nated against; yet they must learn to cooperate with the whole of society.

LACK OF INFORMATION BIGGEST STUMBLING BLOCK

A. Phillip Burton, attornoy and California assemblyman, stated, "The biggest stumbling blook in society's solving the problem of sex laws is lack of information."

Public discussion and debate are valuable in breaking down the barriers, he pointed out. Enough of such activity may eventually result in something comparable to the Wolfenden Report a commission perhaps to study the problem in the legislature.

Dr. David W. Allen, professor of psychiatry at the University of California School of Modioino, said that as a physician he was not only concerned with furthering of the Wolfenden Report, but also with the problon of misconceptions about homosexuality. The homosexual's idea of the problem between himself and society is an illusory thing, for much of the problem lies within the individual.

"I don't think that changes in the law will solvo the entire problem," he stated.

LEGISLATURE GOVERNED BY PEOPLE BACK HOME'

John A. O'Connell, attorney and California assemblyman, pointed up the difficulties encountered by the state legislature in enacting more reasonable and oquitablo sox laws.

"The people back homo have a Puritanical attitude toward Box," he said. "We have the problem of overcoming this opposition. We can't expect drastic changes without considerable support from the community as a whole."

"It is one thing to say something should be dono; it is quite anothor to translate this into votos."

Mr. Burton pointed out that "the penal code grow like Topsy." There are no well conceived or well defined standards. The legislature is literally depondent upon

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