WHEN IS A GIFT NOT A GIFT?

Mr. Hudson Maxim has placed at the disposal of the members of the Senior class three hundred and fifty copies of his work, "Defenseless America." Seniors may obtain a copy free of charge, by applying to Matthews 7. A similar distribution is to take place in the Law School and Medical School. The book is on sale to the public at two dollars a volume.

Mr. Maxim is the inventor of "maxi-mite" and of numerous other explosives and ordnance improvements. He is at present heavily interested in this work. Is there no connection between this fact and the free distribution of a work, the sole purpose of which is to advise a radical increase in military equipment? Is it significant that this book, prepared and distributed at great expense to the author, should contain in its first chapter a vigorous and lengthy assertion that "private manufacturers of war materials should be encouraged by the government"? If Mr. Maxim's motives are above question, he has, to say the least, put himself in a position susceptible to misinterpretation.