member who the murderer is. He's just a name. We can't even remember when he appeared in the book before.

These books are beautifully printed (despite a few proofreading errors) and are beautifully bound. They have beautiful orange and black dust jackets designed by David Costain. But they are like those beautiful bowls of wax fruit you see in department store window displays. Open them up and there's nothing inside but empty space.

If these volumes had been printed as twenty-five cent paperbacks I might be able to forgive them. But at $3.95 each they are perpetrating a fraud upon the reading public and I must warn that public now. No one should be called upon to pay four dollars for a dime novel.

Don't buy these books. And if

they're so pretty that you just have to buy them, don't read them. And if you do read them, don't say that I didn't warn you.

Ray Johnson

MY SPANISH YOUNGSTER by Martin Elmer, Vennens Forlag, Copenhagen, 1964.

The charming Cocteau-like drawing of two nude extremely young boys on the cover of this paperback is misleading. Inside is a very mediocre long stort story of a one-lay affair between a 20-year-old Spaniard killed in the Civil War and an older English prizefighter. The pretentious butch-literary style is an unintentional parody of Hemingway. Just tear off the beautiful cover (by Jorgen Carlsen) and send it to a pedophilic friend.

K.O.N.

LETTERS

Gentlemen:

What you (Jan. Confi) lament is the "orneriness' of human nature, which is not confined to homosexuals. Anyone who works. with organizations devoted to the welfare of a group constantly meets with individuals. such as you describe. They come to receive, not to give. his writer has for many years worked with trade organizations, where most of the labor is done by the few and the rewards are enjoyed by the many. A considerable percentage of the people in the trade do not bother to join the organization and pay dues, but fully expect to run to the association in a crisis and demand help in such matters as policing fair practicises within the industry. Some who are dues-paying members cannot be found when work is to be done. Too, in the established churches there are more to receive than those willing

to give. This seemingly innate trait of human nature is being further encouraged and developed by our present form of government. However the government has the power to tax, even though often unfairly, and the diligent and the thrifty are taxed for the support of those who are wasteful and lacking in ambition. We who work for the many associations that strive to benefit our group must depend on persuasion or giveup.

You have certainly made a point about the "boys," no matter whether 16 or 60 years of age, who have neither ambition nor persistance to make a life of their own. Having parents or other close relatives, they choose to remain emotional dependents, and, too often, financial dependents to some degree. This very "home" which they share with heterosexuals, and which hampers their independence, gives them a haven, that is a

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