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Show Cache Countv. Utah The Cache AmeiiVan. Pace Two Youd Only Need to Buy a Calendar Once In Yonr Life If We Used World Model Fi.V day always would fall April on Sunday. Th.s is what is tneai.t by a "perpetual calendar. Even leap year dues not throw the World Calendar out of Joint, as the extra day It fitted In as a mim berteai or "Intercalary day l,k Year-Enday. Leap-Yea- r day Is an extra Saturday too. Next In Importance, probably, is the fact that every quarter of every year would contain the tame number of days, 91, making calcu lotions of interest, rent, compare live production, and so forth, much easier. Each month would have 28 week days, so direct comparisons of months at equal working periods would be possible. Thirty day months would have four Sundays, months five Sundays, so the extra day would not be a working day anyhow. Holidays. Insofar as Any Date Always Falls on Same Day Of Week, Every Year Ily ELLIOTT PINK Union. by wtrn Nwtx.r New Years day tails on Saturday this year. If it hadnt been for Hitler and the ambitions of Japan, New Years day might be Sunday this year, and next year; in fact it would be Sunday every Itrlr.Md year. dorsed the plan. Little religious opposition has been shown or is anticipated to the World Calendar, in 39-da- y Business men want some kind of Ti e difficulties of computing interest, making comparisons of periods, keeping Inventories, and other accounting problems, re much complicated by Die Irregularities of the months. A few businesses use 53 weeks, divided Into 13 periods of 28 days, or four even weeks. But this calendar, it is thought, would never be adaptable to general use, for many reasons. some traditional and sentimental, but real, nevertheless. In any ease, the International Chamber of Commerce went on record In 1933 as favoring the World Calendar, or similar plan. Lawyers Like It. The legal profession also has endorsed the World Calendar through action at a conference of the American Bar association in 1931 Lawyers are particularly anxious for the complications of the present calendar to be Ironed out, according to spokesmen. Social activities would be easier with the Wurld Calendar in use, as invitations would then be dated accurately more often than now. People would not be arriving on the wrong day so frequently. Practically everybody, in fact, would benefit by a simplified calendar: farmers. merchants, housewives, scientists, schoolteachers and everyone else. Publishers of calendars would be the only losers. Leaders of every Important nation have endorsed the calendar reform, most of them advocating the World Calendar, or some similar r plan. In June, 1931, special League of Nations committee, after due consideration, had trimmed 200 proposed reformed cal endars down to two. One was the calendar The other was the perpetual, equal-quartscheme, known in the United States as the World Calendar. Dele gates of six nations leaned toward the plan. Most speakers stated that the people they represented would wish to retain a 12 month calendar from custom and religious reasons, and that, in their cal opinion, a change to a endar would be too drastic to gain In the end, the wide acceptance. question of reform was laid aside for further study. Must Wait on New League. In the 30s the League of Nations steadily lost power and prestige, and with the outbreak of the European war the only international body capable of putting the World Calendar into effect, disappeared. It must be remembered that a new or reformed calendar would have to have world-wid- e acceptance. The world has grown too small, as has often been said lately, for nations to go their ways independently. Air trav el will demand uniformity. It may be that the Peace Confer ence everybody is looking forward to will give this calendar reform matter consideration and perhaps, in the postwar period of eagerness for improvements, some new League may be able to have the reformed calendar adopted. Swift action will be necessary, however, as the next chance to slip the World Calendar into use without a ripple will be January 1, 1950. If much time is spent in arguing and ratifying, the opportunity for a smooth transition will pass again. calendar reform. equal-quarte- d 31-d- fq Fourth Quarter dar is "perpetual; D LEAP-YEA- R DAY, December Y, follows December 30 every year. DAY, June L, follows June 30 In leap years. From the World Calendar, edited by Elisabeth Achelis. Roman Emperors Gave Us Present Calendar Our present calendar was arranged largely by Julius Caesar and his nephew, Caesar Augustus. When Julius returned from his Egyptian campaign In 46 B. C., he brought with him Sosigenes, a famed astronomer, to correct the Roman calendar. This sage established the length of the year at 365 days, divided into 12 months. The unevenly numbered first, third, etc., had 31 days each, and the even months 30 days, except February, which had 29 days, regularly, and 30 only in leap years. The seventh month was named Julius, by order of the senate, to honor Caesar. j When Caesar Augustus came to power he had the eighth month named after himself. This being a y month, Augustus felt it was inferior to July, so he lengthened August to 31 days, taking the extra day from February. Then to avoid months in a row, be pulled three the 31st day off September and November, and added them to Octuber and December. Thus the egolism of one mar completely disrupted the wie end order j ly year of Julius. 31-d- ; Julius Caesar Lright-colurc- SincerSecretary Hulls Determination and ity During Visit to Moscow Broke Barriers Of Suspicion. Russia Now Real d Ally. By BAUKIIAGE AWl Anal) it and Commentator. Service, Cnloa Trust Building, Washington, D. C. The flag is flying over the White House again, a real symbol, no long er a ruse de guerre. After the past few weeks. It is a relief to know it really means that the President is there not an attempt to hide bis absence from the enemy. Already the nervous bulletins, an nouncing the forbidden truths or the Invented canards as to the whereabouts of the Allied leaders, are for gotten in the more instant Interest In the happenings on the battle fronts on the home front Washington has had time to pon dcr on Americas new leadership In world affairs. Perhaps that toast of fered by Premier Stalin to American war production without which, he said, the war could not have been won by the Allies, brought the truth borne. America Is emerging out of this holocaust as the worlds great est power. And for the first time 'in history, the world's greatest power is the nation whose people are least prepared, least experienced, least anx lous for world leadership. There Is a chance that we may let it go by default. Washington has assayed pretty well by this time the fniits of the Moscow conference, the Cairo conattendference with Chiang ing; the Teheran meeting; the meeting with Turkey's president. W.NU Kai-she- k Russias New Role oneness of purpose, the sincerity, the of this unwavering determination broke that of Tennessee son hardy down the barriers of suspicion and distrust and found a common way shoulder-to-shouldfor Russia to march solidly Amerand with Britain ica In this war and to give promise that the three would face the peace afterward with the nearest thing to er International altruism that this weary world can expect Moscow paved the way. Teheran sealed the covenants. It killed once and for all the controversy over the "second front and struck the cadence that brought the Allies marchwas ing in step toward victory. How convincing By this accomplished? Russia that it was not the plot of the capitalistic nations to let her bleed white on the battlefields so that she could be throttled in the postwar world. About Chiang Kai-she- k We cannot omit from any discussion of these meetings what America achieved when she brought into the picture. The Chiang Chinese believe in America. They Kai-she- think we have decent ideals. But they assayed us as a still more or less kindly, indifferent people who, without much thought, would dance to the British tune. And Britain they distrusted. They know now that America had the breadth of view and the acumen to use that word again in its best sense to bring China into the higher councils of the Allies. It was Hull who Insisted that China become of the agreement at Moscow. It was America Hull, Roosevelt whomever you wish to credit for the act who brought Chiang into the Cairo conference. Strangely enough, America, nearer to Europe by the racial ties of a great part of Its citizenry, is even closer to Europes culture than the residents of the tight little British Isles themselves. Yet Americas ig' norance of Europes real needs and thoughts is vast compared to that of England's statesmen. But Amer ica does seem to understand the Far East, can sympathize with it, and once America assumes the position to which her mighty power gives her the right, she can be the real in terpreter between the East and the West And lacking an interpreter, the East can only become a great potential enerpy, protagonist of ra cial hatreds and racial wars. America won her spurs at Moscow and Teheran, all we can ask is the support of the people so that she can wear them with the honor she loves, with the power she has. four-natio- n J. S. Food Production And World Needs A detailed analysis of the worlds food, fiber and tobacco needs and the part the United States must play in supplying them now and in the post- n Sixteen republics and the United States have joined in a war against malaria. 0 9 metal-consumin- g AUNT MARTHA desired. Pattern No Name Address Indexing Names The latest system for indexing personal names enables a clerk to locate quickly even those that sound alike but are wTitten differently, says Colliers, such as Kelly with 14 spellings, Snyder with 29, and Burke which is also written Bork, Byrk, Bhourque and 36 other ways. Each entry is listed alphabetically under the first name in the section containing all surnames with the same chief consonant sounds. Hence, the card for however spelled, Lily "Burke, would be filed in section Brk under Lily. Gems of Thought Be what your friends think are; avoid being what your enemies say you are, go right forward and be happy. Pomeroy. The soul of a philosopher runs away from his body and desires to be alone and by herself. Plato. It is something to have an influence on the fortunes of mankind; it is greatly more to have an influence on their intellects. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. Luke 6:44. you Records Phone Talks A new portable device picks up and records incoming and outgoing telephone conversations with a war period, has been made public sapphire stylus on roll film, one by the National Planning associaloading of which will take down 15 tion. hours of talk. Recording by in"If the United States were to adopt duction, the machine does not reminimum diet . . . and direct its quire any physical connection with resources the telephone instrument or the present and agricultural labor accordingly, wires, even being able to operate some distance from them. says the National Planning associa- Royal Air force home stations are encouraged to grow their own vegetables. 0 No. Z9501, 13 cents, Is the hot iron transfer bringing all eight fiesta motifs. Welcome this set to your own kitchen, and make extra 6ets (the one pattern will stamp them) for gifts that excite complimentary comments. k And he said that what he would say would be frank and forthright and what he expected would be said to him would, likewise, be frank and forthright, truths minted in the same And Mr. Hull was met coin. squarely on the terms he laid down. Jan Christian Smuts, now mellowed perhaps with a flavor of British diplomatic acumen, is fundamentally a person who sees beyond his own borders (he envisioned an association of nations before the League was proposed in the last war). After the last of the conferences, he declared that no such gatherings for the last hundred years had been as important as these. I do not pretend to say that Secretary Hull was solely responsible for the success of these meetings; in fact, only time will tell how lasting their success will be, but it Is the firm conviction of even the skeptical in Washington that it was the The mint has embarked on a nation-wide drive to draw small coins, especially pennies out of hiding and into the hands of merchants as a means of reducing demands for coinage and to increase supplies of change. seven of these appealing motifs for your tea towel corners; the eighth design is a bowl of flowers lor a panholder. HiW Westport Rd., Rooms City, Mo. Enclose IS cents for eich pattern tion (a organization), "there would be enough food left over to feed another one hundred and thirty million people. The report, "World Needs for U. S. Food and Fiber, was prepared by Dr. John D. Black of Harvard. Dr. Black is also a member of the Food and Nutrition board of the National Research council and on the Economic panel which is advising the Unitdd Nations Interim commission on food and agriculture. Home production must and can be expanded to meet the needs of the United Nations, the armed forces, our own civilians, and to aid starving countries, the report contends. But even with greatly expanded production, it holds out little hope for an end to all rationing for a year or even two years after the war. A highly efficient, low cost, balanced human diet can be compounded from whole wheat, potatoes, peas and beans, whole milk, vegetable oils and carrots and tomatoes, says Dr. Black, "but at the same time, any reasonable statement of food needs must recognize not only the difficulty of changing food habits quickly but also the production factors which can diversify the diet considerably. Mr. Hull a Terms that is, any particular date in any year would always fall on the same YEAR-EN- 83 Ray as 1 dishes arc possible with your this new transfer. Applique does the trick, with pottery dishes providing the motifs. Added gaiety is achieved by placing the dishes on shelves above a strip of colorful shell paper. There are BreaksDownAlliedDistrust The achievement, first and foremost, unless we read all the signs is that Russia emerges In a new role. As Secretary Hull firmly believes, the fate of the world depends now on Russia and the United States. Until the Moscow conference with the Teheran meeting to put its seal upon it, Russia was still an Interna tional enigma. She was fighting the same enemy that we were in Europe. But she was in no sense an ally. Today she Is still fighting the same enemy in Europe but is allied with us. Those are the main fniits of the Moscow and Teheran conferences'. We are not a nation of diplomats. England has the wisdom of the ages inherited from an intimacy with the chancelleries of Europe since the days of Metternich. Today she has, at the head of her government, one of the greatest leaders the empire has produced. But not even English guile or graciousness, her wile or her wisdom accomplished what one lean and aged mountaineer achieved in the Kremlin. When Cordell Hull went to Moscow, he went as a knight on a crusade, not for personal glory, not for gain, but because he felt that was the duty the Lord had laid upon him. He told himself before he went, despite the timorous restraint of physicians in whose care he had been, despite the concern of the wife he loves so well, that he would go on this mission if it took him by land or sea or air to the ends of the earth. And when he arose at that first and addressed the representv meeting atives of the three powers, he said frankly that what he was about to propose was in the interest of his own country. He hoped he could show that it would be in the interest of all. The World Calendar day. Thus, for instance, May 21 would always fall on Tuesday, no matter what the year. It would be Tuesday in 1950, 1976, 1949 or any other year. Fourth of July would always be Wednesday; Christmas day always Monday. 'TEA towels fact Dack In 1931 the League of Nations began to talk about calendar reform. During the next four year there was much talk, but at last two plana emerged from the welter. One was the year, and the In the other the World Calendar. World Calendar. New Year day Is not were on If It a Sunday. always for the war, the League would atill be functioning, and the World Calendar might be In use by now. So Hitler is responsible for wrecking, or at least sidetracking, calendar reform. Dut the calendar can wait Time goea on, and a better way of measuring it can be adopted at some future time. Of the two achcmei, the World Calendar aeema to be the more favored as It doe not break violently with custom and tradition, Ao Inca calendar, made ef hamcalendar does. as the mered gold, found In Peru. The symPrincipal advantages of the World bols around the rim are supposed to Calendar are: first, it is perpetual; represent the months. Many ancient that is, any date In any year la al- peoples devised fairly satisfactory ways the ame day of the week. calendars, often having the year diSecond, every quarter la the same vided into 12 periods. The in length and arrangement Third, five days left at the end of the year the months are almost the tame were special days, sometimes feasts, length; eight have 30 day and four sometimes unlucky or evil days. Si day, Every month ha 28 week possible, would be celebrated on days. Ilow It Works. Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. The World Calendar is based on Holidays, at least in the United the idea of equal quarters. Each States, would fit Into the week-end- s three month period contains the rather conveniently Christmas, the same number of days: 91. The first 25th of December, would always be month of each quarter has 31 days; on Monday, giving most working holior three-da- y the other two, 30. So January, April, people a 2 months; day. The new holiday. "Year-EnJuly and October are the other eight each have 30 days. day, being an extra Saturday on To accomplish this rearrangement the end of December, would lengthfor it is necessary only to change seven en the New Year's week-end- , days in the familiar pattern. The New Year's day would be Sunday first is in February. That peculiar always. Labor day would fall on month gets two additional days. Monday, September 4, every year, The These two days are the 31st of providing a nice long week-end- . in middle the takof are of which and holidays disruption August, May en off these two months, leaving of the week would be dona away them each an even 30 days. Then with. the 31st of March is sliced off and Thanksgiving day could be moved put onto April Lastly, December to Monday, November 20, if it were 31 becomes "Year-En- d day, which thought necessary, or Monday the has no number on the new calendar. 27th. So various other holidays, obThis "Year-En- d day is the really served in dillercnt sections and brilliant feature of the World Cal- states, could be moved to the nearendar. The 3C5th day is the one est Monday, Saturday or Sunday. Churches in Favor, that throws every attempt to formuChurch councils and synods have late an evenly divisible year into chaos. By calling the last day of gone on record as favorable to the the year "Year-En- d day and mak- World Calendar, as well as a fixed date for Easter. Between 1931 and ing it an extra Saturday, the prob1936 the Episcopal church, the Preslem is pretty well solved. One other difficulty, the additional byterian, the United Lutheran, and day of leap years, as 1944 is, must the Methodist Episcopal of the be taken care of some way. This is South, to name a few, have all done by adding a day to June. In passed resolutions endorsing calenleap years the last week of June dar reform, and a fixed Easter. The would have two Saturdays. Roman Catholic church, while makseems ing no formal declaration of approvThis "Year - End day somewhat fantastic, the first time it al, has stated that no dogmatic difis thought about, but it is no more ficulties exist Eighteen Catholic difficult in principle than turning bishops and archbishops, throughout back or advancing your watch an the world, are members of the World hour when you cross one of the Calendar association. The Eastern time belts, or picking up or los- Orthodox church, through the Patriarch of Constantinople, has en ing a whole day at the International Date line, out in the Pacific. It would not be hard to get accustomed to the change. It is only about 60 years AH Years Alike All Quarters Equal since the Standard time was "'Wyanws'i: system adopted. rywyt"WV't1' Qtiirlw , Sacaad Quaftw First Qujifw t The difficulties as well as the advantages of Standard time are now taken for granted. Right now we are living under a temporary disturbance of this system, called War Saving Time, which inconveniences many, despite its benefits. The Year - End day would fit in much easier than it seems at first glance. Advantages of the World Calendar are several. First, the caleny 'Lean, Aged Mountaineer' kelp prrrsct cany from developing Put a few drops of up each nostril at the very first sniffle or sneeze. Its quick action aids Natures defenses ol against colds. Follow WlSkiS VA-TE19-11- For Victory Latin-America- A check for $15,000,000 has been delivered by the French Committee of National Liberation to foreign economic administrator Leo T. Crowley in payment for civilian supplies shipped to French North Africa under the terms of the Lend-Leasact. e BUY U.S. BONDS AND STAMPS |