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the aime and purposes of the leaders, but not enough courage, energy or ambition as the case might be to do it themselves. the same time they are not willing to sit back and lend personal moral and financial support to the leaders. This type of person is always critical of what the leadership is doing but seldom makes constructive suggestions or gets into the swim and carries part of the load himself.

Now the first objection...If you organize something, figure out the problems and set it before others, you, of necessity, hav- ing conceived of most of the ideas, are open to the accusation of domination. But wait...this particular organization has one prob- lem that very few others have. Namely the need for security. If this were not true it could be a lot more democratic, but under the circumstances procedures had to be developed which would protect ALL to the best of our ability. That is the reason for the quest- ionnaire in the application. It is the reason for asking the app- licant to be open and fair and give his real name. We cannot guar- antee the integrity of anybody but it is reasonable to assume that a person sufficiently developed and self accepting to give his name is less likely to be a far out extremist or to do something that would endanger those who become associated with him in a local group. Persons unaware of some of the complications and threats to their own, the organizations and TRANSVESTIA'S existance would if given more democratic freedom, make decisions on things in a most impractical way and to the detriment of all. Thus I am not attempting to dominate but cannot escape the accusation if it by virtue of being the organizer, and secondly, the movement cannot, at this stage be democratic and have a measure of security at the same time.

Next, it is claimed that I derive financial gain from the dues paid in. The first semi-annual report on FPE will be mailed to members soon, and when it appears it will be evident that neither Chevalier Publications, Virginia Prince, nor Barbara and Bob Stevens have taken any money at all out of the funds paid in to FPE. То the contrary we have contributed great amounts of time and energy toward the whole project. Thirdly, the matter of names on a list. This is rather silly for most people insofar as most readers use their true names in subscribing to TVia and thus their names are already on this list. But the applications sent in are given the additional protection of being put in a safe deposit box in a bank.

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