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Show CALENDAR REFORMERS WANT TEAR OF IS MONTHS t I CHANGE MEANS' MILLIONS SAVED, ADVOCATES SAY Year Would Be Divided Into Thirteen Months of 28 Days CUTS OUT EXTRA DAY Extra Month to Ee Called "Vera'" Under Plans of Reformers WASHINGTON, Feb, 7. A national convention of business, professions 1 1 and scientific men to discuss the .t .Ion of calendar reform with a vl-w m endorsement "i n bill now pending in congress to establish a new calendar, calen-dar, dividing the year into thirteen months of 28 days each conven 1 here today at th- National Museum, at the I National Auditorium under the au-ispices au-ispices of the Liberty Calendar Association Asso-ciation of Arnercn. The "Liberty Calendar" w'hich has be' introduced ; in' the b -. f I n - of Minnesota, wltb the endorsement I of the asSOClatlOu. would put the new time schedule into etrect n i" give the "other nations an opportunity to follow.'" Al N I AGES Oil I " The bill is advocated b th' " lion as affording a standard time schedule fo; evi ry . ear Which would definltelj Ms tor aU times the date;, ol every dai of the week by the uniform 38 day month division and thus d.s-pnse d.s-pnse with the r.eed of yearly calendars and the inconvenience of having to refer to these to establish the coincidence coinci-dence of "days and dales. M 1 MONTH VRRN in 65-dav years ih odd da:. remaining re-maining would be disposed of as ' new vctir day" the first of the year, and retained as a legal holiday. "In "leap . ar" the additional one day lap wouiu) be disposed of bv creating u ' hap ear day" between the months of June and July. SS a legal holiday The extra, month pf the calendar would be called Vern" to Include the 'vernal eyui-1 nox" and begin spring The proposed calendar would i"g-' th- w.-ek with Monday Instead of Bun-day. Bun-day. Thus K'S IS selected for Installing Install-ing u advocates explained, because oven month then would be fixed for, each dav of the week until the end ot time. An estimate,! saving of - 1 000,000 a .ear now- expended n cal- endars is oil: argument of the associ-i atlon In support of the proposal. |