While this endorsement and support is valuable and reassuring, it is still axiomatic that that we must have more money to pay our bills, keep our office open (there are still no salaries, remember), put out the REVIEW, provide more essential services and otherwise advance the attachine program.

This appeal puts you on a spot, so to speak, but it need not become a burden upon anyone. Some members and friends mail us a monthly pledge in addition to their membership fees. Many have become subsoribing members (non-voting) for a $10 amual fee. Others have furnished money to buy sorely-needed office fixtures or a piece of equipment. Still others have made substantial donations, generally for not more than an average half-week's salary. Small as these contributions are when compared to the cost of such commonplace things as a television set, a month's rent, or even a typical Saturday night round of bars in a big city, they have, over the past three years, represented almost one-third of the total support for the national office headquarters of the Society and the REVIEW!

We need to raise $3000 before July 31 to pay for the Review's current indebtedness and assure its continuation in the black for the remainder of this year. We make this appeal reluctantly, but assure you that it will require even more to substantially expand the Society's other import. ant public services to where they should be. But this WILL be done just as fast as funds permit.

Back in 1950, attachine was just a bold idea. During the past eight years it has been defined, developed and expanded by some 100 or so leaders and active workers to where it is now nationally known. This has resulted also in an ever-increasing position of confidence and prestige for the Society. Working in an extremely sensitive field of human behavior, Mattachine has successfully avoided sensationalism while steadfastly advansing knowledge about homosexuality and calling for an understanding of the people affected by it. Evidence of some success is at hand, but the job is only begun. Yet every day draws us closer to the time when human tragedy and unhappiness resulting from misunderstanding and ignorance of homo sexual orientation will be minimized to the utmost.

MATTACHINE AND ITS LEADERS cannot give up the program under way. Too many despairing persons from all oities and the far corners of this mation are looking to us with confidence and hope. Your aid means much more than assistance to a little magazine or an organization of 100 or so members. It means that an, understanding hand and an encouraging word can be given to hundreds--even thousands--of persons everywhere who plead for help from us time and again. We don't want to fail them.

Wonft you, then, look into your heart to help us all you can? Thanks for this humanitarian consideration.-Hal Call, Editor

license is to protect the public,

that is, to determine whether a licensee has exercised his privi-

lege in derogation of the public interest, and to keep the regulated business clean and wholesome. Such proceedings are not conducted for the primary purpose of punishing an

individual. (See

cases collected 2 Cal. Jur. 2d 169, section 87, at p. 170.) Hence, such proceedings are not criminal in nature." (Cornell v. Reilly, 127 Cal. App. 2d 178, 184.)

It is a-fair inference that when the Legislature amended the State Bar Act and the Medical Practice Act so as to codify the rulings in the Phillips and the Meyer cases, it indicated an acceptance of or concurrence in the interpretation of section 1203.4 upon which those rulings were based.

But that interpretation, those rulings and those amendments do not affect our problem save to cmphasize, by contrast, the fact that the "penalties and disabilities" of the registration and reregistration requirements of section 290 are criminal in character. To illustrate, until the enactment of section 290, a person for the first time violating subdivisions (1) or (2) of section 311, or subdivision (5) of section 647, or subdivision (1) of section 647a of the Penal Code, incurred the penalty of a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or both. Section 290 added a life sentence of compulsory police registration and reregistration. That, clearly, is the imposition of a criminal penalty in the strictest and narrowest sense of that term. Accordingly, we have a seeming conflict between these two stat-

utes. 1203.4 Section releases "thereafter" all penalties and disabilities. Section 290 by imposing the continuing duty to reregister upon effecting a change of address does not expressly recognize any such relcase. Does section 290, as the later enactment, prevail? We think not.

A means of reconciling this conflict is furnished by the scparate and distinct policies which these two statutes were respectively designed to effectuate. One deals with probation and is designed to fuster rehabilitation by giving the probationer an opportunity to craze for the future the. legal consequences which mally flow from a conviction. The other requires registration of a person convicted of any of the offenscs enumerated, upen the theory it would seem that such offenders are apt to repeat and therefore should be kept under close police surveillance at all times.

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CAPSULE REPORT ON SEX CRIME 'REPEAT TENDENCY' OF SEX OFFENDERS DECLARED A MYTH

Sex offenders have one of the lowest as "repeaters" of all types of crime, says the New Jersey Commission on the Habitual Sexual Offender in a report published in the magazine Federal

Probation.

Among serious crimes homicide alone has a lower rate of recidivism. Careful studies of large samples of "sex criminals" show that most of them get into trouble only once. Of those who do repeat, a majority commit some crime other than sex. Only 7% of those convicted of serious crimes are arrested again for a

sex crime. Those who do recidivate are characteristically minor offenders-such as peepers and exhibitionists-rather than criminals of serious menace, the

Commission stated.