pay of $12,000 plus accumulated pension rights (around $12,000). But there is rumor that the department has assured certain inquirers that Dew will not control anything. Ironically, the White Memorandum changing Government policy so that Dew could be reinstated was written by Walter Jenkins.

Apparently the the Civil Service Commission and the Department of Justice felt that the very agreement of the Supreme Court to review the case indicated that there was a good chance that the lower court decisions would be reversed. These two agencies may also feel that by admitting that a former "homosexual" who forsakes his way of sin and becomes a "heterosexual" is no longer unsuitable for government employment, the government will be in a better position to attack moral transgressors in related cases.

Jenkins prompted a most intelligent editorial in the Nation, November 2nd. It pointed out that there would be no fear of blackmail if the sex laws were altered and that a man's sex life is his own private business. And in a letter to Time Magazine concerning its excellent coverage of the Jenkins case Richard A. Eastburn, director of adult program at Philadelphia YMCA stated that his organization was actually studying homosexuality, rather than merely repeating ancient unproven myths. Anyway, security risks are still being fired under Executive Order 9835 of 1953 as amended by Executive Order 10450, which broadens it.

IN PRESS & ON TV & RADIO

The Washington Post has maintained a remarkable average of being right and printing factual

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information. And it is up to usual standards in replying editorially to an absurd self-advertising letter from George W. Lindberg, a polygraph expert, who suggests modestly that everyone be forced to submit to polygraph tests just to be sure that no one has had any homosexual acts in childhood. The Post pointed out that this sort of witch hunting is not acceptable behavior for government officials who are hired as servants to serve the people, not to judge the people's sex lives.

ONE Magazine Editor Don Slater recently spoke to an over-flow crowd of more than 400 students at the new campus of California State College at Los Angeles, Despite the fact that Paul Coates, local newspaper columnist of the opportunist variety, tried to pressure the college and some childish students threatened to picket the speech with signs demanding equal time for heterosexuals, the College approved the speech, sponsored by the student American Civil Liberties Union, and the student body acted like mature adults.

Pacifica Foundation station KPFK-FM recorded the speech and aired it December 5th. The program will be rebroadcast Jan. 15. ONE readers in San Francisco and New York who wish the Pacifica stations there to broadcast the speech should write them (see Tangents December, 1963, for address).

New L.A. DA (former Judge Evelle Younger) has given a most intelligent interview to Los Angeles Magazine (December) in which he says that there is some doubt as to the propriety of the DA office handling censorship questions and that, although sick, homosexuals do have rights.