complacently accept their own limitations as the measure of all things is really one of the great dangers inherent in democracy. Democracy presupposes an intelligent and thoughtful citizenry, a citizenry made of people who realize and accept the obligation to think, to debate, to search. When citizens shirk their responsibility to use their brains, that's when the genuine decadence sets in.

I do not mean that readers must swallow everything any "highbrow" writer says. But even in the mental work of understanding him and then debating what he has to say in one's own mind, one grows.

Homosexuals cry for more understanding from the heterosexual world, but only too often they themselves shirk the mental work. involved in self-understanding, as well as a better understanding of the world in which. they live.

I would not like to see ONE become an austere and sedate "highbrow" magazine. It is breezy and often impassioned and that is good. In fact I think the editors of ONE have done a difficult job well in diversifying the appeal of the magazine. It is just that I feel it is damned important to point out the dangers of "no-nothingism" and anti-intellectualism in a democratic society. I only hope that ONE doesn't degenerate into a least-common-denominator magazine for least-common-denominator man. That's the surest way to bog down to a stand-still.

Gentlemen:

MR. L

BALTIMORE, MD.

This is to advise receipt of copy of ONE. From its pages I appreciate the financial handicap being weathered and trust it is only temporary. However, as stated, the dimensions of the task undertaken by ONE, as a singular publication and as a singular minority group, are of such great proportions, a final victory seems insurmountable.

But, who wants a final victory? Let's all get into the fight and enjoy it. Some time ago words created the dissentions and oppositions toward variations. ONE is full of words and needs many more. More pages. More messages. And, perhaps, pictures.

So enclosed is a contribution to create a few more active words.

Dear Sir:

MR. I.

W. HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.

For more than a year now I have been receiving your magazine. It's maybe a little too sweeping to say ONE has completely changed my outlook on life, but it certainly has given me a clearer understanding of living. My peculiarities are no longer a worry to me. With the relaxing of the tensespring which I always felt was my soul, I

find it so much easier to live with a world that is not as hostile as I had thought. ONE has not only shown me that there are millions with the same desires as myself, but that these longings are a natural emotion and not ones to look upon with shame and disgust.

Dear Mr. Freeman:

MR. R. MELBOURNE, AUS.

Thank you for your letter acknowledging, sending out the gift copies I ordered. Thanks for the prompt service!

My buddy and I are very much interested in doing anything we can to help the cause of ONE, as a token of our appreciation of all the excellent work you all have done there.

Please let us know how we may be of service to you here and we will do what we can to help.

Dear Mr. J.

MR. J. KANSAS CITY, MO.

Thank you for your fine letter of the 4th. It is always heartening to find the previous few who are willing to work for ONE and not sit on the sidelines and complain! Or give free advice! Not that we do not appreciate every y useful idea (and there have been many) but in general the ideas are things we found impractical three years ago, or else can't undertake for one reason or another.

So it is most welcome to discover someone who is willing to get down to brass tacks and just plain WORK. The greatest need ONE has (like nearly every enterprise, I suppose) is money. How to increase our income? Primarily, by increasing our circulation. This will lead to broader contacts, more contributors editorially and financially, more advertisers. So the continued need is for more and more circulation.

Here in LA we have a Promotion Committee which meets once a week and works on circulation. Their job is to take names we obtain in various ways, type them on file cards, thus forming a mailing list of potential subscribers. Then they type envelopes with these addresses and stuff the envelopes with the promotional material being used for any current advertising campaign. For instance, right now they are addressing about 4 thousand envelopes (from our mailing list) and stuffing with our latest promotional folder. We hope for fine results.

This is all a huge job, and laborious in a way, but it BUILDS as nothing else can. Every promotional campaign brings us many new subscribers, purchasers of the play or