than accenting rehabilitation with an eve to his eventual release as a constructive personality. As long as our legislators are convinced that deviation as deviation must be punished, we will be incapable of adequately coping with those problems which MAKE sex offenders. It is a question of standing at the backdoor of a bank to arrest robbers as they come out instead of locking the front door. Most of those so arrested are guilty of nothing other than using the back door.

Hieronymous K.

As for me...

This monthly section is devoted to purely personal reaction. Tho small, it, excites more answers from our readers than any other feature. The third paragraph below is expected to kick up a neat storm.

We live in a world of fear: we fear revelation, we fear publicity, we fear knowledge and we fear detection. We live in a world of criminality and we foster that criminality: at one price or another we purchase privacy, we purchase love, we purchase fear.

We warp ourselves: we narrow our interests and our privileges; we distort our sights and telescope our hates. There

are too many of us for whom living has become a vendetta against the men and women who walk a middle path and never falter; that 'common man' who never knows unhappiness but is never happy; whose very dream is lost in the processes of living from day to day. We resent their absorption into that mediocrity of being ordinary that makes for quiet living. We resent their lives be-

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