Show nUT BUT BE a t This ria to Is the dy day above abort all others the American people celebrate The les lesson lee son Ion D oC or patriotism taught by th the taUt fath fathers flatters ers of f th the republic when whan they signed the Declaration of oC has hu hunot not been bean forgotten forgetter and the Ute nary sary will wm never be allowed to t pass pull un unnoticed unnoticed unnoticed noticed until all aJi tiling things thin earthly pass pD away So let IL us be merry upon this Fourth Four of ot July and at th the Ole same me Ume time renew the th e vow YOW of oC Ute the th revolutionary patriots that this thia country shall over OYer remain free tr e e and Independent L But In our out let us WI b be e careful of life liCe and ad limb and see He to It i t I that ne be n untoward toward accident mars mar the th e I recurrence currence re of ot the tile day that shou should mould ld I bring Joy Jo to all hearts heart Without wishing to tG t cast caK a damper I upon the Joy laY and lid festivities of the oc ac occasion I talon casion The TIle de desires d e sires to call attention to what has haa hap happened happened pe heretofore According to statistics ell gathered by bJ bythe the American Americas Medical association u the th e I II total accidents accI incident to the cele celebration ce le I bration bra a of the Fourth of July Tu last Jut j I year were and only the most moe m pR serious accidents were chronicled at attha a t that tha I The accidents reported were all se serious rious enough to call for medical at attention tendon those th not Dot requiring such uch at attention oC of course coarse not DOt figuring nc in inthe Intile the tile statistics st of the association Large as u was wu this tit number ber it was a 8 falling falU n noff a off of SI front from troa the tit previous year yearTh y Th Tb The record of or th the deaths death from Irom fro m blank blaak cartridge wounds wouD which made mad e up ap almost th ue the whole of or th the death deaths e from tetanus or lockjaw was This TIt was w nearly 17 twice as many as th the previous year JeI But it was only keep keepIng kee p lug Ing I up ap the tIM average for the deaths death e from rom this cause in seven years ye w were ere 7 4 Ten per est at of the oases cases of te to tanu were wen fatal tatal a higher mortality mortal a than that in Ja gunshot bot wounds The giant t cracker was wa responsible for more accidents but fewer deaths death than the u Manic cartridge pistol It I produced 1114 4 eI cases and aDd a seven deaths death u all sit of those this u being from fru tetanus Th TIle The association remarks remark that if IC It Is I Ian any an to know Jt ow ft L the th giant gian t cracker do not net nearly nl attar so much tetanus as a s th the blank tar car cartridges ert ridge t It is thought that It is b be lae because ea cause catty the wound to Sa more snowy lito b bleeds more freely and Is more often onela taken tak en at once for surgical I treatment There were sixteen eases cases of total blindness blind resulting from the celebration celebration tion last bun year and aM three threes C ca esses ses etI ot of to total tai cremation From other odIer sources source It la is I learned that la In I the celebration of en n Fourths of July from 1 I 1902 S to 1 inclusive the kilted and wounds wounded numbered num It The killed were wee 1621 That Is more men women a and children were killed on do the last seven e Fourths Fourtha of July than were killed and wounded m In the lbs seven principal battles battle batU of the revolutionary war wac It is the tile duty d of parents as wen well as u public officials to prevent t this tb annual ann real lost loss I of Ute life and maiming am of thousands cis The toy pistol Is the most deadly of ot all human contrivances that can taus b lM be put pat Into the hands of the young you Knowing that It Its us may result in I Ideath n death In la on one oM of ot It lu Its most molt horrible k forms forme parents parent and guardians rei shoe should ld not allow Its lu purchase and anti the salt ml 1 and manufacture should be prohibited prohibit by b bylaw law Tonight the gathering of the met mor mortuary statistics of the Fourth of July Jai Tal y mo 1910 will begin Let us hope that Salt Lake will win not DOt be sailed called led upon to t o a list ut of killed and abd HI wounded |