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Show THE CITIZEN 8 iiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuniimuiiiiuiuiuiuiiuuHuiuiiiuiuiiuiii I' OBSERVATION PLANE I I iiiiiniiiimiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiHiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiMiiwiiS women are taking in the worlds hard struggle. The logical inference seems to be that women were happier when they led a more sheltered existence. Some years ago the ratio was one woman to four suicides; now it is one woman to three suicides. The crushing force of a maelstrom is greatest near the center, and the crushing force of lifes maelstrom is felt by men and women alike, not in the outer worlds, but close to the heart of it. QOMEONE who has been analyzing the suicide statistics for 1919 has discovered that newspaper editors Per almost never commit suicide. haps it is to spite their readers. Few of them are rich and still fewer beautiful. Of course they are good and wise and that may have something to Then, again, they are satisfied with themselves and often admit it. That has a tendency to keep them cheerful and alive. Moreover, they are not sure that in the next world the pen will be mightier than the sword. Perhaps nobody will listen to do with. Right Education Is In Itself Success them on the other side. XTDTED educators are visiting us to arouse enthusiasm for education and to put in a good word, here and there, for higher pay for teachers. Both are laudable objects. You cannot have education that is valuable for the masses of the people unless teachers. you have well-pai- d And yet no man ever was really educated who did not educate himself. Maxims never made a saint, nor rules an educated man. The best part about the drive is its spirit of enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm no one ever achieved anything of enduring value either for himself or for others. Why should an editor want to commit suicide? Consider his comfortable position. He can talk as much as he likes and there is no one to say him nay. He has everything his awn way on this side of the mystic border and over there" perhaps he might be It told to shut up and keep quiet. would be a terrible fate. A newspaper man who becomes an editor has seen many suicides in his time and has come to realize all the horror and futility of Aside from religious and ethical considerations, which are no more dominant in his case than in the case of other professional men, he acquires a peculiar abhorrence for suicide. Familiarity with it does not breed contempt. When it comes to dying, he prefers to be drafted. Suicide is a mysterious business any way you look at it. There are self-destructio- n. many things not easily capable of planation. For example why is suicide commoner among lawyers than in any other profession? Contrary to the popular impression, the lawyer is usually a good man and, according to the old maxim that one who is virtuous should be happy, he ought to cling to life. Again, why do the despondent select the calm and lovely summer weather for suicide rather than the ' All grim, bleak days of winter? available statistics prove that there are more suicides in summer than in winter. Why do more men than women commit suicide? Last year the total for this country was 5,121 deaths by suicide', of which 3,212 were cases of men and 1,909 of women? One of the e discoveries of the League may afford a glimpse, at least, of the explanation. The League finds that suicide among women is increasing, and ascribes it to the increased part An educational drive is good because it stirs enthusiasm. It creates the will to attain an education. It is the will to learn that results in education. Someone has said justly that a man should never quit school. One who has really acquired a love ex- never does quit school. Throughout his life he learns something every day. of learning Still I am learning, said Michael Angelo when he had arrived at a great , age. The teacher tells you how to get there, but you must get there yourself. No mah who is rightly educated is a failure, for as man thinks so he is. A right education is in itself success. But remember this, nothing is worth while until we share it. To keep our culture to ourselves is to fail. It is so in business. A business man can succeed only by reinvesting his Save-A-Lif- i capital. A man of education who does not share his culture with others in some way is like the business man who becomes a miser and starves to death amid his gold. Sometimes successful men. say in their haste that only hard wofk and honesty are necessary to success. They forget that hard work and honesty, without education, bring only the !aiiiuaiiaiiiiiaiiiiiiiifiiaiiaHaiiaiiaiiiiiaiiauiiiaiiaiiiiiaiiaiiiinu! i Every Dollar Paid For I Insurance in i I i lower forms of success. Education, as we have suggested, is in itself success and one of the higher forms of success. It implies, of course, the acquisition, of a moral character and a large sympathy for humanity. But you must stick to education all your life. It is said that it is the way a man sticks to a thing that marks him as a success or a failure. The men who really get to the top nowadays are seldom those favored by fortune or pull. A man with a pull lacks something that is essential to continued success. Luck or pull may give a manjk position, but only prepcan keep him there. aration t There are many kinds of education I The Guardian Fire Insurance Company '( of Utah f I I 1 i , Stays In Utah I 5 The- - I B Agency Company i I Managers I 334 South Main Street SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 7iiaiiaiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiBliail""lllia,lllia,iaillllllll"3 many specialties that allure the young. You must be a specialist to succeed greatly, but, remember this, the most Important thing in education always has been and always will be the discipline of the mind which makes it possible to think "At correctly. Our Highest nowadays thi Old Cloik Comir Banking Perfection Under U. 8. Inspection IS Aim THE SWEET DRY AND DRY They tell me this here prohibish Is good for fowl and flesh and fish. That countless blessings ooze and flow From flirting with the H. 2 O. And highballs made of rain and dew Are very good for me and you. Well mebbe so, I dunno. Utah State National Bank They say its wrong to oil our gears With ales and lickers, wines and beers, That in the subtle Scotch and Rye A host of tribulations lie, And all the world will better be For sipping sody pop and tea, Well, mebbe so, I dunno. The grape-juic- e babies tell us birds With many hand .embroidered words That we must drink instead of beers, This stuff thats put around the peers They call it water, now, I think, But is the lam stuff fit to drink? Marta ' Federal buna baft 1 ' More than ever before9 successful business i quires Banking Service of the broad9 perma-nen- t character we give. re-- Well, mebbe so, I dunno. What 'will the seltzercooties do When theyve eliminated brew? Why smokes and songs will follow rum. Then candy, cheese and chewing gum, Theyll make the world so kind and sweet That life will be a wondrous treat, Well, mebbe so, I dunno. Anonymous. tMtamnai Z CoJlAicnnrj INI BTABUSMB ISIS CAPIBL SWPUIS 0330 |