The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-27

the local, state and national events from the
standpoint of history and citizenship
The ParentTeachers' association has recon-
mended a rural program as follows:
At s 80 o'clock in the morning a band drawn
on a truck moves throughout each neighborhood
in town. man with megaphone calls out that
games will begin at the school playground at
80 O'clock These games are followed by a
parade to picnic grounds where there is a pro-
gram of community singing and speaker.
two-hour luncheon period follows Then there are
contests, baseball and story telling for children,
followed by patriotic pageant, the celebration
concluding with block dance
The Playground and Recreation Association of
America has emphasized that the paramount OPP
portunities of community celebrations of the
Fourth of July are:
ITO recall with pride and reverence the cour-
age sacrifice and vision of the founders of Amer
lean independence; to re-emphasize the principles
of justice, democracy and tolerance upon which
this government was founded and to encourage
their continuance in the present and future;
through appropriate ceremonies to dramatize the
entrance into citizenship of native-bOn, who have
recently come of age and of the foreign born who
have just been naturalized; through games sports,
pcnics, pageantry festivals and other spectaces,
through music and brief addresses, to bring neigh
borh0ods and communities together in unified pro-
grams of recreation and entertainment suitable to
the day; to promote safety, especially among chill
dren, by substituting wholesome and harmless
recreation for the use of dangerous fireworks"
Is there still need for a "safe and Sane
Fourth?' Let the following Associated Press dis
patch, dated July of last year, answer that
question:
The lives of 205 men, women and children were
nations sacrifice to the celebration of its 152nd
birthday anniversary yesterday
Fireworks claimed their share of victims, as
they always have since the u tied States first be-
gan observing Independence day with skyrocket,
pinwheel and cannon cracker. Their were eleven
such deaths in the entire country according to the
Associated Press tabuaton.
Lakes and rivers, however, exacted the heaviest
tribute of human life on the holiday, 1O6 drown
ings being reported Motor deaths ranked
next in number with 54. Heat took II lives and
lightning 8, while A killed in plane crashes.
In addition there Is deaths attributed to other
causes directly connected with Am ICES observ-
of the Fourth.
Two densely populated areas-the middle At
lantic states and the midwest-had more that half
the countrys total deaths for the day. In the
former there were 6S fatalities, which was more
than occurred in the midwest.
The mountain states and the northwest had the
best sectional records with five deaths in each
division.
Everywhere through the midwest the tempera-
ture was high contributing both to deaths by
neat ana by drowning. The midwest leu the coun
try in the number of drownings with 49, although
the middle Atlantic had only two fewer
The airpane accidents were at Joliet III, where
pilot and two passengers plunged to death when
the wing of their plane snapped, and at Beaumont
Tex. where killed
Three of the motor deaths came In races
drivers being killed in Oregon, Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin,
The number of persons injured, many probably
fatally, ran into the thousands Premature explos-
ion of a truckload of fireworks at Lamar, Mo
injured 25 persons 5000 gathered in the public
square to witness the display In the larger cities
the hospital list of persons injured in observance
of the day into the hundreds.
Chicago, with ordinance prohibiting the sale
Of fireworks, echoed all day with irecracker ex-
posons and reports from police and hospitals in
Dictated the number injured probably greater
than in recent years.