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University Daily Kansan Thursday, February 7, 1952
Leap Year Odds Three To Two Against Men Getting Proposals
The odds are at least three to two against a young man getting proposed to in the United States this leap year, the Institute of Life Insurance reports this month.
According to census figures based on the nation's population in 1950, there are just about half as many young bachelors in America as there are young spinsters. But the supply of bachelors and unmarried women in this country is not very large, for two-thirds of everybody in the U.S. over the age of 14 is now already married.
The preponderance of young bachelors over unmarried young women in America this year has come about because girls in this country customarily marry men older than themselves. The result is that half the girls and women between 18 and 25 years of age are married but only a third of all young men.
Men who are over 25 have a better chance of getting proposed to this year than do younger men, and the odds are quite definitely in favor of unmarried men over 45. The number of men and women in the age group from 25 to 45 who are single, widowed, or divorced is about even; over 45, there are nearly twice as many eligible women as men.
In 1890, about half the population over the age of 14 was married and the other half was not. In 1952, only 33 per cent are unmarried. This has occurred even though the number of widowers, widows and divorced people in our population has been increasing.
Westminster Group Dedicates Hymnals
The dedication of 60 new hymnals and an international song service highlighted the meeting of Westminster fellowship Sunday.
Cantata Domino, widest used publication of the World Student christian federation was dedicated by Kay Conrad, College junior, president.
The book, which contains hymns of all countries, has each song's lyrics in three or four languages and symbolizes the one fellowship in Christ around the world. It is printed on paper from the Student Christian movement in Finland with money from the Hazen foundation of the U. S. A.
Songs led by four Americans and our foreign students were sung in Japanese, French, German, Spanish and English.
In addition Dr. John H. Patton, on terminal leave from his duties as U. S. Air Force chaplain, was welcomed home to Westminster where he was former administrative director.
New commissions for the second semester also met Sunday. Student commission chairmen are Robert all, Madison Murray, Reinhold Schmidt and Janet Stewart, all college sophomores, and Shirley hompson, education junior.
Kappa Phi To Have Panel Discussion
A panel of nine girls will lead a discussion on "A Christian Views of United Nations" at a meeting ofappa Phi, national Methodist women students' club, at 7 p.m. Friday in Danforth chapel.
Lessie Hinchee, Johnnie Lou Shafer, Virginia Copp, Mary Cadwalader, Charlene Smith, Barbara Swisher, Jo Wampler, Orinne Gray and Barbara Wood will compose the waler.
Miss Shafer and Miss Copp are in charge of the program. Margaret Matimer and Marie Wellman are in charge of the worship service.
Watch Repair
Marriage records checked back over the past fifty years show that whatever may account for the nation's growing number of families, leap year and its special prerogatives to the female sex have had little to do with it.
Nothing happens to the nation's marriage rate in leap year. It neither goes up very much or down very much. If anything, as matter of fact, it is apt to go down. It did, in any case, in five of the last eight leap years.
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As for February—whether it has 28 or 29 days, and even though it is month of St. Valentine—February is the month when in past years there have usually been fewer marriages than during any other of the other 11 months.
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Lutheran Student association cost supper, 6 p.m. Sunday, Trinity Lutheran church, Rev H. L. Smith president of Lawrence Ministerial alliance, speaker, "Mission at Home."
Mathematical colloquium, 5 p.m.
Monday, 203 Strong.
Engineerettes card party, 8 p.m.
Monday. 1247 Tennessee.
Official Bulletin
Deutscher Verein Donnerstag 5 p.m. Fraser 502. Neue lieder, scheraden, taenze.
Sasnak meeting, 7:30 tonight, Women's gym.
Students enrolled in Western Civilization who have not yet arranged for an appointment this semester must do so by Monday.
Psychology club, 7:30 tonight, 9
Carruth Hall Names Lambert
Women Earn Sizeable Share Of U.S. Income
Joan Lambert, journalism junior,
was recently elected president of
Carruth hall for the spring semester.
Women are likely to contribute a larger share of the nation's family income this year than at any time since World War II.
Other officers elected were Julia Bolz, secretary; Nancy Manspeaker, treasurer; Beth Fife, historian; Mary Wiltse, scholarship chairman,
Even though a serious labor shortage may not develop in the next eight or ten months, the demand for women workers in 1952 will undoubtedly increase.
High prices are leading wives to supplement family income by outside earnings and there is now a growing number of "war brides" in our population again, whose husbands are overseas or in training camps. These pressures raised the need for women to work than half a million during 1951 and they will add hundreds of thousands of women to the labor force in 1952.
in owning life insurance and in saving money, women in the past few years have acted pretty much the same way as men have—they have saved and bought life insurance to protect their dependents, and to provide for their own future.
In accepting additional family and business responsibilities, women have built their ownership of life insurance to a fifth of all life insurance in the U. S.
On several scores, the women who have jobs or are self-employed today are different from the women's labor force at the beginning of World War II. For one thing, as a group, today's women workers are older and there are also more managers, officials and proprietors of business, and more women employed in the "white collar" fields.
Another difference, perhaps the most important of all, is that so many of the women who are in the labor force today are married. In one marriage out of every four in the U. S. now, the wife earns some outside income.
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