The Washington times., 1933-05-29
N.Y,REPORTS1O
NEW MEMBERS
EVERY HOUR
Two Ex-CIericS Lead Move;
Large Colony Prospers Near
! RooSeveIt'S Old Home
By LEIGH MATTESON
International News Service Scientific
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mer clergymen, whose activities
have. the tacit approval of that
arch-moralist, DR.. John S. Sum-
ner, secretary of the New York
Society for the Suppression OF
Vice, Nudist converts have sharply
increased this year in the United
States.
An extensive investigation of
the movement toward the prac-
tice of nakedness by adults and
children of both sexes, indoors
and outdoors, has just been COM
pleted by the International News
Service.
Thousands Join
It was discovered that several
hundred new nudist organizations
are operating throughout the
country this spring. Under their
auspices thousands of new men,
bers have been enrolled at the
beginning of this third season of
nudism in America.
About 10 new members per
hour were being enrolled at each
office of the organizations with
camps and gymnaSiumS in or near
this city. Meanwhile hundreds
of mail and telephone inquiries
were being received daily.
Discovery that the two ex-
clergymen, and a number of doc
tors of philosophy, lawyers, psy-
biologists, and business men,
were promoting or practicing
nudism, led this writer to join
several nudist groups at camps
and gymnaSiumS to obtain direct,
factual information about both
the nudists and their practices.
Near Hyde Park
One Of the camps at which the
nudists were observed at rest and
play is located in Rockland
county. N. Y, where Thomas Far
ley, brother of Postmaster Gen
eral James A. (Jim) Farley, is
sheriff.
Another camp, with one of the
largest attending memberships, is
a few miles across the Hudson
River from Hyde Park, ancestral
home of President Roosevelt.
Many other camps are located in
WeStchester county, nearby New
Jersey, and Connecticut.
Data also was obtained on new
camps in Philadelphia, Chicago,
Texas and California.
Responsibility for the sharp in
crease of public interest in
nudism this year must go to
the two former clergymen, DR..
Henry Strong Huntington and
DR.. Ilsley Boone.
Expensive Camp
DR.. Huntington, a former Pres
byterian minister, and DR.. Boone,
q former Baptist divine, are asso-
ciated in the operation of one of
the largest and most exclusive
nudist camps in the East, which
occupies a 300-acre tract near
Otis, Mass.
Only professional and business
people with considerable incomes,
can afford entrance fees and
charges to this camp. Entrance
fees alone range from $40 for a
weekend to $1,000 for a life
membership.
In the interest of the enter
prise and in behalf of the cult
of nudism, DR.. Huntington, a for
mer owner of the Huntington Air
craft Corporation, and DR.. Boone
organized this year the Interna-
tional Nudist Conference, under
which nudist organization is pro-
NOTED throughout the country
Headquarters of the conference
are in this city.
Magazine Started
Under auspices of the confer
ence, the pair then started pub
lication this month of an illus
trated magazine devoted to the
promotion of nudism, the inter
ests of nudists, and the Burgoyne
Trail Associates, operators of the
colony at Otis. Mass.
In order to foreStall the ban
ming of the publication from the
newsstandS and from the mails,
Drs. Huntington and Boone sent
an Intermediary to DR.. Sumner
with proofs of the articles and
photographs they proposed to pub
lish in the first issue offered for
sale. DR.. Sumner said:
"I examined each article and
photograph"
After this inspection, the maza-
zine went to press. It contained
u separate photographs of in
dividual nudists and groups of
nudists engaged in varied &C
tivitieS.
Editions Exhausted
An edition of 10000 copies of
The Nudist, as the publication
was named, was run off and dis
tributed throughout the nation.
The edition sold out so quickly
that additional copies were
printed, until about 10000 copies
in all were distributed. The
first edition of the second issue,
out this week, will be $4,000
copies.
Public reaction to the first is
sue was immediate. Nudist Or
ganizations in the nudist's direc-
tory were Swamped with tele-
phone and mail inquiries, and
new groups began at once to ap-
ply at the conference offices for
organization information and lit
erature on camp and gymnasium
regulations.