New Study Reveals
Russia Has More Men Than Women
By Louis Cassels
WASHINGTON —(UPI) — Russia "probably has the largest proportion of widows of any country in the world."
It also has one of the world's most "polyglot" populations, with more than 100 separate nationalities.
These and many other facts about the Russian population are disclosed in a new study by the Population Reference Bureau, a private non-profit research organization whose headquarters are here.
"Not a single generation of the Soviet people, except those who are under 12 years of age, has escaped the repercussions of war, revolution, forced labor or famine," the Bureau reports. "These misfortunes have left many scars on the Russian population."
One of the scars is an unusually heavy proportion of widows. And this is turn helps to explain why visitors to Russia see older women sweeping streets, shoveling snow, and performing other jobs which men would do in this country.
Up to age 32, Russia has a normal sex ratio—that is, the number of men and women is approximately equal. Above that age, "the sex structure is very lopsided since women outnumber men by 20 million." Most of the "surplus" women are widows.
Three-fourths of Russia's population (1959 census) of 209 million is made up of Slavic peoples—the Great Russians, Ukrainians and Belorussians (sometimes called White Russians).
Other major nationality groups include 22 million "mid-Asians", including Uzbekes, Turkmen, Azerbaidzhani. Armenians and Georgians.
Russia, like the United States, has experienced a substantial population shift from rural to urban areas during the past 20 years. The rural population declined by 21 million, while the urban population grew by 40 million.
It also has had a major geographic shift in population concentration. But whereas America's population has historically moved westward, Russia's great migration has been in the opposite direction—eastward toward the Urals and Siberia.
Russia's birth rate (25 births per 1,000 population per year) and its overall population growth rate (about 1.7 per cent annually at present) closely approximate those of the United States.
The Bureau reports that the Soviet government seems to follow "contradictory" policies towards population control.
On one hand, it permits contraception, abortion and sterilization for health and other reasons.
On the other hand, the government provides financial subsidies for large families, maternity leaves for employed urban women, and medals
to "heroine mothers" who have 10 or more children.
With a population density of 24 people per square mile—quite low by Western European or Asian standards—Russia "does not have a population problem in the general sense of undue pressure of people upon living space"—at present.
But the Bureau says "it is possible that in the long run food production will prove to be the Achilles' heel of the Soviet Union."
Russia has much poor land (47 per cent of its area has permanently frozen subsol, 14 per cent is desert) and its agricultural output also is handicapped by "harsh" climatic conditions.
Climber
HOUSTON, Tex. — (UPI) — Charles Sikes, Jr., of Houston, claims the "climbing-up-and-down steps" championship.
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An architect's representative. Sikes made his mark in the world of sports when he climbed to the top of the new 44-story Humble Building and then wearly trudged back down. The round trip is 2,046 steps.
It is bound to be a record west of the Mississippi, because the Humble Building is the tallest structure west of the river.
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Episcopal Holy Communion and Breakfast:
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Celtic Cross, 12 noon, Westminster Central University, study of Westminster confession of faith.
Committee on Research and Resolution
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United Presbyterian Women: 5:30 p.m.
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Presidential Forum: 7 p.m., Big Eleg
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Celtic Cross; 12 noon, Westminster Cent-
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BOSTON — (UPI) — Pharmaceutical records show that a common prescription written by doctors in the 1899s called for "monoacetic acidester of salicylic acid." What the doctors meant in layman's language was plain aspirin.
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STANFORD, Calif. — (UPI) — San Francisco and Los Angeles consider themselves rivals, but they may get together someday.
Earthquakes May End San Francisco, Los Angeles Rivalry
Prof. George A. Thompson, Jr., of
Stanford University says distortion of land surfaces by earthquakes in California is bringing Los Angeles closer to San Francisco every day. However, it will be about 10 million years before a merger takes place
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