are rooted in ignorance, and ignorance can be dispelled by truth. No human being should have to live in fear of his fellowmen or of himself. The homosexual's fear is caused by the prejudice of society which he himself has failed to enlighten. Progress over this fear is becoming evident. I hope that such articles as that letter which you published will help the public to be more concerned with the situation and with the need for more mature attitude. Again, congratulations and thank you. JOHN M. ECCLES, South Tacoma Way.

MICHIGAN CAMPUS PURGE FELT WITH ADDED FURY

F Human compassion and understanding seemed to fly out the window a few weeks ago in Ann Arbor, Mich., at the time when the cases of the 34 persons arrested near the beginning of the year were scheduled to come to court. The arrests generally were charges involving homosexuality, and were specifically, for the most part, called "acts of gross indecency and attempting to procure between males."

On March 12, nine men pleaded guilty to the charge in circuit court after Judge James R. Breakey, Jr., ruled that the charge against them was a constitutional one. An attorney, Henry T. Colin, had asked the court to note that another lawyer, Ralph Keyes, planned to appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court, a similar case, in which the circuit court jury a few days earlier had returned a conviction. Mr. Colin and the other attorneys acting for the defendants asked for jury trials for the nine, to which Judge Breakey is reported to have announced that if the defendants ask for jury trials and thus waste his "valuable time," his

sentence, if they are found guilty, will be six months in Southern Michigan Prison at Jackson, and that he will levy increased fines. But if the defendants changed their pleas to guilty and throw themselves on the mercy of the court, they will receive Judge Breakey's "30 days, $250 fine plus costs and 5 years probation" package, so long as it is a first offense.

A mighty rough penalty to pay because of old religious taboos, and in a set of instances where there seemed to be good evidence of entrapment (even though Judge Breakey denied it), and where, at worst, no one was really harmed or forced into anything.

But tragedy fell on March 15 when the report of the suicide of the defendant whose case was headed for Michigan Supreme Court was reported:

Facing Sentence As Homosexual, Takes Own Life

| A 53-year-old Detroit man who was to be sentenced in circuit court today on a homosexual charge was found dead in a St. Louis, Mo., hotel room last Sunday, local authorities learned today.

James P. Wiles, who was convicted of attemtping to procure an act of gross indecency in a circuit court trial held March 7, was scheduled to be sen tenced today.

Homicide detectives of the St. Louis Police Department said Wiles registered under an| other name at the Melbourne Hotel last Thursday. When he failed to answer his phone Sunday night, a check was made (Continued on Page 21) mattachine REVIEW

From UNIVERSITY LIBERTARIAN, published in London, comes this excellent description of · one of the "breeding grounds" of the homosexual orientation. Does it suggest that our long-standing ideas in education need serious examination, and possibly revision? And does it further pierce the fallacies of some of our old sex attitudes?

Schoolboy

Homosexuality

ARTHUR FREEMAN

From time to time people make remarks or write articles about the problem of homosexuality in English boarding schools. These tend to be either sensational or misleading. At one extreme old boys from famous schools insert revealing passages into their novels or autobiographies, and at the other headmasters of the same schools echo the headmaster of Charterhouse who