With our new offices and new printing operation for THE LADDER our expenses per month have about doubled. We are asking our readers to help us increase the circulation of THE LADDER to enable us to offset this deficit. Please send us names and addresses of those whom you think might be interested in the publication. We will in turn send out a sample issue together with a cover letter acquainting these prospects with the organization and the work we are trying to do.

Of course we can use donations in the way of office equipment (tables, chairs, you-name-it-we-need-it)

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say nothing of monetary contributions which are always extremely useful.

To those of you who may have been a bit disgruntled at the lapse of time before correspondence has been answered, may we point out again that the DOB is a non-profit corporation composed of a handful of people who are trying to get out a publication, manage scheduled public and private meetings, fund raising social events, and take care of routine organizational matters. The se same people are holding down regular full-time jobs (some with overtime and classes to boot) and DOB business is maintained strictly on a part-time basis. Some of us do have homes but we don't see much of them!

We are extremely grateful to those of you who have already offered us support. Without you we wouldn't bo where we are today.

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Our problem now is to stay the re or better still, to progress even further.

Del Martin, President

COMING IN THE APRIL ISSUE

An "open letter" to Ann Aldrich, author of the two controversial books "We Walk Alone" and "We, Too, Must Love"; another delightful story about the characters in Francois By The Sea; plus more articles, stodes and poems. We of THE LADDER staff would be happy to hear from our readers as to what they would like to see in the magazine.

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