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...this season at the New York World's Fair: the Streets of Paris, Gay New Orleans, the Dancing Campus, the Old Time Opry House. Mike is a student of Elmer as some people are students of Sanskrit, art, horses. He knows how to tickle Elmer so Elmer will shower down...
School Superintendent George E. Bettinger admitted that 120 naked girls used the shower room at the same time, explained that under the old private shower system some girls shirked bathing. Next witness, Dr. Charles Bursch of the State Education Department, announced that the Department would approve no plans for school buildings with private showers...
Reason: it was too hard for teachers to keep an eye on them. Said he, "We have found from long experience that the group shower facilities give much better light and air ... more healthful conditions...
Meanwhile 275 of the school's 800 girls signed a petition demanding private showers. Cried some of their parents: "[The common shower system] is a step towards Communism." An earnest editorial writer in Aztec, student weekly, hotly retorted: "With every advance from filthiness to cleanliness, prudery raised its ugly head. . . ." This week the trial was adjourned for three months to let the Board of Education think the whole thing over...
Skimming through history and throwing off such names as Proudhon, Bakunin, Sorel, Kropotkin, like a shower of sparks, Chamberlain contrasts the lively diversity of pre-war political theory with the postwar hypnosis of Marxism. He thinks most liberal thinking since 1933 has been "pretty silly" because merely a reaction from that spell. As for effective liberal organizations, the Democratic Party has been the best of a bad lot: "a loose federation of southern cotton snobs, western dirt farmers (the real heirs of Jefferson) and the machines of Jersey City's Frank Hague, Chicago's Pat Nash...