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Show FOURTH OF JULY A DAY OF MOURNING. It Is less than a month to the Fourth of July, that day of uproarious celebration cele-bration on which more boys are killed in the United States than during the other 3C3 days of the year. As a reminder re-minder of the casualties which occur, wo reproduce the following table which is compiled by the Chicago i riDune: Year. Dead. Wounded. 1S98 72 2,730 1007 58 3.S07 1906... 51 3,551 1D05 59 3,163 1904 5S 3.04'J 1903 52 3,665 1902 31 2,790 1901 35 1,803 1900 59 2.767 1S99 33 1,742 Totals 508 29.0S5 That these statistics, gathered by July 6, are below the real totals is seen from the tabulations of the Journal Jour-nal of the American Medical assocra-tlon, assocra-tlon, made In August, vhen tetanus has had time to do its dire wors: Year. Dd. Wd. Ttl. Tetanus 1908 163 5,460 5,623 55 I 1907 164 4,249 4,413 C2 1906 158 5.308 5.46G 75 1905 1S2 4.994 5.176 87 1904 1S3 3.9S6 4,169 91 1903 4C6 3.933 4,449 406 Totals 1,316 27.9S0 29.296 776 Let us make an effort to reduce these recurring horrors by reducing the celebration to one or sanity. The firing by boys of giant crackers on the street, the selling of the deadly toy cartridge pistol and the big skyrockets skyrock-ets aro certain to lead to disaster. Fireworks should not be handled by other than men skilled In the worlc and never by children. Boys are burned burn-ed to death, shot to death, blown to death In order to fittingly celebrate the Fourth. Better have less unbounded un-bounded exuberant nH Trum mr.M peace of mind by reruslng to allow our children to be sacrificed on the altar of mistaken patriotism. Fourth of July has becomo a ray which opens with hilarity and ends in mourning.' I |