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...portion of the people are damn sick of these Clean Cut Young Men, as Nemo declares in your issue of February 13, another portion of the people, I venture to suggest, are also damn sick and tired of the Jittery Juveniles who so insistently yap their disbelief in the honesty of those who, as a matter of good taste if nothing more, actually prefer cleanliness, decency, and integrity to their opposites...
...attitude of Nemo isn't fair. I do not question, and I doubt if Lindbergh would question, the fact that the crass vulgarities of Nemo and his type are true reflections of character. Even if addled adolescents were not so noisily boastful about their Scollay Square standards, the same would be as obvious as dirty finger nails. No one disputes their preference for bawds, flasks and vacuums. It is easy to believe that their taste is genuine. By the same token one can readily admit the looseness of their code of business ethics. If they were on the other...
That another standard of honor and taste does exist, however deplorable, Nemo cannot deny. Otherwise there would be nothing at which he could stick out his tongue, otherwise nothing at which he could thumb his nose; nothing against which he could display his contempt with the Bowery razz. It would seem to be only fair, then, that he should accord to the other school, the same frank admission of honesty of character and motive freely granted...
...wholesome thing. They grow up with a flair for clean living and a respect for pure motherhood, for the same reason. In their business dealings they are straight shooters. They look you fair in the eye. Honestly, they are made, or have made themselves that way, just as Nemo is made, or has made himself the other...
...authority, the government has a much firmer hold on the country than in any of the previous revolutions. Thus the present is not likely to give birth to any very radical movement--although hovering vaguely and almost unnoticed over the scene is the shadow of Fascism and dictatorship. NEMO...