Gentlemen and Ladies of the Staff:

I have just finished reading One Confidential. It is a sad commentary on us as a group. With our numbers and our resources, you should not have to be struggling as you are. Apparently, too many of us are going by on the other side of the street and playing the role of Peter in the great drama which the Christian world has just re-celebrated. Or, may be most of us just don't realize what each of us could do anonymously through those who are willing to brave the. world and front for us, if we each would contribute $5.00 a year as an insurance fee for our own future. None of us knows when he may be going to need the help of an organization like One, and certainly all of us could do with an amelioration of the conditions which surround us, an amelioration which would be inevitable if an organization such as you are had at its disposal $5.00 a year from each of one million of us. How much more do the liquor manufacturers, cigarette manufacturers, and movie producers get from our millions as we search for companionship? A search, which if it does not lead to a brush with the vice squad leads to contacts with social groups in which there frequently is a person who does have a brush with the vice squad and freely blabbers names which go into police files for future reference. Many of the people first purged from the Federal government in Washington, D. C., following the questioning of Vice Squad Lt. Blick by the nonlamented late Senator Wherry back in 1950, as I recall, were persons who led circumspect lives and went only to private parties, avoiding the bars and Lafayette Square and certain theaters.

I am enclosing a contribution and suggest that $15.00 go towards changing me from an annual to a contributing member and the re-

mainder to go into your Postoffice Fund,' or, if you wish all of it into your Postoffice Fund,' wish I could come forth with an offer to underwrite your appeal expenses, and yet I am glad I can't. One, and what it stands for, should be a collective effort, not a few 'angels' carrying the rest of us on their backs. After all, in the popular parlance, each of us has his own set of wings. A million pairs of wings flapping all at once could create quite a gale!

Dear Sirs:

Mr. B. Springfield, Va.

I am writing a paper in my Sociology class on homosexuality and I am anxious to find material for it. I would especially like to get a copy of your magazine as I have heard much about it and it might be an interesting addition to my term paper.

Dear Sir:

Miss J. Claremont, Cal.

. . . despite problems, controversies, and even an occasional arguement, One still remains the best voice we have.

Dear One:

Mr. H. Phoenix, Ariz.

Just a word for Mr. G. of N. Y. C. (Feb., 1955 issue). If he needs more copies of One for his fire he can have ours, we've got them memorized!

Mountains of praise to Eve Elloree for her art and to Jody Shotwell for her stories and poetry.

Miss K.

Miss P.

Salt Lake City, Utah