Dear readers:

It is our earnest hope that you will study the following Editorial carefully. ONE has had its biggest and most successful year ever. Big and new developments are in the offing, yet all this could be lost if we do not have your financial support.

ONE is a non-profit corporation devoted to your interests. It cannot ever operate without generous and consistent support. If one thousand persons will send five dollars each, the 1959 Fall Fund Drive will have saved the day, but some will need to send more than that to make up for those who send less, or send nothing. Some of you may wish to help ONE through our so-called "Apostles' Loans." If so, write for details.

In any case please, if you care at all about the work ONE has been doing for the past seven years, if you are truly interested in helping to improve conditions for homosexual men and women, SEND YOUR GIFT TODAY.

Board of Directors, ONE, Incorporated

EDITORIAL

ONE's seventh birthday, October 15, was the occasion more for sober reflection and grave wonderment than for frolic, as the organization faced its latest and worst financial crisis. Why should this be, we asked ourselves?

Subscribers had been sent a somewhat light-hearted reminder that this was birthday time again, hence, Fall Fund Drive time. The response was so disappointing that we began to feel we must have somehow been more light-headed than light-hearted.

Could it be possible, we wondered, that so few would take ONE's needs seriously? Had seven years of labor done no more than evoke a few campy birthday cards? Did homosexual American men and women have no genuine interest in bettering their lot?

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