| Show only need to buy a calendar once in hi your life af if we used world model any date always falls on same day D ay of week every year by ELLIOTT PINE released by western newspaper union new years day falls on saturday this year if it been for Hit hitler lerand and the ambitions tio ns of japan ne new W rn years ir d day might besonday be sunday this year and next year in I 1 fact it would be sunday every year back in 1931 the league of notions nations began to talk about calendar reform during the next four years there was much talk but atlant at last two plans emerged frog from the welter wel teri one was month year and the other the world calendar in the world calendar new years day is always on a sunday it if it were not for th the war the league would still be functioning and the world calendar might be in use by now so hitler Is responsible for wrecking or at least sidetracking calendar reform but the calendar can wait time goes on and a better way of measuring it can be adopted at some future time of the two schemes the tee world calendar seems to be the more favored as it does not break violently with kith custom and tradition as the 13 month calendar does principal advantages of the world calendar are first it is per perpetual emual that is any date in any ceaf year is ai always the same day of the week second every quarter is the same in length and arrangement third the months are almost the same length eight hive have 30 days and four 81 d days a a every month has 28 26 week days now how it works the world calendar is based on the idea of equal quarters each three month period contains the same number of days 91 the first month of each quarter has 31 days the other thoi 30 so january janu a ry april july and october are 31 day months the other eight each have 30 days to accomplish this rearrangement it Is necessary only to change seven days in the familiar pattern the first is in february that peculiar month gets two additional days these two days are the slot of may and of august which are taken off these two months leaving them each an even 30 days then the of march is sliced off and put onto april lastly december 31 becomes year end day which has no number on the new calendar this year end day Is the really brilliant feature of the world calendar the day Is the one that throws every attempt to formulate an evenly divisible year into c chaos by calling the last day of the year year end day and making it an extra saturday the problem is pretty well solved one other difficulty the additional day of leap years as 1044 1944 is must be taken care of some way this is done by adding a day to june in leap years the last week of june would have two saturdays this year end day seems somewhat fantastic the first time it Is thought about but it is no more difficult in principle than turning back or advancing your watch an hour when you cross one of the time belts or picking up or losing a whole day at the In interns terna lional date line out in the pacific it would not be hard to get accustomed to the change it is only about 60 years since the standard time system was adopted the difficulties as well as the advantages of standard time ti me are now taken for granted right now we are living under a temporary disturbance tur bance of this system called war saving time which inconveniences many despite its benefits the year end day would fit ix in much easier than it seems at first glance advantages of the world calendar are several first the calendar is perpetual that is any particular date in any year would always fall on the same day thus for instance may 21 would always fall on tuesday no matter what the year it would be tuesday in 1850 1950 1878 1076 1949 or spy any other year fourth of 0 july TU y w would always be wean wednesday edday christmas day always monday I 1 april aar fools foods do day y always would tall fall on sunday ill this th ls Is what Is meant by a perpetual calendar even leap year does not throw the world calendar out of joint as the extra day Is fitted in as a numberless or intercalary day like year end day leap year day Is an extra saturday too next in importance unimportance probably Is the thel fact fait that every quarter quarte of every byear would contain the same number of days 61 91 making calculations of interest renti rent i comparative pio production and to so forth much easier each month would have 26 week days so direct comparisons of months as equal working periods would be possible thirty day months would have four foul sundays 31 day months five sundays so 0 o the extra day would not be a working day anyhow holidays insofar as 1 y 0 17 46 0 c an inca calendar made of hammered gold found la in peru the symbols around the rim are supposed to represent the months many ancient peoples devised fairly satisfactory satis facto r y cal calendars adars often having the year divided into 12 30 day periods the five days left at the end of the he year were special days sometimes feasts sometimes unlucky or evil days possible would be celebrated on saturdays sundays and mondays holidays at least in the united states would lit fit into the weekends week ends rather conveniently christmas the of december would always be on monday giving most working people a wt 2 or three day da y holiday the new holiday year end day being an extra saturday on the end of december would lengthen the new years weekend week end tor for new years day would be sunday always labor day would fall fail on monday september 4 every year providing a nice long weekend week end the disruption of holidays in the middle of the week would be done dona away with thanksgiving day could be moved to monday 9 it were thought or monday the so various other holidays observed in different sections and states could be moved to the nearest monday saturday or sunday churches in favor church councils and synods have gone on record as favorable to the world calendar as well as a fixed date for easter between 1831 1931 and 1938 1936 the episcopal church the presbyterian by terian terlan the united lutheran and the methodist episcopal of the south to name a few have all passed resolutions endorsing calendar reform and a fixed easter the roman catholic church while making no formal declaration of approval a has stated that no dogmatic difficulties exist eighteen Cit catholic holic bishops and archbishops arch bishops throughout the world are members of the world calendar association the eastern orthodox church through the patriarch of constantinople has bus en the plan little religious opposition hasteen has been shown or Is anticipated to the world calendar in fact business men want some kind ot of calendar reform the difficulties ol of computing interest making camp comparisons 8 r of periods keeping inventories and other accounting problems are much complicated by the irregularities lari larl rarities ties of the months A few businesses use 62 52 weeks divided into 13 periods of 28 days or four even weeks but this 13 month calendar it is thought would never be adaptable to general use uise for mandrea sons some traditional and sentimental but real nevertheless in any case the international chamber of commerce went on record in 1933 as favoring the world calender calendar or a similar plan lawyers me like it the legal profession also has hag endorsed the world calendar through action at a conference of the american bar association in 1931 lawyers are particularly anxious for thit the complications of the present calendar to be iron ironed ed out ic according cording to spokesmen social activities would be easier W with ith the world calendar in use as invitations would then be dated accurately cura tely more often than now people would not be arriving on the wrong day so frequently practically everybody in tact fact would benefit by a simplified calendar farmers ers merchants housewives scientists schoolteachers school teachers 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 cal calendar andr or some similar 12 month equal quarter plan in june 1931 a special league of nations committee after due consideration had trimmed proposed reformed reforce d calendars down to two one was the 13 month calendar the other was the 12 month perpetual equal ter scheme known in the united states as the world calendar delegates 0 of I 1 six nations leaned toward the 13 month plan most speakers stated that the people they represented would wish to retain a 12 month calendar from custom and re religious reasons and that in their opinion a change to a 13 month calendar would be too drastic to gain wide acceptance in the end the question on of reform was laid a side aside lor for f further ur ther study must walt wait on new league in the 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 worldwide world wide acceptance the w world has grown too small as has often been said lately lor for nations to 96 go their ways independently air irav ravel will demand uniformity it may be that the peace conference everybody is ii looking forward to will give this calendar reform matter consideration and perhaps I 1 in the postwar period of eagerness for improvements some new league may be able to have the ie reformed formed calendar adopted swift action will III be necessary however as the next chance to slip the world calendar into use without a ripple will be ba january 1 1950 if much time la Is spent ir in arguing and ratifying the opportunity tw for a smooth transition will pass again |
