Show comments from dixie by E A DAVIS cleveland tenn suicide can be commit ed in as many different ways as there are people who try it whether they are successful depends on the method used and the circumstances sur rounding the attempt if there were some doubt in the candidate candidates s mind as to be or not to be he would pro bably ue u e the wrist cutting or sleep ing pill route should he decide to recant he can always apply a turn biquet or call for a stomach pump but the really serious aspirants spurn such aueril dis plays of petulance they mean bus mess iness one will slip quietly over the side of the empire state building 1100 foot drop another will use a gun fired point blank against the temple others may use strychnine or cyanide but whatever convey ance these professionals use its in sometimes these acts of self inflicted mayhem create a flurry of excitement in the newspapers in the majority they rate mere mention in some local sheet depending of course on the size of the vacuum they leave when they suddenly with draw from the land landl of the living every now and then a suicide will rock the whole nation take the late james forrestall secretary of the navy at one time tune when he jumped out a window of the hospi tal the fever of excitement ran through the country like an electric shock and lasted for days and weeks it isn t often a man of his prominence and high position comes to a violent end of his doing feel ing ran high but it was of the corn com passionate sympathetic vanty varity the intensity and heat of the furor stirred up by the unhappy demise of an unknown negro boy from chicago last week down in money mississippi surpasses anything of late by insulting a white woman in the magnolia state emmett louis ti I 1 commit ed suicide as surely and certain as though he had leaped from an ailinger 30 feet in the air without a parachute why should the death of this 14 year old negro cause such a nation wide commo tion and stir passion to a white heat it seems there are some folks who think black people can be made white and white people black by merely passing a law others say you cant can t do anat any more than you make all people honest by pass mg ing laws the SUICIDE of emmett till acted like a chemical catalyst it got both sides really reacting punishment is lame fame but it comes herbert |