Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-07
Modern POPE GregOrjes
Planning a NerO Calendar

special Correspondence)
IN ERLIN, April EFF the major
IL ity Of Europes business men
IL get their way and the many
modern Pope Gregorios can
Bgree on a system, the Christian cal
endar which today obtains throughout
most Of the northern hemisphere from
Pan Francisco across Europe and Asia
p Fladivostok, will come 10 a timely
tni next year. At the June meeting
N London Of the International con-
49, or chambers OF commerce, the
~ subject down for discussion is
uhncation and Simplifcation Of tho
oissoHan calendar Establishment OF
4 Fixed Date Tor Easter" The pro-
usu is backed by numberless CONT
rental chambers OF commerce. II IS
lsd 70 md q way Of fixing Easter
ma an movable church festivals SO
.a' they shall recur every year on
H7 same date, and al the same time
90 away with am the anomalies in
present calendar. and establish
pay lne feiormers call a "symmetrical
hy W.0g Easter IL is calculated that
business mon I'M Europe alone will be
'sl losses ~ several tens of millions
aoilafs BY establishing "a evu1-
.eulcal year the ordinary mortal win
saved numborless troubles at prcS-
solved by mnemonics. such as tho
Thirty days hath September"
ead 50 on. lie will be saved the stm
sarler task of finding out on what
'I t1e week fall Christmas. New
IN ~ aay kings and other mems
,,l'ys' and anniversaries Of great
LOSSES IN BUSINESS.
,i ans decision to agltate for this sim
bs- ,N or life was taken in 1908
N pc que International congress met
Anit,. ana resolved that the yaria-
- ~ the date OF Easter caused Sc
dons -. ss 20 business, and must be
fate-r,fgS WIN The present way OF
li.t 'l''lng tho aster festival is
uher recommended bv enact srienco
titIon. e'u win Christian ira
4, ne movement is strong I'm England
stronger stiu on the Continent
- 'ne present movable Easter ais.
~, The life Of some 800. 900 600 per-
- I'M many parts Of France. Ger
M ana italy Easter Is for prac-
IA % purposes the beginning ana end
1Ir.-- E'ii. Every year. therefore.
49,, 10 length from that before Al
d uat .n'"l terms begin ana end.
asL. .' some years pupils get five
lsst,. more tuition than In others At
for,r. are signed agricultural labor
IN 80 iiouses are sometimes rent
bar,. iI Easter To- Easter. and for
rsst,- '.la7 OF business Christmas ana
49,. are the two culminatinr poipts
,,,tts'Ul's there rs "a lspee Of three
ror,.1 ana sometimes "a lauee ~ four
/. between them An carIv pos-
i'''1laes cold and wet weather ara
lbes,. UaIlc and amuscmente Wbcrs
fo,,rN 'I'se on Palm Sunday as 10
Z, ~ ln Europe, thousands Of octors
\ ssr ru"n prematurely out Of work
mn. Eastcr is carly. Easter ie m
for h,."n9t time for tourist tr1rlc ana
! n sr,''s. and IL is IN the Interest ~
fate y IN these businesses that its
d., t.u'd no longer vary as il now
wy as many as "a days.
THE FIXING OF EASTER
bro lne beginning OF this century
cen INJURED odd resolutions have
ben $500 hy chambers of commerce
fganigs%u oE chambers OF commerce
1hs h ,''.,tls ln1avor Of fixing Easter
Do t,''lllng new. Sixty-eight wears
lried A. wy or Frankurt-o Main
~ loosii 'a,ouuco us own fixed Easter
T. tbs PURPOSES ana later Leipzig.
try and t,r or lts famous fair. mad
n axIns t5.'u. The modern proposals
'N' which viii be urged most