Thus far somebody, has overlooked an opportunity to obtain front page publicity and to arouse editorial discussions, to say nothing of clerical debates and letters to the various editors. Moreover, it seems that the incident of the Dunster Street Bookshop, which has stirred a lot of people who are easily stirred made absolutely no impression on a Cambridge policeman. That is not only surprising, but it is also alarming.

The District Attorney of Middlesex County will have to proclaim his opinion of the cop. Numerous others, who were asleep and blind for years while crooked agents of the Watch and Ward Society were operating in Greater Boston grew hot with indignation when an agent did what he was paid to do without trying to blackmail the bookseller. Why are they now comatose?

The Cambridge cop referred to knew that a bootlegger was supplying Harvard students with stimulants. He was not the only bootlegger for there are many of the tribe who make quite a comfortable living out of the Harvard boys few of whom know good liquor from bad and don't care a great deal what they get so long as it inspires them to deep and shallow thinking. The cop get his man. How did he get him? Listen to the shameful story. He telephoned to the bootlegger, representing himself to be a Harvard student and ordered two quarts of whiskey and two quarts of gin, to be delivered at one of the college dormitories. The bootlegger delivered the goods in person to the cop in person and was arrested.

Is that a strictly ethical method of trapping an honest or almost honest bootlegger? It is a subject that demands full and free discussion by the Ford Hall Forum. Boston Review