Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-04 | Page 28 | Held Cheaply since War, Salvation Army Man Declares

pST fe ire IK Held Feld Cheaply Since War 1 j s I I K Salvation Ar Army Man an Declares r DON DO Oct 3 By the United t Stevenson's s 's tale le o of or the thee i e Club contains no stranger strangers s cs es than today loday come from the H B tidier adier Chapman who for lor loreu ct eu ears years has been head of of's r s 's ant antithesis to the Suicide b the suicide anti bureau u of 1 vat ion Army I and there on the walls of or ice lc an mil and l on the desk before s jm mementoes of or would would-be suit sui sui- t who ho Lame came tt to Chapmans Chapman's office off ice icee e e last 13 word of advice before in hI Ing their lives Sometimes tip an succeeded In sta staying ing Ih hand Sometimes he failed er II on one man who came m in black despair sa saying ing that i uld not find him pounds n 11 lately ly ho would kill him him- f t. t said Chapman I promised d what hat I 1 could for tOL him and ancl t told ld t go away and wait until he her sr r from me As I left lert my office ur m later I saw a 3 newspaper ld ad ne which read Regent Street c e e. e My Iy man had harl gone straight mind shot himself they didn't end that y 1 continued continued- Chapman He Hek k ke up d up a rhea l' l that lays lay lays lay's s desk desk- X T e a man who held J 3 Is to his head bead and pull pulled d drigger rigger is still alive The rever re- re rev re- re v ver of jammed The shock of the then n 1 brought the man b back to his ses He came callIes to m me with tears h s eyes Things straightened I or ir r him and today there Is not sappier lappier man In London T This is knife here bere cut the throat a a. arness ma ma mafir sr at Woolwich s 's t didn't go deep enough Ile Ie le Ie lea through Today he is happy l itt t work I sg S Ive I've seen a queer cross cros lI tion n of London T ere was the army officer forto for to tance ce who dashed into to my of office ce and threw enon enough h cocaine co on my desk to kill 1111 a dozen men Save me from myself he cried and then fell sobbing Into n a chair We Ve pulled him through sill nil right too Women omen as a general thing are I harder to help than men Most often otten with them it is isla a love affair That is the h hardest sort of or difficulty difficulty culty to settle Business ss troubles financial troubles c can n often be straightened out At times I have gone Into a mans man's business and run it for him for Cor a n. time time- while we sent him away for a n. vacation If business business busi busl- I ness has picked up that works fine If It hasn't well hasn't-well well perhaps in the meantime he changed chang his mind I about killing himself and the experiment experiment experiment ex ex- works out all right any my- way r. r Chapman said it was harder today to toa today to- to I day a- a ato to dissuade people bent on killing themselves than it it used to be I T The war wa- seems seems to have jangled i the worlds world's nerves nerves' he said saW People Peo Peo I J pie in despair are more despairing than they used s d' d to be The The war taught us to hold life Ufe too cheap Besides life UCe Is too swift nowadays I Chapman is retiring from his office of ot- otI office fice flee as head of ot the suicide anti bu bu- reau He will be succeeded by I Brigadier Gordon