REFORMING THE CALENDAR.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 14 December 1925, Page 9

REFORMING THE CALENDAR.

America Seeking Plans. interesting proposals CONSIDERED. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received December 13, 5.5 p.m.) NEAV YORK, December 12. The Merchants’ Association is holding hearings for a plan of calendai reform to be submitted to the League of Nations, which issued a world-wide, appeal for suggestions. The Association has already considered 1370, of which several are unique. One proposed to start the year on March 21st, and divide it into ten months of six weeks, each of which would have six days instead of seven, thus making the working week only five days, which should appeal widely. There were, however, five days remaining which would be called after Christ, Columbus, Stephenson (inventor of the locomotive), Fulton (inventor of the steamship), and Henry Ford. Another plan proposed thirteen months of 28 days each, fixing Easter for the second Sunday in April, and making the last day of the year an international Sabbath, and treating Leap Year in the same way, and putting it at the end of June. The hearings ore attracting wide attention, and furnish daily interesting discussions which cover a range of human knowledge from mathematics to biblical history and social reform.