legality. There is no difference be tween parole and probation in the matter of restraint.

It would be very desirable to ob tain a clear determination of the

If habeas corpus is denied in the State courts, the writ can be brought, in the federal courts. Since every person unlawfully restrained in his liberty may prosecute the writ, it would appear that defendant on constitutionality of the California probation can also avail himself of lewd vagrancy provision which in the the remedy. Re. Marzoe (1945), opinion of the writer is an achron (25 6 2d 294 P. 2d 873) held that ism of medieval law and a menace a prisoner on parole is not free from to civil liberties. legal restraint and habeas corpus is the appropriate remedy to test its

HATE

Bertrand Russell

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4. Section 1473 of the California Penal Code.

Hate, even of those who are hateful, is seldom a' useful emotion. It is. better to try to understand them, to see what has made them what they are, and what would make them better.

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There are two ways of viewing human beings: The emotional and the scientific. The emotional view is right, if we can love and admire them. If we cannot, it is better to view them as products of circumstances, as the result of causes going, perhaps, far back into the past and as capable of being changed by other,

causes.

But among the causes that bring improvement, hatred and censure are not included. I doubt whether any criminal has ever become a better man because he knew that he was viewed with horror.

mattarhine REVIEW

facing friends in a SMALL TOWN

by James Barr y ̈

ABOUT A YEAR AGO, when my homosexual at this time seems to father was discovered to be suf. be in or near a large city where he fering from the first stages of leu has at least the companionship of kemia, I returned to the Midwest his own kind when he needs it. to give whatever comfort and serv. Personally, I've found those quasiice I could to my family so long as · rural areas such as Rockland County they should need it. Added to the less than an hour from Times Square, thought that a man I've loved dearly Arlington across the river from all my life has only a limited amount Capitol Hill, and the Lake Washof time left, the prospect or readjustington district of Seattle both pleas ing my mode of living and thinking "ant and practical; all of which was not promising, But now, a year however, are very far cries from the later, I believe the situation has been arid desolation of a small oil and worked out more than adequately. wheat town in the heart of Kansas, I have nothing against small where the nearest touring Broadway` towns, (I was born and reared in company can be viewed only after a a series of them, and certainly a viltwo hundred mile drive and the rars lage background, is of inestimable attempts to preserve fine musić are value to a novelis,) but the ideal still as amateurish as they are brave social climate for the American and determined. As might be expected, homosexual fraternalization is seldom found, especially on an intellectual level

About This Article

The author of "Quatrefoil· and "Derricks," James Barr, lives in a small mid-Western town. With keen insight, he tells here in an article written especially for this issue of Mattachine Review how he faced

the inevitable remarks and glances which he had to face when he resumed· residence in his community after publication of a gay book.

In the beginning, I was deter mined to stay, as much to myself as possible since I had spent very little time with my family 'during their eight year residence in this. particular hamlet. Escorting my mother to church once a week and seeing briefly my father's business associates was to round out my contact with the townspeople. This was 'no result of snobbery but an