at having to make such a choice or face such a decision, but make it they must if ONE is not to go the way of so many other organizations and veer back and forth in its policies as various personalities come and go from ONE's midst.

Most Members have felt that perhaps its most valuable asset, the goal most needed is that of stability of purpose and continuity of operations. Popular views concerning the unreliability of the homophile being what they are, it long has been noted that the confused, the unhappy and the "lost" have found ONE's longtime steadfastness vastly reassuring and comforting.

So it is that staff members in all earnestness continually direct inquirers to acquaint themselves with ONE's views and to concern themselves little with the personality of any particular staff member, or his private attitudes on any matter. So active is the "passion for anonymity" on the part of many staff members that there are those who misinterpret this as fearfulness.

Nothing could be farther from an intent which is that of redirecting the iinquirer's attention away from personality and back to the ideas and principles, those things which are more lasting than any person. While

this seems abstract and cold to some, which it undeniably does, this long has been ONE's policy. All of those working at ONE sincerely hope that those to whom such impersonality seems forbidding will look a bit deeper and discern a broader and deeper humanitarianism as the motive.

How easy it might be for ONE to cultivate the popular, the personal, the Madison Avenue sort of folksiness that is assumed to be commercially attractive nowadays. That ONE has chosen a more difficult, less fun-games way of helping the homophile is because the highest idealism and the most devoted thinking of all the dozens and dozens of hard working people who have brought ONE this far have with all their hearts believed that this was the best way.

Has it worked well? The Voting Members think so. They point to the record of the last dozen years of growth from what was but the germ of an idea to an effective and growing organization which today has many useful activities, publications and services. The record looks pretty clear to most of the Members, but still they are always open for new ideas. The new ideas better be good ones, though-otherwise, ouch, and there goes another wounded ego!

OFFICIAL NOTICE

Richard Conger, Editor

There has been no change of address for ONE, Incorporated, nor for any of its divisions and departments. It has been brought to our attention that unauthorized leaflets have been mailed to some readers which have stated otherwise.

Please address all of your correspondence and make out all checks or money orders to ONE, Incorporated, 2256 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles 90006, California and not to individuals (see Editorial above).

ONE, Incorporated, By Board of Directors

W. Dorr Legg, Chairman

Lewis Bonham, Vice Chairman

Manuel Boyfrank, Secretary-Treasurer

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