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Show oo BOY SEVENTEEN WM ENDS HI8 LIFE. Perplexed by, problems which he could not frt'h.'in, k:ivnun1 Urn-lley, 17-year-old high chool student in Bridgeport, Conn., shot and killed himself. him-self. He left a noto containing reasons rea-sons why ho did not care to live, and enumerated were the following: "The thought that the world could get along Just as well without me." The thoughts of thinking of far-reaching far-reaching questions as, 'Who made tho world?' 'Is there a God?' 'The theory of Darwin,' 'Tho struggle for existence.' exist-ence.' " The boy failed to grasp the meaning of llfo and did not understand the power of self -mastery- This world would be less Inviting If all the problems prob-lems were solved and no grat mys teries remained to bo understood. The wonderful field to be explored should have appealed to his Imagination and stimulated hlB energies. Instead hp yielded to the weakness of deepalr end, resting at the foot of the mountain, moun-tain, gave up He Bhould have gone on climbing as with each upward step he could have discovered the Joy of overcoming difficulties Raymond nradley must have b SB weak of heart He was devoid of fighting spirit and, even more, he ig Diust h.- bi-t-n lixnially deranged i 1 A boy 17 years of age. even a Gre- clan in the land of (he Turk, where i storm clouds shut out the sunshine of life and hope 1b the embers of a con flagratlon, must have much to live for .JCvery boy Is potentially a great light In tho world. No our can foretell all the possibilities of greatness in a boy. Len the obstacles in his path maybe may-be the stepping stones to heights unreached un-reached by others. Trial and trlbula Hons, if accepted with philosophy, may lift blm, as was Lincoln lifted, to the pinnacle of human achievement achieve-ment No boy should be devoid of a buoy-IDt buoy-IDt hope and a desire to lire |