Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-31
Why Do We Have Suicides With
Good PeOple?


One Of the most universal desires
or promptings the human or ami
NAL creation is a shrinking from
death, or avoidance of violence at
the time Of death for the individ-
uals or the animals.
Nevertheless we find there are
people who are so influenced by
fear, or by dread Of evil to come,
or by disease, that they will plan
| suicide for themselves and carry
out the aforesaid plan to the bit.
| ter end. 1 am not considering in
this discussion the selfdestruction
of those who know they are facing
| foes, who will kill or be killed in
an encounter. I am not surprised
when a man Tor woman) prefers
| to shoot or drink poison rather than
be advertised as criminals or moral
reprobates. and who cannot endure
| the publicity in exile or shun pub
lie disgrace. There seems to be
much fewer of this class (who sui
cide) than any other.
But the question is concerned with
the people who have no apparent
provocation to self-destruction, and
who will take their own lives when
they are good people, we'll respected
in their community, and who are
| previously considered as fine up
standing citizens, good counsellers
and to be relied upon by their neigh
bors as we'll as their own intimates.
Does g cog in the machinery of
the brain give way and the mind
fails to function, and temporary in
sanity comes on like sunstroke or
ryonr01avyO hoUn hnna h0Qriner nf
such suicides all my life, and l have
, never found out the why or the
wherefore. If you tell me they are
always insane at the fatal moment
ask you why they can completely
deceive their nearest and dearest
as so often happens? There must
be some explanation if it is possible
to discover it.
The EquinOctia1 Season
During my long life, I have seen
many crucial periods in the air, as
we'll as in politics. Why the world
must grow stormy when days and
nights become equal at the equinox.
can not tell, but this is fact be-
yond dispute,
Equinoctial storms are, therefore
generally in evidence. Those which
come in the spring are cyclonish'
Those which happen about Septem'
Der are apt to be tidal wave storms,
those which will break down levees
on the coasts, and flood the entire
territory when the gale reaches its
| maximum. The encyclopedias are
! full of theories, as to why one set OF
storms drive so hard that they are
/ called hurricanes and some twist
about in circles of cycloids, and get
, the name of cyclones.
One is about as bad as the other,
and both are terrible. I remember
the damage twenty years ago by cy'
clones, which seemed to keep to a
| regular path, across the state, com
ing from Alabama and below Macon
Ga, generally to the Savannah riv.
err. The stricken territory built what
they called storm pits" The incest
one 1 ever saw was in Meriwether
county, and was really an under
grouond room with a low roof and
the people made a business of going
| inside when the black clouds begun
to rise and foretell bad weather.
| This splendid cyclone pit had chairs
and table and lounge for any in
valid people belonging to the house
| hold.
1t was really attractive and II
was deep enough to stand in up
right. The cyclones can scrape the