Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1917 — COMMITTING SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

COMMITTING SUICIDE

The following is a scrap from a busy man’s diary: “A ‘good fellow’ came into my office recently. Presuming that I was in the same despicable plight, he proceeded to make himself at home. Work for me was out of the question. When he left the eternal balance of God showed two hours of time—the stuff that life is made of—in the loss column. This loafer daily slays several hours of life’s precious substance. Committing suicide by inches, nothing less. If the sum total of these precious minutes were to be collected into the end of one’s life and then stricken off by the hand of a slayer .we would call it murder When yre slay these precious moments a few at a time, the world kindly calls it loafing. But really to be accurate, it i:i killing t.me and when it is the other fellow’s time it is murder. When tt is our time, it is -ivcide. Suicide by inches is is true but still suicide.