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It works from the idea vaiues and tradition and training, but there it is....'* that man is an angel, mistakes the **Io addition, the ethical idea of duty senses for hindrances instead of helps... for duty's sake, quite independent of Man must work through the nature of ocher considerations in human life, or things, God has composed his nature of the categoric command of what is right body and soul, and sex is older than ori isolated from ail other claims of human ginal sin. nature, has helped to form the feeling "As a further corrective to the aver chat anything .which is extremely pleas sion from sex is the recognition that the BECAUSE Catholicism is the most con ments to the homosexual problem. ant must be suspected as indicating self marriage act is not merely pleasurable, servative of Christian sects, I undertook Like heterosexuality, homosexuality is ishness.... but is full of love and implies the highest in Idle foregoing installment of this series a natural attraction of body and soul ly ''Furthermore, there is the religious human responsibilities; that it is not the examination of a little book called ing deeper than deliberate choice. In stress on the needs of the soul, the cul merely bodily bur livened with the nob Morals and Marriage, by Dr. T. G. Wayne stead of despising his own sexuality and tivation of what is called the spiritual lest activities of the soul... Furthermore which sets forth in simple terms the val attempting to repress it, I believe that life, with the conseque(|C temptation to it should be realized that a reasonable ues and responsibilities of sexual love the homosexual ought to accept it un detach this from the rest of life, to treat sex action is an act of the virtue of pur in marriage from the Catholic view. Ob grudgingly, honestly and without reser it as a special cell that thrives best ity, for purity, far from being the repres viously, love between members of the vation. and on the basis of that self-ac when it is enclosed from the rest of the sion, is the right ordering of passionate same sex cannot bear fruit in children; ceptance make positive moral efforts to world. Anything full-blooded and high- love. nevertheless, there is no intrinsic create a relationship which combines de spirited is looked at askance as a hind "The complete pleasure of human sex reason why homosexuality cannot provide sire, devotion and friendship, always rance to the life of the spirit.... intercourse is not morally shady; the many of the benefits of normal love as bearing in mind that the pleasure proper I "Thus a kind of religious shrinking action in itself is natural and rational described by Dr. Wayne in Morals and to human nature is neither merely animal |rom sex intercourse in itself is not un- when it fits in with the divine plan of the Marriage. nor exclusively spiritual. Homosexuality ]known, because it is both bodily and world." Dr. Wayne states that sexual love is is not intrinsically and necessarily an pleasurable. An extreme form of this at- Now, certainly, to the Catholic Church justified first because "it is not good evil. It may be regarded as, potentially, ci^de holds chat the marriage act is evil homosexuality is not a "right ordering that man should be alone." He tells u&, a lesser good. in itself. This view has been condemned of passionate love." To the Catholic, "there is a bodily and spiritual need in Now I move on to a chapter in Morals by the Catholic Church. Nevertheless, and most Christian^ for tha| matter, homo both (husband and wife) which only the and Marriage entitled "Morality of Inter ja feeling remains that there is something sexuality is neither natural; nor rational, other can supply.” He writes, "Desire course." Here too I find much that is father shameful and sordid about the ac- nor does it "fit in with the divine plan ....springs from a natural attraction of sound and sane and as applicable to the liicyi, chat it needs to be excused, and is of the world." In the words of the author body and soul lying deeper than deliber moral problems of the homophile as to excused only by the fact that it prevents of Morals and Marriage» "In the scheme ate choice...." And he insisu, "Sex the heterophile. Dr. Wayne writes; greater evils and the human race from of the universe established by the will must be taken honestly and without re "The apparent purposes of physical dying out. of God, marriage is the appropriate sit servation'* by husband and wife. "Only union of men and women are to release "There is a false theory behind this uation for the complete activity of sex. through an ungrudging acceptance of its their energy, to satisfy their desire for accicude, a theory which treats pleasure The only proper complete sex act is the - nature can sex love normally develop the utmost human closeness and commun as somehow immoral, an exaggerated marriage act." from desire to responsibility and matur ion, to express their love and grow in austerity chac identifies the good with If we grant that homosexual desire ity." Dr. Wayne tells us that "love of it...." the difficult, a program which lays springs from an attraction of body and another can develop through three stages The author goes on to mention the ad exclusive emphasis on disembodied val soul between members of the same sex -desire, devotion and friendship." He ditional purposes, and very important ues. lying deeper than deliberate choice, then insists tightly that "sex pleasure should ones they are, the formation of a family "....That an action is pleasurable is, for the homosexual the problem is: "What be human pleasure, mote than bodily and the perpetuation of the race. As I if anything, an indication that the action is reasonable sex action for one in my gratifi^ion. The pleasure proper to hu- have already pointed out again and again is sound and in accordance with human condition? What is the right ordering of majx~.rfature is neither merely animal nor homosexual love cannot serve those last nature. Pleasure is congenial to good passionate love for one in my circum exclusively spiritual." I can see no rea two purposes, obviously. Nevertheless, action.«..pleasure is not a luxury, but a stances? I am not an angel. God com son why homosexual love cannot embody the other legitimate 'purposes of sexual necessity: the sign and stimulus of a posed my nature of body and soul. The all the values set forth so succinctly by love can be served by a homophile friend healthy activity. attempt to live a purely sobl-Ufe is wrong Dr. Wayne in Morals and Marriage, bar ship. Are we to reject a form of loye "In'theory the good is the pleasant: in headed and can never succeed. Pleasure ring only those concerned with child which may contain some good features-, practice, pleasant things in excess are is not in itself an evil thing. It is nqt bearing and rearing, the joys and respon just because it does not embody all the bad for us.... An epicurean practices even a luxury, but a necessity. But one sibilities of full family life. All the same good of sexual love? abstinence, realizing that few things sees so many crazy, mixed-up homosex I feel obliged to repeat that I do not for Dr. Wayne has a good deal to say about destroy pleasure so surely as unrestricted uals leading disordered lives. Must one a moment believe that Dr. Wayne or any anti-sexual attitudes which, coming indulgence. live like that? If not, what is a reason spokesman of the Catholic Church would ftom a spokesman of the Catholic Church "Aversion from sex intercourse on the able goal, a reasonable way of life for approve of my application of these state -an institution not noted for its sexual score of the needs of the spiritual life persons like myself? What is a right ord* m eaU eiim c REVIEW ering of passionate love for me?*' But warning, "A house divided against it rape that shocks and disgusts us in that As for appropriateness,'what is approp Christianity insists that any and every self shall fall." story, DOC the homosexualism, ptj se. riate even for most people is not neces physical expression of homosexual love I cannot accept so narrow a view as Violence is not a characteristic of homo sarily appropriate for all. Here is precise is sinful. From the standpoint of the that of Christianity where homosexuality sexuals. In Chap. 20 of Leviticus we read ly where the personal element enters in. churcli there can be no such thing as a is concerned. Looking back through hist "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying When one man finds another man gen "good** homosexual relationship. For ory it does not appear to me that the ... If a man lie also with mankind as he uinely and profoundly loveable ic appears countless numbers of homophiles the church—which forced Galileo to retract— lieth with a woman, both of them have to me appropriate and rational simply to moral premise of their lives is: *'I am has been a very trustworthy authority on committed an abomination: they shall love the guy. Some men seem really to bad." These persons are demoralized the "scheme of the universe" or "the surely be put to death; their blood shall possess what in any ocher realm would from the start. Since every sex relation* divine plan of the world. *' It seems to me be upon them." In the first place, God is be considered a vocation, a special apt ship iSf for them, a bad relationship, a sort of spiritual provincialism to iden love, and there is no love in Chapter 20 itude for loving other men. I believe that what is the use of trying to make some tify the institution of Christian marriage of Leviticus. In the second place God is chose possessing such an aptitude ought thing good of it? They decide that they with these vast univcrsals. Today we the creator not only of man but of all the to develop it and train ic so that it be may as well adapt themselves to evil and trace back the (listory of life upon this life-forms—of carnivorous plants-, and of comes a beneficial force. Being a homo and the lowest forms of homosexual life planet for millions of years and we are plantlike animals in the sea, of the herma sexual need not be a curse; it may be a and conduct seem to them to be the most amazed and astonished by the variety phroditic house fly, of whales (those blessing in disguise. "realistic"-lhat is to say the crudest and number of life-forms which have ap mammals which live like fishes) and of There is only a fine and arbitrary line forms of lust, deceit, faithlessness, cyn peared upon this earth. The thing which indubitable fishes which can climb trees. separating enthusiasm from passion. Is icism conform to their moral premise, most impresses us today about the Crea He is the God who ordains that out of this surprising considering that "man is "Homosexuality is evil." Those who tor is His inexhaustibly fertile imagina the thousands—perhaps millions-of eggs nbc a spirit and is not designed by God make a moral effort to build homosexual tion, and his penchant fOr lavish experi spawned by the salmon, only a few hund to be a spirit. Soul and body fuse in him relationships in which there is responsi mentation. It is difficult to determine red individual eggs eventuate in mature to form one personality." bility, in which there is devotion and what moral lessons may emerge from fish. Whoever he may have been, the God friendship, are scoffed at as hypocrites. man’s new knowledge of the past and of who dictated that law to Moses was not After all, what they call love is sin, per the universe. But with the vast increase the God of Christ, nor was He the God iod. In a way it may even seem that it is in man's knowledge in the course of the CONTRIBUTOR PLAN less immoral to wallow in the gutter, con past several centuries, his spiritual en who created the universe we are becom scious of one's sinfulness, than to do evil vironment has altered accordingly. We ing acquainted with today. MAKES WIDESPREAD while pretending to good motives. The vic know chat life is motion, change, that When St. Paul wrote his Epistle to the PARTICIPATION POSSIBLE ious types of homosexuals are in reality one of the great laws of life calls for Romans he was addressing a decadent puritans in reverse. Their moral premises adaptability and mutability. Ic becomes and idolatrous people. But overlooking For persons who live in areas where are exactly the same as those of the more and more difficult to believe in a the obvious historic significance of his no Matcaebine Society chapter is estab puritans who repress their sexuality. divine law which is rigid, fixed for all diatribe, let us seek the deeper logic in lished, a "Contributor Plan" has been Recently the Moral Welfare Council of time, immutable. Today we also possess his statement that the homosexual wor set up whereby interested adults may still the Church of England has taken the pos a vast body of dependable knowledge ships the creacure-man-more than the aid the Society's program without a dir ition that it is not sinful to be homosex al>ouc the customs and institutions of creator. The God of Moses condemned ect membership affiliation. The fee is ual, CO have homosexual desires; one other peoples, and we see man himself the homosexual in no uncertain terms. 110 pdr calendar year, retroactive to Jan sins only when he commits homosexual as a creature of infinite variety. It seems St. Paul does not question that condemn uary 1 for the year in which paid. This- acts. The Moral Welfare Council advo legitimately possible to regard homosex ation. If a man loves God he obeys His contribucion entitles the Contributor to a cates total sexual abstinence of homo uality as one small human variation, one laws. If he disobeys God’s law, then he year’s subscription to Maccachine Review sexuals. But that amounts to demanding little partial mutation, bespeaking Man’s loves something else more than he loves and the Society’s national news quart an extreme Puritanism of homosexuals, a adaptability. If nothing more, homosex God. If the homosexual persists in his erly, Interim, which is not publicly dis Puritanism which Catholicism recognizes uality is one means of surmounting un love of his fellow man in spite of God's tributed. as pernicious in its essence, for "Aver favorable circumstantes. law forbidding it, then clearly the love Most important, however, is the know sion from sex intercourse on the score The Christian condemnation of homo of man means more to him c^an the love ledge chat as a Contributor you will be of the needs of the spiritual life must be sexuality rests chiefly upon the Sodom of God. Thus, Sc. Paul's condemnation aiding the projects of public education, checked by the doctrine chat man is not story in Genesis, the Mosaic law found depends upon the condemnation in Levi research, public relations and social ser a spirit, and is not designed by God to in the book of Leviticus, and upon St. ticus. Reject Leviticus 20, Verse 13, vice conducted nationally by the organ be a spirit. Soul and body fuse him into Paul’s diatribes. As I have already writ and the logical ground is cat from under ization's 100 active members in six U. S. one personality....The attempt to live a ten, we no longer believe that plagues, Sc. Paul’s most serious accusation. cities. This work reaches thousands of purely soul-life is wrong-headed to start earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, St. Paul’s other major charge against men and women all over the nation who with and can never succeed. It works floods and droughts, are caused by-divine homosexuals was that of "changing the need help in order to live happier and from the idea that man is an angel, mis displeasure. Nevertheless, the account natural use into chat which is against better adjusted lives. No charge is ever takes the senses for hindrances instead of the behavior of the men of Sodom to oature."Scieoce’s special sphere of com made for these Matcachine services: the of helps... Man must work through the wards Lot’s guests remains one of the petence is nature. When ic comes to the entire cost of offices, postage, publica nature of things, God has composed his most shocking stories in the Bible. It understanding and interpretation oL nat tions and administration is borne by mem nature of body and soul. Sex is older chan needs to be pointed out, at long last, ure, her laws and processes, science has bership dues, magazine subscriptions and original sin." It seems to me that homo that the real sin of the Sodomites was proved to be a much more reliable guide voluntary contributions. The organiza- sexual love is less "unnatural** chan the not their homosexuality as such, nor that chan religion. Scientists today assure us tioh is supported by no endowments, and severance of the body-soul unity of man’s they desired intercourse with angels, but that homosexuality is not unnatural, as all work is accomplished by volunteer nature, less "unnatural" than the split simply chat they were rapists—or would Sc. Paul claimed. I believe chat we may workers who serve without pay in addi ting of man in twain which Puritanism have been if they had had their way. The place our confidence in science’s verdict tion to holding full-time jobs in their demands-a corollary of the^ doctrine of Sodom story identifies homosexuality with on this point. However, it must always communities. body-soul unity in man is. I believe, the be borne in mind that what is natural is Won’t you endorse their selfless efforts gang rape—and it is the menace of mob not necessarily morally good. with a nominal financial contribution? The leading role, admirably played to the masculine hilt by Guy Madison, is complemented by his long suffering cohort "Jingles”, played by the one and only gravel-voiced Andy Devine. These two actors, in-private life are, without doubt, estimable men. But the relationship so subtly suggested in the television series leaves something to be desired, according to the society- as-a-whole. sanctioned morals and ethos of a heterosexual world. Wild Bill Hickok’ (and is that name derivative—or stimulative?) in a papier-mache manner, is portrayed as the defender of law and order, upholder of justice, tighter of wrongs, preserver of maidenly virtue and so forth, ad nauseum. Yet, when he has sent the villain packing, and is alone with the rancher’s lovely daughter, unchap eroned in the living room, does he make a natural, so-called ' nor mal’ pass at her? He does not. He bolts out of there as fast as his bowing legs, delicately bal anced on, high heel boots, will carry him. And he gallops away, headin’ for next week’s half hour with the ever present-in-the-back- ground 'Jingles’ screaming at the top of his lungs, "Hey, Wild Bill, wait for me!” "They're Headin' And what about 'Jingles?’ NEW MATTACHINE FOLDER This-A-Way, Pardner'. " AVAJLABLE IN QUANTITY A new folder, *'Whac Does Mactachine Do?" has been printed at San Francisco and is now available in quantity for all The arts of any age reflect the society that gives them birth. The readers and members who might wish to mail it to interested friends and assoc W* o r. eon,»ant buyer« of nov. », newest of die arts in this, the most modern of all ages, reverses iates. Designed to accompany a general plays and p e try on homosoxoal this age-old trend. information folder issued previously, the tbomei. 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Price of the folders is as center Today, his electronic counterpart on your living room screen is follows: 100 for $1.50; 50 for Si.00 or 3 cents each in smaller quantities. Be 116 Christopher Street more apt than not to ignore the implicit suggestion of bestiality, sure to state which folder is desired (or York 14, N. Ï* and wander off into the nearest saloon for a quick one with his both in equal quantity, etc.) when ord New ering. Enclose check or money order and 'laughable, lovable side-kick.’ send orders to Mattachine Review, 693 There is the classic current example of "Wild Bill Hickok’*. Mission Street, San Francisco 5, Calif. IA y Is chat a o^Éte foe a grown man to allow himself to be called with out at least a 'smile when you say that, pardner?’ Here is a clear- good Indian is a dead Indian.’’ Thus we see that the Lone Ranger’s cut case of arrested development. He, cut on the classic lines, feeling for his Indian buddy Tonto runs directly against all the is the case history of the perfect example of juvenile delinquency standards of the society he moves in. grown hoary and grey in mischievous service. This little boy who It is therefore apparent that the Lone Ranger does not dare re move his mask. He lives in mortal terror that his face will mirror never grew up is more often than not, the cause of Our Hero’s troub his soul all too accurately. And to preserve this weird kind of fac les. 'Wild Bill’ spends a goodly share of the time allotted after the ial virginity, he is willing to undergo all kinds of torments, all middle commercial straightening out the mess Jingles and his nar versions of indignities. cissus complex have gotten them into during the first half! The Lone Ranger, like his Wild Bill Hickok facsimile, goes to No, "Wild Bill Hickok’’ is not for the kiddies. absurd lengths to avoid any kind of physical contact with whatever More properly, the films for this series should be sealed in their young lady the plot line calls for. He, too, takes flight at full gal cans and stored for all time under some psychiatrist’s couch. But lop, riding off to some mystical bunkhouse in the sky where he can let’s not restrict ourselves to this one program. be alone, presumably, with his faithful Indian friend Tonto—scream Your TV set dial has 12 channels to twist to-or more if it’s ing the while in full voice, "Hi-yo Silver, away!’’ equipped for UHF. So let’s change stations. This business of publicly being affectionate with folks of red Here, now, what’s this? The emotion-packed music Rossini wrote skin seems to have caught the TV-viewers’ fancy. The Sheriff of to serve as the introduction to his opera, "William Tell!’’ Ros Cochise, a relative newcomer to the field, stresses the point with sini has become the proverbial grave-spinner if he’s found the uses monosyllabic intensity, feverish action that gets nowhere, and lots to which his music has been put. of loud gunplay. In this opus of the great Southwest, only the noble There he is, mask and all, "The Lone Ranger.’’ While it’s un red man is clearly in the right. The Paleface—saving only the vir doubtedly true that every human being has some secret so dear to tuous Sheriff in question—is always villainous, unfriendly and out himself that he would rather face death than reveal it, here is a to do in Rousseau’s glorious primitives. man with such a deadly secret he resorts to wearing a mask in So there you are. Space limitations being what they are, it is public to keep its fearsom^ knowledge from being made known! impossible to give a full rundown of the constantly growing list Poor Lone Ranger! He still lives in that late-adolescent, just- of movie and TV Westerns. But the picture remains pretty much the coming-out Stage that tells him, "I am the first one in the world same no matter what number you choose on your TV set. If this to have this happen to me!’’ ignores the wild and woolly doings of such long-established favor And what a striking collection of complexes beats ^neath his ites of yours, as Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Gabby Hayes and all manly bosom! First, he fears he will talk too much, land so limits the rest, you can best remedy that by watching them next time they bis conversational outbursts to the shortest possible prases and are on the air. sentences. Then diere’s the problem of his afair with his horse. But behind the thunder of pounding hooves, and beneath those The film is so cut and edited that medium close-ups of his horsey hairy chests and bandanna-covered throats, there may be moré than Silver, are never shown. Thus we, the viewers, hâve no way in meets the eye at first glance. The trend is unmistakable. The ten the world of knowing whether he’s mounting a mare, stallion or dency to show tendencies is clear. It’s up to you to see through it! gelding. Hmmm. Wonder vfrat Annie Oakley is doing this week? The whys and «dierefcxes of that loathsome black mask become more apparent. But there’s more. The Lone Ranger is living in a more primitive age, an age less prone even than our own to accept anything as outre as homosexuality. And add to that the fact that the scries Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? is laid, if you will, in die Old West, where the good, upright, sub Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? stantial citizens subscribed wholly -to the theory that "the only Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot KINSEY INSTITUTE FIGHTS U. S. CENSORS
. NEW YOR^t, July 17. - T h e tion had been ordered from N E W S R E É L federal government sought per Europe and the Orient by Kin mission last night to destroy a sey, author of the highly-pub collection of< licized studies on sexud be FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION SET FOR AUGUST 30 “obscene a n d | havior in the human male and i m m o r a l " female. Kinsey died last August. photos, booksl The government seized the San Francisco Area Council of the Mattachine Society will and statuettes I collection in 1951 and 1952. be host to the national organization’s 4th annual convention, Aug consigned to thel Assistant U. S. Atty. Ben S e X Researcbl jamin Richards Jr. last night ust 30-September 2. The main day’s events, at which it is expected Ihstitute oncel told Federal Judge Edmund that seven prominent persons will appear as speakers, will be held headed by the Palmieri, “Your honor, by even in the Sheraton-Palace Hotel on August 31. In late July the conven late Alfred Kin-1 a casual inspection, (you) would sey. find the items involved here ob tion committee was preparing the slate of speakers who will dis The move was! scene.’’ cuss religious, legal, psychiatric, social and medical aspects of opposed in fed-* _____ the theme, "Must the Homophile Be Accepted in Out Time?’’ An eral court by Mrs. Harriet RICHARDS ASEED for a Pilpel, attorney for the institute court order to destroy the attorney will act as moderator. at Indiana University. collection. Opening event of the .convention will be a reception at Pan-Graph Mrs. PilpeL pleading for im ic Press on the evening of August 30 for members and delegates. Mrs. Pilpel said the 31 photos, mediate release of the material, Registration will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, August 31. Call to ah album of Chinese paintings said that such objects are kept and a number of statuettes and under look and key at the insti order will be at 11. Addresses of the panel speakers will follow, books were “essential to the job tute and are guai^ed by strict with the luncheon and an evening awards banquet worked into this the institute is doing.’’ security measures so that they “cannot seep through to the schedule. These events will be held in the hotel. SHE EXPLAINED the collec public.’’ Sunday, September I3 will begin with a continental breakfast at the headquarters office at 9 a.m.', with recorded soundtapes from DER RING-Monthly tnagaziae in German, from TV broadcasts of "Open Mind’’ programs which appeared in FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS some English. Subscriptions, S5 per year. New York scheduled to be played. In the afternoon, a 4-part pro VRIENOSCHAP-Monthly magazine in Gerhard Ptescha, Editor. Address, Alster- Dutch; articles about male and female chaussee 3-11, Hamburg 13, Germany. gram will feature the activities of One, Inc., Daughters of Bilitis, homophile problems. Address Postboz Mattachine Review and Pan-Graphic Press. During the evening, a 542, Amsterdam, Holland. Rate, J4 pet ICSE Newsletter-Published monthly by year. Published by Cultuur en Ontspan- the Foundation International for Sexual reception will be staged for members and friends by the Daughters nings Centrum (C.O.C.), Bob Angelo, Equality, Postbox 1564, Amsterdam, of Bilitis. Editor. Holland, jack Argo, Editor. Annual sub DER WEG—Monthly magazine in German, scription, S5. Articles in English. Monday, September 2 (Labor Day) will open with the business with some articles in English. Published ARCADIE—Monthly magazine in French; session of the Mattachine Society for members and delegates only. by Der Weg zu Freundschaft und Toleranz, literary and scientific articles. A, Baudry, Rolf Putziger, Editor. Subscription rate, editor. Subscription rate, S9 yearly. Ad It will conclude at noon, the official end of the convention. How S5 per year. Address Colonnaden 5, dress 162, Rue Jeanne d’Atc, Paris 13, ever the ne\t officers and Board of Directors will meet immediately Hamburg 36, Germany. France. following this adjournment in their first semi-annual coiference of the new year. IL wF L , CFRCI F (n,orithly) published since 1936. in Convention events on Saturday, August 31, are open to the pub German, also articles in French and English (no translation lic. Registration fees, including tickets to the luncheon and the duplications) drawings and photos. $7(30 yearly, first-class sealed $ 1 1 . evening banquet, are $13. Events on Sunday are restricted to mem Remit by B&nk Draft or Cash bers, guests and invited friends. DEI KKEIS/LE CERCLl Postfach 547, Fraumunster, ZLrich 22 Initially established at Los Angeles in 1950 as the Mattachine SWITZBELAND I Foundation, the present incorporated Society grew out of constitu ía 12 ma iia e 4i ttc Re v ie w tional conventions in Los Angeles in 1953. The first organizational convention was held in Los Angeles in Kfay of that year. The first annual convention was held in San Francisco in 1954t the second ) in Los Angeles in May 1955, and the third in San Francisco in May If This Be Conformity More than one prominent American writer, professor and thinker has recently 1956. At that time the group voted to move the convention date to turned attention to the creeping scourge of mediocrity that is becoming alt too the Labor Day weekend, and again San Francisco was chosen for commonplace in our social structure today. Conformiiy-the tendency to avoid thought, discussion and action on unpopular subjects (the homosexual problem the site. The Mattachine Review office had been established in the IS ^ly one of them) is becoming a fashion. It hangs like a thread-suspended Golden Gate city, and on January 1, 1957, national headquarters sabre over the heads of those who dare to speak out. Reprinted below is an editorial from the Baltimore Sun of June 14 and a rei- was moved there also. However, the past two years has seen the XI * <*is<^ctning reader, which the newspaper published on lund growth of Mattachine on the East Coast, so it was decided unoffic 17. Neither item requires further comment here: | ially in 1956 that the annual meeting in 1958 would be held in New I York City. The tîditoriol Prof. Paul Tillich, who teaches rooms with chrome-plated showers theology at Harvard University, de NEW YORK OFFICE TAKES OFFICE SPACE and the like. But that kind of con livered the commencement address formity is certainly no worse than Space on the 4th floor of the building at 1183 Avenue of the Am this-week at the new School for So the kind of conformity that our ericas (Sixth Ave.), New York City, was recently taken hy the New cial Research in iNew York. His, grandparents knew, involving an York Area Council of the Mattachine Society for an office to serve theme was a complaint against “con- ^ old gray mare, a pump on the back East Coast areas. Telephone number is Circle 5-1868. iormity” in American life. He thinks stoop, a spring house full of water there is too much of it—that we are beetles and sanitary facilities con all cast out of the same mold and sisting of a privy. On other and per NEWSLETTER PUBLICATION BEGUN IN DENVER share the same values and aspira haps more important matters, the Denver chapter of the Mattachine Society issued its first monthly tions. charge of conformity simply does newsletter in July, in seven large-size mimeographed pages. The It seems to us that this “con not fit the facts. Before giving his secretary there has also listed a telephone number for persons in formity” talk is being greatly over next sermon or commencement ad done, and not just by Professor dress on the subject of conformity 3*^38*^*^^ “ “SC u> reaching the chapter: FLorida Tillich. It is true that in large areas Professor Tillich ought to stop and of our life Americans tend to go think about the difference between for the same things. We conform in the North and the South in their CHICAGO LEGAL BOOKLET EDITING COMPLETE the sense that we are drawn, all of general attitude toward race rela Copy for the long-planned booklet outlining legal rights of indiv us, to automobiles, well-equipped tions. If that represents conformity, iduals and procedures under Illinois state law, prepared by the leg kitchens with hot and cold running we don’t know what the word al director of the Chicago Area Council, has now been completed. water and refrigerators, tiled bath- means. It will be published within the next few weeks and available to Review readers after August 15. Copies may be obtained from the Chicago Area Council or from national headquarters of the Society (see addresses on page 35). Please enclose 10 cents in stamps or coin for each copy to cover mailing costs. On Conformity in which he deplored conformity To THE Editor of The Sun—Sir; Dewicks” by James Ban will be reptiated this ye«. We ate in American life. You obviously ■ ccepuoi reservaaons now, and will advise price (paobably 12.50). I was rather shocked at your super confuse conformity as such, in its ficial editorial comment this morn very simple meaning with the very VILLAGE XHEATEE CENTER. 116 CM,H,pb,t St.. N. Y. 14 ing (“If This Be .Conformity”) on specific sort of conformity that Pro (Also see advertisement on page 9 of this issue) the talk given by Prof. Paul Tillich fessor Tillich was talking about. RIVIBW 15 From Fresno, Calif, Recently,, “The public is not certain Naturally, some conformity in ample you cite serve to illustrate whether the sex offender life is inevitable. Some conformity the tragic outcome of conformity? should be treated for his bad is necessary and desirable, if the Due to circumstance, this particular act or for his psychological dis machinery of human society is to Understanding order,” Dr. Rood said. manifestation of conformity is more “There is a conflict between run smoothly, as, for instance, traffic or less confined to one region, but tlje desire‘by an outraged pub- regulations. Some conformity is a by what logic does it follow that Is Urged For liit for punitive treatment ver little silly and sometimes dull, but therefore it is not based on the sus a desire to see them treat otherwise harmless, such as fashions same basic attitude that makes peo ed. The state hospital is the in clothes, etc. ple conform elsewhere, say in Chi Sex Offenders best protection for the very There Is, however, another kind cago or San Francisco? Sex offenders must be met people who are enraged by of conformity which is dangerous Ortrun O'Connor. with understanding rather than the sexual offense,” he added. because it stifles individuality and Baltimore. June 14. hysteria when they return to Dr. Rood said statistics he spontaneity, because it shirks moral their communities after treat- has kept of the 600 persons re courage, because it transfers re ment. leased from Atascadero since sponsibility from the individual to COMPLETE SETS AND ^ This was the conclusion of the hospital opened two years the group or society, because it a panel discussion last night ago indicate the public is “bet does not allow for independent, BOUND VOLUMES OF sponsored by the Fresno Coun ter protected after treatment critical thinking, because it repre REVIEW AVAILABLE ty Medical Health Society in in a hospital.” He said only sents an "escape fpm freedom,” as Complete sets of Mactachine Review the Fresno County Schools 5 per cent have repeated, and Erich Fromm points out so well in are still available in one of two ways: Building Auditorium. these are mostly “exhibition his book of that title. as matching bound volumes, or as un* “We have to have faith in ists who are not a menace to bound magazine sets complete for both the achievements of the Atas society.” Surely Professor Tillich was con 19S5 and 1956. I’rice of the bound vol cadero State Hospital,” said The problems of detecting cerned with deeper issues than the umes in gold-stamned blue cloth is S7 Dr. Max Levisohn, a Fresno and detaining the sex offender general rush for automobiles, re each. The 1957 volume, when complete, frigerators and chrome-plated bath will match the two previous annuals, psychiatrist. "There should \vere raised by Sergeant Ken a 4% sales tax applies for California he no difference in the way neth Larson of the sheriff’s room fixtures as such! But is it not residents. Unbound magazine sets are we treat the sexual offender office. He said the county true that many of these are acquired priced at S4 for each previous yeir. The and the person released from lacks facilities to segregate not for the sake of utility but for 1955 set has seven issues; the 1956 set _ prison who returns to the these offenders. Consequently the sake of prestige? Is it not evi has 12. There is no sales tax. Send all community. they must be placed with dent that the majority of Americans orders to Maitachine Tleview, 693 Mis “He should be given a job other prisoners, who some direct their actions toward success, sion Street, San Francisco 5. California, by local employers and al approval, popularity, which means enclosing full remittance with order. lowed to take his place in the times “attempt to harm the I community.” offender, especially if the of that they must conform to some gen ., Municipal Judge Leonard I. fense involves children.” erally accepted social pattern? True, MATTACHINE LIBRARY , i Meyers' said the nature of this may be said of people all over PROJECTS WELCOME I j their crime arouses community The child who is the victim the world, | but nowhere, to my , sentiment against the sex of- of a sex offense must be knowledge, is the “average” glori BOOK DONATIONS i fender. treated carefully, the panelists fied to such an extent as here. The Each of the Mactachine Society offices "regular guy,” the "good sport,” the listed in the Mattachine Directory in this i , "But they should be entitled agreed. Often, they said, the issue is now engaged in collecting books ,t^ a chance to return to so- youngster’s story contains "well-adjusted” person—they are for a library. Already established lib* ;,ciety,” he added, held up as shining examples. raries at San Francisco, Los Angeles and j* .Actually, this is easier said more imagination than fact. May I, lastly, suggest to you that New York now have collections of sever than done, according to pan- Dr. Levisohn said investi indeed you do not know what the al hundreds of books on the homophile 1 elist Dr, R. S. Rood, the su gating officers should “not subject, both fiction and non-fiction, as word “conformity.” as Professor Til well as many books on related subjects. perintendent of the Atascadero overlook the tremendous pow lich used it, means, or you would not Particularly needed are books on state hospital, which he said is the er of fantasy in children.” He legal codes, research reports, early ti only institution in the world have brought up the difference be tles on the homosexual subject, and other devoted solely to the treat said doctors rather than the tween the North and the South in hard-to-find items. Donations of books ment of sane sex offenders. police should interview young their attitude toward race relations, are solicited for each library. Where the Dr. Rood said there is an victims of sex offenders. in order to prove that the charge books donated result in duplications for "element of conflict” in so Dr. Rood added that it is any particular library, these books will ciety’s attitude toward the sex “very easy for a man to be of conformity “simply does not fit be exchanged with another Mactachine falsely accused by a child.” the facts.” Could not the very ex- branch library where that title is missing. offender.
L by Philip JoKon
B arliiirisn i This article comes from the Publications and Writing chapter of the New York Area Council of the Mattachine Society. Although Philip Jason wrote it, it is actually a collaboration. One of our members could supply the ' factual and first-hand information because he was born in Russia and lived there until a few years ago. After working together on the article, the authors first presented it at one of the regular monthly chapter meetings for discussion not only of its content but also of the technical aspects of its organization and writing, ft there fore has become not only the collaboration of the two 'authors’ but also of the chapter as a whole. Other art icles, it is expected, will be forthcoming from this active chapter of Mattachine. In all cases, the article will be signed by the writer who does the lion’s share of the work, for the chapter members see their work simply as an anonymous "editorial” function. ____ / There are sides of the Soviet reality that tourists rtever see, thot correspondents of the outside press in Moscow can only guess a t, and that would be w ell nigh un - economic as we 11 as p o litical, brought immense fundamental changes in legal concepts. believable were it not for the trickle of humanity in peacetime and the moss exodus Among these were lows affecting the homosexual. These lows, in comparison with of people during World War II who escaped from the core of that awful reality to a those of other countries not influenced by the Code Napoleon andinview of the back better life in freedom. A land in which whole ethnics minorities such os the Crimean wardness generally ascribed to Tsarism, were surprisingly lenient. Article 516 of Tatars and the Chechens could disappear overnight without a trace is a land in which Chapter 27 of the criminal code provided for punishment of sodomy per se with Im - the truth about much less (^parent minorities is difficult, if not impossible, to as prisonment of not less than 90 days. Sodomy with a minor between 14 and 16 years certain. This is especially so In the case of what is often the world's most concealed of age, with or without consent, or with someone unable to resist owing to mental or minority - the homosexual. This Is something of the story of this minority in Russia physical defect wos punishable by imprisonment of not less than three years. If com as far os it could be traced from the beginning of this century's greatest cataclysm mitted with a child yourrger that 14, with a person who was a ward of the offender or to the present day. with someone forced by threats or violence, the guilty was to be punished by penal servitude of not more than eight years. On March 10, 1917, in the midst of World War I, the last termite-eaten pillars So it was that, with the collapse of the old order and with the ensuing period of supporting the shaky edifice of imperial Russia collapsed. Riots In the chief cities hunger, civil war and confusion, sexual restraints Jlisoppeared. Attitudes of the old of Russia were followed by desertion of whole reglirents to the forces of revolution. morality were laughed at os bourgeois. In the age of social experimentation and free On March 15, in 0 railway cor at ^kov, Nicholas II, Tsar of all the Russios, pen love the homosexual suddenly foundhis interests no longer at variance with the estab ciled his signature on d document of abdication - a document which in foct. If rrot lished order. An Incident that illustrates this was a homosexual marriage, the cele in theory, brxxjght the history of Tsarist Russia to an end. bration of which attracted the attention of the Cheka, Lenin's secret police. In the period immediately following the revolution. Suspecting a clandestine meeting of On November 7 of the some year, the provisional government of constitutionalists counterrevolutionaries, the Cheka pounced upon the wedding celebration. When the arid liberals, a makeshift creotion that was to be a caretaker until the convocation of nature of the gathering was disclosed, the puzzled Cheka authorities turned to the democratic Ruuia's Constituent assembly, undermined b)radlcal forces it had unleashed fannus Russian psychiatrist Bechlserev for elucidation. Upon his explanation, every but was unable to control, distrusted by a tired people clamoring for peace, land, one was set free and there were no futher consequences. end bread, sharing a duality of authority with the Council of Workers, Soldiers arrd Peosonts, was toppled over. The Soviet state, to become the 20th. Century's most The New Ecorromic Policy, or NEP, a period of limited capitalism that was en terrifyirsg totalitorlan morster, was born. visioned as a "transition to socialism" succeeded the harsh years of "War Communism" of the early 20s. The contrast with those earl yyqars of bloody civil war and privation Many things ended with the two Russian revolutions. The upheavals, social and was Immense In the eyes of the young generation of the day. Order arxi a comparative moferial prosperity succeeded the dork years that hod come before. The homosexual minority, no longer shakled, had its parties, its bars and meeting places. There was no scandal or persecution and life , within normal bounds of discretion and good taste If induced or forced to migrate to Soviet Russia's eastern regions, needed adequote seemed worthwhi le to the Soviet homosexual. Indeed, when a volume of Stefan food and shelter and hod to be paid at least subsistence wages. This problem was Zweig's short stories, which included one on the homosexual theme, was translated eliminated by forced labor camps where the hunwn being himself was the cheapest into Russian!, Maxim Gorki undertook to write a sympathetic preface and the volume and most expendable material, quickly replaced by the continued influx of more ond was widely read in gay literary and artistic circles. more purg^ victims sentenced on a frame-up.
Dark shadows, however, began to gather os the decade neared its end. The The 1926 Criminal Code contained one article of possible direct use agairet the dictatorship which had haunted the politics of the Lenin era began to extend, imper homosexual. This was Chapter 6, Article 151, which provided for up to eight years ceptibly at first, into the hard core of the Communist Party itself. Stalin, creating of imprisonment for “gratification of the sexual passion in pervert^ forms." This, below himwith infinite patience his apparatus of personal despotism, was increasingly however, was far too general and hod not hitherto been applied to the homosexual. able to dominate his old Bolshevik compeers in the center of power. By 1928 Trotsky In 1934, therefore, undoing finally and Irrevocably the last remnant of the homo had been exiled, the International had been subordinated to the leadership of the sexual's defense, a specific amendment to that criminal code was adopted. It was Soviet Communist Party and mutual distrust, always extant under dictatorship, began used by the G P U - later to emerge as the N K V D and finally to become the MVD - to indicate the endemic proportions it was to achieve in a few years under the great not only in cases arising from that time forward, but retroactively in the cose of per- purges. Every gathering of more than five or six people could be suspected as counter- sonsalreodyarrestedorculpableby reason of previous known or discoverable activities. re volutiorKiry. I This was Article 154a, which we quote verbatim: "Intercourse ¡of a man vrith a man (sodomy) Is to be punished by deprivation of freedom for a term of from three to five The homosexual, made sensitive to changes in the wind by an instinct for survival yean. The sarrw committed with violence or by using the dependant position of the overdeveloped by necessity, began to take precautlorts. By 1929, all large gatherings victim - deprivation of freedom for a term of from five to eight years. “ (Source; stopped. Save for smoll groups of friends, well within the limit of danger, all social Ugolovkhy Kodeks, RSFSR, 1953 ed,). a ctiv iti^ came to a standstill. In 1930 the first of the fabricated counterrevolutionary "plots" was discovered This was adopted on April I, 1934. On December I, 1934, probably at Stalinist by the GPU, as the Soviet political police was then called. It began with the arrest instigation, a former member of the Communist Youth assassinated Sergey M. Kirov, of Leningrad University historian Platonov. A number of homosexuals, among the chairman of the' Leningrad Soviet and a member of the Politburo. This provided the hundreds arrested, found themselves faeedw ith preposterous p olitical chorges. Among pretext for the mammoth purges that succeeded and for the prototype of all subsequent them were two acquaintances of on infoimant of this outhor, a former officer and a treason "trials" In the Soviet Lkiion and the later satellites, the Moscow Trials. male ballet dancer. Yezhov succeeded thepurged Yagodaos NKVD chief. Yezhov in turn was eliminated to make way for Beria, and Beria was shot after Stalin's death to be succeeded by The terror of 1930, unlike such purges in the post, continued to mount steadily, others. Y et terror was mounted upon terror, not to be abated by a World W ar. Since taking Its toll of thousands. In 1933, many homoMxuals were arrested on the unbe- Stalin's death, many chonges hove come about, and a breathing spell seemed to have lievablo basis of gotherings mode now to appear os counterrevolutionary, Trotskyite, set In as the "collective leadership" of epigones juggled for supreme power. Article or even Hitlerite meetings. When a prisoner exposed the patent falseness of the ac cusations, he was accused of being of bourgeois origirrs, drunkenness, ond irrespon 154a, however, stands firm, and, siirce 1934, a veil of terrible darkness orrd untold sible behavior In the face of a national emergency, and was forced to sign fabricated tragedy - the tragedy of the whole of the Soviet people - has fallen over a min "confessions. " No direct charges against him as a homosexual were made, but the ority so often fated to be history's scapegoat. brood political articles of the Soviet Crim inal Code, the Infamous paragraph 58, served « well. It Is under this paragraph, with Its purposely vogue wording, that almost <^ny Soviet cltiien can find himself accused of treason to the state on the mere suspicion or flimsiest denunciation. It was also possible, by considerable stretching of its meaning, to sentence an arrested homosexual on article 155, which referred not to homoiexuollty but to "constraint to prostitution,procurement, keeping of dens of vice, e|c. " This is punishable by confiscation of property emd imprisonment up to five years. As It reads, its general application to homosexuals could only be by ample interpretation of "etc. " Trial was In absentia ond the accused was sentenc^ to forced labor for anywhere from three to ten years. CHANGES OF ADDRESS Nolic« «f thong* «f o4dr«ii thpvkf b* mri no* l«u tteofi hvo wooU prior to tho dolo cliango boeoMM oHoclivo. Soitd tbo oddroii at whkh The purges had two purposes, the secortd of which was only gradually realized by coptoi oro now boitip rocoivod ond tko imw the outside world. The first, of course, was to remove possible political dissidents oMroii ot whick yo* wtsb to ro<*s*o copit*. and to paralyze any resistance to Stalin's oscendacy. The second was the need to exploit Siberia's immense unexplolted natural wealth in the most economic manner pouible - and this proved to be slave labor. Free laborers and their families, even 20 wemsefrw REVIBW pletely overcome. George Is trying to give us the story behind Henry's failure to attain the heights, but I'm afraid George does not know why and, as o result, tMlther do we. George may believe that homosexuality was to blame; if so, his facts belie his theory, for the years of homosexual octivity come after the political failure and were more lik ely its consequence than its cause. In tha end George's limltotioru seriously flaw the book, because We learn less than we should about Henry and his homosexuality less, I am sure, than Sir Compton Is capable i THIN ICE, by Compton Mackenzie, Putnam, New York, 1957, i3.50. Reviewed by Richard Meyer. tailing us. Tha noma Compton M ockanzie parhops maant more a genaration ago than today. But we should be grateful for what we are given; o novel written ivith grace aid Sinca 1911 this distinguishad British author ho baan turning out a book a yaar in distinction, with a sense of humor a id o sense of proportion. It is English in its almost avaty form end fiald of writing (the film "Tight Little Islond" w o based on attitudes and manners, perhaps too much so for some tastes, and indeed, it is at its ona of his novels). Now in his seventies. Sir Compton, inspired perhaps by certain best whan it Is most English; when Sir Compton, through his characters, is gently calabrotad coses of homosexuality in high places, ho written a novel about o recalling the days of his own youth before World War I, the exotic lands he visited, -homosexual politician. the ways of life long gone.
From the time Henry Fortescue went up to Oxford in 1897, ho w o a young man of If THIN ICE does not measurably enhaice our understanding of homosexuality, it promise who grew Into o man of whom much w o expected. His goal, and it w o not eminently enriches o«r homosexual literature. uniecBonable, w o to be Prime Minister. The only hurdle, so it seemed, wo his homosexuality. After a risky escapade with on Arab porter in Morocco, he deter mines on a course of complete self-denial, for he could not be "walking forever on TORME N T,by Ri chord M eeker. Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp., thin i c e . " His rrxxiumental restraint, lo tin g more than twenty years, suggests that New York and Toronto (paper), 159 pages. Originally published as THE BETTER in soma people, ambition is more potent than sex - or perheps more properly, ANGEL, Greetiberg, New York, 1933. Reviewed by Richard Meyer. proves the perverse power of the humcm animal to sexualize non-sexual ocitlvities and gools to his ultimate harm. At one point in TORMENT, Kurt, the hero, tells Tony the story of his life, the rood that hos led from his small town baginnings,by way of the state university (Michigan) The time comes when Henry is passed over for o cabinet post, when ha realizes that aid musical studies in New York and Europe, to o hill town just back of the Riviera, his sacrifice to ambition hce been in vain. And then the walls of restraint come probably Hout-Cagnes. And Tony's response may serve to sum m aize R ichad tumbling down - and he resumes where he had left off, that is, with boys of twenty Meeker's homosexual novel: or so. Perhaps his long abstinence explains both tha particular form and the crushing "I've heard I don't know how many stories from I don't know how force of his now unleashed desires. In his nocturnal "wanderings" as he colls them, many different fellows about this sort of thing, and how it came with he meats decent fellows like Guy Liscombe aid Arthur Weeks, but he also comes them - they're oil alike In 0 way and all different too. There's to know blackmailers and prostitutes. For, as he says sadly of men like himself, something in your story, though, that's stronger than most becouse "We always have to buy love when we ore over forty." Those ate tha years of dan there's something in you that's stronger. You were lucky, you and ger, “when life seams to be slipping away so fast." Derry, to drift into the thing a you did. We're not all so fortunate.
Your story Is different there. It's different too in having a girl in it Henry Fortascue's story is told to us in the form of a memoir by his life-lot^ friend, at all (but not very much in it) and it's different most of all because Geoge Gaymer, whose nickname "Geegee" it precisely right for him. He is not it's cleaner that most - and awfully much less promiscuous. " only straight but stralght-loced (there's a delightful scene when one of Henry's boys tries to pick him up). But George is never enable of understanding the compulsive This l a t deficiency of Kurt's life , Tony immediately sets out to remedy. But tithrilr power of Henry's homosexuality, or indeed, of ony strong sox drive, whether homo relationship soon moves from the bed to the piano, where they collabo'“*rate in sexual or heterosexual. ^ he eon go to Henry time after time to remonstrate with writing a musical show. him to give up his " ecce n tricity ." O r devise stratagems which sometimes boomerang. On one occasion, to prevent Henry from going to a gay party, George packs him The lock of promiscuity decidedly limits the ca t of chaocters. In addition to Derry off to Kenya; another time, to avoid some trouble, to the even more distant Sey and Tony (and the g irl), there's only D avid. Tony and David each h a hod a "post" chelles (where unfortunately there was a houseboy). (David can tell of parties with "heaps of bodies" on the floor) a id Derry, though he start» quietly, it unquestionably going to have quite a future. These secondary char- One wonders sometimes why Henry put up with George through so many years, but oeter* would be at home In alm at any of the shelf of homosexual novels that fol even as one asks the question, one knows the answer. Henry, brilliant, mercurial, lowed TOR MEN T, which was one of the first of this genre to be published in the unstable, needed sormone solid and sure to hang onto. But If we con accept Hen United Stata. ry's choice of George as a friend, we can never quite understand Sir Compton's choice of George as the narrator. In telling Henry's story through to unimaginative Orily Kurt ha a different quality, and unfortunately, we never learn vrhy. H^ is and uncomprehending a spokesman, the author raises a hurdle he can never com- 11 perhof» the healthiest homotexual hero in print. He hat moments of questioning and doubt - The Riviera scene, for exonple - but In spite of the hyperbolic title Symonds, John A . : PROBLEMS IN GREEK ETHICS: An Inquiry Into the Phenomenon of TORAAENT, Kurt is a notably untormented homosexual. Not only is he less pro of Sexual Invenlon. London; privately printed, 1901. miscuous than the stondord honwsexual hero; he is also decidedly less neurotic in Summer, William G .: FOLKWAYS: A Study of Sociological Importance of Usa^s, the non-sexuol cspects of his life. He doesn't just talk about music; he works at It Customs, Mores, Morals. Boston; G in n , 1906. steadily and effectively, and by the end of the novel he is clearly headed for a M ayne, X avier (pMud. for Edward Prime-Stevenson): THE IN TERSEX: A Hlstoiry of successful career. And when we leave him, he still believes in love. He settles Simlllsexualism oso Problem In Social Life . C ity of publication u n l^ w n ; down with - I hod better not soy which one - aid we have what may be a happy privately printed, 1911. qnding. But I wouldn't bet that they lived happily ever after. Perhaps Richard Westermorck, Edward; ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MORAL IDEAS. London, Meeker, who wrote this pioneer and still highly readable novel 24 years ago could Macmillan, 1917. tell us whot became of Kurt - and of himself. For the promise of this obviously Carpenter, Edward: LOVE'S COMING OF AGE. New York; Kennerly, 1919. youthful work ought to be fulfilled in o sequel. Talmey, Bernard: LOVE: The Science of Sex Attraction. New York; Eugenics, 1919. PIcton, Howard: MORBID: The Abnormal and the Narnm l. London; British Society, 1923. James I, King of England: DAEM ONOLOGY. Now York; Dutton, 1924. PRESENTING PART ONE OF A FEATURE WHICH MANY READERS White, H. D. Jennings: PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES OF OMOEROTISM AND IN HAVE REQUESTED MANY TIM ES.... VERSION. London; British Society, 1925. Lewis, Wyndhom; THE ART O F BEIN G RULED. London; Chotto & Windus, 1926. B Ib lto siK *ap liy Bloch, Iwan(pseud, for E. DOhren): MARQUIS DE SADE: The Man and His Age. Newark, N . J .; Julian Press, 1928.
OF BOOKS ON THE HOMOSEXUAL (AND RELATED) SUBJECTS Henry, George W .: SEX VARIANTS: Studies of the Homosexual Patterns. New York, Hoeber, 1928. Mead, Margaret: COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA. New York; Morrow, 1928. Robinson, Victor. ENCYCLOPEDIA SEXUALIS. New York; DIngwall-Rock, 1928. T ^ compilation of a complete bibliography on any subject Is an arckjous task that Bohn, Aphra: TEN PLEASURES OF MARRIAGE. New York; Boni & Liveright, 1929. ^monds inhuman perseverance, and If the subject be homosexuality, additional King difficulties hove to be overcome, such os the "curtain of silence" that affects Malinowski, BronUlaw: SEXUAL LIFE AM ONG THE SAVAGES. New York, Eugenics, I many book reviewers. 1929. j Bloch, Iwon (pseud, for E. DOhren): SEXUAL LIFE OF OUR TIMES IN RELATION TO
C|ory and others have published lists of titles, but these have been admittedly incom ROMAN CIVILIZATION. New York; Rebman, 1930. plete. The bibliography we row publish is, to the best of our knowledge, the first Mead, Margaret: GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA. New York; Morrow, 1930. serious attempt to Include all titles which hove appeared in English, and represents Moll, Alberto: PERVERSIONS OF SEX INSTINCT: Studies of Sexual Inversion many months of research on the port of three Individuals. It Is estimated that one year Based on Clinical Dato and Official Documents. Newark, N . J .; Julian, or longer will be required to publish in consecutive monthly installments the entire 1931. lijst., Readers are urged to study it carefully and to submit additions and corrections. Fere, Charles S.: SEXUAL DEGENERATION. New York; Falstaff, 1932. Rosenberg, Marcus: SODOMY'S BEST LIBERATOR. New York; The Author, 1932. The order of publication will be os follows; (1) general, sogree, and reference, and Bloch, Iwon (pseud, for E. Döhren): ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN THE STRANGE (2) all others, includitig fiction, drama, and biography. In both cases, listingswlll SEXUAL PRACTICES OF ALL RACES IN ALL AGES. New York; Anthro be in chronological order of publication In English, and within a year, alphabetically pological Press, 1933. by author. No attempt at completeness has been made In the first category since Bloch, Iwon (preud. for E. Döhren): STRANGEST SEX PRACTICES. New York; Falstaff, hundreds upon hundreds of psychological, m edical, anthropological, e tc . works de 1933. Busohe, A ., and Jacobson, F.: SEX HABITS: Vital Factor on Well Being. New York; vote at least a paragraph or two to the subject of homosexuality. Accordingly, this Emerson, 1933. fijst group includes only reference works which deal extensively with the subject or Hesnard, A .: A STRANGE LUST. New York; Amethnol Press, 1933. pilesent unusual or Interesting points of vie w . The second group, however, cIm s aim Mofl, Alberto; LIBIDO SEXUALIS: Studies on Psychosexual Laws of Love Verified] at completeness, save in the field of biography, a gap that may be filled at some by Clinical Studies. New York; American Ethnological Press, 1933. future date. Potter, DeForrest: STRANGE LOVES: A Study of Sexual Abnormalities. New York, 1933. Tl)e MATTACHINE SOCIETY wishes to express Its gratitude to P. M cK., N . I. G ., TamovskI, V. M.: ANTHROPOLOGICAL, LEGAL, AND MEDICAL STUDIES OF and E. H. L ., to whose scholarly zeal and persaveranee we owe this significant con PEDERASTY IN EUROPE. New York; Folstoff, 1933. tribution to knowledge. Bloch, Iwon (pseud, for EJ30hren): MARQUIS DE SADE'S ANTHROPOLOGIA SEX U ALIS O F 160 PERVERSIONS: 120 Days of Sodom. New York; F a ls W , Symonds, John A .: PROBLEMS IN MODERN ETHICS: An Inquiry Into the Phenom 1934e enon of Sexual Inversion. London; privately printed, 1896. Bloch, lwon(pse'ud.forE. Döhren); SEXUAL UFE IN ENGLAND. New York; Pah- Copp, John Dixon, and Pula, Faofoulna: SAMOAN DANCE LIFE. Boston; Beacon, urge, 1934. London; Aldor, 1938. 1950. Jacobus, X .: CROSSWAYS OF SEX. New York; American Anthropological Society, Dollard, John, and Miller, Neal E. ; PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: An 1934. AiKilysis In Terms of Learning, Culture, Thinking. N ew York; M cGraw - Jacobus, X .: UNTRODDEN FIELD O F ANTHROPOLOGY. New York; Aimrican Hill, 1950. Anthropological Society, 1934. Ellis, Havelock: FROM MARLOWE TO SHAW. London; Purnell 4 Sons, 1950. Blackwood, B. (pseud, for W. M. Cooper): BOTH SIDES OF THE BUKA PASSAGE: GIde, Andre; CORYDON. New York; Farrai-Sfraus, 1950. An Ethnographic Study of Social, Sexual, and Economic Questions In the Guyon, Rene; SEXUAL FREEDOM. New York; Knopf, 1950. Northwestern Solomon Islands. Oxford; Clarendon hess, 1935. Ugman, G .: ON THE CAUSES OF HOMOSEXUAUTY. New York; Breaking Point, Marchand, Henri L.: SEX LIFE IN FRANCE. New York; Panurge, 1935. 1950. Kahn, Samuel: MENTAUTY AND HOMOSEXUALITY. Boston; Meador, 1937. London, L. S ., and Caprio, Frank S.: SEXUAL DEVIATIONS. Washington, D. C ., HIrschfeld, Magnus; SEXUAL PATHOLOGY. New York; Emerson, 1940. Linocre, I9K . Carpenter, Edward: INTERACDIATE SEX; A Study of Transitional Types. London; Shore, Joseph Maurice (editor): TWENTIETH CENTURY MENTAL HYGIENE. New Allen-Unwin, 1941. York; Social Sciences, 1950. Stekel, Wilhelm: INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS. New York; LIverIght, 1943. AlsWdge, John M .; AFTER THE LOST GENERATION: A Critical Study of the Writers Lindner, Robert: REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE: TheHypnoanalysIsof a Criminal hycho- of Two W ars. New York; M cG ra w -H ill, 1951. path. New York; Gruñe 4 Stratton, 1944. Beigler, Edmund: NEUROTIC COUNTERFEIT SEX, IMPOTENCE, FRIGIDITY, Flügel, John Carl: MkN, MORALS, AND SOQETY. New York; International Uni “ M E C H A N IC A L“ A N D PSEU D O SEX U ALITY. New York; Gruñe 4 Strojtton, versities Press, 1945. 1951. Reich, Wilhelm; SEXUAL REVOLUTION: Toward a Self Governing Character Study. Brun, Rudolf : GENERAL THEORY OF NEUROSES. New York; International Uni New York; Orgone Institute, 1945. versities Press, 1951. i Adler, Alfred: UNDERSTANDING HUMAN NATURE. New York; Greenberg, 1945. Cory, Donald Webster: THE HOMOSEXUAL IN AMERICA: A Subjective Approach. Landau, Rom: SEX, FATE, AND LIFE: A Modem Philosophy of Life. Toronto; New York; Greenberg, 1951. Ryerson, 1946. Deutsch, Albert (editor): SEX HABITS O F AM ERICAN M EN: A Symposium Bosed on Lindner, Robert: STONE WALLS AND MEN. New York; Odyssey, 1946. the Klrsey Report. New York, Prentice Hall, 1951. Stekel, Wilhelm: HOMOSEXUAL NEUROSES. New York; Emerson, 1946. Fishman, Joseph F.: SEX IN PRISON. New York; Paddell, 1951. Flügel, John Carl: A^N AND THEIR MOTIVES. New York; International Universities Ford, Clelland S ., and Beach, Frank A .: PAHERNS OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, Now Press, 1947. York; Harper, 1951. Freud, Sigmund: LEONARDO DA VINCI: A Piychosexual Study. New York, Random, Guttmacher, Manfred S.: SEX OFFENSES: Problems, Causes, and Prevention. N¿w 1947. Allendy, R., and Lobsteln, H.: SEX PROBLEMS IN SCHOOL. Lorxlon; Staples Press, Hartvrell, S ^ l^ * * CITiaN S' HANDBOOK OF SEXUAL ABNORMALITIES | n D 1948. THE M EN TAL H Y G IE N E APPROACH TO THEIR PREVEN TIO N : Report bf Guyon, Rene: ETHICS OF SEXUAL A a S . New York; Knopf, 1948. the Governors* Study Commission of Sex D eviates. Washirrgton, D . C . , HIrschfeld, Mc«nus; SEXUAL ANOA4ALIES. New York; Etiarson, 1948. Public Affairs Press, 1951. Hoch, Paul Henry, and Zubin, Joseph (editors): RELATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL Kinsey, Alfred C . et al.; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN MALE. Philadelphia, TESTS TO PSYCHIATRY. New York; Gruñe 4 Stratton, 1951. j Saunders, 1948. Hood, John X .: SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITIES OF LOVE, SEX, AND MkRRIAGE. >leW Scott, George Ryley: FAR EASTERN SEX LIFE. London; G . G . Swan, 1949. York; Waverly, 1951. Allen, Clifford; SEXUAL PERVERSIONS AND ABNORMALITIES: A Study of the Kieffer, Otto : SEXUAL LIFE IN ANCIENT ROME. New York; Barnes 4 Noble, 1951. Psychology of Paraphilia. New York; Oxford, 1949. Lowton, S. U. and Archer Jules: Tf€ SEXUAL CO N D U C OF THE TEEN AGER. New 6|oss, Medard: A4EAN AND CONTENT O F SEXUAL PERVERSIONS. New York; York; Greenberg, 1951. Gruñe 4 Stratton, 1949. Plowscowe, Morris: SEX AND THE U W . New York; Prentlee-Hall, 1951. Branham, Vernon C ., and Kutash, Samuel B. (editors): ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIM Praz, Mario: THE ROMANTIC AG O N Y. New York; Oxford, 1951. IN OLO GY. New York; Philosophical Library, 1949. Belgel, Hugo (editor): ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SEX EDUCATION, New York; Penn, Cheeser, Eustace: SEXUAL BEHAVIOR: Normal and Abnormal. New York; Roy, 1949. 1952. Lpginan, G .: LOVE AM ) DEATH: A Story In Censorship, New York; Breaking Pol nt, Elliott, Mabel: CRIME IN MODERN SOCIETY. New York; Harper, 1952. 1949. Ellis, Albert; THE FOLKLORE OF SEX. New York; Boni, 1952. Mead, Moigoiet: MALE AND FEMALE. New York; Morrow, 1949. Gordon, R. C .: ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR. New York; Medical Publications, Ltd.; /4ead, AAirgaret: SEX AND TEMPERAMENT IN THREE PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES. New 1952. York; Morrow, 1949. Hartwieh, Alexonder: ABERRATIONS OF SEXUAL UFE. New Y p ^ Associated Norton, Howard: THE TH1RD~SEX. Portland, O re.; Facts Publishing C o ., 1949. Book Sellers, 1952. \ Sherwin, Robert V .: SEX AND TM STATUTORY LAW. New York; Oceana, 1949. Husted, H. H.: PERSONALITY AND SEXOONFLICTS New York; McBride, 1952. Brown, Fred, and Kemton, Rudolf: SEX QUESTIONS AND AN SARS: A Guide to a Lindner, Robert: PRESCRIPTION FOR REBELLION. New York; Rinehart, 1952. Happy Marriage. New York; McGraw-Hill, 1950. 26 méOtéuáime RBVIBW Loo with no or lesser predisposition would emerge ^as a strictly hetero sexual individual. Thus, homosexual behavior has two principal fundamental causes i I _ one is constitutionally inborn and the other psychologically acquired. Its particular forms of expression, that is to say, its exclusive tendency The Causes of or its occasional indulgence, are the result of a reciprocal relationship between the depth of a constitutional (organic) predisposition and the intensity of psychological conditioning. HOMOSEXUALITY The preceding article is reproduced here with the permission of the author. Dr. Benjamin is a prominent American endocrinolo gist and sexologist and a specialist in Gerontology, lie is a con Harry Benjamin, M.D. tributor to numerous scientific and medical journals, and was h e words “homosexuality” and “homosexuals” formerly a consulting endocrinologist for the College of the City arc unfortunate terms. 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Village Theater Cen If the constitutional factor i; more, pronounced, homosexual be James Barr Fugate-a play, and "Homo ter has a number of hard-to-find items, as sexuals Today—1956, ** a study of homo well as the rwo-volume edition of Proust's havior may ftJlow as a matter of course in the growth of the person phile organizations and publications in "Remembrance of Things Past” at less ality. Psychological conditioning toward* homosexuality would then be the U. S. and abroad). ONE announces half-price (S6.50 instead of the regular easy. Provocation in the form of seduction, etc., may not be required. its featured titles each month in ONE *15.00). In the pre-adolescent stage the lihido (sex urge) is undifferentiated magazine. Persons ordering books from the above Two book services are located on the firms should remember to enclose sales and^ “floating,” It is likely to attach itself to the most readily available East Coast. They are: ' taxes where applicable (for instance, all subject. If homosexual contacts have taken place during this period, Winston Book Service, 250 Fulton Ave., California residents must enclose 4% tax puberty may or may not dissipate and obliterate the homosexual ten Hempstead, Long Island, New York, suc for all books ordered from Pan-Graphic dency. With a correqxMiding constitution, one boy may “get stuck" in cessor to the Cory Book Service. Win Press or One, Inc., which are California his early homosexual phase and never develop out of it; another boy ston announces its main current selection firms). 3 r 30 ssssureietiaee RBVIlW REVIBif KDITORi I like to read back issues of the Review again and again. It always gives me something to think about that I had missad previously. Tonljiit I r—A the letter in the April issue from »•. D.K., a psycholo - gU t, I o«t*lnly do agree with him 100)« that the Review ou^t to "under EADER2 write stand and be acquainted with the heterosexutl'a problan concerning him." "Him" meaning the homosenial. 1 an sure that the Review would welcome all letters and artlclaa e:q)lorlng the hetarosexual'a problem in hla feelings and attitudes towards the homosexual. But I 'l l bet the Review hae never received enythlng along theae llnas. It seams to ne that such articles end letters ought to come from the heteroeexuale thenmelvee, or at least from people like Hr. D.K., profeeslonal people who can explain the heterosex ual's difficultiae in understanding and acceptance of the existence of ho- REVIEW cBITOR! I am sendlnp; you within a few weeks another group of books eexuallty in terms that the homiriille can grasp. I think it would be al - for the library which I am pleased to learn is growing. I am also sending together healthy to print such artlclea. I hope they get written and sub a book review manuscript.—Mr. E. V. 0., Utah mitted to you. Editor's Note: Ibanks for both the books and the book review. Readers are All tte same I think Hr. D.K. goes too far when he says that understandlrg requested, however, to mall book reviews direct to the New York Area off of the homosexualr's Note: The "trouble" referred to above is a laudable attenfit by during World Hhr II, a friend of mine took ne to a Seder service although OKE magazine to obtain a reversal of lower court decisions which have de I an a Gentile. It was one of the most Moving exnerlencea in ny whole ex clared the October 19^ti issue of ONE obscene and unmailable. ONE has been istence. life is richer for understanding something about Jewish faith. engaged in this action almost three years. And, believe It or not, all of Just because I do not become a Jew doesn't mean that I am anti-aerdtlc... UB have a stake in its outcome, because freedom to express ideas in print for that natter, there are things in Christianity and things In Judaism and otherwise is involved, hiany legal authorities consider the refusal of that I deplore, as well as things in both that I deeply revere. I do not a Los Angeles postal official to nail the issue of ONE an infringement think that reverence should sllaoce all criticism. There are things about on freedom of speech guaranteed by the Constitution. The battle in courte homosexuals and things about heterosexuals that I deplore as well as many has now reached our highest tribunal—an expensive and time-consuming job things that I respect in both. But I think both homos and hetaros oughtto for an organization with resources as limited as ONE to undertake. We be be hesitant about crltiolzlng each other because each of them have too mmy lieve that Review readers who aid this task financially are making an im blind spots when the other is concerned. Mr. D.K. sounds like a man of portant contribution to the continuation of free expression in America. good will. If he weren't he would not have wrttten ttiat letter to you at REVIEW EDITOR: The Tender Trap series concluded with a re-hash of the age all. I sitre wish he would write about these nmtters at length himself.— old tactics. Only nowadays, on account of unlimited money, the police d»- n?. L.A., Maryland partiBGnts are trying to make a big thing out of certain sex "crimes." The U. S. is trying to spend itself into prosperity and purltanily. The pol REVIB# EDITOR: In ny work as a paychologist in a hospital I have found ite natinrally want to justify their position by bringing in not only the yo\D: material quite helpful, and think you are doing a good job in trying violators, which they should, but also they try to create acts from pot to modify attltudee—a difficult thing to do In our society.—Dr. M. D., ential violators, which they should not. Theirs is the job of preventing Calif. c|lme, not inducing lt.--M:. W. P., Calif. REVIEW EDITOR: Just a note of gratitude to tell you how I do apnreciate REVIEW EDITOR: I see you plan to issue an international issue of the Re your efforts In your caq>algn amiitft bigotry and Ignorance. I could have view In October. You might use the attached manuscript in it. we would used your aid some years ago.—Hr. H.W., c/o PPO, New York be glad if you could announce in the Review that Ihtematlonal Committee REVIEW EDITOR: Tlianka for the gift subscription for me entered by P. T. I for Sexual Equality, Postbox 1^2, Amsterdam, publishes monthly a period am glad to have a file of the Review for ny own personal use. There is no ical newsletter in Bqgllsh; the ICSB-Kurlar in German, and ICSE-ft'ess for doubt that I shall be able to make use of the material from the magazine German and Austrian newspapers. Your readers may subscribe to ary or all of these mlmeograThed publicatione.—Hr. Jack Argo, Editor, ICSE Newslet in ny courees.—!Vof., Harvard Divinity School, Camibrldge, Hass. ter, Amsterdam. review EDITOR: Apparently there is still some question as to vdy there are Blitor's Note: The article mentioned will appear in the Review's October two organisations instead of one—that Is, the Hattachlne Society AND the 1957 International Edition. Thanks for sending it to us. Daiujiters of Bilitls. Perhaps It would be a good idea, through these col- 32 RBVIEW 33 B, to Clarify this question for your readers. First of all, let me point out that the Daui^ters of BiUtls was founded in Seotember of 19$5 by a group of e l^ t wbiien in San Francisco as a soc ial club. Other than rumors (tdilch later proved to be untrue) these eight charter nenftiers knew nothing about either the Mattachlne or One, Inc. As The RBVIBW is publiahed moathly (fot information toward the solution of pcob- the DOB program developed, however, we made i t a point to check into each snbsctibera ooly) by thè Mattachine lems of human sex behavior, particularly of these organisations. The recention we received by these two groups was Society, Ine., San Ftaocisco }. Calif., those of the hoansezual adult. The RB- "Vfell, i t's about tlme>-Vlelcome to the fold.'" For »rlor to the incidence g nott-ptoOt, Doa-pMtigan ntganUatioo VWW is ayailable on many oewsttandt of the Daughters, only a few women had actively nartlolpated in the act fousded in thè pnblic iatereat fot thè in the U. S. (aiz altetnate-month iaauet ivities of either organisation. patpoae of providlag trae aad accurate per year). Secondly, it should be noted that the Daujditers discussed among them SUB9CR1TTI0NS: In the U .S.. Cnnnd* and Mexico, $4.00peryear; selves and with members of the Mttaehine Soele^ the possibility of dis Siacle copian, SOc. All other eonxtrieo, $8.00 per year. All solving the women's group and joining Kittaohine or starting a mmen's co^es mailed first claoo sealed in plain envelope. auxiliary chapter at San FTanclsco. Ihe conclusion on the part of both OF PtDUCATION: (to vrhioh a ll coaKaaicationa shonld be groups was that more women would be reached, more women would be likely addresnod): 883 Mianion St., San Francisco 5, Calif. Telephone to t^ e an active part in the movement for understanding and acceptance SZbrook 7-0773. of the homophile through an exclusively women's organisation. COPISlGHr 1987 by the Hattachine Society, Inc. All ri«hta re Vliy? Because until very recently (only in the last six months) have the served to material not otherwise credited. women turned out in any great number (and that "great" number is small). MANUSCRIPTS—tor pubUeatioa ia this For the Lesbian is an elusive creature—she is not easily detected (cur magailne are aolidted. At tha praaent ADVERTISEMENTS — accepted only rent day mode of wearing apparel and hair styling being idiat it is); she tune, such ihsauacrlpts, sitleles, ra- from publisbers and/or authori of vlawa ate., must ba aeeapled on a rntatadbooks, to masasina tha research and mid iMriodleals of the has less of a problem with law enforcement agencies since she is less no-tae basis. Uanuanlpta not aoeom- Kattachim Society, lac. Ratss upoa promiscuous and less apt to rely on "gay bars" for her contacts, and by paalad by poatpatd rotam anvelope applicatioa Publiaber raaarvea the the very nature of her being a wonen she is mure Interested in her home baeoma the proparty of Uattachlna rfsht to reject any and all advertising. and in building one. Yet she does have a need for contact with her own Ravlew. kind, an opportunity to let her hair down and relax the barriers. She is STAFF more apt, we have learned, to do just that with a lesbian group.' Bsl Call...... PBblicationn Director and Bdi,tor For thirdly, there is another problem involved; Acceptance not only of the homophile by himself and society, but acceptance of each other (male D. Stewart Lneas...... Basisess Manager and female). So many of the males are i»t comfortable around women (even Lesbians) and vice versa. This is a problem which both the Ikttachlne Society and the Daughters of B illtis face and which we hope we in San FTancisoo are working together to overcome. It Is a process of gradual exposure and education through MÂlTÂdflUE V ù t u t o f u f nutual social functions and panel discussions keyed to enll;d>ten both groups about the other facet and to bring recognition to our corammlty MATTACHtNE SOCIETY, INC. (Notlonol Hsadquortars): 693 Mission Straat, Snn of Interests and aims. Francisco 5, Calif. Telephone EXbreek 7-VfTi There i t is. Me believe that there ie a definite need of and function for a group such as the Dau^ters of Billtis. And what's more, so do those I SAN FRANCISCO AREA COUNCILi 693 Mliaion Street. Son Fronciseo 5, Collf. have talked to in both Mattaohlne and One, Inc. But one la st word. Vhlle Telephone EXbreek 7-0773 we are a seoarate and Independent organisation, our rapid growth would have been iii|x>ssible without the cooperation and help of the I&ttachlne LOS ANGELES AREA COUNCIL; Peat Office Ben 1925, Les Angelas S3, Collf. Society. Working together and sharing facilities has enabled us to mold Tslephene HOrsiondls 3-2616 IKS LADDBl into a mgasine rather than our original newsletter, and to have an office and telephone. We wish to extend our thanks, liideedJ—Del NEW YORK AREA COUNCIL; 1113 Avenue off iha iAmericas, New York 36, N. Y, Kert.ln, Daughters of BUitle, Inc., 693 Mission St., Room 306, San FTan- .1 Tslephene Circle 5-IB68. cisco 5, Calif. CHICACO AREA COUNCIL; Pout OWeu Bos 3513;»Kiel Merchandise Mart Post Offlee, Chicago 54, III. | ACKNOWLEDGMENT-The Rn>Uw is ■ errlce go to Messrs. 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