sexuality has become confused with crimes against small children and rape. Newspapers prefer deviate because it is shorter, but they employ it as a synonym for homosexual when in truth the word is only made synonymous through association.

One thing that lexicographers insist upon is that "meaning" is arrived at by "usage," especially words that stem from the Romance languages or the Greek.

--S. E., Illinois

REVIEW EDITOR: A man can carry on an intelligent discussion in ratio to how much reflection he has given to his reading, plus the sum total of his direct contact with reality. To be sure, direct contact with reality may not always teach the full impact of truth and herein is valuable time lost. Not one of us in the sex variant realm has escaped this perhaps. Sometimes the most sensitive natures among us will suffer the most and the longest before we learn. We must realize that the idealism fostered in youth in an honest individual must give quarter to reality. It is as though ideals are theory and reality the final thing we must accept--not so much what we want, but what we get. Pride goes and humility remains.

Few people read, let alone reflect what they read, and reflection is the important thing. Those who find threadbare excuses not to read are the very ones who fit the idea of the hollow pot. The more you pound on it the more the insufferable noise. These people in their ignorance judge judge harshly, as they never reflect. They will slap the Kinsey Report around not having once even seen a copy, let alone opened its covers. Some big unforeseen smack in the face of reality is the only thing that can possibly wake them up, and then a certain degree of humility is experienced, if they have the latent intelligence to catch up with themselves. Tolstoy said this static ignorance is always with us, and Christ knew its harshness and extreme cruelty, for ignorance always uses violence. Anything some people don't understand, they kill!

So many concepts on half-truths are foisted on us in youth it isn't any wonder that later they must remake their complete outlook. As Dr. Kinsey says, "We have never added to the happiness of man by perpetuating ignorance." Likewise society will have to pay the high price of wrong teachings of parents who the light about sexual matters. A narrow mind is and will contribute nothing to the cause. And nature

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refuse to see like a vacuum abhors a vac-

Some reading and reflection along the way can smooth the path of life considerably. We can read and glean the good from it, leaving what does not apply to wisdom.

--Mr. H. S., Ohio

TO REVIEW READERS: Some letters published above ran to somewhat greater length than we wish to publish, however we believe that it is important to permit readers to speak when they have something to say. Letters for this colum are solicited. Before long, we hope that replies to the REVIEW will be answered more promptly. We are making progress in that direction. In addition we have discussed the idea of an issue made up principally of letters from you who buy and read the magazine. Would such an issue be of interest? Let us know.

--Hal Call, Editor.

REVIEW EDITOR: Complaints made by some readers concerning the dryness and over-abstruseness of the REVIEW rather remind me of how H. L. Mencken once said: "Some time ago a publisher told me that there were four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the U. S.first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln...." So now we know what the REVIEW needs to give it a popular appeal! Why don't some of these people who complain about the matter do something to remedy the situation, instead of expecting it to be done for them? All writers in the magazine contribute on a purely voluntary basis. If these people are so sure they know what sort of material would improve the REVIEW, why don't they send it in? From what I know of your periodical I'm sure the editors would accept it, providing it was not completely a monument to il. literacy or illegality! Irritatedly, · --Mr. J. P. L., Vermont

REVIEW EDITOR: I have so far read only part of the Report on the Church of England Moral Welfare Council, but perhaps the enclosed copy will move you with as much joy 'as it has me. The invocation to understand homosexuals with compassion by homosexuals seem to have had an effect...

--Mr. B. W., London

REVIEW EDITOR: I obtained your address from the C.O.C. Can you give me the address of a member of your organization who should like to correspond....I am very lonely.

--Mr. C. deF., Holland

EDITOR'S NOTE: While we appreciate hearing from people with problems over the world, we must make it clear that neither the purpose of Mattachine and the REVIEW nor postal laws permit us to arrange any exchange of addresses for anyone. Only correspondence written in reply to published authors in this magazine can be forwarded to them legally. We cannot and do not operate a correspondence club of any nature whatsoever.

REVIEW EDITOR: Ihave read about your new folder, "Think for yourself," and I am interested in receiving a supply as soon as they are published. Be sure to let me know--I have exhausted my supply of about 150 "In Case You Didn't Know" folders which I ordered a month ago. --Mr. P. B., New York

EDITOR'S NOTE: We expect to publish the next folder sometime during December and will announce its availability in the REVIEW. In the meantime, other readers may wish to purchase folders for distribution to friends and associates. An announcement telling how to order them and other Mattachine publications appears elsewhere in this issue.