Show wish au 9 PAP F A wai 1415 ay we V A v N al k na N j NI 4 4 M at by ELMO SCOTT WATSON the determined effort that iros hua been en made in ili recent years to reduce tho the number aber of casualties to tig be i inevitable part of our celebration atlon of 41 independence dependence day despite all tile warnings and cautions that lire issued issue d by the authorities before that day each yer despite tile the constantly tn increasing 4 k on the use of explosives th e 11 that america Is still ia long way from a annd W Cn nd arsane fourth concerning w which 11 i q h we have lati heating so much in recent adare years did you ww enow di th people have boe boen allied cel celebrating american t eil an independence than ware were in acquiring iring it T N aw sz dadid ald you 1 know ow that fourth ot ol July j celebrations vile athe last four yer shave taken a 0 heavier american erlean alvi lives than did thirteen of the most im portana baffa baffles e s of the war in which I 1 dence was was wo won n r peril aps you did not but here Is the bitter fits tory of independence day celebrations which annually nua kiy takes the lives of both children and grown Oiin us mostly children blinds them maims them bliem wp acts upon them dreadful burn s in h total of deaths resulted froni from fourth of july celebrations in 1020 20 70 clerf hii ln 1027 80 34 went to their deaths while celebrating cele celebrating bating our nations birthday and last year the independence day adny toll of death was official records of the revolution show that 7 americans were killed at the battle of losing i ton 49 at concord 31 at af 11 ax Q at COT cow pens 02 92 at the siege of charleston 14 lt t bun bungor hor 11 at ft Moul tria ct 72 nt at h 51 Q stone ferry 20 at ston stony y point so 30 at benning ton 32 at saratoga rind and 2 at trenton that Is a total of americans who gave their lives in winning american liberty from 1925 to 1028 some MO americans gave their lives uselessly in cele lb rating the winning of that liberty r take two fourth of july celebrations at random and the records show that during one afi of then them 22 12 were killed and were injured lorti the te other ithe itlie casualty list read dead and so 80 injured the total for these two celebrations Is killed and iiii injured add to this the casualty list for any fourth of july celebration since 1000 about itlie the time when this safe and sane fourth agitation started lind and the total will be greater than tile losses suffered suffered by the continental army when it wt ans is defeated atthe at the battle of germantown or during tbt the siege of yorktown which ended edda d suc uc cess fully the american struggle gibe for liberty the suffel suf feringa in gcoy of the continentals Continent als during the terrible winter at valley forge have become traditional i yet sin lost their during fourth of july celebrations s than were d I 1 ost among ong the soldiery sold lery who shivered in the cold on those bleak pennsylvania hillsides hill sides Esti estimates maies based on government records show elow that thai there were killed and wounded during the years of the revolution when there aas was si scarcely arcely a day in which there was not fighting of some eba character facter going on somewhere in the 4 land in comparison with that recard look at the compiled by the american medical us so clation and the american museum of safety in begird to fourth of atly celebration casual ties iles during the lost last SO 80 years and that mean s SO no Jn independence dependence days there were americans killed in fireworks accidents an and d in aured how flow lucky it was for our nation that gei ge continental arm army Y merely bad to in fight for american independence cel I 1 if that army had find had to cel curate the winning of ande ind pen deuce dence according to our modern methods it i would have ticen been wiped out of existence in a very short time indeed noir km these figures quoted above are for lare works accidents alone and do not noi include ue lim X many deaths occurring after july 4 as aa a direct orect 1 I 1 1 result of fi fireworks rewo r k accidents or an ami d dv dahs q from accidents dents to motor cars ivorn 1003 1903 to 1015 1915 the ar american medical ast ase so clation compiled statistics of ice day fireworks au hatles and found fauni 1802 deaths and 42 OSal were attributable definitely to reworks i it was an average average of deaths a and nd 5 injuries eacle cacir year in t the lie cete celebration bration jp po of the I 1 fourth Fourt fi persons were allied injured T the lie fire bre lo 10 loss that ji ai wa wasa g lat last year sear the national museum of safety 0 ordered new newspaper depotts of fl fireworks reworks casualties from all parts of the country for june and july the result ii 11 killed I 1 I 1 injured y 2205 included det I 1 in uie list pf af d dead e ad were 62 chalden e n less lesa titan than five years pd 54 persons burned to death by or tl bonfires I 1 au children burned to death by harmless sparklers spar klers and 21 children died from eating fireworks unloaded guns kuni or stray bullets injured 42 2 persons lost last year 30 i persona person lost ones or both eyes eves iq and pooi 99 persons suffered in juries to their eias eyes recently the country was h horrified 0 ailt at thi the e cas balty ll 1 12 aln in nn an explosion in a hospital in cleveland ohio it hns has also been horrified from aln ie to time when a fire in a school a tor lor nado or a lood flood snuffs out from ida to 0 o lives yet it seems strangely unconcerned that bevc every ry ackar more tapa a persons person die and finore more th than w arc seriously injured in cele celebration bratin g the igia yr I 1 fourth firework are generally ene ralli held 6 r sible fr the appalling death list callejas a matter of fact firecrackers sa salutes lutis pi nw heels bombs and skyrockets sLy sky rockets rock ets account for not M more ore than 5 per cent of the independence day casualties nor kor have nil all of the de deaths abbs been due to thel the explosions plo of these fireworks ure works many of tram re ultA ul then rhen sufficient care Is not taken to ke keep ep are works from the smaller ch children liften bla many v children childre have idled led from eating poisonous po powder pellets 6 anol such as are used in dynamite canut canca 1 I even ven tik 0 so called 41 safety sparklers spar klers have proved fatal to 0 o youngsters who have eaten them believing that they were candy but aside from the dangers of celebrating the fourth there are other reasons wily why ills his Is 13 an occasion for a high mortality ratio rate the fourth of july Is the one national holida yIn the year when the entire population drops all its ats workaday carps cares to swarm to tho th baches the theroun them moun oiin talus and other places of recreation tile result Is an appalling number of bt dron arad an in automobile accidents birr exceeds the number recorded d on any aln s the year 3 ear so it Is appi apparent frent that although a great deal of good has been accomplished by those eions which have sponsored tills this safe and sane fourth idea and whid calls upon every american to assume the rl responsibility of bf being a safety engineer on july 4 there Is is still much tp bellone be done in ili making the die celebration of ahli till day 1 I 1 n lie keeping with alie a spirit of the occil sion otte one lies iles in in the fact that recreation 1 Is displacing fireworks to a certain ext extent put for the character of fourth of july celebrations 4 cl in t gatig and for the better according to a i sur vey recently made by the play playground mufid and abd rec creation association of america without ut lilg absing liMi sight of tho the smal boy and ills his zest zeat for agold a glod show on this holiday the jig association has hai sen sent out for what it calls constructive community programs which have been tried tind and ap proved by various cities und towns during t recent e cent yb years im substantial progress has been shown according tot lils survey in changing the former lam flam boyant independence day demon into occasions that to in some acme degree at least least interpret i f a i ille state ond national events broff tho the standpoint of history and citizenship 3 az yit iii the parent teachers association has recommended a rural program as follows ck lathe ih the morning a band drawn I 1 on UP truck aives throughout each neighborhood abd jn in town A man with will a megaphone calls out that vames gamos wilt will begin at the school play playground round at 1030 these jaas games are followed follone d by a 1 picnic grounds gi where there is alsa la pr 0 gram grain of community singing pinging and a speaker speak dr A two hour luncheon I 1 iffie le on P period arlod follows then there are co contests baseball tin and story telling for children follow followed edby tiby a patriotic pageant the celebration concluding with abilock a block dance r the playground and recreation association ot america has emphasized that the paramon paramount nt op cip ou of community celebrations s of ilie elie fourth of july are to recall wah pride and reverence tile the courage sacrifice ad and vision of t the be io founders of amerlean american independence to r re e the principles of justice democracy and tolerance upon which wh ach this government was ns founded and to encourage their continuance in present and future through appropriate ceremonies to dramatize the entrance into citizenship of native born who have recently come of age and of the foreign horn born aho vho ho have just been naturalized through games sports picnics pageantry festivals and other spectacles casi through music and brief f addresses to bring n neighborhoods bo and comina communities gitles together in unities programs of recreation an and entertainment suitable to thi the e daffo day to promote safety especially among children by iby substituting wholesome and harmless recreation for the use of dangerous fireworks Is there still a need for n safe and sane fourth let tile the following associated press dispatch dated july 5 of last year answer that question tho lives of men women and children were a nations sacrifice to colebr celebration atlo of its I 1 issod b birthday anniversary yesterday fireworks claimed alfir their share of 0 victims as a they always have since the states first be gan observing independence day with skyrocket pinwheel and cannon cracker ther were eleven such deaths in the entire country according tp the associated press frees tabulation 13 lakes and rivers elvers however exacted the heaviest tribute of humin human life on the holiday drow n ings b being c ing reported motor car deaths ran ranked ed next in number with st 64 bleat took 12 lives and lightning 3 while 4 were killed in plane cra crasher in addition there were 15 deaths attributed attribute dlo to other ca causes uses clr directly calr connected with am a ob observance of the fp fourth rth two densy ademaj populated ekr aras as iha middle atlantic states and the midwest had more that edif ha lf the count country rys s total total deaths for atlie the day I 1 id tha former there w were ere CS 68 fatalities which was ae 6 TO mora or than occurred in the midwest r t I 1 ak the mountain states and the northwest had the best sectional records with five deaths in enell earli division everywhere through the midwest tah tie e temperature was high bolh both to deaths by heat and by drowning the midwest led lea the coun try in the number of drow aings with 68 although althou gb the ic area had only two fewer athe airplane accidents were at jollet joliet I 1 ill where r a t pilot and two plu plunged aged to death when the wing of their plane snipped snapped and at beaumon beaumont tex where one atvas wa ki TI e billop of the motor car deaths came cama in gracee drivers being killed in oregon pennsylvania ara p i the number of persons injured many prop probably ably fatally ran into the thousands premature explosion of a s truckload of firework a it at lamar mo alo injured 25 persons as an gatherer in the public square squar eto to witness tyll ness the display th n the larger cities the ho hospital list of 0 persons in observance of the day ran into tb the hundt hundreds eds chicago with an ordinance prohibiting the sule of fireworks echoed hll all day with firecracker explosions plo and reports fro from I 1 police and hospitals indicated it the number injured was wae probably jr creat eitts dmn in IB ricot yara |