Letters

The views expressed here are those of the writers. ONE's readers cover a wide range of geographical, economic, age, and educational status. This department aims to express this diversity.

Dear Friends:

Thanks for sending me the copy of HOMOSEXUALS TODAY. I can't say how moving an experience it was to read it. I hope you will continue to advertise it, for the sake of new Friends of ONE.

Just because you are setting up this new scholarly publication (ONE INSTITUTE QUARTERLY) please don't let ONE Magazine be a receptacle for the pseudo-scientific. If Christopher Wicks (January issue) had given more details of his findings about the genetic origin of homosexuality, and less rhetoric, it might have been more convincing. If we are going to fight the unscientific claims of others, we must be more rigorous ourselves.

Dear ONE:

Miss J. CHICAGO, ILL.

I want to tell you how much I enjoyed "It Is Natural After All," by Wicks. I have believed this after a great deal of research, and from some sort of intuition within my own personality. Keep up the good work. It is a long hard pull to enlighten people, but we do have a few scientists on our side. There is a solid wall of Puritan superstition under ages of make-believe that society seems to think is the truth. But by gradual and persistent enlightenment it will give way to the light of knowledge.

Gentlemen:

Mr. J., House of Representatives A NEW ENGLAND STATE

I was so pleased with the "Victory" and really appreciated the story, "Down in the Canyon," by Don Rifle. Please send more of these stories our way in future issues.

Dear Editor:

Mr. E.

BARNSDALL, OKLA.

It seems to me that much of your fiction exudes an unnecessary despair. If I approach the mag mildly depressed, I usually leave it

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more so. As for Dal McIntire, sometimes his writing sinks to the level of the exposé magazines. For that reason I never skip a word of it. I don't intend to miss a single issue from here on in. Incidentally, I'm one identical twin who has a bone to pick with Mr. Wicks. Mr. C. CHICAGO, ILL.

Dear ONE:

Three cheers-one each for ONE, the Supreme Court and Democracy. I am delighted to hear that my little jingle (The Ballad of Lord Samuel and Lord Montagu, October, 1954) did not merit the terrible words hurled at it by Judges Clarke, Barnes, Hamley and Ross. They had quite a ball with the Muse and she has not visited me since, being disgusted, I imagine, at their insulting language,

Although lawyers and poets both deal in concepts which are in a large degree mythical, the former tend to be rather heavyhanded when it comes to criticism. Perhaps they did not like me poking fun at their colleagues, Lord Samuel and Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, now Lord Kilmuir, who has put the Wolfenden Report in deep freeze.

I have been doing some wood carving and the face of the kid (boy or girl?) on the last cover interests me. I should like to incorporate this fallen angel's countenance in an icon. "Brother Grundy" TORONTO, ONTARIO

Dear Sirs:

Only recently has your publication reached me and given me a stronger outlook on life. In a way I am new at this life, knew nothing of it until four years ago when I was serving in the army. There, in a desolate overseas base in the wilds of Northern Canada, I fell in love. It was a strange thing. However, Labrador was the land of strange and different things the sun at midnight, the sky filled with dashing, flashing lights

We both realized that we wanted a different type of future from that of a large

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