The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-22
NUDISTS BEING
 PUT UNDER BAN
 BY MORAL LAWS
Prussian Government Has
 Issued Furnishing EGct England Fights Them Colony in U. s. Dis-
 banded
By FREDERICK KUH Tinted Press Staff Corrcspondent)

United Press Staff Corrcspondent) Berlin, Aug 22- UP)-The Prussian government, alarmed by what it considers thorough col lapse of German morals, to-day issued a manifesto aimed to pro- vide punishment for lax customs on public bathing beaches and in nudist camps.
 The edict, signed by Prussia's dictator, Franz Bracht, was ad- dressed to police and other offt- cials throughout Prussia, which constitutes two thirds of Germany. The police were authorized to prescribe suitable bathing cos- tunes and were cautioned to ex- ercise rigorous control over them. The decree banned nude bathing and provided penalties for any person found bathing in an tm- proper costume.
 Nude or improper bathing, the government declared In its one concession to the nudists, shall be considered public and therefore punishable if the bathers can be seen from a roadway or from the water.
 The manifesto forbids morally reprehensible behavior in and on the water" and prohibits men and women from entering restaurants while wearing only bathing suits.
 Persons found guilty of violat- ing the new code of morals will be subject to a fine of approximately
 The decree expressed a sympa- thetic understanding of the desire of city residents to obtain sun shine and fresh air, but denounced "the ethical debasement of pulp lie bathing"
 The rigor of the new code is seen in the provision that it shall apply mot only in cases of be- havior where specific objections have been made, but to behavior to which any sensible persons might possibly object"
 The government ordered that copies of the decree be posted. at all bathing resorts.
 England Opposes Them London, Aug. 22-UP)-The to-day launched a vigorous campaign against nudity at English bathing resorts, declar- | ing that ,"the average female figure is definitely unp1easing."
 Inspired by the new moral code announced by the Russian govern- ment, the newspaper referred to present bathing tendencies as "the greatest social error a woman can possibly make"
 For every ten girls with pleas- ing faces" the paper asserted, there is not more than one with a really pretty figure"
 | The sea coasts of England. the News Chronicle went on, are lit- orally crowded with young women
 wearing nothing but "the shortest of shorts, and the fiimsiest and loosest of brassieres." These girls, 1t continued. are not merely bath ing, but spending their entire days at the beach, dining and dancing in the bargain. "The absolute limit, short of | reached" said the newspaper.
 "This is possibly the most impor- tant of all social questions now facing us. Won Hindenburg, at any rate, seems to think so, and 1t was in his country that the nudist
 movement began"
 Colony to Disband Highland. N. r., Aug 22-(UP) l-The nudist colony on the 4O0- l acre Trimmer estate near here is to | be disbanded this fall because the modesty of many of the cultists has made the venture a financial l failure.
 "This nudist business is too new" explained c. T. Trimmer. who | originally bought the property
 because he liked the idea of having | his own lake to fish in. "If 1t were
 an ordinary camp, people would
 at least tell their friends about 1t.
 Now they don't want anybody to know where they go."
 Trimmer himself is no nudist.
 He's business man. But he says
 he has a great deal of admiration
 for the believers in free cui- ture."
 "The morals are better than al most places, though the neighbori
 probably think they're awful" he
 said. There's never word that's
 out of the way
 Health and lack of seif-con. sciousnese are the camps ideRls and liquor and evil thoughts are strictly prohibited.
 "But | haven't made enough 10 nay my taxes on the place. Thinner compiained. adding that next year he weuid run the es. tate as q regular summer camp for guests with eIothes.