The Washington times., 1920-12-23
RAP JUDGE FOR
'NOG|FT' ED|CF
Jurist Who Sentenced Boys to
Cherries Christmas Is
.t Swamped in Abuse.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-lf Mr..
kringle is as regular scout as his
press agent proclsims, he's going to
ease his Christmas buggy in front
Of certain three homes in West
Orange and help Mike, Ike and
Dingbat slip one over on Recorder
John b. Lander.
SENTENCED TO MISS SANTA
And there are those that say that
II Old Man Kris doesn't unite his
bundle at those homes they'll form q
vigilante committee and bite his whis-
kers full OF holes.
Mike and Ike and Dingbat, 1t will
De recalled, were sentenced by Judge
Lander to drape the blankets over
themselves at @ o'clock every night
for month and turn scornful backs
on Santa Claus. II he tried to horn in
on their chimneys.
n. and l. and ID. were the names
attached to the boys when the judge
informed reporters of how he had es-
tAblished the might OF right when
they were found guilty of having
made Dominic Alfred Roy Ehmsn'9
automobile look like the tail end OF
rummage sale.
Folks throughout the country, how
ever. aren't all popped up about the
sentence Some OF them, out of the
jurisdiction. have written his honor
that "for their part" he could become
patron of Charons ferryboat.
Others averred that II the judge had
ever been a boy he must be suffering
a lapse of memory. Some Invited him
TO combat with pen and ink.
He said last night that he has re-
ceived stacks" OF these letters. In
fact, every time the letter mans
whistle MARBLES on the front stoop
the judge gets nervous and tells one
OF the hired hands to take the mail.
He's going to urge a law requiring
all missives to be indited on as
bestos.
But justice isn't being jabbed in the
ribs by everybody. A mother in
Jacksonville. Fla. wrote that Mike
and Ike and Dingbat ought to smite
the ground in a grand salaam to the
judge and utter deep thanks to him.
NJ. and i. and ID. say that when they
scare up the fare they're going to
Florida and lay for her in some dark
alley.
Philip Ebert of Washington. d. c..
acQuiesced in the decision. Mike and
Ike and Dingbat venture that Phil is
old enough to be Kringle's great
grandfather and therefore beyond
any ken of Yuietide frolic. They'd
like to know where he gets that stun.
and how much is it a quart in the
capital.
One mother wrote the Judge that
her heart ached for the three boys.
They said that her heart ached for
them less than their fists ached for
the dominic and the recorder. Her
ache is like a tickle compared with
rs" .',.
And yesterday Fletcher L. Fritts,
head Of the EIks in New Jersey.
asked his honor to lay of, asserting
that he has received truckloads OF
letters from Elks protesting the
sentence.
MAY SUSPEND SENTENCE.
Judge Lander's head is in such
whirl about it that he doesn't know
whether he's coming or going or ar
rived. He's determined that the mis-
chievous kids shall trek into bed at
q o'clock, but it's possible that he'll
relent on barring them from getting
Christmas presents.
For, being wise in his generation
and a few years beyond. the judge
books that can prevent Mike and Ike
and Dingbat from happening" to
lose their stockings beside the fire.
place.
If Kris Kringle, who usually oper-
ates outside the three-mile limit and
out OF Jurisdiction of West Orange
law, should be malicious enough to
dump a few odds and ends into the
stockirgs. goodness knows there's no
why that Judge Lander can stop him.