Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-10-07
RenrOck

Some time ago we sat at dinner
table where some of the invited
guests were arguing in favor of
nudism, going naked, yes indeed,
going naked, without clothes, not
even breech clout. Ii, clothes
lmake the man" as has been said
time and time again, what would
going without them make? Yes,
you've guessed it. We too arrived
at the same conclusion-a set of
d-n fools. Our first parents, Adam
and Eve, when they got their eyes
opened, covered their nakedness
with fig leaves. Doesn't it seem
that we ought to have as much sense
as they? Besides, in the long pc
riod of time we have learned to
make woven fabric and don't have
to bother with leaves. But there
are nudists here in what we proudly
call a civilized and ChristianiZed
country, and their number is stead.
lily increasing. We believe there is
good argument going rs near naked
as the body and weather conditions
will permit, but when it comes to
exposing the entire bare body of
grown ups as naked as they were
when they made their entree INFO
the world, there is where we unhes-
itatingly draw the line.
1t seems that this fool fad start
ed somewhere up in the state of
New York, but the practice met with
so much opposition that the associa
ton had to make headquarters
somewhere else so they went down
into New Jersey. You can pull off
most anything in New Jersey,-or
Tennessee. Back a few weeks ago
they were numerous and bold
enough to hold a convention, prob
oh far A 4 tIan IN
cording to one report there were
ministers who attended this bare
buttock convention. Great God!
Ministers What is this country
coming to? 1t may be that we are
not keeping in step with the world;
too old fashioned, fogyish and all
that but to us it seemed more like
a convention of lunatics But like
the lip painting fad sane public
gone by some of us did and do yet,
get the habit of wearing more
clothes than what is conducive to
the best of health, but to recede to
the other extreme would certainly
have demOralizing effect and cause
rattling of bones in the graves of
our Puritanical fathers.
Not for a decade or longer has
there been as good home talent
pay Heic dS put ou ny Iue OeuteI
(SarahSville) grange last Friday
night. 1t was not only a good pro-
duction, and they not merely recited
their parts, but acted them out, and
there were no made up faces peep
ing around the side of the curtain,
or parading down the aisle with
their tOggery on before the curtain
went up.
Burton Dye of Torrance, Calf,
I@ -
tives and friends around here. Will
someone please give Johny Bell an
other punch? He is retired rail-
road conductor. His parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Murvin Dye, left these
parts 65 years ago with a team of
mules hitched to a covered wagon,
with a few household goods, and es-
tablished themselves at Cantril.
Iowa. Burt, as we knew him in his
calf days, was not what we would
call an ornery boy at all, but he
more cubic yards of mischief than
two "kids" we ever knew.
Sylvester McClelland of Colum-
bus, who for many years lived on
the border line OF this community,
made some brief calls in this neigh
borhood recently. Sylvester's wife
was the daughter of the most re-
markable and able minister that
ever occupied the Baptist parsonage
up two miles on rs from here He
was a Scotchman, but his name
didn't begin with Nc. ct was Irwin
or Irwin.
On the early morn of doomsday
for the bushy tails, the autos were
whipping along almost like a fu-
neral procession. Whittier bound,
we know not. However there was
not much cannonading around here.
Wonder if anybody got any game
out of season?