December 17, 1969
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The N. C. Essay
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In our files here at the N. C.
Essay office, our staff has recently
uncovered several letters written by
faculty membert to Santa Claus, when
they were kids. We print them now
in hopes that you will have a merry
chuckle or two.
Dear Santa Claus,
Today in school I saw you when
you came to our assembly program.
You looked jolly and fat and I had
a great time. I was, however, un
happy with the fact that so many of
my friends didn't show up to the con
vocation. I hope one day I can do
something about things like that.
Bobby Ward
Dear Maestro Kringle,
I have been wonderful this year.
Magnificent, in fact. I would like
for you to bring me a series of Ital
ian Made Easy records. Also, I
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269-01-6697
and 1984
To any citizen confounded by
all the numbers - from social
security, bank accounts, credit
cards, car registration and
driver's license, telephones, pay
roll zip code - he finds attached
to his name, there is not even nom
inal consolation in a new decision
of the Ohio District Court of Appeals.
Paul Ferguson, 57, of Columbus, was
appealing his conviction for trying
to pass a forged check; he had used
someone else's social security card
to cash the check, and his lawyers
were contending that under the
Miranda ruling limiting police interr
ogations Ferguson had been improperly
induced to admit that the social
security card was not his.
Not so, ruled the court. Clearly,
law officers can ask a suspect his
name, and if they can do that, they
can ask his social security number
as well. Said Judge Horace Troop
(269-01-6697), with Judge Robert
Holmes (284-16-9567) and Judge
Robert Leach (330-40-5373) concurr
ing: "In this modern day, name
and social security numbers are in
practice interchangeable. A citizen
is no longer just a name. He is at
once also a number. We are but a
very short step removed from the
issuance of a number w^h a birth
certificate. To be a mil without a
number is hopelessly confusing."
Reprinted from Time Magazine^ Deo.
12^ 1969.