Show The Sentinel counte Counteracting Suicide A Settlement I I Primitive Reversion y-Uy y By IRVING HUDSON A dispatch from Constantinople brings the news that Turkey is experiencing experiencing ex- ex a student suicide wave The latest victim is a old 14 boy vho ho failed d in his examinations and consequently drowned in the Such epidemics are hard to understand There seems to be something contagious about them A few tew years year ago such an epidemic occurred t the University University sity of Pennsylvania The university university sity authorities became alarmed and chose to sonic some rather unusual methods for stamping out the epi- epi demic They imported the famous evangelist Billy Sunday who camE and delivered a series of addresses to the students Some would see hi this effort merely a counter irritant tant in the form ot of a religious ex- ex Others would note a serious seri seri- ous effort to instill In oj 01 the students a worthwhile perspective perspective tive of life here and hereafter Al Ai any rate Mr Sundays Sunday's were quite successful and the epidemic died out Rob man of his eternal outlook and you rou leave leavo a pretty helpless helpless help help- less sort ot of creature S S S The other day We drove aCross the line between two states Time was when we had a rather notion ot of the line between two states All that ha changed with advancing years Thc soil soli on one side looks just like that of the other side Were Yere there no ne sign one would not know when the theline theline line was crossed nut But the line i imore is ismore more than an imaginary line at that From the standpoint ot of soil soll it figures not at all But from a legal standpoint it makes 0 a vast deal of difference For example a Polish merch merchant nt was shot b br a Russian frontier patrol When the body fell the head was In Poland and the legs in Russia Diplomatic relations were immediately instituted for tor possession of the body Wh Why In the boots of the tho dead man was sewn some 1600 In currency which the widow wished to obtain Russia claimed the legs therefore the boots and the mone moncy The corpse was returned minus the tho money S S S Los Angeles Angele has another hideous murder case This time police have launched an international hunt for fora a 21 year old young oung man and his mother whom they suspect suspect- of Implication implication Im- Im In an ape man mur murder ler of five boys An ape m man n murder There Is a phrase that carries with It a whole scientific commentary TIme was when men and apes not associated in the same category cate- cate gory Science stepped in with Its marvelous chain of evidence and ana today intelligent mt people see in inman man manthe the fruit of a long process of eve evo- lution And It is tho fruit figuratively figur- figur speaking that furnishes tIle tho most proof of tlc the proc ss s. s S S S Jack Lo don h ha given the world Thc rhe Call of that storY immortal of the In which the tho reader aces ti-aces the career of a dog that eventually reverts to the tho haunts of his prehistoric ancestors The reader read read- er of that story discovers that the ancestral lies a very little distance below elow tIle surface of the logs dogs developed domesticity Careful Careful Care Care- ful students and observers of human nature repeatedly sea th the same thing in human beings being Back Of the Ule ve ye- ye fleer noOr ot of civilization lies a lon Ion his tory lory or of animal instinct It lies a avery avery very little distance beneath the surface sur- sur face The slightest disturbance will arouse It into being it turns the tho individual into channels ot of vice and crime S S S SAll All the an and cries erles of science only tend to male make plainer this fact Science is apparently up- up helpless to curb that Instinct In- In All science can do is to locate lo- lo cate and classify it The only force fOlce ever discovered with ability to throttle and restrain the animal Instinct Instinct In- In In man is a a. spiritual one Repeatedly Re- Re the spiritual force with which i te le universe Is pregnant has stepped in and rescued man from a horrible destiny That spiritual force fOIce conies comes in fri tile the of religion Whatever we may think of the various va- va rious forms of religion one thing thin Is certain Spiritual force Is real and also indispensable Without It Itman Itman man civilization everything worthwhile worth worth- while are lost With it the future takes on hope certainty Strange that apparently wise men their only pay so little attention to ultimate hope |