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C. I. O.'ers,N murdering t Day fracas. you beat tl neoeuarily for publcation, but for our îles. Suca material mut resch the editor by Tuesday -noon to be lintiie for' the current issue.. TimELY WARNING ]Behind-every firecracker whbichnmay be sputter- ingý soon in celebratiort ôf,>the Fourth of July lurks death, tetanus poisoning, maimed hands and sightless eyes. While 4,044 soldiers died in the American4 Revo- lution and 6,000 were inJured,. the, casualties, re- sulting from the annual celebration. of that occasion have, mounted relentlessly until 4,290 persons have met' their. deaths 'and 96»00 have been. injured in accidents involving fireworks in. the last thirty years. atone. For nlany years the 'Illinois Society 'for the Prevention of Blinidness bas been waging a war against the sale and unregulated use of fireworks in 'the state. tach year te oN~t Iliof deaths and injuries caused by fireworks has spurred on this civic group. Many cities and towns of Illinois, including those on the north shore, have realized the importance of curbing. unregulated celebration, of the Fourth, but in many instances, due to lack of such laws for counties, the restrictions have been limited to the corporate limits of each town. The appalling toit resuiting f roui Iast. year's celehration alone in the state is one for serious wfiU DeeCUrbUCU UIY Wn ail uli'-1I0,ý; to the danger of unregulatied sale and use of fireworks and take proper action to halt the traffic of these explosives. The Illinois Society for the Prevention of. Blindness has no quarrel with the pleasure ob- tained. by ,'spectators, watcbing pyrotecbuic dis- plays-.providiiig the fireworks are* baudled by experts in their use. ;RELIEF, $1,50M,000,000 A' billio n and a baif 'dollars is a lot of money, even in President, Rooseverlt's town,'7 and wben congressmen corne to'ligbtly ýappropriating that mutcb for relief it çëritainiy should besitate; for at' least ten or fifteen minutes to consider.,the matt.er. Th ey.should attempt to, find out how niany people are going to get, a "cut" of the bigk pie, bow many people really in need will get their share, bhow mhany political tax-suckers will'get the greater portion ot it, and scb other'littie matters as common sense mhigbt suggest. Relief expenditurles are supposed toý be. based uponunemployment. Irlow manye are unemployed? Who knows?. Does anybody know? Who cares? Does anybody care? The appropriation seemns to. be the important thiing-ata4 is to the relefracke- teers, who naturally want to keep the racket going as long as possible. The American Federation of Labor estirnates: there are 9,722,000 unernployed. The National Industrial Conference, board says there are 8,914,- 000, President Roosevelt puts the figure at 8,650,- 000. The United States Employment service says, it bas 6,115,000 applications for jobs on hand. Aiid a recent survey of the manufacturing inidustry sbowed it was employing as maui, as it did. in tho, unempioyeci becau.se. of conditions in the manu- facturiug industry. Furtbermore, the federal gov- erument is planning to reduce its work-creating expenditures on durable goods, because of tbe, belief that they bave been stimulated euougb. What is lagging bebind the rest? Noboçly knows. Take another angle of the situation to. illustrate the uncertainty: Secrtary Perkins and the Depattment of Labor deny that. there is a sbortage of skilled workers in any field; Corring- Our waking moments are mnostly spent, in worrying about whetber Mr.13-raddock will knock the tar out of Mr. Louis corne june 22,-or whether Mr. Louis will wake, up long énough to punch the. daylights out of Mr. Braddock. This, on top of the late Dizzy Dean crisis, bas be en alm ost more than we can bear. If we were iu Russia, and desired-as -we prob- ably would-ýto corne out again, we certainlywould- steer clear of the Red.army. To -be ýabigh officer, in the Soviet's figbiting machine seems to be a sure way to a stone wall and a firing squ.ad. Ordinarily wve have a friendly feeling and quite somte sympathy for the.weather miàn. His job is a difficuitone, be-is noneé tpo well paid,-and a. great many péople find fault with bis work. But if he keeps on acting as he bas 'since June, came, we will be off him for life.. John L. Lewis isacting much like a boy wbo bas been caugbt in the jam jar and realizes that the. jig is up. Indications are that the sensible working people are getting onto bis curves and becoming wise about wbere he is attempting to lead them. And the. general public-well, the sentiment prevailing iu Monroe, Mich., is spread- ing like a prairie fire. morth . shore .bio mati cided be could't go to work. No appetite; passed up break- fast. By 9 o'clock thougbt he sbould cail the doctor. Told bis wife to call the doctor., Doctor came in jig tine, put- ting on his most cheerful atti- tude as be eutered the sick room. Asked the patient about bis symptoms as be opened bis tool kit and fumbled for the incrc-ase in production. 'rèeca trom the con- u-cit and resttaints imposed by NRA, 'business bas umet chievcd',its subsequenttecovery ut the lacs..1 e PenMIU4CA4 .4O nLAve wAk4t. LUÇ3DeC Ai. A&I5gL £iamaneaoJ4 Lc UJLir s n liCBaaUVU lieve in spite of themselves-in spite of their tbrougb tbe door, the prominent business mani preconceiveci ideas, vested iuterests and preju- approached the window and spent many minutes dices." in tboughtful observation of the sign on the hoi.se. A moment -spent in tboughtful introspection may_ It read, "Cbickenpox." show 'us why we believe wbat we, believe. THn PH.ANTOM PXPORrgR