Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-02 | Page 27 | Washington

W IJ I t. t Simpli Simplification of Calendar Discussed I Plan Explained I Reasons Given Change Unlikely I By RODNEY ROONEY DUTCHER 1 WASHINGTON A I roN NEA Calendar 4 Is la rapidly be bc 1 an I issue of or more Immediate ato Inter Interest Interest- st j and th the champions of or simplification arc working tom for results b by 1 1333 31 which will be the easiest st year to change th calendar this lila side of or 1 In the United States Slates the thic favorite new y ne calendar Idea appears to be e s that of oc a t year car divided dl Into lute thirteen I months o of tw twenty eight days das c ell ehm j i with one extra day tIme day tho three hu hurt bun 1 dred and to mh to to be known 7 as Year Da Day Elay and not nol by any other t j name J January 1 would be Sunday J Jund and und a given sInn date In tn any month I would al a always 8 fall fail on tho name sanie d day ty of or tho the week cek The new month would bo pl placed between June and ana j Jul July t WHY CHANGE IS URGED The Ilie main arguments for substItuting such a calendar l for or tho the ono wo we have ha now arc these j 1 Business and economic tire life hast haf hafto has to measure Its progress HO In months and nd weel weeks s. s Statistical comparisons comparIson f faro are aro now not so bo good because e theo the o are uro months o of twenty eight nl L-nl ly ty thirty and thirty one dand d and each etch year ear a given I en date dato falls fails on ona ona a different da day of or th tho hO Week Without Without With- With out tho the same tama number of ot weeks In lime A e month a month cannot be ba ld dl divided Into equal parts A week this year Car cant can't be compared with a week eek la last wt t I year car because it I isn't nt the time same Different days dos of or the tIme wp week I havo o different values alues to different bu bust busl- l- l nesses s. s and so with m months A A month with five five- Sundays is different differ differ- f ent nt than a a. month with four Sunda Sundays Sun- Sun Suni i da days I Statistics are so 50 It vital at In thc days that all this titis means a gret great i heal deal to business With the thirteen thirteen- n calendar all nil months ouI would l. l have hl tim Iho same sanio number o of workday workdays Saturdays and Sundays Sundays anti and thu I be directly comparable family and business bud budgeting w would uld b b. b be simplified simpli lied fId much clerical work an arid anU cs- cs Ii- Ii pen Pease pense e would bo be saved cd and thee th re would b be 00 a n faster turnover of or mone- mone money with thirteen monthly set set- en a Tho arguments in iii opposition are alOE rt cO Confusion complications and amid ex- ex result calendar r chan e Tho number 13 Is not able ablo h by 2 Z 3 3 4 t I or 6 tIme the v the lie thirteen month year ear do not contain a n whole number of oC months thirteen business f closings Instead of or twelve 0 would Id Involve o I Increased bookkeeping Friday tho the would come thirteen times hues a year in lit the t faco face of or a n. difficult t to overcome thin the regular occurrence Qt qt tI r the lie seventh day Sunda Sunday would fo interrupted once each year and and k 1 j twIce in leap sears ars Birthdays and I er annl anniversaries arles would have to be chan changed e Jewish rabbis are aee among th the tho bitterest foes Coes of this proposed d cal cal- basing basin their convictions cOI n the lie Old Testament and amid the con- con I of the lie H sequence of or the Iho seventh day S Sabbath The rho Seventh erith na Day Adventists Ad and the o Da Day Baptists support them In Inserting In- In Year Day means that the tho Sabbath must com come on an an eighth day once each year Int t Nevertheless Ne than a t hundred hun him dred tired large ar e American business concern concerns con con- cern cerns are now no using a system o which divides the year ye-ar Into thirteen j periods for rOl their own businesses ln and tho lie calendar simplification movement 1110 Is backed b by a a. host of the lur largest national trader trade financial finan cial cia I scientific educational and I la labor ha- ha bor hoe or organizations and scores of ot cr very cry prominent men and amid women 1 serving on omi time the national commIttee committee commit commIt- tee on oti calendar simplification and It its HI special su subcommittees One Omie of or the time United States chamber cham chain chamI I ber of commerce referenda showed majority of oC business men calendar change chango b by International conference r pi NATIONAL COMMITTEES Th Time The em mo nt is no now headed to toward tord rd tho league ea lI of or na nations ua- ua lions which at the lie Instance of this thi international chamber of oC com com- com appointed a committee to to V study simplification The t tee I studied d proposals als The outmost out out- most favored fa next to the thirteen thirteen- mouth month calendar Is IJ a plan which equalized the lie four quarters 1 of the year cr 1 1 x In lii 1927 9 7 tho the Ica league ue suggested to i all 11 selection of or special P dal com j to sound bound public sentiment and report Secretary of ot State Stale KI i a logg sanctioned unofficial tation Lallon from several eral of or our govern govern- ov m- m ment departments on on the thc American committee e and amid the chairman IS ii George l a a. vigorous I orous' orous supporter sUpporter sup sup- porter T of or simplification Our committee com corn was tho thio first to report to the time leau league dUn Tr preponderant pon ram opinion In favor ol a of or tho the thirteen thirteen- month fixed calendar U but expressIng express express- s- s Ing the tha belief belh f that hint the lime bl best bl t f 1 plan n would emerge after discussion In an International 5 conference Tho len league lIe J Is now iiO a awaiting walt Ing reports re- re ports from froni committees It leeI of r oilier t nations nation Its Us assembly hn hia has placed I lh th subject cl of or calendar reform on Ot time the agenda of or this the next meeting 0 or ortho of tho time fourth general on communications n and amid transit In Iii 1931 a u. conference e of or official government s ates Some definite j program Is likely to emers that conference although ii does dos nut not scent st-em m likely that 1 the ca cal cal cal- Indar will bo ho changed b by 1333 m many of or tho the simplification hope