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Show Rate of Suicide Shows A Decrease in Wartime NEW YORK. War is a sort of mental therapy for would-be suicides, sui-cides, and statisticians of the Metropolitan Metro-politan Life Insurance company have figures to prove this paradox. The current American suicide rate is exceptionally low; in England, it fell from year to year since the outbreak out-break of the war in 1939, and the same is true for the Germans. The reasons are psychological and economic. In times of national calamity, personal problems lose in Importance; increased income standards lessen financial worries. |