Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-22 | Page 4 | Those Who Grow Discouraged

I THOSE WHO GROW DISCOURAGED There is ii man in New York lily who.-e mission in life is to prevent m n and women carrying out their d operate resolves to commit suicide. H is Rev. H. M. Warren and he has been kept .busy in the performing of a tusk which has a most depressing men-la men-la I effect. Tim most interesting statement he has to make as the result of Hose study of those who have determined on self destruction is that most suicides an- not mental defectives or insane- According to j V. J. Maskin. who has interviewed Rev. Warren, threc-foiirth of those who appeal i Rev. Warren are sane ami of at least average intelligence, while man. 't them arc gifted persons. They have decided de-cided to kill themselves because it has seemed clear to them thai life s not worth living, In shout half of the cases economic distress is a fnetor. That is. the would-be suicide is often poor and undei-, undei-, nourished, and whether this ifl (he immediate cause for his despair or not, it contributes to it Mr Warren always begins on such cases b feeding them. Troubles connected with sex m some way are the cause of a1 least .me. third of suicides Persons suffering from venereal disease, which is. r which the) believe to l incurable; persons who have married ."id round themselves impotent; persona who have discovered discov-ered that the spouse is unfaithful, and jilted lovers make dp a larp.' percentage of those who come to his door. Unmarried mothers are another larirc cl.isv In some .eas.-s the troubles nf these people are real and even terrible, and in other cases they merely involve the, breach of conventional standards, which the individual regards with holy awe and has nol the strength to criticize. Thus an elder!) man came to Mr. Warren to tell bun that, after living for many years j with his supposed wife, he had discovered thai a divorce which be had obtained many years ago was not valid, arid that he was rCallj d bigamist. He had been happy with his unlawful mate, no prosecution prosecu-tion or scandal threatened him. lie was merely horrified at the j thought that he was living in sin, according to legal and religious standards, and he saw no way out except to kill himself. The loss of property all at once is another frequent cause for suicide. The person who has long depended upon an income, and has not learned how to make a living, often falls inlo the deepest despair if thai income is lost Loneliness i-. the plea brought forward bj many contemplating self-destruction .Most often these are old or afflicted persons who feel that they are mt wanted in the families ot which they are members mem-bers and upon which the) are dependenl for a living These persons per-sons simply feel that there is no pjce for them en earth. They are among the most pathetic of all intending suicide, The woman who has been unable to find B mate often contemplates contem-plates suicide, and she i-, not an UUCOinmOn figure in American life she is not always an unattractive woman, either This throws a uen light on suicide and shows the necessity for! a wider movement of the kmd started by Rev Warren. Every community com-munity should have some one to whom those extremely depressed in ( mind mild for conference, mental aid and fortitude.