Evening star., 1923-12-27
DAN CUPID UPHELD
BY STAT|Snc|ANS
Figures Prove Married Men
Live Longer, Healthier and
More Morally.

Married men are less liable to dis
ease. less likely to commit crimes and
less liable to insanity and death than
single. widowed and divorced men.
Manufacturing cities show a great
er proportion Of married persons than
cities whose activities are bound up
largely in trade.
The number of persons in the
United States in the marital state has
increased as per cent in the last
thirty years, while birth control en-
courages rather than discourages
marriage.
These facts were brought out to-
day at general session of the Amer
lean Sociological Society at the
Washington Hotel by William Field
ing Ogburn Of Columbia University.
The effect of cities is to decrease
marriage, Mr.. Ogburn said. there be-
ing a greater proportion of married
persons in rural communities and in
small towns than in the great CEN
ters of population, while middle-aged
and older persons are found married
in larger percentages than young
persons or very old persons.
Excess of Sexes.
Inc greater the HumDeT Oh men III
proportion to the number Of women.
the larger the percentage married, up
to point well beyond the equality
In numbers of the sexes, Mr.. Ogburn
said, while as the excess of men be-
comes very large the percentage
married decreases.
Mr.. Ogburn pointed out that busi-
ness prosperity greatly increases
marriage, and declared that the more
rapidly growing cities have slightly
larger percentages married.
Effects of the recent northward mi
on the social condition of their race
and on the white race in the north
and south were touched upon by DR..
Joseph A. Hill, statistician of the
census bureau. The negro is making
good in the north, in the opinion of
of North Carolina.
The National Community Center As
Sociation. the National Society for the
Study of Educational Sociology and
the Association of Training Schools
for Professional Work. affiliated or
ganizations. are meeting at the Wash
ington at the same time as the socio-
logical society, discussing allied sub
jects. A round table discussion on
methods of instruction in case work
was held by the latter association to-
day, with Porter r. Lee Of the New
York School of Social Work, Marion
Cook of eWstern Reserve University,
Theodore Jacobs of Johns Hopkins
University and Virginia p. Robinson
of the Pennsylvania School of So
cial and Helath Work joining in the
discussion. Luncheons were held TO-
day at the hotel, by the allied or
ganizations and a dinner will be held
tonight by the training school aSso-
citation at the City Club.
New Grouping Foreseen.
Segregation of homes and retail es-
tablishments in American cities into
small and homogeneous districts was
predicted by Clarence A Perry of the
Russell Sage Foundation, addre ssing
joint meeting of section OF the
American Sociological Society with
the National Community Center AS
sociation at the Washington Hotel
lest night Fairgrounds, homes, small
shops, churches, libraries. schools
and semi-public buildings would be
grouped in these home districts, un-
der the plan proposed by Mr.. Perry.
Other speakers yesterday at joint
session of the National Society for
the Study of Educational Sociology
included: ]. H. Kolb. University of
wisconsin; B. l.. Melvin. Cornell Uni
versity: George Won Tungeln, Iowa
State College of Agriculture; John
l.. Hynes, Connecticut Agricultural
College; Joseph K. Hart of the Sur
vey; Daniel II. Kulp, Columbia Uni
versity; E. George Payne, New York
University; Robert E. Park, Univer-
sity Of Chicago, and Harvey w. Zor-
baugh.