If it were possible to publish in the magazine proof that the mailing list or, rather, the subscription list could not be used by authorities or confiscated for such action I am sure that the increase in subscriptions would be noticeable. That is the major objection of many persons I have spoken with about the subject.
Mr. A. Mobile, Ala.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following discussion concerning the circulation records appeared in the first ONE CONFIDENTIAL:
"In the early days these were pretty casual: slips of paper, a corner torn from an envelope, but at no time has there been anything casual about the security provided for subscriber's names and addresses. This is a matter which has always been of paramount importance to the Corporation.
"In the Rumely case (1953) the U.S. Supreme Court denied the right of the Government to have access to a publisher''s lists. Part of this great decision reads: 'Once the Government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the specter of a Government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads.'
"No one, not the President, the F.B. I., or any other 'authority' may have ONE's lists for any reason whatever. The Corporation has never overlooked the chance however, that some Government agent might grab first and talk about the Supreme Court afterward.
"For such reasons ONE's subscription lists 'do not exist." Their whereabouts are unknown, also continually changing. . . ."
Returned from the Far East yesterday. . . . Outside of Tokyo in a smaller town I met with intelligent Japanese homosexuals who told me that the percentage is quite large, that the Japanese take a sensible attitude, and, for the most part, with the exception of commercials, stay away from European type of gay bars, having their own quiet gathering places everywhere, including Tokyo, where there are perhaps close to 70 or 80 tea-houses (not to be confused) where they meet, discuss and/or make arrangements in their own quiet way. A number of the decent sort would like to meet decent Americans or other foreign nationals but don't know quite how, since they avoid the well-known gay bars.
Mr. S.
Long Island, N. Y.
. .I am twenty-two years old, slightly mixed up, but may I take this opportunity to say that your magazine has given me a lot of confidence.
Mr. J.
Miami, Florida
Please reserve me a copy of Homosexuals Today. Send when available, and you may include my name and address as a homosexual, in fact, please do include it! Mr. H.
Watertown, Wisconsin
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