Students Seek Refuge From Suing Landlords Under Wings of Legal Aid Society--Chicago Parfumeur Hounds One Man

According to a recent survey of the Legal Aid Board of the Law School the eternal controversy between landlord and tenant is not being allowed to lose any of its acerbity in Cambridge. Students in the College and in the Graduate schools are being sued right and left by their proprieters and are in danger of having their chattels thrown into the street. They have been confronting the Legal Aid Society with more woes than come from any other single source, and it is likely that the battle will contine to rage although the Board is making masterly efforts to pacify every one concerned.

Another source of trouble is supplied by the many "Drive-It-Yourself" concerns which have invaded the Square. They invariably send many hounded students to the sheltering legal wings of the Board. One Harvard student from Switzerland, having rented a "U-Drive-It" vehicle and meandered over to Boston in it, finally parked beside the Statler and left his coat and hat in the car. When he returned he found his habiliments missing, but being unperturbed drove back to Cambridge. As he climbed out of the car he was arrested and charged with having stolen it. Dumb-founded over his mistake he pleaded innocense. The car he had rented had been stolen. When it was found it had gone 216 miles and the "U-Drive-It" people are now suing the Swiss scholar for a ride he did not enjoy. It hasn't been decided who is on the side of the law in this case.

Another student enjoyed the privilege of being sued recently by a Chicago perfumery firm. He had undertaken and failed to sell its product. His defense is that "their perfumes are not worthy of being sold."

The young attorneys of the Legal Aid Society, instead of being baffled by these cases, are willing to extend their services wherever they can be of assistance.