Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-01-27
VVANTNEVGAL ENDAR
Dutch Delegates to London Cor
gress to Urge innovation.
Claim Is Made That It Would Greatly
Simplify Wage and Interest Cal
cuIations-PIan Is of Swiss
Oriqin.

The Hague, Holland.-At the inter
national congress of chambers of COM
merce and Industrial societies, which
Is to take place in London in 1910, the
Dutch Society of Industry will pro-
pose to simplify the calendar accord
ing to the method of the Swiss pro-
fessor, Grosdande. The Gregorian CAL
endar, which was great step in adj
vance of the time Of its introduction,
still contains many elements of DIM
Guilty for modern trade and industry.
Perhaps the worst of them is the un-
certainty of Easter day and cOnse-
quently Whitsunday.
Like Christmas day and New Years
day, Easter is an important date with
many nations. In many branches Of
industry Easter is the time of greatest
activity. For these industries it
would be a great boon if Easter day
could be given fixed date, or ap-
proximately so, for now the time
often varies as much as IS days.
The shortness of the month of Feb
ruary is the one difficulty to be sur
mounted. The inequality of length
of the months gives a great deal of
trouble in the calculation of wages
and of interest that go by the month.
and which do not now coincide with
first anu second half of the year there
is also difference of three days.
In all business houses and large con-
Germs where the wage payment to
workers is a large factor, it would
greatly simplify matters in making up
accounts of profit and loss if every
year always had So equal wage weeks.
Hollands delegates to the London
conference will propose that the cal
endar year shall consist of New
Years day and further of IL mouths
of So weeks, the weeks to be divided
into four quarters or terms, each of
13 weeks of 81 days, the quarters to
be divided into three months of re-
spectively 80 and 81 days.
If the introduction of the new cal
endar is postponed until 1912 the list
of January, which will be the day
after New Years day (marked o.
will fall on a Monday. This will give
the advantage that the thirty-first day
of the months of March, June, Sep
TENDER and December will be Sun.
days, so that all the months of 81 days
have one Sunday more than the
months of 80 days, but the same mum
Der of work days. This will sim.
plify all business calculations.
Leap year would oe inserted be-
tween Sunday, June 81, and Monday
July /, so that in leap year the extra
day would be exactly in the middle OF
the year and have the same function
as New Years day, being similarly
marked with an (cipher).
In this way (1) all the terms OF
quarters of a year would be of equal
length; (2) each month should have
an equal number of work days; 81
the first and fifteenth days of every
month, which play such an important
part in business, would never fall on
Sunday; "a all Sundays would be
easily determined, because the thirty
first day, with which every term
closes, always falls on Sunday; (5)
every year would be divided in the
same way; 60 Easter day would fall
on the 7th of April, the first Sunday
of the second quarter.
If this proposal of Holland Is accept
ed the calendar for the first quarter
of the Year 1912 would look like this:
January. February. March
New Year
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