The Sun Cult
It is time to abandon time-honoured gibes at the English climate when the Sun-Bathing Society can write to the Spectator and other papers appealing to the owners of private grounds to help it with facilities for the pursuit of health by exposure to sun and air. On the hygienic value of sun-bathing there is no difference of opinion. and so long as the practice of it is kept reasonably unobtrusive no sound objection can be made to its exercise. That, it is true, is apparently not the view prevalent in Chicago, where the proposal to set aside enclosures on the shore of Lake Michigan for the use of nudists has evoked indignant protests from the virtuous. on the ground that the occupants of the enclosures would be visible from aeroplanes, to say nothing of the higher storeys of skyscraping flats. The possibility of outraging the feelings of aviators (notoriously a most sensitive class) is, of course, a serious matter. Even so, responsible persons like Dr. Stella Churchill, Dr. Rollier and Professor Julian Huxley are to be approved rather than criticized when they claim to have sun-bathing, reasonably con- ducted, regarded as a reasonable proceeding. The next thing is to secure a little sun.
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