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Show SUICIDES IN WORLD ARE RAPIDLY INCREASING League Report 3567 Women Wo-men and 2605 Men Victims in U. S. KKW YORK, Fb. II. Prohibition, politics, divorce and the extension of women's activities are attributed as some of the causes of ft worldwide increase In suicide during 19:0 by the Save-a-Life league In a report by its president. Dr. H.- M. Warren. In the United States 171 were reported re-ported to the league, of which 3507 were men and 2604 women. Aclord-ing Aclord-ing to the report, Dr. F. 1 Hoffman estimated that the suicides not reported re-ported would have raised the, total to 12.000. "J'ossibly the Increase In women suicides may be due to the fact that so many have recently entered business busi-ness and political life." says the report. "I'nhappy marriage relations and present living conditions also "J" contribute largely to the situation. r The youngest suicide was 6, the oldest lo:i. Divorce figured prominently, more than 100 couples killing them- '(Tves-for IhlSTroason. 'I he great number of farmers who have given way to despair has been noticeable, also farmers' wives. Nothing is more to be regretted than the 400 soldiers who have destroyed their own lives since returning from the war. The drug addict has supplied a considerable consid-erable number. NOT CONFINED. This destruction of human life is confined to no particular class or locality. A man distressed because his new clothes -were unsatisfactory, a woman peeved because her husband refused to eat the pie she had made, a couple because of the expenditure t.f cents fo ra slate for their child these are some of the foolish reasons whv people committed suicide. Iast year In the Inlted States seventy-five presidents and managers of business concerns, thirty-six millionaires mil-lionaires nnd twenty-three rich women wom-en became weary of life. A doxen writers, including two or three editors, ed-itors, help to make up the list. The lawyers number twenty-four, with right Judges. Fifty-one doctors were retorted to us. Probnbly the unusual demands made "upon them during the war and the Influenza epidemic were f the cause. Next to the physician was the actor and actress, forty reported. There were thirty-four teachers and college professors, twenty-four brokers and fifty-nine bankers, twelve clergymen, clergy-men, two evangelist and a Y. M. C. A. secretary. AMONG CHILDREN. "Suicide among children has reached an alnrmlng situation In this country. In 1919 there were 477 children who ended their lives in the United States. In 19-0 the number increased to 707. 223 boys and 484 girls. The causes Include fear of punishment, school troubles, unhappy norm environment, en-vironment, cruelty, revenge and love affairs. "All over the world reports show a marked Increase in suicide since the war ended. During the war the rate fell the lowest in many yearn. From London. Paris and other European cities come distressing reports. To avoid starvation, it is said that en-tire en-tire families In China have poisoned themselves. Dr. Robert Yarnell, who recently returned from Germany, is reported as having said that there is an alarming increase of suicide there. From India, comes the good news of the abolishing of sati, or the suicide of s child widow on her h unhand' funeral pyre. It has cost millions of innocent lives. It would seem that the most serious outlook today is in Hungary- Before the war there were from fifty to sixty suicides yearly, but in 1920 thev report 6300. |