Show CALENDER REFORM It is universally conceded that our present calendar with months rang rang- ing from from 28 23 to 31 days in lenth presents s be be- be because because cause of that lack of uniformity Many plans have been suggested sug ested for rearranging ing- ing the days of the year so as to equalize the lenth of the months The late George Eastman de voted considerable time and mony to voted considerable time and money to an effort to secure ad ad- adoption adoption option oZ oB calendar with of 28 days each making makin the extra day ay an additional holiday hoBday n leap years rears there would be bo two such holi holi- holidays days Under his plan each date in every month would fall fallon on the same day of the week The extra holidays would not be considered as belong ing to any month montiL This arrangement would have many advantages es for accounting and statistical purposes but would present difficulties in other re re- re respects respects A year could not be je easily divided into quarterly and yearly half periods and it would also aIso require a wholesale re ye- ye arrangement of birthdays and oth- oth r anniversaries Another ropo 1 is now being put forward by calendar reform as as- as associations in New New lock and London which would retain the present 12 month year but give dve 31 days to the first month of each quarter and 30 days to each of the other two Thus January April July and October would have 31 days while all the other months would have ha 30 30 The extra days would be dis- dis oed osel of as holidays as under the Eastman plan pIan Thre is iR some sonic valid argument ar ment for each doubtful of these plans pIans but it is doubt doubt- ful that ither will wiH gain pain acceptance within the lifetime of anyone now on earth It took many hundreds of years to t establish our present calendar even eVen among the so-called so civilized nations |