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Show The Wrong Viewpoint A few days ago a girl of , 13 and, a, man of 82 killed themsselve.s. The man, Elias Molee,' lived in Taeoma. The (5ii-l, Marie Gillum, lived in Kansas City. Mr. Molee was long past the Biblical span of life. Miss Gillum had hardly lived long enough to know what life means. Before he died, the old man wrote: "Is it sinful or not to commit suicide?" You see,, even after 82 years on earth, he was still questioning. The girl, however, had stopped questioning. She had made up her young mind. She wrote: "I ain't worth living. Noboby likes me any more." Both the old man and the young girl had the wrong i viewpoints. . Youth should clo the questioning; old age should have puule up its mind. The girl should have asked:' "Is life worth living?" rhe ancient should have arrived at the, conclusion that suicide sui-cide is wrong. If they had done these things, both would be alive today., . ...... Youth should never write down its conclusions about life, indelibly, on paper. It should record them, temporarily, on a slate, where they may be erasedand new ones recorded from time to time. M , "... Young people very' often are too cocksure about things. The girl who killed herself was cocksure nobody, loved her. If she had written, on a slate: "I THINK nobody loves me," she would soon have discovered she was wr.ong. She qould have altered her thought to: "People love me if I love them." That's the truth of the matter. I In your younger years, write your thoughts on a slate. ' When you read them, a few months later, you will blush, and be glad to erase them; you will be thankful your fool- j ish ideas were not permanently inscribed anywhere, , ,. ,, |