Each country, each culture, each age challenges us with strange questions, enigmas, paradoxes. ONE Institute has accepted the challenge, expecting no easy solutions, no pat answers, no quick nostrums. It has accepted the responsibility of undertaking these new tasks because it finds intellectually immoral the long refusal of our universities to undertake such tasks, as inherently irreligious the pious pharisaism of the churches concerning homosexuality, both irresponsible and unconstitutional the attitudes of our law-makers and courts.

However feebly, with virtually no funds, quite without endowment or subsidies, with no physical plant, yet with a small faculty completely determined to persist in working at the job, ONE Institute hopes to bring the light of knowledge to bear on the whole vast field of homophile studies. Its aim is to help the baffled husband understand his strange and enigmatic wife, the frightened parents their unusual sons and daughters. It hopes to bring a steadying sanity to homosexuals themselves, to give them that knowledge which in itself is power, the power to help resolve their conflicts in some degree and to lessen their fears.

ONE Institute is undertaking this type of work by means of classes studying the history of homosexuality; the anthropological findings concerning the practice; psychological theories of homosexuality; the homosexual in literature; the sociology of the homosexual; religion, law and philosophy and homosexuality; the biology of homosexuality. Already, after one full academic year of operation, the Institute is finding new assurance and charting its path with confidence that much good can be accomplished in these ways.

It looks for increased enrollments, added facilities and firmly expects one of these days to find itself eliciting the kind of substantial financial support which the American public gives to other worthwhile public endeavors. It hopes that readers of ONE Magazine will themselves actively support and work for the Institute, best of all that they enroll in the classes and join a unique educational venture.

POSTAL CASE REACHES SUPREME COURT

ONE's attorney flew to Washington, D.C. recently to present before the Supreme Court the Corporation's "Petition for Writ of Certiorari." When the Court resumes sessions in the Fall, notification will be made of its decision regarding hearing of the case. If this is granted, much labor and expense will be required, including another trip to Washington, and staying longer there.

Contributions to the Legal Fund for this case have totalled $367.50. The Corporation deeply appreciates these gifts. However, the total has fallen about $100 short of covering expenses already incurred, and leaves nothing for expected further costs. As was stated previously (ONE, April, 1957, p.20) these have been estimated to be about $2000.00 in all.

As we also said before, "IT COSTS LOTS OF MONEY TO HAVE PRINCIPLES." We know ONE's readers back us in standing for the principle of the right to read.

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