Professional Agitators There is solid evidence that hardened agitators, often trained abroad, are involved in most major strikes and riots in the schools as well as on the streets. Apologists for the student activists, and the disorders in which they figure prominently, should take note of this established fact. There is room for argument, of course, as to just how potent the professional agitator cells are, in stirring up trouble. Generalizing as to the views of the student troublemakers is less warranted, but that the leadership of the various groups is heavily loaded with Marxists and procommunists is very clear. Widespread Mental Smog One striking feature of the times is the willingness of people generally, and especially in the ranks of the intellectuals, so-called, to disregard plain facts and be beguiled by illusions and mirages.
Common sense seems to be on the wane.
The widespread mental smog from which we are suffering, it may be urged, is much more dangerous than the fumes emitted by our motor vehicles. This condition appears the more remarkable, at first glance, in a society equipped with an incredible array of gadgets providing almost instantaneous and worldwide communication, a flood of printed material on every conceivable subject, and an elaborate educational framework designed to keep us occupied with learning from early childhood on into the adult years. But perhaps this is what ails us. As most careful observers will agree, the protesters and revolutionaries have been aroused rather than restrained by the permissive and indecisive tactics of those in charge. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile is just as true today as in the past.