RT Journal
T1 PRepare for the fourth of july
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD June 26
VO LII
IS 26
SP 2108
OP 2109
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540520022007
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540520022007
AB The time has come to sound again the annual warning of the approaching dangers of July Fourth, and once more to take up the task of counting the victims of our day of license and lawlessness. Year by year we see the daily press taking up the work more and more extensively, and becoming the most effective of all the allies in the fight against wanton manslaughter and mutilation. What the Fourth of July would become without this vigorous fight by the public press is hard to imagine, for even as it is the amount of carnage and conflagration has scarcely been held stationary for the last few years. Yet there is reasonable hope of better things, for here and there vigorous individuals or organizations have come to the front, insisted on the enforcement of reasonable municipal ordinances, and by so doing have demonstrated that Fourth of July accidents can