It was recently found in the courts of this state, as the result of an appeal from an adverse decision, that the habit which some otherwise worthy and decorous men and women have of running around naked within restricted and carefully screened premises was not indecent and was not, therefore, illegal. This brought the nudists of the State of New York definitely within the law. Almost at once the legion of Decency, with Mr. Alfred E. Smith in the chair, launched a movement to put them outside the law again - to sponsor legislation in Albany in which the present well known rites and diversions of the nudists would be pronounced subversive of public morals. This movement has in turn drawn from the Rev. Dr. Ilsley Boone of the International Nudist Conference a very able defense of the morals of his cult and a very shrewd dig at former Governor Smith, whom he reminds of his much quoted anti-prohibition dictum that people cannot be made moral by legislation. Dr. Boone no more concedes, of course, that high-minded nudism is immoral than Mr. Smith would admit that a temperate use of alcohol is immoral.
In this controversy it is much easier to go part way with Dr. Boone than it is to go anywhere at all with the Legion of Decency.
- Editorial, N.Y. Herald-Tribune
(Source: The Nudist, Volume IV, Np. 3, March, 1935)
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