deeply indebted for the advice and assistance affordeä us both by the Mattachine Society, Inc., and One, Inc., but we áre an organization distinct from both of them.

Your donation of $1.00, which entitles you to receive The Ladder for one year, means just that. It indicates your interest in a problem which is receiving more and more nationwide attention every month it does not "label" you. Your name on our mailing list is as inviolate as the provisions of the Constitution of the United States can make it.

Our Constitution guarantees Freedom of the Press, which includes the right of all citizens to buy the books, magazines, newspapers and other publications they wish so long as these do not advocate overthrow of our government and certain other basic illegalities.

In 1953, in the case of the U.3. vs. Rume ly (345 U.S. 41, 56-57) the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the right of à citIzen to refuse to reveal the names of purchasers of reading material to a Congressional investigating committee.

In a brilliant majority opinion, Justice William C. Douglas said "We have here a publisher who, through books and pamphlets, becks to reach the minds and hearts of the American people. . Like the publishers of newspapers, magazines, or books, this publisher bia for the minds of men in the market-place of ideas

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