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Show FOUR SUICIDES IN SALT LAKE. Salt Lake City has had an epidemic of suicides Within three days three men and a girl have ended their lives The men left letters and all turned their thoughts In their last moments to home and mother. Soldiers on tho battlefield in their last supreme struggle think of home and mother. Loneliness stirs up the memuries of the past and brings back the scenes of long ago When men grow so desperate as to rontemplste self-destruction. their minds need balance. What Is most required re-quired is courage to fight on, whatever what-ever be the odds A big percentage of i those who commit suicide have suf fared no great torture of bod, but. have filled their minds with dread as 1 to the future. Bridges are crossed which are imaginary and troubles are borrowed and enlarged on One of the victims in Salt Lake ujh a girl 16 years of ace Xo girl 16, unless in ill-health, should be oihei than filled with the joy of living. Even ; young girls who have made mistakes should be honeful for ihev Imvc ihp rich opportunity o overcoming their, weaknesses and developing Into the finest type of womanhood. What this world requires is more of the milk of human kindness, more brotherhood, more charity, more sunshine sun-shine to sweep away the gloom. |