have a deterrent effect." Meanwhile, L.A. TIMES for 4-14 reported that Sen. Long (D. Mo.) has said he "will press for speedy passage of an iron-bound law which would forbid government agencies or anyone else from opening first-class mail without a legitimate search warrant." This was as a result of information that first-class mail to delinquent taxpayers had been diverted by the Postoffice to the Internal Revenue Service for inspection. "It is deplorable," Long is quoted as saying, "that two of our great departments would stoop so low as to snoop into first-class, sealed mail." But PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY for 4-19 reported the initiation of legislation in the House of Representatives, for an alternate measure which would require the Postmaster-General to act on a complaint from any postal patron about material he receives which he considers "morally offensive." This is exactly the procedure recommended in ONE Magazine many years ago, in its issue of August 1961, dealing largely with postal censorship. Such an alternative to certain existing methods of postal surveillance found support in a letter to the Omaha WORLD-HERALD, published 4-22, in which the writer commented:

"The pornographic trade seems to think it has 'constitutional rights' to publish its material. This may be. But don't I and other Americans have a 'constitutional right' to protection from an invasion of the sanctuary of our homes and our privacy by unsolicited pornographic materials?"

But what about the "covering" of a person's mail by postal officials? Walter Scott, in the ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL for 4-11, quotes Postmaster General John Gronouski as saying "A cover simply consists of recording from a piece of mail the name and address of the send-

er, the place and date of postmarking, and the class of mail. The mail is neither delayed nor opened." However, if it is the purpose of the Postoffice to identify such accumulated information with a particular addressee, it must be with the intention of surveillance for some purpose, otherwise why bother? Then, too, as a further invasion of privacy pointed out by Guild Publications of Washington D.C., in a recent flyer on pen-pal and similar clubs, there is always the Postal Inspector posing as a private individual, and doing his best to trap the unwary into incriminating communications. Since this is an approved technique which can be applied to a great many users of first-class mail, it is clear that our postal practices are able to, and do, depart considerably from the principle stated by the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, with reference to the First Amendment, that as long as the government operates the mails, their use is almost as much a part of free speech as the right to use our tongues." OPEN MIND URGED FOR M.D.'s

MEDICAL TRIBUNE for last May urges M.D.'s, especially general practitioners, to have an open mind on sexual problems. Clarence A. Tripp, of New York, reviewed a variety of opinions and statistics on homosexuality, as a member of a panel discussing general medical problems in the field of sex. "Issues (of homosexuality) as sickness," Tripp says, "are made seemingly more valid in the eyes of clinicians by the fact that they so consistently see a sample of the population where homosexual tendencies are associated with severe guilt, conflict, or other neurotic disturbances. Certainly it is fair to say sexual conflict is far more frequent in a person who sees himself as part of a disapproved minority. But it is

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