The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-09
The UNMARRIED MILLIONS OF
MEN and WOMEN N AMERICA
Thirty-,<ine Of Every One Hundred Male Adults in Unit
ed States Without Wives-Eight Million Men ana
Nine Million Women Out of Wedlock.

deeper than this to Q r. IN.
excessive number Of unmarried aauf,.
Prof. W. l.. Wilcox's recen, anafy..
indicates that the death rate uf h
married men is greater than that -
married men to AN extent ranc7n,
from 81 per cent TO 11e per cent
the srCups up to the age cf >eN.nn
one able n temperate critic t,,l~
that his high mortality among SIt.
men is due to ca uses within thai sr,44
alone. and that married life Use does
not proiong the years of thoS. MI.
enter it.
A brief study of his subject nilFrE.
dohbtedly bring the III death tai, 81
bachelors is due 10th 70 their create
exposure to adverse health Influences
and TO the fact that the BenadirAS
have A more regular and NOR, thor
oughly supervised existence. in add-
ton to the favorable influence Of ia
creased responsibility. However. TINS
may be, the important fact with which
the public should be familiar IS. tina
the only available statistics show thu;
the married group of our entire popa-
lation nave q lower death rate than
the single group.
Interest in this subject should not
be confined to life insurance conpau-
les, but should extend to every u.tl-
vidual.
With a declining birth rate and an
increasing death rate from violence
and from disease of Degeneration.
such as those Of the heart. arteries.
kidneys, etc. which tend to shorten
the extreme span Of life, and with an
increasing number of insane and men
tai detectives, the American people
have every reaSOn to be keenly H.
terested in the study and application
Of the vital problems involved in the
two questions referred to above. and
especially in the science Of agencies
Yet Percentages Have Increased.
Commenting on the above comTn-
nication from Conservation Commls-
sioner Rittenhouse Of a big life in
Surance company, the New YORK
Times. editorially says, in the iss1t II
Friday, August 29th:
1T was by deliberate intention, not
through haste or oversight. that
Conservation Commissioner Ritter
house OF the Equitable Life gave out
statistics of 1000, 600 unmarried vo-
men and 5000 unmarried men in
the United States above tn" age Of
20, and issued his appeal for more
early marriages. In the letter "a
The Times, printed today. Nj. Itltten-
house argues that the prosperity n
Tx iFSt ~ envy years Variants @DtA
an increase. In fact, the United
States ems figures. show that the
belief that people marry q much later
age than they did tWenty years Z
is erroneous. The married male Itgl-
lation over fifteen has Increased from
5S.9 per cent in 1890 to 55.S per eeHt
IN 1910. h married men bet" =.
the ages of fifteen and t~wentN-tcmr
and between twenty-five and tit4-b-
four, snow notable percentage iLerta-
Ses.
The trend is in the right direction,
Mr- ttittenhouse says. The question
IS. how to stimulate early marri." eS
and now to teach the thrift and ca
terprise hat must go with them
After all allowances have been mode
1t is the conviction OF this high au-
thorlty that the death rate az VA
married men, ranging from - per
cent to l19 per cent above the dcath
rate OF married men in the groups ~
TO ~, demonstrate conditions ~
1natrlnEony hat favor longevity
Apart from such material consider
TONS as these, we believe il IL the
Testimony Of social observers that
Nearly marriages are apt to turn cat
more happily than those that are
formed In I'LL maturity.