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SLAYS SELF RAILS AGAINST LOVE-HUNGRY LIVES GIRLS AND BOYS LEAD IN CITIES Like the parched TEAVJEIJCJ? OF THE (WHOSE BURNING THIRST CAUSES HIM TO IJieiNK TVEK. AT THE WELL-HE IKNOVZS 1S POISONIED- By Nixola Greeley-Smith. v "Women have killed me because with all my temperament J have been too shy ever to have any love. But one thing Sex is the cause of the perfect hell my life has been. 'I have not had at any time a girl who loved me. I have never even kissed. I have not had" the chance with any but the lowest, who fill me with disgust. "I want love!" This "was the message left to the world by a young man whose body was found off Manhattan. Beach, New York, a short time ago. He was Wallace E. Baker, a young man of unusual ambition and talent. But this young man, like thou sands of others in American cities, had to give all his energy and strength to the struggle to make a living. He had no social life; had never had a chance to meet the kind of woman who might have served as a guiding star to him. So, like the parched traveler, of the desert whose burning thirst causes .hijn to drink even at the well which he, knows is poisoned, he sought the society oi the lower type of woman. The diary which he mailed to a New York publisher before he leaped into the sea is a terrible record of his remorse and his disgust. It is also an indictment of the modern economic conditions which make it impossible for young men and women of the poor to love and marry. This message has just been issued by Charles and Albert Boni, twc youthful idealists in New York, whc hope that this . strange "Diary of e Suicide" may arouse public opinior to the lonely and love-parched lives of young men and women in th great cities. It was sent by the sui cide to B. Russell Herts, editor of tin