SUICIDE OF YOUTHS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 580, 5 February 1929, Page 2

SUICIDE OF YOUTHS

SEVEN GERMAN CASES Seven young German boys ranging in age from 13 to J ' committed suicide during r , . week. In most cases it was mation that their prospects ot o* - promoted to higher classes at * or of successfully passing toeir examinations for the high sc were very poor which made throw away their lives. j The increasing number oi ' suicides is greatly alarming tne department, which, however, powerless to prevent them. Since the end of the war ther . been growing what may be ae as an “education craze. M * n? „ and private institutions, husin _ eerus and trade unions, mcltm ~ shoemakers, will not accept 5 who have not passed the e . tious ot the fifth or even t “ e „ feir , grade, which means spending to thirteen years at school. . quently many parents who » j offspring to have a bett * r , ® ir cii]dlife than their own send ren to advanced schools to .j, they are mentally and P J unfit. i-veir-c^ On Christmas Eve, a Liftboy, born in New York, „«re self while his foster parents g arranging the Christmas an adjoining room. On Day Hildegsied Scliroeter, « age, took gas because he M had informed her she wou mina tic:* permitted to sit for her esain .. jio: Two youths, aged 17 a , paso iL l,: themselves for the same re December 29 15-year-old Ge ü b*a i threw herself in front <» r, fc w train. She was not freed minutes later and died alt j 8 ,y. Most tragic of all, lj®*® • ggp case of Lieselotte F roe . b !L frr daughter of the founder 01 - bel kindergarten, who was . ,^ a bullet wound in her t° r _ it* being missing for . fJL, neighbours say the gurl was ‘ ,D----attend spiritualistic slit “furC 1 took place in her mother s t (fij Lastly, there came a 1 £ & Kassel that a young »PP r eiF 1 * flung himself in front ot train while under hypnotic