I thumbed through the Magazine about four times without having read anything but the Editorial, looking for something but not sure just what. It wasn't there! You know what I'm talking about. I hope maybe this is just the month for Dal McIntire's vacation, or something like that.

Mr. J. Sharon, Pa.

TOIL AND TROUBLE, CONTINUED

Dear Sir:

Having stopped in New York City for a weekend I found most of the Gay Bars closed or under surveillance. Why the purge? What is happening to this wonderful country of ours?

Are we that bad and so different that we should be put in cages to be looked upon by people that have no right to sit on the judge's bench? Why not circulate word of this situation and have more discussions to see if there isn't an alternative, so that we can preserve our civil and personal rights?

Dear Mr. Slater:

Mr. R.

New York, N. Y.

I don't trust our Post Office because we New Yorkers are going now through a "decency wave." Therefore the Post Office may open anything, examine it and throw it in the waste basket, if they feel like it.

As regards New Yorkers, let me say that they are narrow-minded, stubborn and appallingly misinformed. They may ignore a lot of things and yet utter sharp opinions on such things. They make awkward statements about things they do not know at all. They assume they are always right.

New York should be the most cosmopolitan city in the world, but it is not. It should be the most tolerant city in the world, but it is not. It is a conglomeration of "small towns' with all their gossiping, witch-hunting, bigotry, etc. Not even the United Nations headquarters have been able to make New Yorkers more wordly. Xenophobia in New York is a fact.

They do not want to understand. A few months ago I was listening to the radio station of the New York Times, when I heard Mr. Abram Chasins, musical director (and noted pianist) say that the best Spanish music has been written not by Spaniards but by foreign composers, completely ignoring Turina, Granados, de Falla and many others! When a person who holds such a job acts so, what can you expect from plain, ordinary people?

New York is controlled by women. They are very powerful here. Men are afraid of them. Women have instilled into their heads the notion that intelligence is a feminine quality. Therefore, knowledge is for the exclusive use

of women. Since intelligence and knowledge mean femininity every man pretends desperately to be ignorant and stupid.

Conversation here is expected to be shallow and nonsensical, kept alive by a succession of empty sentences without connection with each other. To have a personal opinion is considered anti-social. To think is a crime. Only women can think.

At work we have to control our emotions all the time. If we act warmly; if we are slightly demonstrative; if we are, by nature, friendly, we become suspect. In every place there is somebody who claims to be an "expert" at detecting these things. Needless to say that the 'expert" is always either a repressed homosexual or one that, for obvious reasons, cannot attract anybody. The latter is the most dangerous type.

Mr. I.

New York, N. Y.

P.S.: (1) I love New York; (2) I don't hate

women.

Dear ONE:

Now that you've covered homosexuality in the Services so nicely you might plan an issue devoted to homosexuality among the police.

A few weeks ago I was sitting in a small park on a bench under a strong light talking to someone when all of a sudden the park filled up with plain-clothesmen, coming in. from all four sides. The crew surrounded the two of us. The leader was most boisterous and sarcastic with me. He looked at my identification and then fairly shouted, "Well you can go on now, but dontcha ever let me catch ya in this park again or I'll throw the book at you!"

Dear Friends:

Mr. L.

San Francisco, Calif.

Enclose an article from last night's paper about arrests for homosexual acts in a public park. I imagine this article will lead to demands for a general crackdown on all parks by "righteously outraged citizens.

Dear Sir:

Mr. B. Milwaukee, Wis.

Will you have someone report the Chester Burge trial? You may already have information regarding his indictment for murder of his wife. He was alleged to have slipped from his room at a hospital where he was recovering from an operation, returned to his home and strangled his wife in a triangle-affair involving his own alleged homosexual relations with his colored chauffeur.

Mr. A. Macon, Ga.

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