ONE's Bureau of Public Information was established late in 1953 that I was assigned to the staggering task of making corrections To the innumerable lies which appear in print concerning homosexuals and homosexuality. The Bureau's function also is to challange improper and illegal behavior on the part of public officials the country over, exposing to public view and to legal correction, wherever possible, the grossest of their violations.

Despite considerable interest exhibited by friends of ONE in 1954 and 1955 during our challenges to Bernarr Macfadden, the selfstyled "Dr." Arthur Guy Mathews, the Mayor of Miami and a number of other public figures of irresponsible views and public statements, the work of the Bureau has been allowed to slacken of late years.

My own busy schedule has not permitted me to carry on this work without assistance and if homosexuals the country over do not really care enough about what is done to them to give the Bureau the substantial support it needs if anything of value is to be accomplished, then perhaps the time is not yet ripe.

I not with some amusement the continued popularity of the "Tangents" feature in the Magazine which, in literary form only, carries on the note of challange and reform that characterized our earliest work in the Bureau of Public Information. Is literary protest all that homosexuals asks?

Marvin Cutler

Long Beach, California

A SAMPLING FROM THE YEARS, 1955-1962 Dear ONE:

As Editorial Secretary during 1958 and part of 1959 and as author author of several articles I found the work with ONE stimulating and I hope of some help toward realizing ONE's purposes. My present work schedule does not permit me to see you as often as in the past but I am always interested in ONE's welfare-and maybe later on ... Alice Horvath Palms, California

Dear ONE:

When it began, there were rumors that ONE would not last more than a year. The pessimists must now extend their apologies. As Editorial Secretary during 1959 and 1960 I learned that it has not been easy to blaze this road to homosexual freedom through the jungle of public censorship and government red herrings.

I once had rejection slips before my first story was printed in May, 1958. At the time I was reading manuscripts for the Magazine about eighty percent of them were on the same hackneyed themes of gay bars and

cruising the parks. Is that all we have to offer the heterosexual reader? Is that the existence we are fighting for? I say, expand your imaginations! The message you invoke. with your writing helps to establish us in real life in a world where we insistently plan to be accepted.

The heterosexual reader who buys ONE must be provoked, impressed, stimulated and convinced of our human worth and our full rights to the freedoms of a democracy which claims that all men are equal. Ten years of triumph and tears-may the next ten be just as exciting.

Dear ONE:

Arnell Larsen Tujunga, California

After your hard and often lonely battles I don't know how you did it, with all that it takes for any of us to hold our heads above water in these days. You seem to have discovered a fountain somewhere of truly inexhaustible will-power for it amazes that your efforts always manage to appear so effortless and that your magazine has been able to maintain such honesty and the hardest thing of all, quality, over the years. Why didn't you give in? or give up? I think I would have.

Yet in my mind's eye, I imagine myself there with you shoulder to shoulder with the banner aloft of golden dreams for something less than golden returns and your indefatigable courage scouting ahead, feeling out the defenses of the enemy, just missing this ambush and that surprise attack-my dear, brave heroes on the bulwarks of such a challenging social role (bulwarks is plural, isn't it?) with little to go on but their ideals and unshakeable convictions.

I don't know you, so I have to try to imagine what you are like now and what you were like then with courage high and all the hopes of our struggle buckled on. And were you often angry at how little Success you were having? and often as not in trouble for having somehow managed that little?

My wishes are with you for good productive years ahead. Likely as not it will be more of the same; situations vary so little from year to year and I suspect from life to life, lifetime to lifetime. With the hope that my poorly expressed wish that a brighter future may give you back some of the pleasure ONE has given me—l close.

Jessica Farr Hollywood, California

(Reader will recal! Miss Farr's "Have Yourself a Gay Vacation," in June, 1959).

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