Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-03-06 | Page 4 | Suicides in the United States

SUICIDES IN THE UNITED STATES. Every day, in this great country of ours, there are C1 suicides and In a year the total Is close to 20,000. Self-destruction has been Increasing at a rapid rate, and now Includes chll dren. i Much of the mental upset which J brings on suicide Is attributed to the ; war, and to the complexity of our modern life with Its feverish unrest, divorces, questionable dress, unhap- ' py homes and the decline of religious ; sentiment. 1 ndoubiedly the people of this I country are living under greater nerve pi rain ihan ever before They have parsed from the stimulating period of the war and the excitement of infla tion to the slump in industry and business They have experienced the extremes of exhilaration and depression. depres-sion. Hearts have been torn by con flirting emotions; brains have been disturbed by mental Btorms bodies have been devitalized by nerve disor ders, and. as a result, the seas of life are 6trewn with wreckage. But the slowing down process Is I operating An approach to more normal nor-mal living is noted and soon an equi ; librium will be reached Human kind, like machinery of Iron 1 and steel, must be controlled by a j regulator, or there is a runaway con- I dition.