to do, and I am faced by the dilemma of either having to destroy or give away a fine book which I have bought here[Pg 130] quite legally and with entire honesty of mind, or having to break the law of my native land and smuggle it in. In constantly passing back and forth from Europe, I am continually confronted by similar problems. In all enlightened countries over here not only are treatises on birth control by medical authorities to be had in the bookshops of any city, but frequently public instruction is given in free clinics. If I take any such book home to New York, I become a lawbreaker and am liable, I believe, to a year in prison or five thousand dollars’ fine. I am interested in modern literature and, although greatly disliking the book, I realize that Joyce’s Ulysses is a landmark in its development. For the purposes of an article I am now writing I can readily buy Ulysses for five dollars in Paris or here in London (where I am working at the moment), but if I take it to New York to use there, I shall again be a lawbreaker and shall again be liable to a year in prison or five thousand dollars’ fine. Recently the Federal authorities in Boston ruled that it was illegal to import copies of that classic, Voltaire’s Candide, which is required reading for the students at Harvard, Radcliffe and, I believe, Wellesley. The boys and girls are thus faced at the outset of their careers as citizens with the delightful dilemma as to which they will obey, the Harvard and Radcliffe authorities or the Customs Officers clothed with Federal authority. If they do not buy the book they are refusing to do required college work; if they do, they are breaking the Customs laws. Thus early does a paternal government gently lead youth on the path of lawbreaking and laughing disrespect for law. Living under laws like these, is it any wonder that the sober, law-abiding citizen has little respect for law as law? [Pg 131] III