youth might shoot rabbits. The long struggle of the centuries to abolish slavery is only too well known and, that the battle for human equality is not yet entirely won, recent events of so-called racial antagonism prove only too clearly. The light colored ethnic groups may yet have to undergo profound humiliation before they grant justice and equality to the darker peoples in the pursuit of the goods of life.

In this writer's opinion there is no darker picture in history than that of the exploitation of children in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the coming of the industrial revolution in Scotland and England in the newly established factories where they were chained to the machines and died like flies. It took a whole social movement created by Robert Raikes. Robert Owen. Charles Dickens. Heinrich Pestalozzi, Friedrich Froebel, and others to break the hold of the industrialists and emancipate the children, and child labor abuses still appear from time to time.

For many centuries women subordinated and exploited by men. Even in the United States, which has been one of the foremost countries in the world to recognize the rights of women, as well as in England, the struggle for the right to vote was carried on with a bitterness that is now being forgotten. In England Emmeline Pankhurst was considered a fanatic or worse when her women threw acid in the mail boxes to get the attention of Parliament. Recently it has been proposed to raise a monument to her memory. In the Middle East where the movement for the emancipation of women is still in the earlier stages, an old sheik was reported to have killed his several grown daughters rather than have them appear in public without the symbolic and oppressive veil.

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The repudiation of colonialism in our own time is a late recognition of the fact that the beauty and charm of the life of the aristocracy of Europe has little justification when based, as it has been, on the degradation and misery of the more primitive peoples of the world. The intolerable poverty of India reflects no credit on the great British Empire. It has taken the world-wide upheaval of two great wars to bring about awareness of the injustice of the subordination of one nation to another.

Although they have existed throughout recorded history, homosexuals have doubtless not thought of themselves as belonging to a minority group in society which suffers unjust discrimination and limitation in its freedom to seek the satisfactions of life, precisely as any other group. Thus in a sense they are the last minority group to join the procession toward a more perfect democracy. As in the cases previously mentioned. a group of courageous and self-effacing leaders stand at what is practically the beginning of the movement to secure fair and just treatment for this minority. It is here that One Institute finds its historic importance. one of the very first organized attempts to change the situation both as to the attitudes of the individuals within the group and as to those of society in general which is as far from real understanding as were those of a bygone age who held that slavery was ordained of God. Education, publica— all tion. conferences, counselling these activities and others serve to awaken a consciousness of the problems involved and give knowledge which will support valid solutions. Its success and appeal thus far give promise of a future which may well invite the cooperation of all who are interested in bringing about a happier and more democratic world.

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