work, it may set off shock waves of reaction around some of NET's 50odd stations. Yet it deals with this complex subject in a matterof-fact ́down-the-middle manner, covering it quite thoroughly and, for the most part, interestingly. Show starts with KQED General Manager James Day's "disclaimer" -that is, "the problem exists and the first step to solution is recognition (of the problem) and discussion of facts.”

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Then it plunges right into anthropologist Margaret Mead's discourse, which sets homosexuality in a societal perspective.

Dr. Karl Bowman, former director of Frisco's Langley Porter Clinic and ex-president of the American Psychiatric Association, relying heavily on Dr. Kinsey's statistics, draws the dimensions and variations of the problem, concludes with a brief discussion (largely a quote from Freud) of methods of "treatment."

This is followed by what, in some respects, is the show's high spot, the appearance of a threeman panel composed of the president (Harold Call), executive secretary (Donald S. Lucas) and treasurer (Les Fisher) of the nationwide Mattachine Society.

The off-camera narrator's voice asks, "What do other homosexuals think about the so-called queens?" and Call starts the panel discussion by saying, "We think the 'swish' or the queen' represents actually a small minority within the whole homosexual grouping, but to the public this is a sterotyped view... by which all homosexuals are judged, it seems." The trio explains the Mattachine Society,

headquartered in Frisco. with branches in New York, Chicago, Boston and Denver, aims "to dispel part of this stereotyped picture" through "work in education, research and social service... it is not a pen-pal organization, nor it is an organization for homosexual contacts . .. we are calling for a change of law because we know the number of homosexuals is large." The panel discusses marriage “as a coverun" (no good. says one of the panelists) and Call emphasizes that "protecting the young is one of the important planks in the Mattachine platform."

Lawyer Al Bendich reports on the status of the laws covering the subject and Frisco District Attorney Thomas Lynch tells of enforcment of these laws. Or lack of enforcement, because of difficulty in prosecuting.

Dr. Erwin Braff, director of Frisco's Bureau of Disease Control, discusses-very dispassionately-a fascinating, if rather revolting, aspect of the problem. Says the doctor: "Here in California, San Francisco and Los Angeles show that approximately 75% of males with early infectious syphilis have acquired their infection from other males. The same can be said of other large cities in the country-New York, New Orleans. Kansas City." Dr. Braff's segment is highly unusual, extremely revealing, and next to the appearances of the Mattachine officers, is probably the most interesting portion of the show.

The whole show has a great deal of vitality and is blessed by John W. Reavis Jr.'s clear, simple and uncompromising script and Richard Christian's no-hokum direction. Stef.

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A Few Basic Ideas

Reprinted from DALLAS MORNİNG NEWS

By LON TINKLE

Book Critic of The News

Some of our favorite words are the four-letter ones, such as book and love and Mama. Also work and play and food. And, especially, the verb "read."

We also like a good many others, which attract writers like Henry Miller and Rabelais and Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway, because these four-letter words (you know them as well as we do) are what any man with an ounce of poetry in his soul relishes: words that are spirited and at the same time full of energy and full of precision.

But the four-letter word we want to defend this morning is the word "read." It is obvious from the goings-on in Dallas about censorship that many of our misguided watchdogs don't really know how to read.

Naively, and with the good will characteristic of book folk, we thought the matter was settled with the courageous, common-sense acts of City Manager Elgin Crull, who invoked "due processes of law" and disavowed police censorship. We were naive.

To judge by public statements

made by city authorities and does this in three obvious ways: would-be custodians of public it sharpens their minds, it refines morals, not to mention abusive their imaginations, it deepens letters we have received (way in their emotions. All art does this. the minority against those letters Another great virtue of literaopposing censorship), once the fure, or the book, is that it per discussion gets above two-syllable forms this useful social function words many adults are lost.

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privately, intimately, not as a collective or group experience.

THEY BETRAY what to a bookWhat goes on between a man man is his chief reason for being: and the revelation in a book is a to learn how to make fine dissolitary thing, one of the few retinctions, to use words with jusmaining private experiences in tice. The great virtue of literaour outrageously publicly organture is ultimately, in a very speized lives. It is by this private cial but noble sense, "moral," for experience that the book forms it deposits a vast reservoir of and shapes the most precious herjudgment in its worshippers. It itage of the democratic experi-

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