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November 2.-Proceedings are started to fix the criminal responsibility for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit calamity. Three of the train crew are under arrest. The Federal Grand Jury in Chicago returns indictments against twelve men in connection with the aircraft construction scandal. Washington reports nineteen coal-mines closed by the Fuel Administration for offering improperly prepared coal for sale. This makes a total of 111 mines closed for this offense. During the fiscal year ending October 10, reports the Commissioner of Excise, 6,560 saloons went out of business in New York State, causing a loss of $4,775,854 in revenue. Draft calls for the mobilization of 290,773 additional men at army training-camps before November 21 are announced by Provost Marshal-General Crowder. November 3.-Fifteen thousand Protestants, Catholics, and Jews meet in Madison Square Garden, New York, and pledge themselves to give to their utmost in the coming campaign of the United War-Work Committee. The Treasury Department reports warexpenses for October totaling $1,664,862,000, including $489,100,000 in loans to Allies. The total war-cost to this date is calculated at $20,561,000,000, which $7,017,000,000 has been loaned to the Allies. of The Connecticut Bar Association issues a statement urging the various States in general assembly to refuse to ratify the proposed Federal prohibition amendment on the ground that it is "a national menace." Health officials report the epidemic of influenza in New York rapidly subsiding. New cases reported totaled 1,567, a drop of 1,384 from the previous day's figures. November 4.-The Alien Property Custodian announces that he has recently taken over property worth many millions of dollars belonging to women of American birth now married to German or Austrian subjects. 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Looking backward throughout the period of a hundred and forty-two years since America became a nation, he believes it "may be conservatively estimated that not far from a million people have ended their own existence, regardless of the fact that no country in the world, during a corresponding period of time, has experienced a higher degree of material and social wellbeing and provided more abundant opportunities for the pursuit of happiness.' As a problem in social economics, this waste of human lives "is more appalling than the corresponding and largely inevitable sacrifice of life in every-day industry." Against nearly seventeen thousand suicides in 1917, "there were certainly not more than twenty-five thousand, and possibly not more than twenty-two thousand fatal industrial accidents, of which a very considerable proportion represents an inherent trade risk, against which any and all safety precautions are likely to prove ineffective." Mr. Hoffman laments the indifference of the church and state to suicide. "Practically no suicide," he says, "attracts the slightest attention of the pulpit." The state also is indifferent. No qualified and thoroughgoing investigation of the subject has ever been made by public authority. Equally indif ferent is the press, "for it is the rarest occurrence that a suicide attracts editorial attention." Petersburg, Va. 18.4 21.5 7.7 -13.8 64.2 of Popu- per 1,000 - 7.3 50.3 lation Concerns Pueblo, Col. 20.9 -16.7 70.2 Masillon, Ohio.. 6.4 - 4.3 40.2 3,361 18.4 9.4 Atlanta, Ga.. 14.8 15.0 6.1 - 9.9 66.0 1904. 18,809,587 3,588 19.1 9.2 Fall River, Mass.. 12.8 10.6 6.1 - 4.5 42.5 Malden, Mass. 5.7 Elizabeth, N. J. 18.0 12.6 5.6 7.0 55.6 1907. 20,511,267 Wilmington, Del. - 8.9 63.1 Mobile, Ala.. - 7.8 60.9 Cambridge, Mass. 4.4 - 4.1 48.2 22,263,589 4,383 19.7 8.4 Johnstown, Pa. 4.3 - 3.4 44.2 Scranton, Pa.. 4.0 6.9 63.3 1912. Nashville, Tenn.. 3.4 -14.9 81.4 1913. 1914. 9.9 1915. 11.0 1916. It appears that the suicide rate increased in twenty-four cities and decreased in seventy-six. The principal cities of California exhibit the highest rates now, as in 90D Griswold St. Safeguarded 66 For 1917 the suicide record of American cities reveals a decline in the rate over the preceding year, "reaching, in fact, the lowest figure on record for a considerable period of time." Mr. Hoffman believes 'there can be no more convincing evidence of the correlation of suicidal frequency with economic conditions than that the prevailing era of unusual prosperity is also represented by a decided falling off in the relative frequency of suicide, at least in the large cities." 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W. geographical distribution of suicides as to groups of States: GEOGRAPHICAL INCIDENCE OF SUICIDES IN THE UNITED STATES RATES PER 100,000 OF POPULATION, 1907-1917 From this table it appears that the urban suicide rate "declined during 1917 in every geographical section of the country, but relatively the decline was most pronounced in the Southern cities," and that the Pacific Coast cities were second in this respect. There was a wide variation in relative mortality from suicide for white and colored. The following table shows the rates for twenty Southern cities by race. For those cities combined, the white rate was 22.6 per 100,000 of population against a colored rate of only 5.6: SUICIDES IN TWENTY SOUTHERN CITIES. BY COLOR, 1912-1916 Cities Atlanta, Ga.. Colored No. of Rate per Suicides 100,000 of Population Population Baltimore, Md.. Birmingham, Ala 4.4 Charleston, S. C 0.6 Charlotte, N. C.. 3.2 Galveston, Texas. 18.4 Jacksonville, Fla. 2.3 Lexington, Ky. 8.6 Louisville, Ky. 3.8 Memphis, Tenn. 88 Mobile, Ala... 3.3 Montgomery, Ala. 4.9 Nashville, Tenn.. 8.2 New Orleans, La. 7.2 Norfolk, Va.. 2.5 Richmond, Va. 3.0 San Antonio, Texas.. 1.6 Savannah, Ga.. 1.2 Washington, D. C. 9.9 Wilmington, Del. 6.7 A writer in the New York Sun finds in the figures for individual cities several inter esting suggestions. One is that the war "has taken from Hoboken its unenviable distinction of being among the American cities having an abnormal percentage of suicides." In the first dozen years of the present century that German steamship landing town lost annually, through suicide, thirty-three in each 100,000 of population. One had to cross the Rockies to find a gloomier record, but last year the Hoboken suicides numbered only twelve in 100,000. The writer asks whether this is "because the military popu lation has been so largely increased, or because the German immigrants, to whom Hoboken was the beginning of the New World, no longer arrive." He notes again that one might expect to find the suicide rate large where the factory system is strongest, but, Fall River "has a rate of only six, while Newport's rate is twenty-two." High wages may be conducive to love of life, but Detroit, which had thirteen suicides in 100,000 population a dozen years ago, recorded twenty-four last year, "making her the eighth city in the ignoble list." On the other hand, Bridgeport, Conn., which had a rate of twenty-three in the |