Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1909 — PENNY-IN-SLOT FOR SUICIDES [ARTICLE]

PENNY-IN-SLOT FOR SUICIDES

Minister Advocates the Use of a “Shuffling Off” Machine. Washington, Oct. 29.—“ Drop a penny in the slot and get a ticket to the other world,’’ might be the inscription on a machine suggested by the Rev. Dr. Donald Guthrie of Baltimore. Dr. Guthrie was speaking on “Calvinism" at the synod of Baltimore, in closing a plea for a wholesome, enthusiastic interest in life he said: “Life has become so meaninglesa and so useless to some that I advocate the setting up of a suicide machine in which one may deposit a cent and bo killed easily and respectably."