Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1950 — Page 28

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PAGE 28 er "Death Is What You Make It—

People Sometimes Select Dramatic Way fo End Life

CHAPTER FIVE

i pa] to hold his feet in posi- man in When Men Decide to Die ‘ther, about 35 per cent favor’ fire- racket f

‘arms, 20 per cent prefer hanging, Hon. 2 Sun sat down 1 his et

such assorted means as cutting,

; man spotted him as ‘he hit the piercing, jumping, drowning, or rossed boards.

Finding it then Impossible to “Water. impale his right hand, he let = The policeman hurried to the it hang down limply at his side. Scene with a length of rope in A costume of loin cloth and hand to proffer the would-be sui-

Whether driven by fear or guilt % Mr. Denny Mr. Gaddis I 0 {

or pain or love, at some time or + more imaginative methods. other all of us have thought of other m ds &l ¥

taking our own life. Womes, probably because they _— thought may not have heen 2bhor disfiguration even in death,

By KENNETH L. HALL 30 percent choose either poisoning "ise \weeks to leap to his death from | PaycBiatisis aay Bhat al oe or asphyxiation, while the re-i0 the backet. ang Plersed athe Brooklyn Bridge. Finally he i = Said Be Was carr e seeds of se ction : " i ) within ourselves. maining 15 per cent lean toward thoughtfully driven through the caPed—but an observing police- (weeks “ago and

TOKYO, Oct. 12 (UP)—Harold ; : , 2) crucify himself in the manger of, When they find that they. American who has 4 Methods for | at ——— D a pd are sometimes éxtre eluctantt two years as adviser Most Suicides asphyxiation. | First, he nailed thgether two to give it up, a fact that was once! Korean President SyngBreaking the figures down fur- Pleces of board and attached 2 underlined a desponderit young Rhee, said today that the

v strong. 1 : , generally favor less violent ends crown of thorns mpleted his cide, who had not been killed by am an explanation from. the State B { bi ed Sided. ) gaay have than men. pitiful travesty on! the erucl- the fall. The man in the water 3] Years on Joh Department.” he i of The Union Trust Company of Indianapolis, providing fo the conat some time or other w ehave Men kill themselves mostly fixion. [ refused to accept the rope, where: | William J. Sebald, chief State solidation, is on file at the Bank and may be inspected during business it f—iPIed— OUT — thoughts —en With guns. Women turn to poison Although. he was removed ‘upon the policeman—with a pres- : {Department representative in Ja- Sourk. suicide. : or to gas. from “his self-made cross, Mr. ‘ence of mind that any psycholo- Become Eligible ~jian a5 Head of (Sen: | ov onoer or the 10ARD OF DiaEcTORS. = The mere consideration of suj- Within thie past 25 years, how- Lovat died almost immediately gist must admire—drew his gun.| . MacArthur's diplomatic section, : cide, however, and the determina- ever, women have become increas-| from his wounds, He threatened to shoot the young! For Service Pins {refused to comment. | J. KURT MAHRDT, Cashier’

tion to take one’s own life are as ingly inclined to violent suicide. mo» far apart as life and death. Statistics since the turn of the. NOT LONG ago the newspapers The decision to end one's life, Century prove that more women, carried the story of the elderly most psychologists agree, requires Proportionately, have ended their California couple, incurably fll, a good deal of mulling over and lives by shooting in the 20th than who decided upon as dramatic a ‘is not arrived at lightly, even by in the 19th century. {double-death as can be thought a person who may think he has Self-hanging has also picked up of. the best reason in the world for 0 popularity along both male and’ Hand-in-hand at sun-down they making it. female suicides, running neck- strolled together into the warm ' Having made the decision, the #nd-neck, one might say with the waters of. the Pacific Ocean until would-be suicide finds himself Breater incidence toward self- Waves covered them over and confronted with a practically Shooting. i{they had achieved their wish to

man unless he grabbed the rope. 1, Indiana Bell Telephore. Promptly the man in the water employees today became eligible ook hold of the rope and was to receive the company's jeweled pulled to safety—because he had pin commemorating 30 years of decided to die a certain way and service. no other way would do. | Marshall Denny, switchman, ® = = ‘and B. C. Gaddis, PBX installer, IT HAS been shown conclu- Will be-presentag with pins by'the

company. sively that more suicides occur |

Mr, Denny, a native of Indianin bad times than in prosper- apolis, began telephone work as

¢ ‘die together. ous years, limitless choice of methods. But na 8 | a > the ability of religion to provide man is & creature of habit. Even, NOT ALL suicides lack imagle |p Another suicia ® ae an But there’ is one. deterrent this Er and gy

stronger than economics, ill health and domestic difficulties, the three leading causes for

self-destruction, baffle our generation.

in such a non-habit-forming per- nation in their methods of ending formance as taking his own life, it all. he follows certain patterns. There have been some brilliantIt is ironic that a table of ly bizarre examples of self-de-«statistics can eall the turn on struction. Such bizarre deaths are ex-| That deterrent is religion. It is a statistical fact that perman in death as well as in life. | Louis Dublin, whose gathering treme indications of the fact that! You don’t have to be a mind sons of deep religious faith selBut it Is true, of statisties- onthe subject has a suicide will go togreat lengths Specialist to know that the man: dom take their own lives. The Metropolitan Life Insur- made him an authority on sujcide,/to seek out the death that will Who has faith in his religion Perhaps it is their faith that ance Co., which has a healthy has collected several choice items give him the greatest psychic usually has faith in himself as gives them the courage to follow and financial interest in keeping in his research. satisfaction. Are ‘they ‘mentally Well. the words of the philosopher Wilpeople alive as long as possible, Perhaps the classic example of sound? Scientist disagree as to! Suicides, for the most part, are liam James who said, “Believe! has compiled an interesting set bizarre suicide noted by Dublin the correct answer. perplexed persons who see death that life is worth living and your of statistics on suicides. owas that of Matthew Lovat, an Persons intending suicide have as the only way out of their diffi- belief will help create that fact.” The figures show that 80 of Italian shoemaker in the 19th been known to wait for years be- culties. They often need nothing! Tomorrow: The “reserves. of every 100 suicides in the United Century. ’ fore finding the opportunity to!more than the comfort and guid- faith” which remove the dread States take their lives by only Having decided to die, Mr, kill themselves in “just the right'ance that faith can give. of death. ; four methods. Lovat made up his mind to way.” There is a practical reason for (Copyright. 1930. Ubited Peaturs .

Church doctrine offers timetested, clear rules of conduct for problems of living that so often

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a station installer tn 1920 and assumed hig present duties In "1942. He lives at 3326 N. Keystone Ave. and is a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America. { Mr. Gaddis, born in New Castle, began his career here in 1920 as an equipment installer. He was assigned to his present post in 1940. He lives at 1629 N. Lyndhurst Drive and also is a member | of . the . Telephone Pioneers of

Tre Union Trust CoMPANY oF INpIaNAPoLIS

Notice of Shareholders’ Meeting

Notice is hereby given that pursuant to call of its Directors, a special meeting of the shareholders of The Union Trust Company of Indianapolis will be held at its banking house at 120 East Market Street, in the City of Indianapolis, State of Indiana, on Thursday, October 19, 1950 at 1:30 o'clock P. M. (C.S.T.), for the purpose of considering and determining by vote whether an agreement to and consolidate the said Bank-and Trust Company and The Indiana National Bank of Indianapolis, located in the City of Indianapolis, State of Indiana, under the provisions of the laws of the United States shaii be adopted, ratified and confirmed and for the purpose of voting upon "any other matters incidental #b the proposed merger and consolidation of the two banks. A copy of the aforesaid Agreement approved by the Board of Directors of The Union Trust Company of Indianapalis and executed by a majority of the Directors of The Indiana National Bank of Indianapolis, providing for the consolidation, is on file at the Bank and may be inspected during business hours.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. ! ad CLARENCE R. KUSS, Secretory

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