Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-25
MURDER MATCHES
 STILL BEING MADE.
Government 10 Be Asked 10 Prohibit the Deadly
 Phosphorus

 have losi their jaw bones in horrible manner to make phosphorus matehes for you2"
 How many unferinnates have disd to llsht your cisar?"
 "Do you bcsrndse paying fer harm less matches that are fred Quite as easily as phosphorus matches cents more year2'
 shah not those match manufae turers who have no compunctions about the misery and death which phosphorus matches canse. in their making and in inc homes a consumers nevertheless be brought 10 a halt db ruptly?"
 Did you know that every box ol phosphorus matches In the millions Of homes throughout the United States means poison for fhe nation.
 These are the cheerful sort of quos tions which Vill be put 70 each meIE- her of congress this winter because the phosphorus killing goes on. the scourge Of phossy jaw among ratch factory workers grows greater month by month. Some of the manu- facturers Of matches who refuse 10 cease making the phophorus kind will declare that some monOpdy' will benefit by a law such as every other nation but Uncle Sam has adopted and enforced. Swedish matches with the deadly white phosphorus tips still are imported into the United States bu. Sweden lang ago forbade their sale in Sweden
 Since the bili to prohibit phosphorus matches in the United States was in- trodaced by Congressman John J. E,sch. December 19, 1910. hundreds have been added tc the roll of dead, | uyaimed dying and distressed who curse the double tipped match which is made ofHWhite phosphorus. There have been scores cf such minor news items as this;
 Eating the heads of IS matches, Horace Greene Warner. two-year-oid son Of MT and Mrs W C. Warner, died Thursday of phosphorus poison ing.
 Every box Of 500 phosphorus match cs contains enough poison to Kill % grown men. But every baby gets them.
 Here is another;
  Of the joy or life, worked in a match factory She married Henry Welsh, continuing 10 work in the factory. Two months later she was attacked by phossy jaw" Three serious opera tions and medical treatment during eight long years have failed to cure her. The doctors say perhaps they cOuid cure me by cutting out my jaw, | Inn araf hf,TN= loOk2 l would rather be dead" she lnumbled. She has a boy six years old, a girl of four and baby of two.
 Those are examples Of what phos- phOrls matches cost. When the match trust of the United States cancelled patents covering processes ! for making phosphorus matches that are harmless it was supposed that the independent manufacturers would vol . uEtarily seize that easy means 70 cease making poisonous matches. But the American association For Labor {, legislation investigated and has re. ported that an net 0f congress will be I required to stop their traffic in poison. i That Is W hat the Esch bill (H. R. ! 5h022) is for.
 In it's report tn tEe Ways and Means committee Of the house the associa- ton declared:
 White phosphorus is a noXious pei son. As used ir mach composition it Jeopardizes in various ways human health and life: (1l In connection with Us manufacture and @ in connection with it's use in the hands OI the con sUmer
 Being readily volatile in the ordi. nary tempeTaUre or the air white phosphorus emits a bluish-white fume which affects the health of those who labor iE match factories in three diff terent ways: () By causing anemia; (Zb by causing the bones of the body to become brittle and unable to with stand slight external violence without breaking; t3) by causing phosphorus Of the upper and lower jaw bones. Anemia and brittleness of Eones are frequently effects of chronic breathing of air laden with phosphor. poisoning The daiis use is apt to result in a gradual low ering of vitality, which in turn may Invite other forms of disease. Phos- phorusnecTosis is caused by the ab- sorDtion Of the fumes or particles of white phosphorus through carious teeth and gums. The gums become swollen and purple and the teeth IOOa- CT and drop out. The organic or anf nal matter of the jawbones slowly ro,s away the rest is revOlting be. Fond words.
 Perhaps the most common article Of daily use is the match, and in the nited States practically ail matches are poisonous. The socaIied double tip match with the added tip lex { iremely sensitive and soft bnrning) { was invented by an American match manufacturer some four or five years aso, and is now rapidly suDplanting he old parior match. The added tip is | about 20 per cent pure white phoe. 1 'horus; this tip is usually of differ iui color from the rest of the material 1n the head of the match, These dangers Of the great mass of match consumers led Sweden to prohibit the ise Of poisonous matches at home willie permitting their manufacture for exportation.
 In the brief investigation made in 1908 of merely one Of the dangers oi -he poisonous match, namely, phos. jhorus necrosis, had the government