this time, but land prices are going up. El Rancho will be built where the hunting and the fishing is great, the food will be raised on the Rancho and salted away in a deep freeze, towards the coming of guests who want a welcome retreat away from the pressures of the outside world. For those who want to work on the Rancho for 2 weeks, the fee will be $10.00 to cover expenses, but for those who just want to be guests, well, I've not decided as yet just what will be agreeable. They will have to pay for transportation here, after all.

Men coming here can consider it a place of rest and pleasure. And it will be a cooperative thing where everyone will get in and help.

Mr. A. H. Central Tennessee

MATTERS LITERARY & OTHERWISE

Dear ONE:

Just a little note to say farewell to you after more than 7 years. That is, since I was 17 years old. Regrettably, I just can't afford to pay $15.00 a year to read what's happening in a country that seems increasingly remote, and that seems to have less influence on world political and social development with each year that passes. Good luck to you and to the United States. Mr. J. S.

Ovre Ullern, Norway

Dear Friends: Congratulations on the new Confi. Splen-

did!

Congratulations also your intent to publish Crime Against Nature unless its message is that the young man did anything wrong. To judge from the two pages printed in the latest Confi, he certainly did not, and it would be misleading to print a work that suggested repentance for entirely wholesome behavior.

Dear Editor:

Mr. H. H. Los Angeles, Calif.

Thanks for your excellent December number on religion.

As a former ardent Roman Catholic I understand how Mr. D. of New Orleans feels but his fanatical thinking is shown by his desire to buy up all the copies of ONE at his newsstand and replace them with the Catholic Digest. If Catholicism answers his needs that is fine but his attempt to censor the reading matter of others is very immature.

I still admire the great Roman Catholic Church in many ways and the beautiful ideal of Christ but I am now a Catholic of cultural tradition rather than actual prac-

tice or belief. I live now by the Humanist. philosophy.

Dear Mr. Slater:

Mr. R. Buffalo, N.Y.

In regard to the letter from Mr. B. G. in your March number. Let me set him straight on a couple of points. The Bible no place really states that Sodom and Gommorah were destroyed because of homosexuality. The destruction had a lot to do with the people sinning and worshipping false gods; I don't think that there were were that many homosexuals in the Cities. The real reason for their downfall was that the people refused to believe in God and they refused to follow Lot when he was sent to rescue them. As far as I am concerned, morals have nothing to do with religion. I am not against any religion; its just that people will be whatever they make themselves. Also, Mr. B. G. states that he had a will greater than he realized to overcome the uselessness of homosexuality; yet he tinues to read your wonderful magazineand so do I.

Sirs:

Mr. C. A. Dallas, Texas

My compliments to you for the great job you are doing. The magazine is more interesting than ever and Confi is great. You have given me pride, and I am grateful. I do have two criticisms: Quarterly #18, what happened? And why can't you doublecheck the proofs on Campogram? or learn to spell? It is tough enough, and I thought I had it when I saw the word "homosexual" which turned out to be "maraschino." The best of luck to you.

EDITOR'S NOTE:

Mr. J. G. L. N.Y., N.Y.

April's Campogram should read translated, "Cover with four parts very dry champagne and one part each of Kirsch, Maraschino, Creme de Menthe and Roselio."

"Scheherezade's Melon" The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

Dear Editor:

I was deeply hurt and resentful that you gave editorial prominence to a statement that the "infernal display of effeminacy" displayed by many homosexuals should be abolished. Anyone who really knows effeminate homosexuals knows that the effeminacy is as natural to them and as integral to their personalities as is the homoseuxal act itself which the editorial defends.