Letters:

Gentlemen:

of ONE.

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I had written I had written my first copy

Just got my second issue cannot be still any longer! a letter right after I got of the May issue, but thought I'd wait till I got June's to mail it. Well, after rereading it, and comparing my intended suggestions to June's issue, I see you have already improved the mag with almost all the suggestions I was intending to make. I'm delighted. I'm sure lots of other folks are too.

Now some comments from the letter I intended to send you last month, which still apply. First of all, I want to tell you I enjoyed the cover very much on May and June. I don't know what the previous issues were like, but I hope they were as striking! I suggest you lean more toward impressionistic design (like May) on your covers. For the type of mag ONE is it is most appropriate. I should think that when your mag hits the news stands and book stores more widely that type cover would help a great deal in selling it for you. So here's hoping your subscriptions soon hit the moon!

Maybe I'm a wet blanket, but I don't go along with the way ONE is printed. I mean with the sentences across the whole page. It's too hard to read that way! Almost every other publication is printed like the newspaper, in 2 or 3 inch columns. I know ONE is different in purpose, from cover to cover. I say it's alright to be as different as you want to, in what you print (as long as it's good stuff) but it

pays to be conventional in a lot of things too, (ask any gay kid) and I think this is one of them.

That about covers it. Enclosed is 5 bucks (wish it could be more) to help make ends meet along with the money for the back issues of ONE. I think it's a swell mag all told.

Sgt., USAF.

.Those wide columns aren't just a matter of gay distinctiveness, Sarge. It's cheaper that way.

Dear Sirs: I am

a heterosexual person who belongs to a chapter of the Mattachine Society.

I have attended every meeting possible of our chapter and of any other open discussion groups in the area, and am very thrilled at the work that is being done, and the enthusiasm with which the group has been received.

I think it is a very wonderful thing that such a group of people so persecuted as homosexuals, will come out and stand together to fight for their rightful place in society as a whole.

If more people would stop, listen and think a little more, we might be able to build a more understanding society. Where in every community group representatives could take a place and part, openly, without scorn from many, misunderstanding individuals.

Keep up the good work with your magazine and how about some articles from the heterosexual point of view. Would you be interested?

Mrs. H. M., Oakland.