wisdom of knowing the harmony of the many aspects of life. Old age after successful living makes no accusations and is content not to know answers it can not find.

If indications prove right, the homophile movement has been fortunate enough to reach adolescence before its childhood dreams were all realized. Unless it is the person or cause that stopped short of its childhood dreams because it was afraid to accept their responsibility, there is nothing sadder than a movement or individual whose dreams are realized before maturity has been reached. These are the causes that find the medicine worse than the illness. Communism is perhaps the best example of this unfortunate good luck.

Meanwhile, the homophile movement, when just beginning to realize its goals of liberty and sympathetic understanding, is beginning to accept the challenge of responsibility by asking itself if it is really ready for its goals to be reached. And it has bravely answered that it is not. By recognizing and appreciating the efforts of society

and thus ceasing to blame its failures on others, the homophile movement has opened the way to serious self-appraisal. praisal. Questions of morality, cause, and values are what are now calling to be answered.

But more is needed than for a few just leaders to recognize this need if this movement is to be respected by the heterosexual majority. Unfortunately, self-accusation does not sell magazines to the majority like exposing the had points of others does, but an honest effort must be made. To continue attacking rather than attempting to understand the differences between two different ideas will be making the same mistake that too many young negroes are making today. With the same result: affirmation of bigot's hatred.

Objective rationality is never as easy, or as popular, as emotional stimulation; but it is the only way men, with their many different interests, can live amongst each other with productive cooperation.

Dean Worbois

It is late in New York

Juke-box tunes

that chatter the mysteries of life and the secret solutions

known only to the rhythm guitarist and the falsettoed idol

It is late in New York

and three minutes of raucous advice from the olympic world of youth

is as cathartic as all of Sophocles' drama

Loneliness begs for noise

and the crowd

is always lonely

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Donald C. Mitchell