Mort Weisinger’s Thought of Silly

What the? From Superboy #72 (April 1959):

Why would he set that postscript in there?  He needed to know that there beget been loads of Superboy readers who beget been composed at the age where they believed in Santa.  It’s laborious to come attend up with a reason rather then the evident; that Weisinger was as soon as a firstclass jerk.