Show SALT lAKE LIE SE SECOND IN SUICIDE LIST Statistics Show Tendency to Strong Strongest Strongest est in Denver PREVAILS WITH CITIES HIGHEST HAVE HAVEMAN GER GERMAN GERMAN MAN POPULATION That the rate of ot suicides In the Ule United Stats States Stat IB It constantly eon on the In Increase crease creaN erea and that th tRet Is la strikingly in ill the vital statistics of Salt Sat Luke Lake is ts conclusively shown in the last ue of ot he Spectator published August 11 I I at New I w York Vork City n 1 i out ou cm t of 81 61 of the largest cities clUe n 11 hp ih In ted States according to the r the rate for 1981 showed an mi rea in Ill suicides over the previous year ear The Increase was greatest in inI I i v V un an average of ot 2 per population for tor the year fol tot followed folI lowed I ly bl hy by Salt Lake here her the tLe afra for tur or was waa 21 for tor th same ame t on The highest actual rate for tor i 1011 in San Francisco where 11 statistics showed a rate of ot per 1 population followed toll owed by Oak Oakland land and 18 nd CaL with 61 15 1 I H boken was wall wanet next net with Ut nl then Denver with 48 6 an alili I Stall Salt Lake with 91 the Same Sume The positions of ot the cities v ith high suicide rate rates says sayi the artl artt arttIs 1 i is maintained with remarkable r from year ear to year ear and it Is that most of ot the cities re returning turning timing the highest rates contain a proportionately large Teutonic t on the Spectator says ays It tt Is la nothing short abort of ot a public scan scand d dil 1 i that poisons and pistols should be bes s 11 54 1 easily obtainable as is actually the thease rase esse and there Is most urgent necessity sity II Y for tor the enactment of ot statutes for tor forbidding forbidding bidding the keeping or carrying of ot deadly weapons s and of ot regulating their teale fale under und r most stringent regulations anu heavy penalties The same is true truet t ot f poisons which are sold with an ut Utter ter disregard of the public interest and often ohen with a practical certainty that they 1 will be used US for tor improper pur purposes purposes poses pusey Should hould lie Ue Prohibited The effect affect of ot drastic regulation and I prohibition in regard to the sale Ie of ot jl h l and deadly weapons would be ber beY ber I Y r only to materially diminish the rate but It would also bring about a material reduction in the horn homi homicidal hornI rate which as is well welt known is la isi I i higher in this country countr than in any other in the world It re requires quires lire always to be kept in mind that thata as u a first principle of ot psychology the ther r alter Datter of propinquity In the case call of ot mental condition Is III of ot the theu utmost u I most importance |