Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-12-25
where SANTA
GOES after
CHRISTMAS
Reporter Interviews Him to
Discover Why He Shows Up
Only on Christmas Eve.
CATCHES HIM AT WORK
Reindeer Stuff Found to 30
Merely a pIind for His
Real Job.
~ DWIGHT 9. ANDERSON

- 0WtGHt % ANO60SON
Where does Santa Claus hide after
Christmas?
! Unless this genial, bewhiskered old
gentleman can show q good reason
for appearing in public but once q
year. and then retiring for twelve
months into seclusion. he is q fake
pnilanthropist
In some quarters it is doubted
whether he personally delivers. all the
packages that are found at the fire.
place Christmas morning; in others
1t has even been whispered that he
Is so lazy he gets the inmates of q
Home for Rich Old Uncles to lick the
Christmas Seals he uses to decorate
bundles. Reindeer driving once q
year gives him quite thrill, but a.
for hard work at times when news.
papers consider him poor COPY
Santa Claus simply doesn't deliver
the goods.
So the reporter burst into Santa's
Office one day. Here, Santa" he
said. "is what people are saying about
you. How conner"
The room was crowded with chill.
dren, most Of whom were naked to
the waist. Two nurses were weighing
a boy on pair of scales in a corner,
writing down his weight as well as
stood in the center Of the room boss
ing the job.
Meets Santa Face To Face
make it snappy," breezed Santa
with one of those worldwide grins OF
his. i've got twenty more kids to
examine before five o'clock" Us
Where do you go after christmas? 2"
the reporter asked.
Everywhere. Just now l am ex-
aiming these children for signs ct
undernourisament or incipient tuber-
culosis. That's part of what l do all
the year round. On top OF that, con-
duct open-air sci ools in some places,
support preventoria in others, where
children can go and live in the open
air and sunshine. am busy almost
everywhere with health education In
he public schools. The best gift
give is health, and give 1t, not only
It Christmas time, but all the year
round"
Where do you get the money to
do all this?" asked the reporter.
"The people give it to me when they
buy Christmas Seals, my boy. A
penny at time the money rolls in.
Last year l had the tidy sum Of $4,-
100000 to expend in the United States.
l always see to it that practically all
the money given me when people buy
my seals stays in their state and is
spent to fight tuberculosis in their
own community"
"Santa!" c-ied the reporter, you've
been selling Christmas Seals for al
most twenty years. Have you &C.
emphasized anything?"
1--WE helped cut the death rate from
tuberculosis in half during that time"
answered Santa, land besides that,
here are more than 600 tuberculosis
here were only two or three when
,tarted. Confldentially"-and here he
owered his voice so the children
ould not hear him, "the big reason
all on all the boys and girls on
Christmas Eve is to take peek into
their homes while they are asleep and
see how my health work is coming
along"
Where He Gets The Money
do you collect all this money your.
elf" the reporter asked.
"Oh, no, no, no, that would be i'm.
ossible. can't be everywhere. Plenty
f men and women volunteer to, collect
this money for me-otherwise so huge
sum could never be raised penny
at time. And almost everybody in
the country knows by now that
Christmas Seals FIGHT Tuherculoaia