Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-27
NEW YORK WANTS
 SAFE AND SANE FOURTH
WOULD SUBSTITUTE BUNTING FOR FUSS AND FIREWORKS
 N TIE METROPOLIS
Betting on the Big League Games Grows Alarming Conventions
 Five Employment.

New York, June 2G.-Striving to substitute speakers, songs and tne 1 lluttef of flags for the sound and spark of snnpowder. thousands of safe 1 and sane Independence Day organiZ- CTS are today just completing plans for the most noiseless and fireless Fourth that has ever been celebrated here. Elaborate patriotic fetes are to be held in every park about town and parade with blaring bands will furn- lsh practically the only sensation on the streets. Sales of the fire crackers and fireworks are at present reported to have proved very light, and the hospitals are for the first time in years making preparation for victims of patriotic pyrotecnnics.
 PrOdigacl Politicians.
 That almost $10,000 has been spent by the New York representatives at Chicago has been calculated by those in charge of the convention parties that are just struggling back to town. More than a full regiment of New Workers have made the trip from here tHr one reason or another and many of them estimate that their personal expenses aggregate much more than ever this round sum. Nearly $15O,OO0 will be lavished by the Tammany nth fol1 Baltimore gathering, it is predicted here; so it seems certain that a cool quarter of a million dollars may be reckoned as dumped at the two na- tional conventions by the people from these parts.
 Dental Dangers.
 Fearing that half a million little sets of teeth may be irreparably dam aged during the opening public school vacation and consequent suspension of toothbrush drills the health de- partment is this week warning the poorer parents of the pupils against dental, dangers. Over 160,OOO school children have been found to be suffer ing from defective teeth in one year examination, according to the records cited by the authorities. Neglect of the care of the teeth enforced during the school term, it is feared. may bring serious consequences to the children of the slums, where as yet practically no free dental clinics have been established.
 Baseball Betting.
 With no racing nearby to attract them, multitude of bookmakers have just descended upon the ball parks here and begun betting campaign that threatens to taint the sport if it is not at once checked. Equipped with printed odds on every chance on the diamond for the day and huge rolls of yellow bills, temptingly dis played, these professional gamblers are openly taking their stand all about the bleachers and inviting large or small bets. For score of years the betting evil has not been allowed to mar the national game hereabouts, and it is believed that before many weeks these nervy bookies will be banished from the grandstands by a general raid of private police.
 Wire Work.
 No national conventions in history were ever reported as fully as those of this year, according to calculations of the men who have made plans for the newspaper service from Chicago and Baltimore. Every available political writer and operator has been hurried to the front from Park Row and the resulting columns of convention space are estimated to break all local press records.