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Show I New Timetable Streamlined 'Modern' Year Sought in World Calendar WASHINGTON. The old horse-and-buggy timetable by which Americans trustingly counted the shopping days until Christmas and sweated out the due dates of their promissory promis-sory notes isn't sufficiently jet-propelled for this atomic age, four congressmen insisted in introducing bills for adoption of a fixed, perpetual world calendar. The proposed calendar would divide the year into four quarters of 91 days each, the first month in each quarter having 31 days and the succeeding two months 30 days each. The 365th day would be a world holiday and in leap year the 366th day also would be a holiday. The year-end world holiday, according accord-ing to Senator Murray of Montana, one of the sponsors, would be dedicated dedi-cated to international peace and friendship. "This modernization provides a calendar the same each year perpetually, per-petually, equalizes the quarters and fixes holidays so they fall on the same day and date each year," Murray said. Fourteen nations already have endorsed the proposed world calendar. cal-endar. These include China, traditionally tradi-tionally polite to foreign innovations and six La tin-American countries, where siestas need no calendar guide. Norway, Greece, Esthonia, Hungary, Spain, Turkey and even Afghanistan also have joined the movement. In addition to providing future youngsters with a new birthday, February 30, and a year-end holiday, holi-day, proponents maintain that the new system would facilitate accounting ac-counting and make statistics more readily comparable. They failed to mention that it also would help a man keep his wedding anniversary straight. |