letter. I noticed that all other letnipeg.) As you can see by the enclosed envelope it has been sealed by Scotch tape. This gives me the impression someone maybe even someone not even authorized for censorship did interfere with this letter. I noticed that all other letters, also one later received, had no tape sealing. A letter from The Circle was sealed in a similar way. A.J.J., Canada

Editor's Reply: The fact that The Circle letter had been tampered with indicates that it happened in Canada... whether by Postal authoritles or someone else, we could not venture to say. We suggest you take the matter up with your Postmaster.

Review Editor: If possible I would appreciate being added to the mailing list of your organization, the address of which I obtained from reading Cory and LeRoy's THE HOMOSEXUAL AND HIS SOCIETY. I am a Sociologist whose specialty is 'deviant behavior' or, as it is more euphemistically stated, that of social problems. I am presently teaching a course which devotes considerable attention to homosexuality and, if possible, I would like to incorporate the homophile organization into its content. I am particularly interested in obtaining background information on your organi-

zation, as well as some idea of its structuring, its support, its aims, etc. Any aid you can give me will be appreciated.

J.B., South Dakota

Review Editor: I see you are running true to form, Not once, during all these years, has Mattachine printed anything about DOB without making some sort of error. Please note the correction: Barbara Gittings is now editor of THE LADDER. However, I do appreciate your running my article. It is something I had to get off my chest, and I did want to share it with some of the others in the movement. Some additional notes: DOB's San Francisco chapter is starting quarterly meetings again, with the first one scheduled in the Tamalpais Room of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel on Friday evening, Feb. 21st. It is open to the public. DOB has also announced its 1964 Convention to be held sometime in early summer in New York City, and has called for contributions for the Blanche M. Baker Memorial Scholarship Fund for 1964, to be announced in detail soon. Last year the organization awarded two $75 scholarships one of them through the Chicago chapter to a budding author, and the other through San Francisco chapter to an aspiring teacher.

Del Martin, San Francisco

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CALLING SHOTS (Continued from page 2)

BOYS AND GIRLS APPROVE SEGREGATION, atleast that's a report from Culpepper, Va., where such an experiment in an elementary school is working out favorably, Ten classrooms in a school for pupils through sixth grade seem to be making progress in both learning and discipline when the boys are separated from the girls. Teachers like it, too. One fifth-grade boy remarked he liked it because that way he had made twice as many boy friends as before. Girls like it because the boys don't pick on them so much.

HOMESEXUAL EXPRESSION ISN'T THE ONLY CULPRIT on the sex scene, writes Betty Friedan in Detroit, in a discussion of her book, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE. She says the role of the mother in homosexuality was pinpointed by Freud and the psychoanalysts. But the mother whose son becomes homosexual is not the "emancipated" woman who competes with men in the world, but the very model of the feminine mystique. But the homosexuality that is spreading "like a murky smog over the American scene,” is no less ominous than the restless, immature sex-seeking of the young women who are the aggressors in early marriages that have become the rule rather than the exception. Nor is it any less frightening that the passivity of the young males who acquiesce to early marriage rather than face the world alone.

SEX PERVERSION AMONG OVERSEAS JOB APPLICANTS is a real problem, contends John F. Reilly, assistant secretary of state for security in Washington. A few months ago, 60 out of 152 applicants were rejected because of sex perversion in their background. During a part of last year, he added, 41 overseas employees resigned rather than face" charges; 24 of these were persons with sex perversion accusations against them. Officials hold that the State De partment is not a particular magnet for such people, but that "they feel life is a little freer overseas." Could it also be that accurate and complete investigation of the sex lives of most of us would reveal substantially the same percentage of persons engaging now and then in behavior called perverse by our government?

IN AN UNUSUAL ACTION, a provincial court in France recently sentenced a prominent singer to a year in prison (suspended) and a $2000 fine for morals charges. "Code Napoleon" doesn't apply if behavior becomes notorious.