Show The Blackest Hour 1 I l TWENTY VENTY thousand Americans m c committed suicide sui- sui Al cide in 1921 This is IS the estimate by the theS S Life a league whose members work to prent pre- pre nt v nt sui suicides ides Included ed in the list of those who took their own own lives were children and war ar veter veterans ns The oldest suicide was suicide was years f old old- and nd the youngest 5 the th increase In suicides f Easy to explain great s says ys Harry M. M Warren pr president dent of the Save-a- Save Life Lif league He blames it largely on disturbed f C e economic conditions that have caused a tidal wave wave of business failures unemployment and nd the p personal rs nal suffering g resulting from financial set set- b backs cs I Also Also the growing complexity of our moden modern modern mod mod- ern ern en life the feverish unrest crimes divorces i q questionable e dress dres's unhappy home relations the decline of religious sentiment and other things have caused deranged nerves depression and less s self lf The empty pocketbook is a leading lead lead- ing irig cause of suicides but not the only one Last Lasty y six year ar six seventy millionaires took their own lives Millions illions of Americans weary Americans weary disillusioned disillusioned- and dis dis- dis- dis are are aie discouraged almost to desperation p traction What they need is this powerful spiritual spiritual spiritual spirit spirit- ual tonic tonic the the knowledge that it is always blackest black black- est cst just before dawn Since May 1920 Amer Ameri- Ameri c t s have g gOne r Ug a i. i terrific earthquake of prices ces fortune and general economics 1 Many of us are saturated with the poison s self lf Yet our grandparents in the days following following fol- fol lowing the Civil war went through exactly th these the same se s sort rt of hard times that we are going through now bw So did their grandparents after the v war war r of of 1812 The only difference is that they suffered suf suf- suffered f red more We Ve of this generation do not know know- what Wh t real hard times are Get some old resident to tell y you u about the panic of 1873 when 1873 when a af t f d dollar r would buy nearly anything but almost no nome noone one me had the dollar 1 Life is more or less Jess of a a. gamble an n endless chain hain of alternate losses losses- and nd winnings Many of us in facing present problems need some of oft t the gamblers gambler's pluck nerve nm and fatalism Any Anyone one oe e w who o has e ever er r known a a. professional gambler th h has s heard him say I Ive ve b been a 13 long time in a run of hard luc Things couldn't get much worse so they're due for a change j 4 f The gambler has truth behind him A run mn of luck i Is worst before bof always just it changes fever victims victim's temperature reaches ifs t point the crisis just before theres there's a turn forthe better I CJ i H |