The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-09-05
600 SAVED FROM
SELF MURDER
SAVING SUICIDES L. JOB OF HAIR
RY WARREN AND HIS SAVE
A-LIFE LEAGUE

New York. Sect. 5.-In five years
DR. Harry Marsh Wares has saved
s.ee0 lives He has stopped thai
many desp0ndeAH persons from com
Enitting suicide
That's the queer job DR.. Warren
has He's the ssif-4ppoInted adviser
20 wouId-be suicides He started il
N 1895 and in 1915 he organized the
S&ve-&-Life League Of which he Is
president
Ii You feel like jumping into the
river. taking : poison cocktail. sus-
pending yourself frtm the open
plumbing or shooting yourself full OF
holes DON'T. at least not today,
And n the meantime write Dr.
WaTren-0r if you are in New York.
call around and see him az les West
18th street. He'll tell yom why you
shouldn't DO u
During the 3aFe-2-LLTs Leagues
first five years. up 70 last april Is.
exactly 5.s2S wOuid-b4 suicides came
TO us" Dr. Warren said And my
records show that. not one went
through Eith the contemplated
deed.
Dr. Warren is d big man with gray
black hair and smiling brown eyes
He has soft, persuasive tone He Is
in his fifties- Formerly he was .
Baptist minister. bat for years his
work. now combined with the Save-z-
Life League has been non-sectarizn
in what he calls ~the Parish OF All
Strangers"
There isn't any magic about my
WORK OF preventing people from com
hitting suicide" /" he said. Il haven't
any pateu or system. Anybody can
do it. Be friendly and patient and
study the teEnpeKRnea1 OF the tempt
ed person YoH have got To appeal
TO him on his own ground"
Love cases are the hardest 70 deal
with. says Dr.. Warren They require
the greatest diplomacy.
Here are some Of the surprising
facts this Suicide expert" told me:
There were s.I71 suicides reported
In the United States In 1920. an in
crease Of 1.o00 over 1913. They in
Guided 3.5sT men and z.s04 women
Total suicides probably exceeded H.
GOO last year. for many are neTer ~
ported.
The greatest Increase was In child
suicides. In 1919 there were ATT
Last year the number vas T0T, boys
723 and girls 4S4.
This year the fncrease among chill
dren and adults u even more alarm
ing The first sir months showed
nearly 109 PER cent increase.
Boys nosE frequently use pistols
girls poison among adults gas Is
the fav0rfte neEhod-
The youngest suicide Last year was
rears old. the oldest 103. Mere
than 16S couples Eiiiiis5s ssllsessss4Ess
because OF divorce There was big
increase among suicides by farmers
and farmers wives
Mere rIcE people than poor take
their OWE lives Last rear there
were IS men in the millionaire class
- rich woEzea. IS president of bRsd-
ness eonceEus, Sc bankers, II bank
president. 81 doctors. "a lawyers. -
reaehers and college professors 40
ax40rs and actresses ~ college s1u-
dents, "a brokers. u clergymen and
judges
More Germans than any other nz-
tion2Iity Kill thneselyes- Fewes1
suicides are among Jews. Last year
liz i estimated 5oo.00D people IN
China committed suicide. and there
were 1.5e0 suicides in Japan among
merchants alone.
| In New York five years ago there
1 were s5s saicsaes4 Last rear the
nuraber decreased TO 73T-largely
because Of the SGve-a-Life League
SAYS George p. LeBrun Of the coron-
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