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Survey Shows ‘More Worn en -Tha n - M e n ’ Fears Overstated Mud! concern has been ex-; pressed about the incrra.'xne trend toward more women than men in the population of the Unit-d 1 States. But the Bureau of Agri cultural Economics. U S. Depart- . ment of Agriculture, .-ucSe-ts that this has been ovoi-cmpha i/ed ai a problem. Men still outnvfmber women in almost every arc croup of the rural or farm population, thouch the reverse is true in cities. In towns ail'd cities there are more sincle men than suc.lc ivo i men under ttie aec of '/ih« and the scareitv of sinrle women !n rural and farm area- is pro nounced In a total population o‘ ■ mere than 150 million pc pic. the excess in the number of females over males (including only those | -.«■ n",ni "i Torres st.ittoned in the U. S.' was less tlian 2 million, in 1951. for example. Amone the widowed and di vorced. women strikmalv outnum ber men Probable reason1 Hus bands usually are older than the"' wives and therefore less likely t > outlive them: men have Incite mortality rates than women, ace for ace. older men are more like lv m remarry than older women. The ^smaller ]c iusci uni of w-ui dow-i on f irms nT Me that wo men are likely to leave the I >1' ) cv sell it after they are widowed. In goinc through the Panama Canal otic travels a little more than aO miles.
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