We have today a surfeit of unwieldly legislation. In every court action I see professional lawmakers argue "points of order." How then can a layman propose further legislature, to add confusion to chaos?

Only in one place can I find a law adequate. It is simple, direct and can be clearly understood by even the children. The law reads, "Love the Lord Thy God with all thy heart, body, soul and mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. For love is the fulfilment of the law." With sufficent thought and with just living the homosexual may find a place within society not of ecstatic happiness but with peace and well being.

This I have lived and know from myself. If it can save one wild personality from horror I have not lived in vain. Crusades, vilifications, anger, jealousies, hatreds only create more of their kind. Not that these things are evil, for they, coupled with the love in the law quoted and understanding explained elsewhere. in the same work. These things may be used as fire to burn, purge and clean the separate worlds of each of us. First exercise the creation (love) for we are creatures to husband-that is our job and create we must.

I have one rule-everything in my life must grow and that includes you since you have entered.

Dear editors:

MASSACHUSETTS

It was thoughtful of you to print the list of ONE's subscribers by states, but so many letters have come in from those who have misinterpreted the figures that I feel a word of explanation is in order.

As you well realize many persons for various reasons find it preferable to buy their copies from a newsstand instead of having it mailed to their homes or places of business. This means that ONE's sales are by no means to be guaged from the list of subscribers.

For instance, had the list shown those regularly receiving ONE each month in New York it would have read close to 3000; in California the same. This is why it is so important for us to have friends send us the names of newsstands in their cities that might be likely to handle the magazine. Only in this way can we keep on growing and reaching the people who need to read what you are printing.

David L. Freeman Circulation Manager

Dear Sir:

I have found much to admire in your magazine, particularly the 1954 issues. It has been a great help to me, I believe, in maintaining a balanced view. I particularly appreciate the high level of your articles. They are of value to all homosexuals in every country.

Dear Editors,

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The journal ... has given me considerable food for thought and the answer to the particular questions I had in mind. I expect to be in need of some answers. about references within the next couple of months and I shall take the liberty of writing you at that time. Doctor

BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

Dear Friends:

Thanks a lot for the complimentary copy of ONE which I received today. I am very anxious to tell you that I am much impressed by the quite amazing development that has become so evident with each issue. Its attitude is maturing by leaps and bounds (by which I mean that the desperate crusading torch-carrying is giving way to a more calm selfconfidence) and the material has become more interesting, and informative.

As for Norman Mailer's article, doing a moral somersault is a common enough experience for most homosexuals, but to undergo the same broadening of the understanding without the sexual or social need to do so is an admirable feat and doing so publicly is a brave one. Mr. Mailer has not only reached the high level of our ideals for tolerance, he has gone beyond that and shown us an ideal that goes beyond our egocentric ones. Mr. Mailer has lifted One and its readers into that realm where differences can be taken for granted and positively exploited as a means to activity rather than unproductively wrestled with-for and against, and around and about. Mr. Mailer's sense of understanding and of justice is appallingly acute not only in regard to the homosexual situation but in regard to his own introspection. If there is anything left to the definition of morality, I would say that Mr. Mailer's essay exemplifies it. And editorially let me compliment the magazine staff on a tour-de-force.

I was especially pleased too by the format of the magazine. Somehow it is losing that amateurish air new littlemagazines always have.

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