an old Franco-Spanish custom (displaying crèches showing Christ in the manger), an old European custom (hanging stockings), an old English custom (sending cards), an old German custom (decrating Christmas trees), and an old U.S. custom (receiving presents from Santa Claus). In recent years, many Mexicans have come to feel that this is several customs too many...
Last week, as another strenuous holiday season closed, two customs seemed marked for uprooting. Roman Catholic priests and lay organizations denounced the Christmas tree and Santa Claus as "pagan and Anglo-Saxon." The crèche and the Three Kings, they suggested, are more truly Latin. By & large, Mexican fathers, cracking under the strain of two gift days, backed the drive to cast out U.S.-style celebrations. Said one: "I can't afford any more to be Santa and the Three Kings, so my wife and I decided in favor of the Three Kings." That settled, he went downtown...
...auto-da-fé was part of a campaign by Roman Catholic clergy against the "paganization" of Christmas. It drew an approving and thoroughly Gallic nod from the Most Rev. Maurice Feltin, Archbishop of Paris: "The Christian significance of Christmas is debased by this legend [of Santa Claus] originating in the dense Saxon forests...
Through the streets of Dijon, France last week, two days before Christmas, paraded a troupe of boys & girls bearing an 8-ft. effigy of the French Santa Claus, Pére Noél. Before Dijon's cathedral the marchers halted, and one of their number stepped out and addressed the others: "What shall we do with...