that "a fellow walks up to a checkroom, hands over his check, and the lady passes over a silver fox cape. 'Is this yours, sir?' she asks. 'No, that's my boy-friend's; mine's the chinchilla.'

"SEX LAWS SOMETIMES SENSELESS"

Dr. Walter Alvarez, Emeritus Consultant for the Mayo Clinic, and for years a highly respected medical columnist for the daily press, has expressed his views on the subject of sex legislation, as quoted in part from one of his columns:-

"Every time I see on a shelf in my library the book, 'Against the Law,' (Messner) by Peter Wildeblood-a fine journalist, who had committed no crime, but was jailed for 18 months because he was a homosexual-I feel that every sensible physician in the land ought to rise up and fight to get legislators to remove from our statute books our ancient, punitive, cruel, and senseless law, the only result of which is to enable an occasional policeman to blackmail some sexually mixed-up man. Curiously, the law does not bear down on women, who can be just as mixed up sexually as are some

If two somewhat feminine men share an apartment, the police look with disfavor on them, but if two rather mannish women share an apartment, no one complains."

LAW REFORM MOVEMENT GOES INTERNATIONAL

The International Association of Penal Law, meeting at The Hague last year for its 9th Congress, devoted much of its time to redrafting existing penal codes involving sexual behavior, resulting in a series of resolutions summing up the essential results of their deliberations, of which Resolution VI dealt

with homosexuality. As reprinted from Vol. 8, No. 1 of the JOURNAL OF OFFENDER THERAPY, official publication of the Association. for Psychiatric Treatment of Offenders, this resolution recommends that: "The criminal law should prohibit homosexual behavior under the following circumstances (a) Where force or violence is used to compel homosexual or deviant behavior, (b) Where a minor is involved in homosexual behavior by an adult, (c) Where an individual in a position of trust and confidence abuses his position and involves his ward or the person entrusted to his care in homosexual behavior, (d) Where the homosexual behavior occurs openly or in such a way as to instigate others . . . and (e) where it instigates homosexual proxenetism (pimping). Homosexual behavior, either male or female, between consenting adults which does not violate any of the aforementioned elements should not be prohibited by the criminal law."

FORMER G.I. BARRED FROM ARMY NCO CLUBS

The G.I. referred to is Christine (nee George) Jorgensen, Jr., according to the Long Beach PRESSTELEGRAM for 9/17/65, based on a dispatch from Frankfurt, Germany, that the U. S. Army's 3rd Armored Division has refused to permit Miss Jorgensen to entertain its enlisted men. A division representative explained that "while the division believes that Miss Jorgensen is perfectly free to pursue a stage career, it was felt not in the best interests of the division to permit her to perform in our clubs." Is it really possible, ONE wonders, that Christine could have as drastic an effect upon the Army as the Army had upon George?

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