sive publications experience will urge that no similar publication be undertaken until there is a positive chance for its success.

Responsible persons in public life tell us they are interested in what ONE as well as the Society is doing to solve a pressing social problem. But they tell us that unless the magazine and the organization each grow up with good manners, an attitude of responsibility, and unless they develop an acceptable "code", call it ethics or whatever, and advocate acceptance of it, then we can only expect to fail."1 For the Society, cooperation with existing institutions and public agencies to the extent

only ideas that will work?

No one in the Mattachine Society is attempting to undermine ONE nor the importanceor better, significance-of its beginning its second year of publication in an area which was previously a void.

To its staff, a great deal of praise must go, and members of the Society are proud to tender this deserved praise publicly. A great deal of personal sacrifice and many, many late hours of work without any pay whatever were spent by the staff to produce the past 12 issues. The staff believes in the magazine. with whole heart. Its members want it to

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they make the gains or advocate the change of laws which we seek is an ideal way to advance our program. A public official won to our side can do far more for us than we can accomplish with screams of cop-hating or socalled blasts at a vice squad (which may truly deserve such blasting in a particular locality.)

You on the magazine should know by this time that the attitude of a police force in any locality reflects the attitude of the public as a whole. Law enforcement is habitually tolerant in those areas where the population dictates it should be. This fact alone should point up the paramount importance of educating the public including ourselves as number one project. The public can do something about it. And it will amount to a lot more than the continual harping about the inability of a small circle of self-made martyrs to get away with all they'd like.1

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This opposition is not surprising, nor is it a danger. Divergent opinions have always been present in a democracy. Voicing the opposition has made such institutions and organizations more vigorous.

But is it fair to assume that ONE alone has the single magic key? Do its editors have a monopoly on thought? Are their ideas the

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achieve the recognition they believe it deserves. No little support moral, at least came from the Society in ONE's early days. Even though there was no official connection between the two.

On the other hand, many persons have put a lot of effort in the Mattachine Society with nothing but out-of-pocket expense to show for it. They, too, believe there is a good reason to do so, even if they happen not to share the same ideas about attitudes and techniques as the staff of ONE.

More than one important person who can render invaluable support and influence to our common cause has been critical of ONE, its apparent policy, and its method. Some of these people tell members of the Society not to be the least bit disappointed because ONE emphasizes that there is no connection between the magazine and the Society . . . "legally, secretly or ideologically." Because, they add, if ONE and the Society was the same, they would have nothing to do with either! Unfortunately, we can't name names to prove that some of these persons so critical of ONE could do more to help the plight of the homosexual in a day than a member of ONE's editorial board might do in a year.

Those statements give the Society no reason

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