23 NOVEMBER 1929, Page 29

SANTA CLAUS.

Should children of five years old be permitted to believe in Santa Claus ? Dr. William' Sadler, of Chicago University, a stern realist, thinks not. Dr. Sadler is a stickler for literal truth, and refuses to be a party to a fiction, however pleasing to the childish imagination. Dr. Knight Dunlap, Professor of Experimental Psychology at John Hopkins University, disagrees. He is all for Santa Claus and, if you will, a romantic imagination. Professor Dunlap says that Santa Claus " is one of the most beautiful and probably the least harmful of child- hood myths. How does Dr. Sadler or anyone else know that there is not such a thing as Santa Claus ? " How, indeed ?

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