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C y x It s v. v v MUME A I Q Aft t Photos ly by v a S r a 1 t i. i r ry r y r y 9 n Wyk m s z r rg g A 2 p M Y seas tF wira 4 a 3 lez By ELMO SCOTT WATSON the dete determined effort that has hos been made DIode In recent rece-nt years to reduce the number of ot casualties which seem Slem to be beas beno beno no as loe Inevitable part port of our celebration of ot Independence On Day despite all the warnings and nud cautions that are lire Issued by time tile authorities before fore that day each euch Li year jeor despite the constantly I Increasing I prohibitions on un the use IIse of explosives It to tact fad remains that America Is still a 0 long way tram torn m i a safe and sane same Fourth concerning which v lave have have been hearing so much In recent years Md Old rOO im know that mat more people have hn been heen killed American Independence than thun were In It Itt K DI Did t you ou UD know that Fourth of ot July celebrations the last four years earll have ho taken token a heavier ler toll toU of ot lives s than did thirteen of ot the most Im- Im battles of the war In which our MM kart way was asOD won OD wool 2 Pen you rou did not not but here Is tire the bitter his his- WT of vf Independence Day celebrations which an an- Mil all takes the lives s of ot bot both h children and grown grown- mostly tt children blinds them maims them S i upon open them dreadful burns In 1 if 5 i total of 2 O deaths resulted from Fourth of ot Jail J celebrations In 1925 I 70 died In 1027 1927 30 tent rem to their deaths while celebrating our naw made na- na de' de w 01 i and last year rear the Independence Da Day toll of ot death wile was f. f Official Odal records of ot the Revolution Ue show shuw tint that 7 w were killed at nt the battle of ot Lexing 1 49 at Concord 31 at Princeton I 12 at nt Cow Cow- Kr 7 at the of Charleston Charlston 14 ut at Bunker Dunker i 11 at Ft to ta tae p l Moultrie 72 at ill fil 1 r Pt It t loa ms e Ferry i 20 U at al Stol Stony y Point 30 at ot Benn Benn- enn a 3 at Wai taJ of 1154 Saratoga and ancl 2 at nt Trenton That I Is Americans who save gave their lives Ihs In Inta-Am Inta IlI American UI liberty berty In From m 12 1 t to lies S nome ome kalo time f gave their lives ves uselessly In cele WinDing of that liberty Take lb ad the tL ta il o Fourth P rth ot of f Jul July celebrations at random 5 tere sefe r records fr show that tU during durins one of ot them killed and 7 Yore ere tt tew if Injured Injured- For or the other Ih Tle casualty total toa list read rend 13 deal dead J nn and 80 SO Injured fur tor these I td d 17 int tWit tau celebrations Is 15 killed I 17 Injured Add AlId to this the casualty list for ot of Ile II time me when July n since 1000 POO about thIs safe and sane sone F Fourth rth agi- agi started lull and the Ule total will wl be greater Bater than thant t 1 suffered hy by the Continental ass army urmy when tiring the defeated at t the I battle of ot Germantown or fully f Nv the ih siege afee fe of f Yorktown which ended suea sue sue- eau a s of the American struggle for tor liberty The fhe tl nf tr t Von Valley alley during the terrible Yet let I Unit nce le J iv 5 19 Forge orge Se hate hae t become n traditional ring J more re Americans Ame have lost their theirl lour l ism Ie of f July celebrations than ID IOD were HA tile i III I tilt soldiery ery who shivered In to the cold th bleak blent I fons e mates hillsIdes I hr t th then I based ed on on gm jO records show rt the six were ere Ix CH 4 killed d and W wounded tu re rs of the lIe hen there la J s me 1 I a da day J In which there was not net tight lIt I In Ina n character sr er going on somewhere s In the I a Map led s t with uh hem that m ricord look ik at al the fhe thero hy I le he I ro sad and In American r can Medical as- as II the he rd to of Safety o at 1 1 Ing Fourth L h of July v v celebration casual casual d I en Up the last girl I and years that means menns v a in II e were re 4 Ki AmerN Amer- Amer N url s d H II and ond In- In l I It rt us ws sus for our nation tit I I n to III t n- n II l Continental n nl i 1 1 I r for or A army merely h M h Kai ad t tl amt Independence l nence I If It that s I t according r U n nJ celebrate eh time the e of ot tilde tilde- tildes rt tu to te I I our Ur methods It ft een i s y 1 w r r out of t v y e e In a very nry t I e a ng ar urea I 1 S quoted d dents above c I are for tor lire and anu Oo do no not Include the many deaths occurring after Jul July 4 as ns a 0 direct lr ct result of fireworks fire accidents or and anal deaths from accidents to motor cars From 1003 to 1015 1915 the American Medical ledl I ns association as no complied compiled statistics of Independence day fireworks casualties and found deaths and nud Injuries were attributable definitely to fire fin works It was nn an a n ern e of ot deaths and 17 Ij Injuries each ellch year ear In the celebration In 1909 of ot the Glorious Fourth Ii p persons were killed 1 and Injured The fire loss 1019 that lay was Last year jear the National Museum It eum of ot Mafi Safety ty ordered or of or fireworks re casualties dered newspaper reports I from nil all parts of or the country for tor June and Jul July The result Killed Wl 1111 Injured Injure 2205 O Included ed In the list of ot dead were rl K 52 childen less than tire live years old uld 51 persons burned to death by fireworks or bonfires bonfire rt I 20 u children burned to death by harmless f and 21 1 children died from eating fireworks Unloaded d guns or stray bullets Injured 3 32 3 persons last year ear 00 80 O persons lost one or both hoth e eyes es and ond persons suffered Injuries to their eyes ees Recently the coun country try was horrified at the casualty cas ens unity list of 15 In nn an explosion In a hospital in Cleveland Ohio It has also been horrified from time to time when a fire In a II school a tornado tor tor- nado or a flood snuffs out from 1 lot K to 1 10 o lives ts Yet It seems stran strangely II unconcerned that every Iery die and nud more than year jear eor more thus than n a persons pi are seriously Injured In celebrating the glorious Fourth Fireworks are aro generally held responsible for the appalling death list while ns as 1 a matter of fact firecrackers sautes salutes pinwheels heels bombs and sk skyrockets ac for fer not more than Day Oay casualties 5 per pr cent of ot the Independence Nor have all of tie the deaths been due dut to the ex explosions explosions of ot these fireworks ors Many of them result result re rev sult suit when sufficient care lire Is not taken 11 to 10 keep kePI fireworks tire fire works from the smaller sl Many luny children have ha died from eating poisonous powder pell pellets et I I rn K III the such ns as are u used ed In d dynamite canes ulles so called safety sparklers have ha proved fatal to youngsters who have hare eaten enten them believing ln that they the were candy But aside front from the dangers the this Ihli Is Iii nn tin Fourth there are ore ether othe rens reas Ihy occasion for a n high mortality rite rate The Fourth of ot Jul July Is the one national holiday In the year drops all 1111 Its III workaday workaday work work- when wilen the entire population aday cures cares to swarm to the beaches the Hie mountains moun and und other places of lIt recreation The Tile result number of or and 11 Is an nn opp appalling In la automobile accidents t- t tr tar r exceeds the number recorded on uny any other day In thi- thi year although h a Kreut dalot deal dal So It Is li apparent that of ot good has hns been heen accomplished b hv by those this tills safe ife afe and wine sane which have hon sponsored Fourth Idea and which mil alls upon very try to assume the responsibility of to hel imma u a u lean Jul 4 4 re tie Is U t touch July safety engineer ell on J time of ihl this hy day hymore be dune done in making to Ill I'll of lit lime th i llIn with will the m pi pmt i more In to kl keeping lies In the till turf t I that UI hilt mw s. s One hopeful hefu sign n fireworks to 10 a I extent III t the is displacing character r ter of Fourth lit of f July eele r l 1 I I- I and ond for tor the belter bolter according lo Io it II Mir Mir- nr changing mil l I 1 lee lee- leelon recently made by hv I the Hie Ihl und mm rim vey ey W nl M Mf lit of f lon A Association cl for II a pi p- p meal f and his Mi w zest l bight tit It tI the small by HI out has sent Ilse aS how on hilI holiday 1111 1 II culls lull I t I suggestions for tur ml tip III irh a e bae ht h clI n immunity ii nr mig recent cities aunt sua lu proved h by years Imas hilI I i slit t ma In iM i lina II f. f r this M bare n PI In t In in 10 Ins r I tl ill L' L I 1111 It 1011 lit that In 10 s t t at 11 r tile the local state and national events from the standpoint of history und and citizenship The Teachers Teachers' association has recommended mended a u rural program as follows At 8 30 o'clock In the morning a band drawn on ou u truck moves throughout each neighborhood In town A man mall with a u megaphone calls culls out that gullies games wilt will begin at nt the school playground at ot 10 1030 lU These games are ure followed by a Iaru parade e to 10 picnic grounds where there Is a 0 program pro- pro grun gram of community singing and n a speaker A ho two luncheon on period follows follow Then there are contests hall baseball and story telling for children followed follo by hy n a patriotic pageant the celebration concluding with a block dance dunce The Playground nn and fler Recreation atlon Association ot of America AllierI II has tans emphasized that the paramount opportunities op op- of ot community celebrations of ot the Fourth of lIf July Tuly are To recall with pride and ond reverence re the courage courage cour cour- ng age sacrifice 1 und and of or the founders of or Amer Amer- icon Independence to re emphasize the principles of Justice democracy and tolerance upon which this government was founded and to encourage their continuance In n the present and future through appropriate ceremonies to dramatize the entrance Into citizenship of native born who have hn recently come of age and of the tue foreign horn born who have ha Just been naturalized through thorough games Iames sports pl picnics pageantry festivals and other spectacles through music and brief addresses to bring neighborhoods neigh mind communities together In unified pro prow grams of If recreation und and entertainment suitable to the chI day to promote safety safet especially among chil- chil ilion hu h by substituting wholesome hosom and ond harmless recreation fur for the use of dmn dangerous fireworks reworks Is b there still n a need lIell for n 0 safe and Sane Hane fourth I Let the following Associated Press ills patch doled daled July luly 5 of last year answer that IJ question The lives of 05 men women and children wera were werft a nations to the celebration of ot Its birthday anniversary yesterday Fireworks claimed their share of ot victims victim a a. a they always have since the U. U tied States State first be gan can observing Independence day with skyrocket pinwheel and cannon cracker Ther were eleven touch such deaths In the entire country according to 10 the the Associated Iress tabulation Lakes and rivers however exacted the heaviest tribute of ot human life on the holiday lob drown drown- Ings Ing being report reported Id I'd Motor Molar car deaths death ranked next In number with 4 54 Heat took look 12 tz lives and lightning 3 while awhile 1 were wert killed In plane In addition there were VerI 15 IS deaths deatha attributed to 10 ether s directly connected with Am Amice's ices ice's observance observe ante ance of the Ihl Fourth Two densely populated areas the areas the middle At Atlantic At- At lantic states and ard the midwest midwest had had more that hOlt bait the country's total death deatha for Cor the day In the thu former there were 68 fatalities which was wa 6 Ii mor mol than Ihan In the midwest The mountain Mate a and the northwest had the Ih bM PM sectional records with five deaths In ea each earh h division II L Everywhere th though the midwest the temperature tempera tempera- both bolh to deaths death b by lure ture was high contributing heat hal and by drowning ne III midwest led Id the coup coun country 0 un try Iry In Ih the number of with J U 38 although the Atlantic urea area had only two fewer TIe Tl-e airplane accidents were werft at al Joliet Jollet III ill when a x pilot and two IWO r plunged to death when the a willI nf tor their plane plan snapped and at Beaumont Te Tex Ter h. h e one wu was killed I ii- ii mime ni n-ni or tr car ar deaths deathe came In racer drivers t bring killed In Oregon Ou-gon Pennsylvania an ant I Tr 11 rime e n nil no i bi-i I ot or I. I persons reona Injured InJure many mallY fatally fRUity run Into Inlo the l llou und premature Ion ton of R a id rUt kod of fireworks firework a at I I a mar Mo 10 Injured 15 5 person as a. gill gathered hued In lh Ih the to 10 v the dl jy In Lt the Larger rill nine the Iho hospit I 1 I lati vf lt l injured In observance of or Hi the Ib d di rime ran tutu into the hun hundreds reda Chicago with lih nn an prohibiting the sat sal of n I m. m i e. e h h hed ed ail ull day with lIh firecracker ex 11 K i I i r I d l n fl tout police and hospitals In II 1 1 r Injured was wa probably Create greate than In 1 rt via ul elms ais IS |