Gentlemen:

I recently purchased a copy of ONE on a newsstand and found it informative and enlightening. Should I choose to subscribe would I be violating any Federal law or statute?

EDITOR'S NOTE:

Mr. E.

HARTSVILLE, S. C..

Please read the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

Dear Guys and Gals:

I am enclosing what at first glance may seem to be a very long account of a killing. As you read it, particularly the portions I have lined with blue pencil, you will realize the significance of the article.

A man, bachelor or married, can become involved with women-even minors-and eventually he can live down his indiscretion. But for those men in our world there is no such solution. The more reckless ones are constant prey for the chiselers who roam the bars, the parks, the cheap movies. Apparently the dead man was physically attractive (he would have to be, naturally) who used this attractiveness to prowl the bars, looking for the lonely and the "hungry" to victimize. Apparently he found "good hunting," until a cop's bullet sent him to the everlasting hell which should be reserved for all such vultures. I am neither unkind nor inhuman in my attitudes toward society, but the reading of this article gave me exquisite pleasure and lasting satisfaction. The policeman who fired the shot should be awarded a medal!

It's all pretty sordid, I know. But like many other situations in our society, our way of life need only become sordid when and if we choose to make it so. Wish I had half a million dollars to give to you to carry on your wonderful work, but, lacking this, I can give you loyalty and my support, and my everlasting gratitude for your guts and courage in founding ONE.

Dr. Mr. Crowther:

Mr. D.

NEW YORK, N. Y.

For some time I have wanted to write a note to you and mention my thanks for your article on ETHICS. As you were enough aware of value to write this article, I imagine you will understand how much uplift it means for those who care about such things. I sincerely hope you will write more of the same type of articles, and I hope my appreciation of this very clearly and well-written article of yours will prove of encouragement to you.

Mr. P.

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA

Dear Sirs:

Have you noticed what has happened in Little Rock? The city passed an ordinance requiring the NAACP to make public its confidential files. Now that the NAACP has refused, the police are arresting its officers.

Just where do we members stand with ONE? What assurance do we have that our names won't be seized and made public in the future? If Los Angeles wanted to put the screws on you, they could pass such a Little Rock ordinance, too.

The many people I've tried to coax into subscribing to ONE all had that as an excuse--"Our names on a list like that, are you crazy?" Give us absolute foolproof assurance our names can never be confiscated and I'll bet membership would go up a hundred percent. Why don't you publicize your guarantee, if you have any.

EDITOR'S REPLY:

Mr. R.

TAMPA, FLORIDA

Your inquiry and comparison of Little Rock, the NAACP, and those who are members and subscribers to ONE is natural. Although we quite regularly print the facts governing our status you apparently are not aware of them. In an important case (Rumeley, 1953) the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously held that NO AGENCY WHATEVER, for any purpose whatever, may have access to the lists of readers of a publication, or purchasers of books. So you see that the comparison between what happened in Little Rock is not apt, the NAACP being an organization, not primarily a publisher.

Unfortunately our circulation has never in the past increased "a hundred percent," when we have published the above facts. Might it be that those who really wish to read ONE Magazine are not so generally fearful as might be supposed?

Gentlemen:

A friend told me of your organization and from what little I know of the same I am heartily in favor of what you are trying to do by means of publication, education and other media. I should like to ask if you have any clergymen or chaplains connected with your organization in a counselling capacity? Have you seen the pamphlet, LETTER TO A HOMOSEXUAL by Father Kenneth Ross, published by Forward Movement Publications, 421 Sycamore St., Cincinnati, Ohio? Mr. S.

EDITOR'S REPLY:

SARASOTA, FLORIDA

Yes, we do have three clergymen working with us. We first saw LETTER TO A HOMOSEXUAL when it was sent to us from England where it was first published.

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