unable to help you. If you have written on the subject of Lesbianism we would be pleased to have you submit it for possible use in the Magazine..

Dear Editor:

I am damn glad to see the vitality the Magazine is now showing. I have material demonstrating that a certain number of the early cowboys were homosexuals here in the West. It certainly is nothing startling. A few of them apparently were matter of fact about their sexual release, and when women came on the scene they took wives. Others were not so inclined and remained homosexual. Two whom I knew had neighboring ranches and were lifelong friends. Still others were actually narcissistic and not homosexual. They seemed to reject true friendship with either a male or a female.

To the Staff of ONE:

Mr. L

MILES CITY, MONTANA

I have the impression that the use of 'compounds" (news item-hormone pills may be used to curb homosexual urges in men') to stop sexual desire temporarily is not a recent development, nor is the idea of "blanketing" the homos by this means new either. If they could just find a pill that would be permanently effective, wouldn't that be nice? Here again we see the intention to interfere with natural processes, the reason being implied that homosexuality is not normal. "Normal" is not, strictly speaking, synonymous with "natural."

Editor:

Mr. E.

DENISON, TEXAS

T. M. Merritt's excellent account of homosexuality and scientific humanism needs to be supplemented by letting readers know that John Dewey, Erich Fromm, Julian Huxley, Ernest Jones and Bertrand Russell are typical scientific humanists. American scientific humanists have said little about homosexuality, but English humanists have been editorially in favor of relaxing anti-homosexual laws. Homosexuals who have religious doubts and above-average mentality might well investigate scientific humanism. Humanists could use their their help in formulating functional standards for a new morality and ethics.

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Miss S.

NEW YORK, N. Y.

Dear Sir:

Some of your articles do not actually offer much new to the discussion but merely repeat ideas already generally known. It may be that your readers need continuous reassurance about their normality, but the large amount of prose on this point becomes uninteresting and takes space away from more informative material. I personally would like to see more items like the report on the comparison of Irish and Italian schizophrenics (August-September issue). I think a running bibliography of articles and books in the field, together with summaries of the more significant matters, is almost a sine. qua non in such a periodical. For this reason I value your book reviews and the column "tangents."

Gentlemen:

Mr. W.

BOWLING GREEN, OHIO

The article by Alison Hunter in the current (March) magazine, in which she discusses the Midwinter Institute conclusions regarding whether women should be "butch" or "femme"; and summarizes it all up with "doing what comes naturally," brings up a subject I have wanted to write to you about for some time. This has to do with "flaunting" in public.

Why, oh why, do both our sexes feel that it is clever, cute, or just having the courage of our convictions to ape the opposite sex, ironical as it is, considering that we don't LIKE the opposite sex, in most cases.

I have had occasion to be in a bowling alley when the "ladies" teams were bowling, and such an array of out-and-out butch characters would be hard to imagine. Each trying to outdo the other, with no concern for the onlookers who were not sympathetic. The unfortunate thing about it is that both male and female take on the most offensive, vulger and gauche characteristics of the males, and the most simpering, cloying and sickening characteristics of the females and on both of them it looks bad even to one of their kind.

Dear Sir:

Mr. C.

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA

It must be remembered that ONE cannot elect to serve or satisfy any one personal taste. For my own part I have found articles that stimulate thought and generally interest me, others that leave me cold or rile and disgust me. I thank Heaven that we are not all the same with the same identical tastes, so I assume the liberty of choice. I selected

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