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The Gas Tax Expose Some months ago The Times exposed the fact that some very peculiar things were happening in regard to evasions of taxes on gasoline. There is every reason to believe that the state has lost very large sums of revenue, probably in excess of a million dollars a y ear * There is every reason to believe that this evasion is no new thing, but has been going on for a very long period of time. The official reports of collections should have put all officials on their guard. The amounts returned by some companies, the wide differences between various months, suggests that some dealers who found business difficult oi- the stock market unkind, have resorted to illegal expedients to dodge tHX6S. The large companies, contrary to the usual rule of such everts, are not involved. They have no way of a\oiding taxes, if the> so desired. D-a:ers who pay taxes find themselves at a disadvantage in this matter. Evasion ot taxes permits price cutting, as has been done in the northern part of >he state. The 4 cents demanded by the state amounts to a real 1 It appears reasonable to demand that something moie than compromises with companies clearly guilty be done. The people are interested in knowi-g how the evasions could have continued. They are more interested in the reaction of officials not connected with the affairs but who have a clear and plain duty, now that violations of law have been discovered. \ ail sentence for those involved might be a powerful deterrent against repetitions.

What Has This to Do W ith That? It may be that the answer to the farm problem is if the farmers will quit raising so much wheat or so much rye. corn, barley or cotton, or whatever thing it is that each particular farm** r a using too much of. the farmers will get better prices. That may be true. 1 It may be the way to bring about prosperity on the farm. A lot of people are saying so. Os course, there are others who dispute this theory; they sa> that if the farmer plants less and gets a Ijtther pnce per bushel or bale, the total he receives will be about the same-and not enough for his needs. They say that 5x6 makes only 30. just the same as x . Be all this as it may. a painter Just walked out o thl What's a painter got to do with the farm problem? it is difficult to say with certainty, but this painter does seem to have some connection. For it happens that his wife and baby have been starling while all this wheat and other items of overproduction" were going to waste. They were starving up to a few days ago. when one of the local social agencies gave them some help Baby, as the painter expressed it, is back on its fee rgain—an odd expression, considering that the baby is just 7 weeks old and never has been on its feet at all. The painter's story is this: Since so many people burned their fingers in Wa street last fall and times became hard, he has been out of work most of the time. There are many more painters apparently than there are jobs. He isn't a very husky-looking fellow, although he can slap a paint brush all day with the best of them, he says, and offers the names of a number of citizens who will testify to his ability and reliability. But when a contractor looks over a bunch af applicants for work, some huskier chap invariably is chosen. That has been going on for months. The baby was born in June. Neither mother nor baby seemed to do well and presently he got a doctor to visit them. “Trouble is." said the doctor, “your wife and baby are starving. They've got to have food and the right kind." The doctor caused the social agency to take a hand and now the baby, at least, is back on its feet. "But I can't depend on charity," said the painter. *T don’t suppose, as a matter of fact, that I can get chanty very long: I don’t know much about those things. I've got to have work so I can earn food for all three of us." That's all there is to tell about the painter, i Except that well be glad to furnish his name and address if you possibly can use a painter for a day or two) Now for the economic problem: Isn't there some connection between the food the farmers are raising in such quantities and the thousands, or. to be exact, the millions who are unable to buy the food they desperately need? Can't some connection be established between the bumper crops on the farm and the empty craws in the cities? Is cutting down production the only answer? Is It any answer at all while there are enough hungry people to absorb the so-called surplus? The Age-Old Issue The Mooney-Billings case, important as it is in itself, after all. is only a symptom. If it stood alone, it would not be so significant- But it is a part of an intricate pattern, the detail of which is growing more rapidly as the years go on. To begin at the beginning—our nation, our great experiment in democracy was founded on justice. That wtu. the corner stone Evenhanded justice. Justice symbolized by a blindfold and a pair of scales. Every clause in the Bill of Rights was designed to bulwark that ideal—freedom of speech, freedom of assembly. right against unwarranted searches and seizures, treedom of worship triac by jury, habeas corpus, and all that. Justice, thus defined, was the fruit of long struggle centuries of battle against oppression. The bulwark* were written in our Constitution. When that writing was completed, lusticc then became the inheritance of future generations. And what did the future generations do about it? They accepted the inheritance as forever fixed. Justice had been achieved at last. It had been put in the law books. Nothing more to do about it. * Let's turn our minds to other things—to attaining

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prosperity, to invention and discovery, to the steam engine, the telegraph, the cotton gin, to railroad buildings to the winning of the west, to the horseless carriage, the airplane, the radio; to building skyscrapers and bathtubs and the multiplication of human wants; to making the luxury of one year the necessity of the next; to mass-production; to amusements; football games with 80.000 in attendance, prize fights at S4O a seat, baseball and Babe Ruths, the movies and Hollywood—to all the multitude of allurements that gather in a young and growing and carefree country to which that elemental thing called ju.vice had been assureo forever. And so it came to pass that justice, the subject which for century after century had been dominant in the minds and hearts of the peoples of the world, got short shrift In America's attention. For America took justice for granted In so doing, America overlooked one most Important thing, and that is—that nothing is fixed in this life. The essence of life is change. Life is a matter of to have and to hold. Ana the price of justice, or anything else, is eternai vigilance. So, after a century and a half, America has grown more and more apaihetic toward Justice as a primary national principle. Hence we see Hoover law commissions searching in a bewildered way for the w - hy of a lot of things that are happening now-, things which'' couldn't have happened in the days when justice was the all-absorbing topic of a people's concern.

Sacco and Vanzetti were executed under a cloud of reasonable doubt, and public sentiment says—“ Well, maybe they weren't guilty, but anyway, we re tired of these foreigners coming in and always stirring up trouble. ’ Mooney and Billings spend thirteen years in prison under the same cloud of doubt, and the public remarks—“ Whether they’re guilty or not, they’re bad actors.’’ Those cases are merely straws that show the vitality, or lack thereof, of the wind that is now carrying democracy through her sea of trouble. In the meantime, over the world other winds are stirring. Democracy, let it be remembered, isn't the only form of social control ever devised. There are others. And the others scoff and sneer at democracy, and work for democracy's overthrow'. Dictatorship in one form or another is the ancient foe of democracy, the foe against which the lovers of justice fought during ail those centuries. And dictatorship today is in the saddle in many parts of the world. Whether it be the Commuhistic dictatorship of Russia or the Fascist dictatorship of Italy, it is all of the same piece, and it is, as ever, the ancient foe. And whether in a democratic country a weakness appears, that counts as a pojnt in the game of dictatorial advance. Whether the weakness be a crooked magistrate in Manhattan, a grafting police official In Detroit, a racket in Chicago, a raid without a search warrant in Atlanta, a Sacco-Vanzetti case in Boston, a Mooney-Billings case in San Francisco, or any other shcrt-eircuit of good government and abstract justice, that is welcome news to the Stalips and the Mussolinis; that is water on the wheel of those who believe in the rule of the few as against the rule of the many: In a democracy the power to govern lies in the people. Theirs is both the authority and the responsibility. And theirs the result—the success or failure. If they, as a whole, are wise, it will be success. If unwise, careless, apathetic, cocksure in the idea that matters of justice were settled forever for us by our ancestors, obvious of the fact that vigilance is necessary to preserve justice or anything else, then the outcome ultimately will be failure, and, once again, w'e, the people, will do the goosestep to the command of a sovereign. An English pedestrian was recently struck by two automobiles within ten minutes. He should have stayed down for the count the first time. Some things in this world are hard to understand. Wheat is selling at its lowest level since 1914, but a loaf of bread seems to cost just about as much as ever. Cheer up! Those puns on Morrow can t last forever! _

REASON By F^Sfms CK

GREAT BRITAIN refuses to permit the building of a tunnel under the English channel because she does not trust France. France and Italy arm against each other. France and Germany snarl at each other. Germany and Poland hate each other. So do Poland and Russia. Rumania builds a Black Sea fleet against Russia and Russia's hand is against everybody, all of which should make the American thank God for the Atlantic ocean. v a a a While these European nations are unable to leave their B. V. D's out on the line after dark for fear some neighbor will lift them, an article in the papers reveals the entirely opposite attitude of this country toward foreign powers. a a a THIS article tells us that President Hoover has ordered our commission withdrawn from H%iti when her new president is inaugurated next‘fall. Haiti one of the richest lands under the sun. has been a source of endless vexation to the United States, and Europeans can not understand why we did not grab her long ago, as they would have done at the first opportunity. a a a The greatest statesmanship King Carol has shown .since resuming the throne of Rumania has been to make peace with his son Michael, whom he succeded, by presenting him with a dog. a a a The Hunter brothers, who won the endurance flight championship, checked out as heroes the minute they cashed in as actors on that Chicago stage. Other cities, now preparing to send gentlemen up to try to snatch this questionable distinction, would .tetter take the money and give it to the poor. a a a HOW foolish it is to get all worked up over such endurance tests when you reflect that one flier who fought in the World war displayed more nerve and :ook more chances every time he went up than all the endurance fliers up to date. a a a Jim Reed, whose recent rauio talk was riddled by an avalanche of static, should send a message of condolence to Governor Cooper of Ohio, whose broadcasting was cut short in order to make way for Amos n’ Anay. a a a We sympathize with Coop^i. for when one is addressing the universe on a lLiu ted schedule and must vatch both the mikr and the clock it seriously hamoers the plucking of oratories daffodils. a a a it’s a tribute to the good of Germany that a eery small crowd greeted Schraeling, the new heavyweight champion, when he returned to Berlin. H&o it been a crowned American pug. returning from Germany, New York w juld have been knee deep ini ticket tape, |}v

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Worship of the Sun Came Naturally to Man in His Days of Cave Life. Throughout the land wise men and women are spending as much time as they can in the 1 health-giving rays of the summer sun. Perhaps few of them reflect upon the fact that the oldest and most widespread of ancient religions was worship of the sun. It is to be found in every part of the globe. “The pre-eminence of the sun, as the folintainhead of life and man’s well-being, must have rendered It at a date almost contemporaneous with the birth ol the race, the chief object of mans worship,” writes William Tyler Olcott, famous authority upon :astronomical myths and legends. It is easy to see why this is so. To the caveman, the sun spelled the difference between happiness and terror. The day was a period when he dared venture from his cave in search of food and adventure. The setting of the sun was the signal to hurry back to his gave to escape the dreadful dangers of the dark forest. Later, man learned to mark the beginning of the seasons by the noon-day position of the sun. He realized that as the sun rose higher and higher in the sky each noon it meant that winter was passing and spring approaching. It is not surprising therefore that early man soon connected his own welfare with the sun and developed a worship of the sun.

Inevitable TODAY, we no longer worship material things. But it is easy to see that the sun was more worthy of such worship than other objects. “It was,” writes Karnes in his History of man,’ “of all the different objects of idolatry the most excusable, for upon the sun depend health, vigor and cheerfulness, and during its retirement all is dark and disconsolate.” Olcott writes: “The worship of the sun was inevitable, and its deification was the source of all idolatry in every part of the world. “It was sunrise that inspired the first prayers uttered by man, calling him to acts of devotion, bidding him raise an altar and kindle sacrificial flames. “Before the sun’s all-glorious shrine the first men knelt and raised their voices in praise and supplication, fully confirmed in the belief that their prayers were heard and answered. “Nothing proves so much the antiquity of solar idolatry as the care Moses . took to prohibit it. ‘Take care,’ said he to the Israelites, ‘lest heaven and see the sun. the moon and all the stars, you be seduced and draw'n away to pay worship and adoration to the creatures which the Lord, your God, has made for the service of all the nations under heaven.’ “Then we have the mention of Josiah taking away the horses that the king of Judah had given to the sun, and burning the chariot of the sun with fire.”

AncientTHE most ancient religions of which we have any record are based upon solar worship. “We have good evidence of the antiquity of sun worship in the fact that the earliest authentic date that has been handed down to us was inscribed on the foundation stone of the temple of the sun-god at Sippara in Babylon by Naram-Sin, son of Sargon,” says Olcott. “There also has been recovered an ancient tablet, an Inscribed memorial of the reign of one of the early kings of Babylon, on which is sculptured a representation of the worship of the sun-god by the king and his attendants. “In the sculpture, the sun-god appears seated on a throne beneath an open canopy shrine. He has a long beard and streaming hair, like most conceptions of the sun-god, and in his hand he holds a ring, the emblem of time, and a short stick too small for a scepter, which some archeologists think represents the fire-stick so closely associated with the sun-god. “On a small table altar, which stands before him, is a large disc ornamented with four star-like limbs and four sets of wave-like rays, while above the group is the inscription: 'The disc of the sungod and the days of his eyes.’ “The scene clearly indicates the fact that the priests of Sippara were worshippers of the solar disc and solar rays, and their creed seems to bear a close resemblance to that in vogue in the eighteenth Egyptian dynasty. “The inscriptions on this memorial tablet are a valuable record of the religious life and ceremonial of the Babylonian temples."

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THACKERAY'S BIRTH July 18

ON July 18. 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist, w r as born at Calcutta. After attending lower schools, Thackeray entered Trinity college, Cambridge, in 1829, but left a year later without taking a degree. Thackeray settled in Paris about 1834 to study r.rt seriously, as he had shown talent as a caricaturist. His pencil was at its best in fantastic work, as is found in the initial letters of chapters as well as in drawings mada for the amusement of child friends. In 1837, he went to London and became a regular magazine contributor, illustrating many of his own stories. Thackeray, who had inherited a tidy sum, 'ost irost of it In Indian banks, in having a good time, and in two newspapers. He became editor of the Cornhill magazine in 1859, but resigned this pest three years later. Thackeray made his reputation by the “Snob Papers," in 1848 now known as “The Book of Snobs.” He died on Dec 24, 1883.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Printers Are Susceptible to ‘T. B.’

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia. the Health Magazine. nnHE printing and publishing inJ. dustry has become so great that the disease conditions which affect its workers constitute a special problem in modern medicine. For a Jong time information concerning printers was limited to records of deaths. It was found that those engaged in printing have lower death rates from all causes, except tuberculosis, than corresponding men in general, w’hile their death rates from tuberculosis at all ages are definitely higher and often much higher than for men in general. Among the factors which it was thought might be responsible for

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THE evil results of Elihu Root's suggestion that a federal red baiting squad be established already are apparent. I quote from a letter signed "Sanitas” in the New York Times: “It is the first duty of every citizen who loves law and order to take heed and do all in his power to keep our country healthful and clean of Russian rot. We should not leave it to congress, to the state constabulary or the local police, but should each one of us make it our business to watch and warn and help stamp out this dangerous and rapidly growing condition." In other words, all Americans are asked to become volunteer spies and snoopers. The desire to play policeman lies in every one of us. The toy shops of my early youth all displayed rough-rider costumes and police and fire uniforms. Here in New York, at any rate, we all grew up in terror of the patrolman. He was the man who chased us when we played baseball on the sidewalks. His was the whistle which warned us away from grassy meadows in the parks. Even in our go-carts we moyed in front of cable cars or held our ground at his direction. I don’t know whether Dr. Freud ever has voiced the the&y, but there must be such a thing as cop complex. It is the aberration at the basis of most reform movements. Prohibition has given millions an opportunity to play policeman. It is just such an inner compulsion which leads Senator Smith W. Brookhart to lean over and sniff the contents of a neighbor's glass at a private dinner. a a a Child Snoopers And only recently the papers carried the accounts of a Sunday school class which had been urged by the teacher to sneak about the town in search of speak-, easies. -Children of 12 were advised to play detective. Naturally, the little prigs welcomed the opportunity. One sanctified youngster secured evidence by throwing a rock through a window of a barroom. His pleasure was double. He was pleasing both his Sunday school teacher and himself. Even a sma.l hypocrite thrills to the sound of breaking glass. The passion to be a detective is so well known that certain commercial agencies have capitalized it by furnishing correspondence courses by mail. The impulse was accelerated fiercely during the war. The spy hunts w T hich were carried on then did a great deal of damage, and it is doubtful if the average American has recaptured as yet the old national idea of each citizen attending to his own business. People who couldn’t knit sweaters simply had to search for German spies. I remember an aunt of mine informed the authorities of the pernicious activities of a German - American who lived in the apartment just above her. The evidence which she presented against this undoubted miscreant was the fact that he had been heard returning to his abode twice a week at 3 a. m. His name being Adolph, my aunt felt that he could hardly have been up to any good during such nocturnal wanderings. The authorities, as 11 remember, thanked my aunt heartily for her patriotic services. Ex-Soldier Silenced CONSIDER, for instance, the exploit of a detachment of the ' Veterans oU Foreign Wars in Nef

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the high rate in tuberculosis are exposure to lead, crowding and bad ventilation, dust, exposure to gas, and the fact that the industry seems to attract a physically poor type of w'orker. It is quite possible that all these factors have some bearing in an explanation of the usual fact. A special study of the situation made in Great Britain has attempted to analyze the conditions from the point of view of special groups among the printers, such as compositors, bookbinders, machine printers and stereotypers. The figures, as analyzed by A. B. Hill, indicate that there is a high incidence of tuberculosis among compositors in early life and that they then are comparatively free

Brunswick, N. J. They broke up a Communist meeting there. The police had refused the Communists a permit, but when the meeting began there were no guardians of the iaw on hand. Accordingly the veterans decided to take the law into their own hands. One trembles to think of what might have happened to the nation if these amateur sleuths had not been on hand. The veteran group, estimated at 5,000, managed to prevent a crippled ex-soldier in a wheelchair from speaking. The unfortunate man had intended to talk about unemployment, but his service comrades bore down upon him and his wheelchair and brushed him aside. Seemingly it is not patriotic for an ex-soldier to talk about unemployment. He should do his starving with as little noise as possible. Hamilton Fish, bead of the congressional invest'gating committee

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor, Times—The writer would like to refer to the economic principle of letting the usual necessary public construction contracts at low prices in periods of depression. A study of the above should be made by all, but those whom we have put in office to represent us and really to act for us have a responsibility to look forward, and not be guided too much by the present temporary natural pessimistic attitude of some of our citizens. Don’t confuse the state or municipality with the individual. The state must look to the future for our own good. During the year 1 1915, or thereabouts,' during a period of unemployment and no business, we had a board of works that let two large necessary contracts, and gave employment fco many. Did we go into our pockets and pay for them that No, we did the paying in the prosperous years following. Here is a point to consider—that the Pogue’s Run sewer and the flood prevention contracts, the projects referred to above, wete built at a cost of about 40 per cent of what we would have had to pay a few years later. These projects helped to keep this city going until business picked up. Our representatives should see ahead partly by reviewing the past, and when things have pyramided again by the trio of higher-priced materials, labor, and enthusiasm, then let private business have the labor and materials except for an emergency. Don’t put the peak of business higher at such times as abnormal conditions surely react to subnormal. It is noticeable that many objectors to city improvements now say “let’s put it off until next year.” It seems they need someone to tell them that they have nothing to pay for quite a while and then only one-tenth of the amount a year, also the price per lineal foot is much less now than they would get by waiting. A. F. NOLL. 4L§6 Ruckle street. Editor Times—ln September, 1927, I visited the Tennessee state prison at Nashville. At that timo 840 prisoners were there, and to my surprise, two-thirds of them were young men from 18 to 23 years old. Then I wondered why those young men bad violated the laws of our country, seeing they were all able to work, but now that question is answered by my own experience. I was laid off my #b. I searched

from the disease until the end cf their working days. He has also shown that there Is a heavy tuberculosis rate among machine printers from the ages of 40 to 60. The compositors and machine printers are numerically the largest group among printers in general. Hence it becomes necessary to give special attention to this group in relationship to the tuberculosis factor. It seems quite likely that the establishment of systematic periodic physical examination, with special reference to the incidence of general tuberculosis, might serve to elucidate still further the question as to w r hy printers particularly suffer with this disorder.

Ideals and opinions expressed n this column are those ot one ot America’* most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude ot this naoer.—The Editor.

into Red activities, has discovered that American Communists receive orders from Moscow. I think no one should go to the house of ’•epresentatives unless he is able to read and write and also willing to avail himself of that privilege. The creat discovery handed down by Fish has been a matter of newspaper record on many occasions. It was widely published at the time the Soviet authorities overruled the choice of American Communists and displaced Lovestone with Foster. Root is, of course, no name to couple with that of Pish. Root deserves well of America and has rendered in his time brilliant and distinguished service. What a pity he should break silence at this point in his career to give fatuous advice. (Copyright. 1930, by The Times)

in vain for employment of any kind. Feeling that I had no home, I decided to join the navy, thinking that I might be of some benefit to my country as well as better my own financial condition, but was rejected because I was under height. The army rejected me because I was under weight. Had I not been a believer in the gospel, I would have committed some crime ,to have a place to stay, but I thought of one passage of Scripture, “Happy are they that endure to the end.” So I’m looking for the end, and believe it will come when God sees fit. I’d like to ask the public w'hat a man should do under such circumstances. Too big a coward to commit suicide, what will the end be? Can you answer that? Your answer will be appreciated. SHERMAN LONG. 101 South Liberty street.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

What a Monument to Our Educational System, and Social Ideals Is This New Tree-Sitting Craze. HAVING advocated strong liquor and a weak navy. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, now comes out for tolerance. Instead of viewing the Russian experiment through partisan eyes, he thinks we ought to discuss it calmly and unemotionally, if not sympathetically. A good idea, but hardly original. Besides. Mr. Butler is not quite up to date. Communism ceased to be the target of police interference ten days ago. It now is the tree-sitting youth who causes our agents provocateur to see red. Reports to this effect have come in from several towns, and something ought to be done about It, by us liberals. nun The Boy Has Rights WHAT navt we come to, if a kid can’t perch on a limb as long as he likes and thereby win fame by establishing anew record? Suppose nis father is worried or his mother stays up all night keeping the porridge hot? Suppose his admirers, gathering to dish up ice cream and encouragement in other forms, do spoil sleep for the neighbors? Hasn’t flaming youth any rights? For champions of broad-minded-ness, there can be but one answer: It certainly has! And If it elects to express itself by going to the tall timber instead of waving a red flag, it should enjoy all benefits of the Constitution. nun They Take a Risk CONTEMPLATE, if you please, the wonderful initiative this l ree-sitting mania evidences, the courage and self-sacrifice it involves, the nobleness of purpose it Implies What a monument to our educational system and social ideal! Here are these brave lads, hundreds of them, giving up their usual sports and pastimes for the sake of showing humanity a great example of enterprise. It is true that butchers, bakers and grocers are paying some of them 25 cents a day, as well as furnishing the grub, but for the most part, they are obliged to depend on public appreciation for their food and applause, which means that they are risking something, even if they win, and more if they don t. * nan Tree Sitters Mistreated FURTHER than that, these boys boys are exemplifying the new order of things. Aren’t we all out to get “sitting” jobs? And don’t we prefer to take our amusements that w ; ay? Those boys show a keen appreciation of progress. They understand how' to make records without exertion, how to gain attention v/ithout doing anything, how to acquire a reputation and perhaps a little revenue merely by attracting the crowd. They are doing at 13 or 14 what most of us older folks can’t do at 50, though we have tried all our lives.

It’s Burning Issue NO doubt t ie parents and neighbors who yell for the police whenever a kid climbs a tree, and no doubt the police themselves are suffering from a mid-Victorian complex, but is that an excuse in this enlightened age? Should we. who have learned to be tolerant toward parlor pinks, pass by such an outrage in silence? Not on your life! But the shade of Thomas Jefferson, something must be done to rescue the tree-sitters and preserve the good name of America! The law must not be allowed to stand betw-een them and their ice cream, and, if it attempts to do so, mass meetings should be called in protest. This is a burning issue, an issue that goes to the bowels of human liberty, that involves sacred guarantees of the Constitution, by inference at least. How can we conscientiously stand by the right of free speech and free assembly, if we neglect the right of free treesitting.? How can we demand tolerance in other respects, if we fail to insist upon it in this case? Talk about what our attitude should be toward the Russian experiment is merely a ruse to distract attention, A’hile minions of reaction, the purveyors of a dead age, the spies, snoopers and censors of an obsolete philosophy, take it out on the tree-sitters.