Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-12-04
OTHERS VIEWS
DENOUNCES FIRE-CRACKERS


To the Editor:
A vast majority Of the people OF
this town were made happy when
they read in the Dispatch Saturday
evening that the chief OF police was
going to put an end to the popcrack-
er nuisance that has cursed the COM
munity for several months. People
living here in the vicinity OF the
Maria Parham hospital, and especial
| w the sick there, Will certainly CRATE
fully applaud our police if they stop
the awful, useless scourge OF pop
crackers that infests this part OF the
town, which seems to be the rende-
vous for fire-cracker fiends Of this
fire-cracker-curse town.
1t is useless to take time here to
tell the class of people who read this
paper all the horroWs OF the lire
cracker, for they are too intelligent
not to know their Nervousness. All
up-to-date communities are putting
a ban on them, Tor intelligent people
everywhere have found them, on ac-
count of their noise, as agrlvatlng as
the itch, and on account OF their
poison as dangerous as the most
venomOuS serpent
I understand the board Of county
commissioners is responsible for the
plague of popcrackers that torments
this community. l know none OF the
members Of this honorable board, but
| will state what is fact that they
are the very best board Of county
and Warren counties or between
Franklin county and the State line
on the north. This honorable board
fastened this popcracker calamity on
the good people of this town where
sleep is impossible till after midnight
on account of their great gift, but
every member Of the board lives out
side the town where they are safe
from being disturbed by bombs ex-
pioding under their windows while
they seek their nightly rest. And
what is true of these great commits
sioners about living outside the town
is true, I am informed, Of the man
who sells the popcrackers here. He
as we'll as they have undisturbed rest
at night while the good people in
town dodge bombs even in their
dreams as if they were in the midst
Of the hell Of Europe. | wish this
honorable board and this seller of
popcrackers had to spend some nights
here in order that they could eX-
perience some Of the horror the peo-
pie Of this burg have to put up with
on account of their work.
Also ] want them all to be at the
home when some child, generally a
bright boy, is brought in with hands
torn off or face one mass Of mangled
flesh, and see the agony Of that
mother and father. l want them to
hear the blood curdling screams Of
that mother every hour of their re-
naming days, and see the awful
anguish of that fathers face through
out their lives.
Then | want this honorable beard
and this seller of the deadly fire
cracker to go into another home and
be there when the doctor tells the
mother and father of fine boy that
there is nothing he can do, for the
child has tetanus. | want these fine
SCIllCIllCII " Sldy lilNlC a lCW Hull
longer and see that child go through
the hellish paroxysms and death
dealing pains that only death can re-
lieVe.
That is no overdraWn picture of
the potentalties Of firecrackers, for
such things happen to many in this
country every year. God forbid, but
it may happen in Henderson and
Vance county this year. had rather
forego the great honor of being a
county commissioner than cause the
death Of any one, and l would rath-
er my body rot in potter's field
than make money on something that
would cause the death Of a child.
JAS. H. WRIGHT.
Henderson, Dec. 3, 1882