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The Movement for a Sane Fourth of July.

By Mrs. Imogen B. Oakley.*

The suppression of unnecessary noise
is still so new an idea to many people
that they are likely to advise objectors
to useless racket to take something for
their nerves or move to the country.,

But when under unnecessary noise
we class, as we must, the destruction of
life and property on the Fourth of
July, it is at once discovered that there
is a very serious side to the question.

Fire-crackers and toy pistols are ex-
ploded for the sake of making a noise,
and not from any overpowering feeling
of patriotism. It would be interesting
to find out how many children really
know that they are supposed to be
celebrating the signing of the Decla—
ration of Independence when they fire
off these crackers and torpedoes. The
protest against the noise of the Fourth
of July, with its attendant appalling
consequences, began only seven years
ago. It was started by Mr. James
Keeley, editor of the Chicago Tribune.
A child of his was very ill on the Fourth,
and the shock of the explosion of pack
after pack of fire—crackers in the im-
mediate neighborhood was almost too
much for her weakened vitality. Mr.
Keeley never forgot the anguish of
that day. He began to collect statis—
tics about the fire—cracker and its deadly
work. He found many deaths from the
effect of noise alone, the very young, the

*From the Civic Club Bullclin for March, 1910, pub-
shcd by the Civics Club ol‘Philadelphia.

very old, and the very ill being peculiarly
susceptible to the shock of loud, sud-
den noises; but he soon discovered
that it is the well, strong, active chil-
dren who are the chief victims of our
passion for explosives. Thirty—four
thousand killed and wounded is the
record for the last seven years,—more
than were killed and injured during the
War for Independence which we are sup-
posed to celebrate with this slaughter.

The American Medical Association
soon joined hands with the Chicago
Tribune, and in their Journal, published
in Chicago, they have recorded for the
last five years the deaths and character
of the injuries caused by the deadly
fireworks. They show that during the
celebration of the last five national
holidays 1,153 persons were killed and
21,520 were injured. Of these, 88
suffered total blindness and 389 partial
blindness. 794 cases of tetanus are
recorded, most of the victims being
bright, active boys from six to eighteen
years old. The most common causes
of the wounds that result in tetanus are
the cannon cracker and the toy pistol,
and the wound is usually in the hand
that holds the instrument of destruc—
tion.

The cannon cracker is also respon—
sible for a large proportion of the non—
fatal accidents, although the rocket
comes in for a goodly share of the cases
of blood poisoning, and the Roman

 

  

 

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candle has not been guiltless. In 1908
the non-fatal accidents, such as the loss
of legs, arms, hands, fingers, and noses,
numbered 5,460, including II cases of
total blindness. In 1909 there were
5,092 non—fatal accidents with 16 cases
of total blindness. It does not seem
strange, in view of these figures, that
parents are becoming alarmed at this
annually recurring slaughter of the in—
nocents, and are praying for the total
prohibition of the manufacture and sale
of explosive playthings.

Cleveland, San Francisco, Washing-
ton, Toledo, and Baltimore have al-
ready adopted prohibitive ordinances,
and last year these five cities demon—
strated the fact that every degree of
patriotic fervor can be expressed with-
out exploding gunpowder or dynamite.

Chicago and Springfield, Massachu-
setts, are trying restrictive laws,—that
is, the cannon cracker, toy pistol, and
other very dangerous toys are prohibited,
—but no ban is put on the small cracker
and the torpedo. The restrictive law
of Chicago is a model of its kind. All
explosives are forbidden except fire-
crackers and torpedoes. The crackers
must not be more than two inches long
and one—quarter inch in diameter, and
the torpedoes must not exceed three—
quarters of an inch in diameter, and
they must not be put on sale before
July I nor after July 5.

No fireworks of any kind, including
these so-called. harmless crackers, may
be discharged on any day except the
Fourth itself. The law was quite ef-
fectively enforced last year, and yet
there were more fires and accidents
than a civilized city ought to permit.
Restrictive laws are not of much avail.
So long as dangerous explosives are on
sale, legally or illegally, so long they will
be bought and used by children of
thoughtless and over—indulgent par—
ents.

The police are charged in Chicago
to enforce the law that limits the size

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[April

of fire—crackers; but, if a policeman hears
an explosion just around the corner, how
is he to tell from the fragments of the
cracker whether it did or did not ex—
ceed the dimensions authorized by the
law? The small and so—called harmless
cracker is not so harmless as is sup—
posed.

The secretary of the Loss Committee
of the New York Board of Fire Under-
writers says, “The impression I have
received from my own experience and ob—
servation is that, while cannon crackers
are a much more prolific source of per-
sonal injury, the small crackers cause
more fires.” In the last seven years
$20,000,000 worth of property has been
sacrificed to the fire-cracker. Property
is nothing compared to life, but $20,000,—
000 is a large sum to pay for a useless
and dangerous amusement.

The only effective way to stop the
Fourth of July horrors is to prohibit
the sale and use of explosives, as has
been done in the five cities above cited.

The movement for a sane Fourth is
already nation—wide. The New York
Society for the Suppression of Unnec—
essary Noise, whose president and .
animating genius is Mrs. Isaac L. Rice,
has written to the governors of all the
States requesting that each bring the
subject before his State legislature and
ask a State law forbidding the man—
ufacture and sale of explosives. Nine—
teen governors have already responded,
promising support, and they all agree
that a national committee of governors
to promote the safe and sane observ-
ance of Independence Day would be
a wise and suitable plan.

Have we ever realized how insane
we all are on the Fourth? We ask in
effect every Fourth of July morning:
“Are the firemen all on duty and alert
to respond to the first call? Are the
doctors in their offices, with antiseptics
and knives for the cases that threaten
tetanus? Are the ambulances hitched
up and ready to start? Are the hos—

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pital nurses amply equipped with ban—
dages and anaesthetics? If so, let us
give our children all the gunpowder and
dynamite they ask for, and put our trust
in the Lord.”

But, if we take away from the chil-
dren the privilege of killing themselves,
what can we give them in its place?
asked our tender—hearted citizens. Now
the Fourth of July is really not a chil—
dren’s holiday, but has only become such
in proportion as the adult population
has ceased to care for what the day
commemorates. It is a day on which
we as citizens should recall the prin-
ciples on which our government is
founded, and honor the memory of those
who established those principles. Still
more is it a day on which we as citizens
should take stock of ourselves, and ask
with deep heart searchings whether we
are living up to those principles and
guarding them, so we can hand them
on unimpaired to future generations.

All the same, it is our great national
holiday, and there is no reason why
parents and children should not unite
in a really suitable celebration of the
kind already proved to be a success in
Springfield. Massachusetts, and Wash—

A Sane Fourth of July.

213

ington. The National Playground As-
sociation has sketched an ideal Fourth
of July celebration, modelled upon the
Springfield festival. It includes sec-
tional pageants or parades, with bands
and music in abundance, in all of which
the children will participate. Histor—
ical spots will be visited, and short—
very short—patriotic talks will be given
at each spot. All parks, playgrounds,
and vacant lots will be thrown open,
and games and athletic contests held.
Family picnics in park or country will
be encouraged, and the day will con-
clude with municipal fireworks set off
in different sections of the city under
the control of experts.

Certainly, enough has been done in
this country and in Europe to prove
that people can enjoy themselves with-
out the use of gunpowder and dyna—
mite. Any celebration that carries with
it a train of ambulances, doctors, and
nurses, is neither safe nor sane nor

civilized. The Fourth of July can be '.

observed joyously and yet safely and
sanely. Why should we allow our
greatest national holiday to be an oc-
casion for the legalized destruction of
life and property?

A Sufficient Reason.

l‘ar be it from me * now or ever to
seem to underestimate for a moment the
dignity. and majesty. and power of
knowledge, and the far—reaching and
sweet influences of the cultural side of
our club life; but I am frank to say that
I should not consider this alone a suffi—
cient reason for the existence of the club
movement in America and for imposing
such heavy burdens of care and responsi—
bility upon the women who are the offi—

* From an address by Mrs. A. C. Scott. former Presi—
dent of the Oklahoma and Indian 'l‘erritory Federation
of Women's, Clubs.

cers and leaders of the movement,
women already “cumbered with much
serving” in many instances. '

But to remember the little children'

it has taken out of mills and mines,
the adjustment of the difficulties of the
wage-earning women it has brought about,
the abatement of the sweat—shop evil,
the establishment of Juvenile Courts,
the stamping out of injustice and cruelty
in eleemosynary institutions in so many
States, is to believe that all the labor we
have given it and all the love we bear
it can never be given in vain.

 

  

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A GROUP or YOUNG GARDENERS.T

Hints on Children’s Gardens.*

By Mrs. Fred H. Tucker.

Chairman, Forestry Department, Massachusetts Federation.
206 Church Street, Newton, M asrac/msclls.

In the spring the thought of the
patriotic club woman lightly turns to
children’s gardens. For she feels that

by no other means can the idle and.
waste places of our cities and towns be -

so readily made productive and beau-
tiful, and at the same time our future
citizens be trained in personal and civic
virtue as well as in one of the most
practical arts of life.

In a communication from this De-
partment a year ago * the benefits from
children’s gardening were forcibly de—
scribed, and clubs were urged to adopt
this as one of their activities. It is the
aim of this article to give a few prac-
tical hints from the experience of clubs
and other organizations in conducting
home and school gardens.

* See FEDERATION BULLETIN for April, 1909, on
“ Children’s Gardens,” and reprints therefrom.

The main problems are how to raise
the money, how to reach and interest
the children, and how to organize and
carry on the work so as to produce the
best results. These questions, how—
ever, being interdependent, cannot be
wholly separated in discussion.

The possible expenses to be consid-
ered include the land and its prepara-
tion, tools with place of storage, fer—
tilizers, seeds, prizes, incidentals, and
the services of an expert director. In
the case of home gardens Without paid
director the expense may be reduced
almost to nothing.

The money for gardening, is often
raised by a spring festival in which the

1" The illustrations used in this article and on the cover
are loaned to the BULLETIN by the Free Press Tribune of
Waltham, Massachusetts, which published, September 13,

1909, a full account of the Home Garden Association
of Waltham.

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MARY MCALEER’S PRIZE FLOWER GARDEN, HOME GARDEN ASSOCIATION.

children take a prominent part, thus
engaging their interest from the start.
At least one club has the seeds for sale
on this occasion in one-cent packages,
and each child buying five-cents’ worth
is registered, and enters for the prizes.
The general opinion is that it is better
for children to pay—say five cents——
for the seeds or an equal sum for reg—
istering. One flourishing garden asso—
ciation raises its funds, several hundred
dollars, wholly by subscriptions and
unsolicited gifts. The largest manu—
facturing concern in this place con—
tributes $7 5 annually for prizes, in
recognition of the business value of
the enterprise.

The free use of a vacant lot for gar—
dening may usually be obtained Where
there is no school land, and the prepa—
ration of even a forbidding piece of
ground can often be accomplished by
the children. But it is a question
whether they should expend their en-
thusiasm on this labor rather than be
left free for the” really productive effort

which will furnish scope for. all their
energy and zeal.

The management of gardens may be
in charge of a paid director with vol-
unteer inspectors, forming a working
and supervising board, or the whole
work may be voluntary. Although
excellent results have been obtained
with a wholly amateur service, it is
the unanimous verdict that the highest
efficiency can be reached only under
a paid expert. One of the important
duties of this director is to instruct the
inspectors, whose knowledge and train—
ing are often inferior to their zeal. It
is most desirable also that these in—
spectors have gardens of their own
wherein they themselves may work out
the problems which they must help the
children to solve.

- The preliminary instruction as to
preparing the ground and planting
must usually be given to the children
in groups, and this is most conveniently
done through the schools. The di—
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BACK YARD EFFECT IN WAL'HIAM, BEFORE PLANTING.

instruction, registering names, and dis—
tributing seeds. Then the inspectors
should begin work at once. Perhaps
no item has been more neglected than
this. Verbal instruction alone is sel-
dom enough to enable children to deal
with the hard, infertile earth in many
of their yards. Every child should be
started right, and then followed up as
necessary. Reports from garden work
indicate that often only about two-
thirds of the children who take seeds
produce any results worth counting, and
that most of those who fail give up
discouraged during the first few weeks,
before receiving any visits from director
or inspectors.

Concerning the gardens themselves
there is scope for boundless variety of
plan and treatment. While the main
emphasis must usually be placed on
vegetable and flower beds, it is sug—
gested that attention might perhaps
oftener. be given to shrubs and vines
and to the decorative treatment of the
yard as a whole. Children should at

least be inspired and taught 0 keep
their yards neat and trim, and not to
allow the beds to become shabby as the
season wears on. Also children whose
parents own the premises might some-
times plant a tree, judiciously selected
and placed, this done, like all the work,
with the approval of the parents. The
incidental relations of sociability and
co-operation between the inspectors
and the families, centring in the chil—
dren, are among the finest fruits of home

‘ gardening.

Older children can be encouraged to
keep records or diaries of their work.
These may be illustrated by photo—
graphs or drawings, made by the chil—
dren themselves, showing the gardens
at various stages of development. Such
records suitably bound form an inter—
esting and valuable part of the official '
exhibit.

The ideal or standard gardening
plant for a community would perhaps
be organized something like this: Home
gardens for children who have avail-

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able land; school gardens where plots
shall be given to those who cannot
have home gardens, surplus space to be
assigned at discretion; supplementary
window gardening; school gardens to
be used as models and as practical
object—lessons for class work with the
home gardeners; a paid expert director;
a large number of inspectors, among
them some teachers, especially of nat—
ure work; inspection to begin with the
preparation of the ground; many graded

prizes, with ribbons and honorable
mentions, so that no good work shall go
unrecognized.

But a beginning must usually be
small, and every earnest, intelligent
effort will win results. The prize for
simplicity of organization with minimum
outlay of money and effort should go
to a club in a congested manufacturing
suburb of Boston. The Civics Com-
mittee had for some time conducted a
mothers’ club. In the spring of 1909
they interested these mothers in gar-
dening for their children in their tiny
and desolate back yards, to be sup—

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plemented by window gardens. Seeds
were given to the mothers with in-
structions, to be passed on to the chil-
dren, as to planting and care. This
was followed up by regular visits from
the committee for further instruction
and encouragement.- In spite of a
summer exceptionally hot and dry,
most of these gardens flourished and
brought forth goodly crops of flowers
and vegetables, although much garden-
ing in more favored spots and under
more expensive and elaborate methods
came to grief.

Many points remain to be covered
which cannot be touched in a short
article. The Chairman will be glad to
reply to calls for further information.
For helpful books see “Bibliography,”
in June BULLETIN, 1909, and reprints
therefrom. Also “Garden Making,”
by Liberty Hyde Bailey (filacmfllan,
New York), and other books by Pro—
fessor Bailey.

Miss Annie Chase (14 McKinley
Avenue, Beverly, Massachusetts), who
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and nature work for children, may be
consulted by clubs desiring information.
Miss Chase has written books upon

this subject which should be of great
use, and has a new one now'in prepara-
tion.

- A Course of Stzxdy in Play.

Prepared for The Playground Association of America.
By Lee F. Hanmer.*

The following topics are suggested
as possible subjects of study and dis-
cussion in civic clubs, women’s clubs,
and other organizations engaged in
work for the bettering of social condi—
tions.

The numbers appearing under each
Of the headings refer to the bibliography
given below:—

Topics.

Theories of Play. Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6,
14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21.

Games for Various Age and Sex
Groups. NOS. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8,
9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19,20, 21.

* This outline has been drawn up in response to many
requests from clubs for a study of Playgrounds.

Rotation of Games by Seasons. Nos.
1:2)6) 77 8) 9711712213721'

Spirit and Aims in 'the Conduct of
Play. Nos. 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 15, 17, 18,
19, 2o, 21, 23, 24. _

The Play Leader. Nos. 1, 7, IO, 15,
17,18, 19,20, 21,22, 23.

Play Festivals and the Celebration
of National Holidays. Nos. IO,
18, 19, 2o, 24, 25.

The Play Movement in America and
Abroad. Nos. 10, 17, 18, 19, 2O, 23.

Bibliography.

I. EDUCATION BY PLAYS AND GAMES.
George Ellsworth Johnson. 011171 82’
C0., ‘Boston and New York, 1907.
Price 90 cents net.

 1910]

2.

9.

. ADOLESCENCE (2 volumes).

. THE PLAY

. THE CHILD :

. AMERICAN PLAYGROUNDS.

. GRADED GAMES

. GROWTH AND EDUCATION.

ASPECTS 01: CHILD LIFE AND EDUCA~
TION. G. Stanley Hall. Ginn é"
C0., Boston and New York, 1907.
Price $1.50 net.

G. Stanley

Hall. D. Appleton 611’ C0., New York,
1904. Price $7.50 net.

. YOUTH. G. Stanley Hall. D. Apple-
ton (”3" C0., New York, 1906. Price
$1.50 net.

. THE PLAY OF ANIMALS. Karl Groos.

D. Appleton t9” C0., New York, 1898.
Price $1.75.

OF MAN. Karl Groos.
D. Appleton 'ér C0., New York, 1901.
Price $1.50 net.

. PSYCHOLOGICAL, PEDAGOGICAL, AND RE-

LIGIOUS ASPECTS OF GROUP GAMES.
Luther H. Gulick. Pedagogical Semi—

nary, vol. vi., p. 135, 1899. Published
by Florence Chandler, Worcester,
Mass. Price of volume $1.50 net.

HIS THINKING, FEELING,

AND DOING. A. E. Tanner. Rand,
M'cNally (“5‘ C0., Chicago, 1903. Price
$1.25 net.

WINNING THE BOY. Lilburn Merrill.
Fleming H. Revell Company, New

York, Chicago, and Toronto, 1908.
Price 75 cents net.

E. B. Mero.
The Dale Company, Boston, 1908.

Price $2 .00 net.

. GAMES AND SONGS or AMERICAN CHIL-

DREN. W. W'. Newell. Harper a?
Bros., New York, 1903. Price $1.50.
AND RHYTHMIC EX-
A. S.
1908.

ERCISES. , l\/Iari0n B. Newton.
Barnes cf C0., New York,
Price $1.25 net.

. GAMES FOR THE PLAYGROUND, HOME,

SCHOOL, AND GYMNASIUM. Jessie H.
Bancroft. The Illacmillan Company,
New York, 1909. Price $1.50 net.

John Mason

Tyler. I’Ioughton, llfifilin Company,

Boston and New York, 1907. Price
$1.50 net.

. THE BOY .PROBLEM. W. B. Forbush.
Pilgrim Bros., Chicago, 1901. Price

$31.00 net.

A Course of Study in Play.

16.

I7.

18.

19.

20.

. PLAY AND PLAYGROUNDs.*

.FIELD DAY AND PLAY PICNIC

. FOLK AND NATIONAL DANCES.*

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THE CHILD. A. F. Chamberlain.
Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York,
1900. Price $1.50. (Revised edi-
tion, 1907.)

PLAYGROUND TECHNIQUE AND PLAY-
CRAFT. Arthur Leland and Lorna
H. Leland. F. A. Bassette Com—
pany, Springfield, Massa