or else entirely ignored by most of the teachers. I don't know that all of them could have been helped greatly, but they could have been helped some.

"The outrageous proposal Miss Kirsh made was that teachers be given some form of training which would enable them to recognize personality problems in children. I was absolutely astounded at the report of the reaction. For the principal to term such suggestion ridiculous is-well, what the heck -ridiculous.

"It was reported that a number of angry parents called the school and threatened to withdraw their children. I should think if my kids were going to that school I'd be more inclined to worry about the principal than about Miss Kirsh, who, instead of being pilloried, should, on the face of it, be commended."

Mrs. D. Harrington, also in the same paper, said that if Miss Kirsh surprised the board, it was because she left them back in the Victorian era, hiding like ostriches.

FROM THE LAND OF POI

This brings us the back to US HONOLULU ADVERTISER. It has gotten its head out of the ground, but it hasn't really learned much, or maybe hasn't tried to learn much.

quote: "The Deviate: A Growing Community Problem. Editor's note: This article deals with a problem. that is unpleasant but significant, a problem that is worsening and thus a problem which the community should face up to. For this reason, the Advertiser assigned a reporter to search out the facts and present them." Does this sound a little familiar? The reporter, Bob Jones, either didn't seek hard for facts, or didn't report them. But in the University of Hawaii paper, KA LEO O HAWAII, Neil Abercrombie does

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indicate to us that at least some universities are teaching a few truths about sex, and that some students are learning a little. He answers the ADVERTISER by saying that if his knowledge about the various aspects of homosexuality are correct, legislative restrictions are worthless. Tying in the previously mentioned law against wearing drag, he says: "If the Mayor's Subcommittee on Sex Deviates recommends a law punishing transvestism by jail and fine, it will have perpetrated a solution analogous to that of beating the insane to drive out the devils."

If the committees are really interested in the problem, suggests Mr. Abercrombie, they should, among other things, get the homosexuals themselves to contact such groups as ONE in order to understand themselves.

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MEANWHILE, BACK ON MAINLAND, we find the New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE reporting the latest in a long line of murders in which homosexuality plays a part. What is interesting about this case is that a man who admittedly has been entrapping homosexuals or heterosexuals now has been convicted of murder and may be meeting in prison some of the men he helped entrap.

The man, William Robert Livesay, was convicted of the French Quarter barroom murder of Perry E. Tettenburn. Testimony revolved around alleged double-crossing, homosexuality and Livesay's stool pigeon activities for Pershing Gervais, chief investigator for Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison (who has been recently in the news for his "open door" battle with the bars in the Quarter, his trial for slandering the judgeseven when they admitted that what he said was true and his refusal. to prosecute a book store manager