Connecticut western news., 1914-07-02
A SAFER FOURTH
 THAN LAST YEAR
Greater Precautions Due to h.
 crease In Accidents.
BIG CITIES BAR FIREWORKS

Philadelphia Guards Against Casual
 ties, Which In 1913 Numbered $40.
 Chicago to Avoid Danger of Big
 Central Celebration - Patriotism
 Without Pyrotechnics New Ideal.
 The campaign to keep Americans, young and old, from killing themselves or other people ill celebrating the dawn of American independence on July is being waged with renewed energy this year because last year showed an in- crease of serious accidents over the year before. The movement is nation wide, and the aim is to make every community adopt the safe and sane slogan for Independence day.
 A compilation of statistics indicates that ill the last eleven years fireworks burned on the Fourth have cost the United States 1,792 deaths and 39,4SS injuries.
 Philadelphia last year was the only large city in the United States having more than 100 injuries due to mis- guided patriotism. and official action looking to the prevention of repeti- tion of such casualty record has been taken. Last year Philadelphia report ed $40 casualties. d marked increase over 1912. when 12T occurred.
 Safe and sane celebrations are to be the rule in Philadelphia the coming holiday.
 Moving pictures will be used general FTNY. l-c Nvhinh are officially banned, and there will be the free distribution of ice cream, danc- ing on the streets, balloon ascensions and baby shows to keep the children out of mischief.
 Warns of Tetanus.
 If we are unsuccessful" says the Pennsylvania Society For the Protec- ton of Research, ''in applying the logic of common sense to individuals who persist in their folly of using danger ous fireworks we can at least make ev- cry effort to save them from the hor- TOTS of lockjaw. In. every case of blank cartridge, cannon cracker or any other character of wound where in- lection is threatened we advise the prompt injection of tetanus antitoxin.
 ''Lockjaw or tetanus is a bacterial disease chiefly of horses and man. The bacillus, identical in both, develops in wound into which it has entered with dirt and produces an intense poison. The death rate from these Fourth of July wounds continues to be appalling despite the efforts, for q safe and sane o1,. n, oP fha 6oU Tho nniCnn gendered by the tetanus bacillus passes into the blood and attacks certain cells of the nervous system, through which the convulsions and contracted muscles characteristic of the disease are pro- duced.
 ''rhe study of the tetanus' through experiments on animals has been fruit full in establishing the source of the bacilli in nature and the precise means to be employed in eliminating them by sterilization. etc, from the common articles of daily use in which they may be concerned and in yielding an anti toxin which has been successfully em- ployed as a preventive of tetanus and even in curing certain cases of that disease" Y
 Fourth In New York and Chicago.
 The use of fireworks in any form is to be opposed in New York city this year by Mayor MitcheIs rational Fourth of July committee. Each year tue committee has been gradually crowding out the fireworks, and last year displays were allowed only in scattered districts. There will be patriotic rally, with Governor Glynn. Speaker Champ Clark and others as speakers; separate celebrations in the different boroughs, local celebrations in which school children will take prominent part and aviation features.
 Plans for community celebrations in various sections of Chicago have been announced. It is the aim to avoid a big central celebration with its crowds and attending perils.
 Chicago's sane Fourth campaign was started in 1900. The result has been a diminution of the annual toll of deaths and disasters to the point where the figures show Chicagos Fourth to be practically stripped of it's terrors. In 1907 Chicago suffered six teen killed and 151 injured. The Fourth of July of 1913 cost only one killed and twelve injured.
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