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Show kept In rnlnd that as a first principle of psychology the matter of proplr.- i H'lity Is of the utmost Importance." I SALT LAKE SECOND IN SUICIDE LIST. Statistics Show Tendency to Self-Dc-struction Strongest in Deover. That the rale of suicides in tho ( ti I tod States is constantly on tho Increase and that the fact is strikingly shown :.i the vital statistics of Salt Lake. Is conclusive' shown in the last Issue of the Spectatcr. published August 11, at New York City. In 12 out of t;.". of the largest cities In the Crlterl States, accorc'iir.g o the Spectator, the rate for 1 900 showed j an increase in suicides over the previous pre-vious year. The increase was greatest great-est in Denver, with an average of 22.2 per 1 00.000 population ior the year, followed closely by . Salt l ake, where the average for 1909 was 22.1 for the same population Th highest actual rate for 1909 prevailed in San Francisco, where, the statistics showed show-ed a rate of ."9.9 per 1 no 000 of population, pop-ulation, followed by Oakland, Cal , with 55 1. Hcboken was next, with 52.fi, then Denver with 18 0 and Salt I.ake with 39.1 Remains the Same. "The relative positions of the cities cit-ies with high suicide rates," says the article, 'is maintained with remark able regularity from year to year, and it Is significant that most of the cities returning the highest rates contain a proportionately large Teutonic population." popu-lation." Continuing, the Spectator says; 'it is nothing short of a public scandal that poisons and pistols should be as cnslly obtainable as Is actually the case, and there is most ' urgent necessity for the enactment of statutes forbidding the keeping or carrying car-rying of deadly weapons and of regulating regu-lating their sale under most stiln-gent stiln-gent regulations and heavy penalties The same is true of poisons, which are sold with an utter disregnid of the public Interest, and often with a prac ticnl certainty that they will be used for Improper purposes. Should Be Prohibited. "Ihe effect of drastic regulation and prohibition in regard to the Pale of poisons and deadly weapons would be not only to materially diminish the suicide rale, but it would also bring about a materi.il reduction in tho homicidal rate which, as is well known, is probably higher In this country than in nnv other country In the world. It requires always to be |