Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1915 — The Land of Bachelors. [ARTICLE]

The Land of Bachelors.

England is the land of bachelors, so there is plenty of material for our “new army” without any of the married men. Indeed, we could safely exempt not only the married, but the betrothed, and still raise an army of 500,000, assuming, as we surely may, that only one man in two between the ages of 20 and 35 is physically fit. One works it out in this way: In England and Wales alone there are 4,250,000, men between the ages of 20 and 35 and over 2,250,000 of them are bachelors. To give figures, between the ages and 25 there are 1,275,000 bachelors to 275,000 married men; from 25 to 30 there are 750,000 bachelors to 750,000 married men (half and half), and from 3 to 35 there are 375,000 bachelors to 1,000,000 married men. This gives us our total of 2,250,000 bachelors of all recruitable ages in England and Wales alone.—Manchester Guardian.