SUICIDE EPIDEMIC.

Grey River Argus, 24 February 1927, Page 5

SUICIDE EPIDEMIC.

YOUNG STUDENTS. Victims of “Jazz Age.” (Received February 23 at 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 22. The student suicides, the first nine ol which were cabled on February 14. now total twenty. Eleven suicides have occurred during the past week, three ol which were to-day. Twenty-three years is the age of the oldest of the suicides, and fourteen years that of the youngest who have taken their own lives in \;ie last two months. • • To-day’s cases include of that of a, gifted young violinist of New York., who took gas. His parents ascribing his act to his overstudy of pessimistic philosophers. Another victim is a girl of nineteen, from Alabama, who killed herself because she was tired of life, another, a soventoon-yoar-old boy, shot himself the reason being unknown. Another an eighteen year-old youth, in Chicago, stabbed himself, and he is in a critical condition.

This suicide epidemic, which assumed sensational proportions, has resulted in inquiries from noted educationalists, ministers and preachers, who have variously ascribed it to the so-called “jazz age” the lack of beneficial parental influence and the lack of religious training.