From the INTRODUCTION CIVIL PROPAGANDA. The person who cries "Fire!" in a crowded auditorium, or who starts a false alarm resulting in a panic is spreading a form of propaganda. The results of his act may be such as to lay him liable to a trial for murder. The person who by gossip, innuendo or other means destroys the credit of a bank and starts a run upon it, is a propagandist and amenable to punishment. The person who by insinuation or back-biting wrecks the good name of a man or a woman is wielding the same powerful and dangerous weapon. The collector of bad debts who sends his duns on postal cards or on envelopes of conspicuous nature is carrying out a form of offensive and illegal propaganda. Equally the person who, by false representations, distortions, exaggerations, or suppressions of the truth, booms a worthless stock with intent to defraud, is a propagandist against public and private welfare and comes within reach of the law.