Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-30 | Page 4 | Sunshine Not the Cause of Suicide

00 oo SUNSHINE NOT THE CAUSE OF SUICIDE An authority on suicides who sibo dis covel cd that San Diego had pro pro- proportionately proportionately more suicides than I 1 uy other place in the tho United tales ad advanced the theory that the Nordic Nordle laces were affected by too much sunlight as they had come from front cloudy reg regions ions as for tor Instance the Baltic Replying to 10 this theor theol a stu student student student dent ot of meteorology says Sieden S Id I'd en and Finland are a spot ely tree free from Crom clouds no than Southern France Arv Japan New NeT England ew ew YOlk the Middle West and Ecuador decidedly less lees cloudy than England Northern France German the Philippines and a large part of Africa This clear clear- clearness ness lIess of the Baltic sky Is just that hat would be bo e from Cram theor mince the Baltic lies east of oC a north and south mountain range In Ina Ina Ina a zone of oC o prevailing esterly The cloudiest spots spols of oC the inhabited earth are the coast of oC othe the Gulf GuU of Guinea the coast cosat or of Southern Peru northern Russia and southwestern Alaska Ot Of these four cloudiest spots the I I map shows that two ttO t 0 are decIdedly and the othel othet two emphatically cally dr The sunshine map for tor forthe orthe the United States shows that the sunniest part ot of the country Is New Mexico and Sod the adjoining parts ot of Texas antI and Arizona that Colorado and Kansas are much than the California coast the most ot of the country adjoining I the Missouri Mississippi and Ohio rivers Is as sunny as California Why this should be so when the I cloud maps show the MississippI alley to be much cloudier than I California In the same latitude Is Isa laa II a puzzle This upsets the sunshine theory I aa is to the cause of ot suicide