EDITORIAL

Many organizations and movements have built to great heights by fostering the cult of personality. They have seized upon the popular appeal, the uniqueness or other striking features of some individual and proceeded to focus around him a whole structureartistic, religious, political, intellectual or whatever.

There is no denying that Buddhism was essentially built upon what is believed about the personality and history of a man. Nor is there any denying that without Luther religious reforms would have come about very differently than they did. Many such instances could be cited in which reforms and mass movements could reasonably be credited to some individual.

Ever since its founding ONE has followed a far different plan. At ONE the effort has consistently been to draw attention to aims and goals, and away from those persons who happen to be working to further those aims. and goals. Energetic, unremitting effort is made to discourage personality exploitation, personality domination, ego-nurture, the indulgence of temperamental quirks and foibles. For it was the conviction of those who founded ONE that unless this course was followed the whole program could easily be lost in a welter of the very quirks and foibles in which so many homophiles appear to delight.

Implementing this conviction has never been easy, for it is axiomatic

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that many highly talented individuals are also richly endowed with some pretty fantastic and touchy quirks and foibles. ONE having been largely staffed and developed by volunteer assistance the problem has always been how to unify all these efforts in a productive way.

The means employed have been simple in outline, however difficult to apply. Their essence has been basic democracy. ONE as a Corporation is administered by its Voting Members. It has been from the beginning they, and they alone, who have come to decisions about what seemed best for ONE. The members have framed policies and then put them into force.

This rather primitive democracy has been endlessly galling to the wayward, the prima donna types, the seekers after stardom of whatever sort. Of these there have been not a few, as can be imagined. The test of the sincerity of those professing devotion to ONE's aims is made when some individual's pet projects and cherished desires come headlong up against the cold, stark fact that others-in fact a majority, do not share his views, do not approve of his plans for ONE, and will not permit him to act upon them.

This is the test supreme: either to drop his cherished hopes and plans and abide by what the majority (rightly or wrongly, but democratically holds to be best), or, to drop ONE! There are many who complain bitterly