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Show THE S ALIN A SUN, SAUNA, UTAH New Calendar Is Asked for 1928 HOW DOES SHE DO IT? En Fete for Japanese Crown Prince - Scientists Point to Value of Plan Having Uniform Dates for Each Day. Washington. Tlie old question of revising the calendar Is coming up anew. Oflieiul bodies of no less Importance than the weather bureau In the United States and the League of Nations In Europe are giving serious consideration to a general revision of the method of computing time. Efforts now are being made to bring about un International conference for a discussion of the problem and the formation of a new system. The League of Nations has appointed a special committee to investigate the necessity and desirability for a reform of the calendar. The committee has held some sessions, but at present is in adjournment pending the gathering of additional data. Should the United States government, or any other government, call an International conference on the subject it is certain that the committee would play a large part in the deliberation Dr. C. F. Marvin, chief of the United States weather bureau, may be considered as the head of the movement for calendar reform in this country, lie has given much study to the subject and is probably the leading American expert. He advocates a simplification which would base the year on week as the major unit. the seven-daThe year would consist of 13 months of 28 days each, or exactly four weeks each. One Day All by Itself. One extra day would be left over. Doctor Marvin suggests that this extra day be not Included In any month, but given a name of Its own. It might tw New Years day, or any other which could be agreed upon. The day, under holithe plan, would be a world-widday. It should be placed, in Doctor Marvins opinion, between December VS and January 1. Doctor Marvin would insert his extra month in midsummer, In the belief that this would cause the least disturbance This calculations. to accustomed would bring It between the present months of June and July. Every four years would come still an extra day and this would he taken care of by abIt solutely separate classification. would have its own special name, such as Leap Year day, and would not be a part of any regular month. It, too, y e holiday. might be a world-wid- e Doctor Marvin says there are many advantages to the plan he proposes. Dividing the year into months which are precise multiples of the seven-daweek would simplify business and scientific transactions. Bunk Interest could be more easily reckoned and accounting could be better standardized. Scientific data, particularly of a meteorological nature, would be better handled on a basis of even week units. To effect the reform would be no simple matter. The governments of the world, business communities, scientific institutions and perhaps, most important of all, the various ghurches, would have to be brought Into agreement upon the program. Because of the numerous church festivals, saints days and the like, the church is closely bound up with the calendar; Indeed. heretofore the calendar has beeD In the hands of the churchmen rather than laymes, and the calendar that y this letter Is dated by The early Egyptians had a year of months with an extra five each In early Hebrew hisyear. days tory we find the year of 12 months with an occasional extra month when one was needed to adjust the calendar. The early Creeks also had a year. Every 19 years the moon returns on precisely the same day, completing a cycle, and the Greeks were guided by this and made adjustments accordingly. The Greek month was not divided into weeks, as our month Is, but into Each decades. month had three decades of ten days each. In Called the girl who sees without some respects this might be regarded eyes, Miss Kodah recently demonas a simpler system than the month, but Christendom would never strated her capablljtes of sightless accept such a scheme because of the vision by steering her automobile with three teaching of Genesis which specifically through asthe maze of traffic, Her eyes were, passengers. tells that the Lord labored six days people nd rested upon the seventh. The blindfolded nnd Inspected by the offiwho witnessed the demonstration teachings of the Scriptures enjoin upon cials in New York. us six days labor and then a day of rest. This has fixed the seven-daweek in the Occident. rest of would not The Greek system was generally em- and the Europe wns abandoned. project ployed in the Mediterranean basin but The East has different methods. The by the time of the Roman emperor, Mohammedan calendar shows differJulius Caesar, the division of months ours. In this country an had become sufficiently maladjusted by ences from bill Is Introduced to change occasional slight differences from year to year the methods of computing time, but that the astronomers found the calenhas been paid to them. attention little dar to be two months out of the way. Caesar ordered his experts to work out The x'fsent movement is the most serious since that of the French revoa new system and they did so. Julius Caesar, it must be remem- lution. bered, was the head of the Romafl church as well as the civil emperor ot Pennsylvania to Assure the Romans. The year in which the Motorists of Pure Water transition from the old to the new calFa. Analysis of drinkHarrisburg, endar was made was called the year of water along state highways has 12 30-da- y 30-da- y four-wee- k y confusion. It contained 14 months. The new calendar was called the Julian calendar, being named after Julius Caesar, and a new name of July was given to a midsummer month to commemorate his service to mankind In readjusting the time measurement. The Julian calendar was employed by the entire Occident up until 1582. By that date it was found to be about ten days out of reckoning and Tope Gregory instituted a study which resulted In the establishment of the calendar used today. To show the Importance of obtaining the consent of the churches to any change in the calendar It may be recalled that the Greek church did not accept the Gregorian calendar, but adhered to the old one. The result was that up until the .memory of living persons the Russian time was about half a month out of the way. The difference was comparable to the difference in this country of two cities, one of which has daylight saving and the other standard time. In dating a letter one added the letters O. S. after the date if he were using the old style. At the time of the French revolution an attempt w;s made to revise the calendar, but it proved abortive. Tlfe pure water. Girl, 19, Sisters Guardian San Francisco, Cal. As guardian of her sister, Miss Nellie Madden, just past nineteen herself, appeared in Judge Grahams court to report that she had received $2,500 for her sister, Teresa, and was keeping It safely until her ward shall be old enough to be Intrusted with the funds herself. sixteen-year-ol- d Annual Ceremony at Ostend CHINESE STAGE STAR I 4M Miss Lee Sut Alul, eighteen, pretty Chinese actress and the most sought after Chinese actress that ever cams into the United States, sailed to China on the Faciflc mall liner Preal-dePierce. But accompanying the young lady was her husband. Tom Sunt Tom, wealthy cotton grower of Mexicali, Cal. nt carts are not In the running with this motorcycle The outfit which serves to protect both rider and Ice cream van In all kinds of weather. The owner Is L. Montaro of Frederick, Md., and he does a thriving old-tim- e Ice cream business. 4 in ing been begun by officials of the state department of health. An ambulance converted into a field laboratory took to the road at the extreme astern end of the Lincoln highway, opening the movement designed to protect the health of motorists who use wayside drinking water. As soon as the tests are made the results will be sent field engineers, who will post the drinking places. It is planned to post each source of water supply, and where the water is found to be dangerous to the public health warning signs will be set up. Dr. Charles II. Miner, secretary of health, declared the movement Is the first of Its kind on the part of any state to protect motorists from Im- was established of Labor Reports Favora- Results A $10,000 prize, offered to the most beautiful mother with the most beautiful children was awarded to Mrs. A. C. Gandy of Richmond, Ind., and her two children. The picture shows Howard Chandler Christy finishing a portrait of the group with Mrs. Gandy and her two children, Joe, two and a half, and Ann, four years, posing. 1 HABIT CLINICS FOR CHILDREN HAVE PROVED BIG SUCCESS ble Mother and Children Win Beauty Prize Sells Ice Cream From Motorcycle by the pope of Rome. Doctor Marvin points out that the change could be effected with least Inconvenience by taking action before 1928, the nearest year In which January 1 falls on a Sunday. This would enable the new year to start on the first day of a week. The history of the development of the calendar Is of absorbing Interest. The earliest savages were dimly aware of divisions of time, reckoning them by Our own astronomical phenomena. North American Indians to this day refer to the months as the "moons. There Is the moon of blossoms and so oh, with a distinctive name for each cycle of the moon. The Indian reckons lesser periods of time, by suns. From one place to another will be described as five suns Journey. Department Tokyo en fete for the wedding of the crown prince. In the wide plaza In front of the Imperial palace a pavilion was erected specially for the occasion and there the crown prince and his bride received the homage of the people. Treatment of Abnormal Cases. "Habit clinics for Washington. young children, the latest development In the child hygiene field, are described In a report Just issued by the childrens bureau of the Department of Labor. The habit clinic treats children displaying temper tantrums or other bad habits as patients and diagnoses and treats the bad habit on a scientific basis. By eliminating the cause of the bad habit the clinic helps the child to make a normal adjustment to his surroundings aDd develop into a personality. Dr. D. L. Thom, Boston, director of the babtt clinics of the Community Health association of that city, Is the author of the report Issued by the well-rounde- d childrens bureau. lie states that the first habit clinic, organized In 1921, was so successful there now are eight clinics, three under the association and five under the division of mental hygiene of the Massachusetts department of mental diseases. Doctor Thom also is director of this division. Habits most frequently treated by the clinics relate to feeding problems, temper tantrums, pugnacity and shyness, problems relating to sex fife, enuresis, destructiveness, delinquency and acute personality changes. Children who Just won't eat the wholesome food they need ; children who respond to every attempt at discipline with a screaming, kicking attack of temper; children who are either too shy or too "bossy to mingle happily with schoolmates nnd playmates. or even brothers and sisters; children who, without apparent reason, begin to lie or steal, and many others, come or are brought to the clinics to The Holy Lamb and the Bible being curried through the streets of Ostend during the annual ceremony of the blessing of the sea. Prayer is offered for a plentiful harvest of fish and freedom from storms. PRINCE TO BE PRIEST Best Judges of Live Stock get their difficulties straightened out. Prior to Doctor Thoms report this year, ICO cases were registered at the clinics, 130 of which were studied thoroughly. In only 19 cases, Doctor Thom reports, were results discouraging and no evidence of Improvement Of these discouraging cases. shown. 12 came from families which gave no Only seven children whose families failed to Improve. A $10,000 Soupbone Muskegon, Mich. A $10,000 soup-bon- threatened to be an Issue In e cir- cuit court here. Mrs. Mary Kurzdiel, through her attorneys, has filed sup for that amount against the city a Muskegon Heights, alleging that the officers arrested her and took a package containing the soupbone from her, believing it to be liquor and that she was released when the officers discov- ered their mistake. Every woman In Australia who gives birth to a child Is paid $25 by the government Three high school hoys from Whiteside county, 111., Donald Williams nnd Elwyn Folkers of Sterling nnd Harold Guulrupp of Rock Fans, won the International live stock Judging contest at Hayward Heath, England. The boys won a gold trophy presented by the London Dnlly Mall. The boys are shown with their coaches, L. O. Wise and Prof. C. S. Rhode. Crown Prince George of Saxony, who is about to become a priest in order to save the soul of his mother, the former Queen Louise, who eloped with an Italian pianist 21 years ago. Ills mother, still living, is now eking out a bare living In Brussels, where she Is giving piano and French lessons. The young man Is thirty-on- e years old. |