tive work permits more time to apply to bonafide projects, with local groups assuming full responsibility for their actions.

6. TO PERMIT A REALISTIC EVALUATION OF INCOME PROSPECTS. With membership handled directly by each local area, and with each group working on its own for funds, there is greater certainty, to be determined over a period of time, of the actual income prospect for each independent group, as well as for the Corporation itself. With the knowledge that a member belongs to one group only, some of the fear will be erased.

7. TO ESTABLISH THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY ON A FOUNDATION BASIS. With stabilized central direction from its Board, Mattachine becomes. in effect, a Foundation type organization, making it eligible for grants in aid for specific projects within its aims and purposes. This same thing can apply to other new groups if they organize along lines to permit it. Added to Mattachine's official regulations is a provision for turning over its assets to other similar non-profit educational groups in case of Mattachine dissolution. This makes the Mattachine eligible for tax exempt status, and in addition, con-

tributions and donations to it are tax deductible for the donor.

This most recent directive of the Board has been endorsed by the San Francisco and the Denver groups. Boston and Chicago have indicated technical assent. New York has refused to recognize it, in fact, has named it illegal; and instead has "seceded" from the Society thereby completely severing themselves from everything Mattachine without right to even protest.

With this strong affirmation of the Board's directive let us hope that the New York group will soon attain enough maturity to maturity to overcome its automatic indignation and settle down with a name of its own and a more realistic purpose than it is exhibiting at the moment. We trust they they will soon recover from their myopia, so that they may be able to look around and see the unlimited possibilities offered by that beautiful (but wet) cosmopolis on the East River, and learn to utilize more fully the abundance of their own resources of which they are in the midst. But first. let them find themselves a name or we shan't know what to call them. Then we can be together in spirit. Chairman, Board of Directors, Mattachine Society, Inc. David L. Daniels

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