Judge — August 1934 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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A Bare Liv NUDIST camp Ihave r and my e hole and can report not! no sight for sore ly put my ear e to the knot eyes. te tl ound ing better t as g in an nd as nutt in an old ly a mess of figures musical ¢ y a lot ¢ Lizzie dump. ‘ood nu I have ideals of the examined Valhallas nd find nothing but a set of furthermore these bare living morals > high for human consumptio I'd propose that nudism is a reaction against extreme mechanized civilization It is Man, if you wa me to > pro- found on you, stripping off his rags in protest. It is the swing of the pendu- lum) from much citification to a mild mannered and bum app agery. It is strictly a lower middle class project with lower middle clas figures and lower middle class respec- tability. You can hunt the nudist camps of the world and T'll bet you a copy of Dawn Classics you'll find neither rich nor poor among the nuts leaping thru the nettlepatches. Nor will you find country people—you will uring sav- find city dwellers who have a smat- tering of education, who have just enough money to be able to afford a set of ideals, take the family off for two week vacations and stand around ankle deep as God made them in slimy bot- tomed ponds the while feeling the noble- ness and freedom of it all. don't sneer at this, [ am merely complaining about the eyesore involved. a (f about the move- ment’s attitude of exceeding martyrdom. The articles in the nudist magazines, when not directly concerned with the splendid homeopathetic advantages ac- Also T must complain erued from a hay dict, a clean navel, volley ball tossing, give one the a of terrific public persecution, That dra patch. all figures won't 1ew Phidias: » the protest is too side- ng a e modern nudist is as poi thru: ot thats like the st in the meantin Div 1 e day rk of but show for comfort. It meaneth well but it endeth in Mat feet. Elephantasy HAT paig in New York Herald Tribune, to ¢ Business back to the people, i. unofiicial rule of Ame discontent of the worker, the the eeper the others, owing to the failure of the NRA to bri back heaven in Stuart Chase has this to say: that the Pre 1 the system | with the bellowing cam- on, headed by twelve what with tl farm small and day Suppose we gave in to their de mands, Tt keep nights, and is just one mother...” titer another, So he pulls the plugs.one as one pulls them from 1 telephone switchboard: pulls out the NRA with its wage and hour con- trols, pulls out the CWA and its two or three million jobs, pulls the PWA, the relief to farmers of the AAA, pulls the CCC hoys out of their camps, the TVA, calls the RFC loan from under the bank antee any more ¢ and gets out . refuses to guar- its, drops the f r n house mortgage relief program: cancels all appropriations for feeding and maintaining the unemployed and their dependents—pulls the meddling government out clean! Vhat would happen? One clear ringing call from the dear old Herald Tribune; and after that, [am afraid. the dark 18 Summer Reading E CAN when the summer meant relat remem back way in the old hammock, reaching for the P. G. Wodehouse, the Berta Ruck, the Warwick and the heck every serious thought in the world. Deeping with No any more think of cracking tw mumber by Karl Mars or by Ei O'Neill or by Professors John Dewey or Beard than they would of put- rene ting on fur coats and dashing for the nearest Turkish bath as a relief from the humidity, uch is changed. He who in a hammock settles th with the latest economic effusion of Salter or Soule, well equipped t arrives for the weekend and im- tely jettisons the Frank Sullivan But now settles bac! e medi on the guest room table and sets up out John of his weekend bag Strachey's wer; Chase's Abundance”: or any of the hundred others on the present messup. ming Struggle for The Economy of Regimeatation ERE, what's all this about regimentation? Do [ hear com- plaints from the orchestra th: nut gallery is beginning to see and hear the show? Well, they should. In the old days, play was re! now, the pea- imented, what ition, with nadequate play- and inadequate playing hour blue laws, prohi ‘our In business, however, there was no resi- mentation 1 Everyone was a ul. Today owed his imentation is the re horse of a different cc it would seem, Business is held strictly in check with the g ecome king with ple and what with the ts in law and countryside, plenty of room for it. You pays your money and you takes your choice! ssestep. But play has ty of time for public improveme comicbooks.com