I considered writing a column about Santa Claus given that this is the Dec. 25 edition of our newspaper. However, the best editorial ever written about Santa Claus was done 119 years ago.“Is There a Santa Claus?” was written by Francis Pharcellus Church and appeared in New York’s Sun on Sept. 21, 1897. It was a response to a letter from Virginia O’Hanlon, an 8-year-old girl whose friends had teased her about his existence.