brilliant counterattack. counterattack. If heterosexuality was so ideal, she wished to know why there was one divorce for every four marriages in 1956; why the high rate of juvenile delinquency; why crime in general was up 40% since the war; and why one in ten of the population eventually went insane. The individual has the right to choose, to think, to find the life most satisfactory to his mental, physical and emotional needs, she claimed. A11 that Mr. Russell was preaching was deadly conformity. It could be conceded that heterosexuality was better for heterosexuals, but certainly not for homosexuals. "Society doesn't grow by listening to the majority on all questions," was one of Mrs. was one of Mrs. Vostwald's many rapier thrusts.

Dr. Briggs said he was disqualified for debating as he was a heterosexual and felt that was truly the best way; but on the other hand he felt that it was up to each individual to decide what was best for him. He said that we have a code of sex, morals and law that is inhuman in the last degree and that he was disturbed because he lived in a society that seemed to deny the right of choice. He admitted that heterosexual marriage could be horrible for some ax murders testified to the fact; nevertheless he knew it could be happy too and he definitely believed that the possibility for happiness was greater in the heterosexual relationship than the homosexual. He ended his speech with the comment, "I am for homosexuality when it is just, free, good, human and entirely satisfactory to both people."

Lyn Pedersen felt that homosexuals in these days can live as happy, moral and useful a life as the heterosexuals. How many do is something else again. In homosexual living Lyn felt there should be distinotions made between the "true" homosexual who had equal relationships with menbers of his own sex; the "transvestites" who took pseudoheterosexual roles in a supposedly homosexual setup; and pederasty, where one had sexual relations with children of one's own sex. When one said something was better, Lyn felt the question "Better for whom?" should immedi– ately be asked. He felt that the matter of getting married or using another to "cure" yourself of homosexuality a very immoral thing unless one believed the medieval con-