first issue, hoping that this would pave the way for many other ads. The April 1953 magazine cover, much praised for its delicacy and good taste was his design. From the beginning he has been interested in the art department of the magazine, and has worked with it since then.

Another of the founders was William Lambert, in whose kitchen ONE really began. At the very start he offered his services as business manager and has held the post ever since. As his contribution he brought experience in administrative and public work, as well as an absolute conviction that if a thing needs to be done, it can, and will, be done-somehow.

He also supported and encouraged worthwhile ideas that came to the staff's attention, while at the same time striving to prevent enthusiasm from soaring too far above the practical realities. Later, he was first to give up the amenities and comfortable income of a professional career and devote full time to an unpaid job and the

cause.

VII

The Corporation presents this review of its early months and establishment. We hope that our friends who have wondered whether ONE had a program or any sense of direction will now see that it does. Likewise, those who have urged this or that action may better understand that we must do only those things we agreed to do.

Surely those able to discern the signs of the times and the shadows of coming events will pause to reflect on these things. Some may be disquieted. In fact, the forces of stubborn opposition and hard-shelled bigotry already stir peevishly. It would never do to underestimate their powers. Past experience has taught us that.

If some are disquieted, others will be exhilerated. They will see in this emerging pattern the very birth of something new-something new being born from something old, from the decay of superstition and mob-emotions. They will see Science arousing to achieve sharper, truer insights, and Religion more humane—as millions of men and women importunately ask: "What of me? Who am I? And where must I seek my living, and breathing, and loving?"

These questions must be answered. The strength of all of us here tonight will not be enough for the task. There must be others, and then still more. But they will come. For it is very American to see a wrong; then, right it. It is very 20th-century to spot a lie; then, refute it. And it is very Western to challenge the non-do-able; then, do it!

ONE is irrevocably committed to the proposition that manhood and womanhood are not to be measured in terms either of stature, of race, or even of affectional orientation. We find it impossible to doubt that, "A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one."

We have chosen our task-to prove this true. All who will may

help!