In fairness to the faithful few, once again they came through nobly, giving more than they could well afford. These deserve a salute, though they ask for none. Sparingly salted across the land, it is they alone who seem clearly to understand the situation. They recognize that ONE, a non-profit Corporation, must have regular and generous support, like any other public-service organization, charity or hospital. They knew that ONE mazazine, at fifty cents a copy, just pays its own way, as spokesman for the Corporation, and that all the other basic work which makes ONE so much more than just a magazine, the work done on the very firing-line of this great, big social problem, must always be subsidized. They know that such time-consuming, difficult, even dangerous work cannot ever pay its way, that it must be supported by those whose social consciences have been aroused by the needless suffering they have seen around them.

That the number of the faithful few is so limited should not, perhaps, cause surprise, for the general public hears mainly about the supposed vileness of homosexuality. Thus, little heartfelt support might be looked for in that direction, while many homosexuals have themselves succumbed to the same propaganda. This often results in such a degree of despair and hopelessness, usually masked behind a synthetic and cynical gaiety, in such abject guilt and shame, that the very concept of working together with one's fellows for some social goal is dismissed as being unthinkable.

It well may be that something of this same attitude is behind the reluctance to attend classes at ONE Institute. What is there to learn about ourselves, they ask, except that there is nothing we can do? Morituri te saluent, they seem to say, substituting Society for Caesar, quite unaware of the tell-tale sag of middleaged fatalism such an attitude betrays.

The staff of ONE, in the spirit of the self-same enthusiasm we still retain from our very first birthday, urge each reader to rouse himself, and to keep aroused. Homosexuality can be as honorable and rewarding a way of life as any other, but only hard work and sacrifice and yes, some fighting, can make it so.

As more and more are willing to work and sacrifice to help achieve the goals for which ONE stands, he will find that in working for the good of others he has thereby helped himself. Why not tithe in the interests of that which lies closest to ourselves, the very heart and core of one's nature? Is this too radical a proposal?

There must be no failure at this late date, no loss of gains already won, or all will suffer, including thousands who have never yet heard of ONE. We look to you all to help us in building Walt Whitman's "new City of Friends" where nothing was greater "than the quality of robust love ... It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city."

The Editors

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