lems if only scientists would invent a pill to turn everyone the same color. Hope she read the article by Dan Martin (October, 1958), "Leopard on a Spot."

The last I read of Albert Ellis he seemed to be striving to conform everyone into bisexuality. I wish he would lay off the homosexuals for a while. It seems that he would have a larger clientele if he would work on the heterosexuals and switch them all to bisexuals. I feel that he is one of those psychologists with a large file in his office on the "immaturity theory" of homosexuality.

I feel that most Americans, and that takes in all of those who cling so strongly to religion, refuse to face the scientific facts of life or nature. Guess I have let off enough steam for now. I do enjoy receiving ONE Magazine, ONE Confidential and ONE Institute Quarterly. It is work such as yours that will eventually bring about a greater degree of tolerance toward others and do away with the tendency to conformity, which only dehumanizes the human being.

Gentlemen:

Mr. S.

PUEBLO, COLORADO

I think the new "Toward Understanding" column by Dr. Baker is a wonderful addition and am looking forward to her future columns. "Tangents" is the highlight of each issue. I've been reading ONE for the past two years and find that it helps me to understand myself and others around me.

Editors of ONE:

Mr. McL.

NEW YORK, N. Y.

May I congratulate you on the initiation of Dr. Baker's column "Toward Understanding. It fosters personal identification, and makes a much-needed professional contribution. I have already written Dr. Baker personally to commend her for her support in attempting to understand the homophile problem.

When Dr. Baker speaks of homosexuality as one of our mammalian heritages" she appears to assume inherited traits and places the problem squarely in the laps of geneticists. Would they be willing to catch the ball and affirm her assumption? But a more serious objection I have stems from her characterizing homosexuality both as genetically determined and as "personal taste" and a "way of life." Does she mean to imply by this that personal preference and ways of living are inherited?

In our present state of knowledge I think we have to say that we don't know. I am sure that Dr. Baker, with her eclectic orientation, would at least agree there is a matrix of contributing factors, and while we are looking and trying to understand who and why

are we do need the kind of perceptive people like Dr. Baker.

Dear ONE:

Mr. M.

AUBURN, ALABAMA

I have met Dr. Blanche M. Baker at one of your Midwinter Institutes. I think she is very charming and broadminded. There should be more people in this world of ours today like her.

I believe God made us what we are and we cannot change it.

Gentlemen:

Mr. D.

TUJUNGA, CALIFORNIA

Last year I was in the Middle East and a Dutch friend of mine produced a copy of VRIENDSCHAP. Previous to this I had never known of any such publications, even though I am to be considered as sexually homophile. Hence, you can imagine my delight in discovering ONE Magazine on a stand at Madison and 42nd Street.

You are the voice of the persecuted and divided. As such you deserve high praise. The work you are doing to promote better understanding amongst homophiles and between homophiles and heterosexuals is to be lauded throughout American free thinking circles. It is unfortunate indeed that the American mecca for homophiles, New York City, is without such programs as your Midwinter Institute. This mecca is also lacking. in not having a branch office of ONE. Perhaps one day in the not too distant future.

Dear ONE:

Mr. S. BROOKLYN, N. Y.

The lugubrious Dr. E. of Michigan (Letters, February, 1959) must carry a very long face among his patients. I wonder, does he ever smile at them? Our fight, if we must call it that, is indeed for a difficult cause, but laughter is a very potent weapon and has won just as many battles as tears and lamentations ever have.

There's fun in "Hamlet" and "King Lear" as well as tragedy and high drama. Dickens is deliciously funny, yet the number of reforms he sparked is well known. Rabelais and Shaw didn't tear their hair out putting their points across. We remember what they had to say though, don't we?

And there's no sense in trying to say that Christianity is a sad religion, if we must turn to religian, which we invariably do. It isn't. In the first place, witness Easter, the essence of joy, if not of laughter. And anyway, God came before Christianity, and He must have a marvellously developed sense of humor. He invented us humans, didn't He?

Miss J.

NEW YORK, N. Y.