The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13
CHANGE EASTER
TO FIXED DATE
French shop Keepers Would Turn
Calendar Over so That 1t VIII
Be OF More
Benefit.
THE VATICAN WILLING
France Has Problem In the Question
of Making Morocco See Things
as They Wish
Them.

[By William Philip simms, Paris cor
respondent of the United Press.l
PARIS, October IA strong ef-
fort is being made here by creators
Of the worlds fashions to do away
with variable Easter and have
France take the lead in fixing date
in the spring when this importantest
femininity-day of the year will fall
Casters haphazard coming, some
times before winter is over and some
times after summer Is we'll nigh on,
not only keeps the creators of style
guessing, but by the present system
they stand to lose, and do lose, pile
of money each year the gladstone day
doesn't hit them right.
When Easter comes too early, wo.
men refuse to shed cold-weather gar
ments and bedeck themselves in the
dainty flimsy flounces of spring.
Some follow the style regardless, the
men say, but they want Easter al.
ranged for the good of all. When Eas-
ter arrives too late, the summer sea-
son is encroached upon; the girls
have donned spring or summer cloth
ing and the mix-up Is general The
ladies' tailors of the rue de la Paix
and the rue Royal claim they are left
with the bag to hold.
France, these arbiters of ladies'
fashions, claim with more or less rea.
4 son, sets the world right on the mode
4 question, therefore the world should
get together and agree that the
changeable Easter shall go; that on
certain Sunday every spring Eas-
ter shall be celebrated, and that this
A date shall be the same, year in and
year out.
The business interests of the world
i demand the change, say the style
4 people here. And they prove 1t by
quoting international Congress of
& Chambers of Commerce statistics on
the subject This body demanded 1t
in Prague in 1908, the Hague in 1909
and in Louion 1910, when this reso-
luton was passed:
at is desirable to arrange and es-
tablish an international calendar;
i st is desirable to fix, by interna-
tional agreement, the date upon which
haster shall fall;
1.-THE congress charges its perma-
nent committee to induce some gov
eminent to take the initiative in con-
voking an official diplomatic confer
ence at which these problems will
. be settled"
Paris, great dressmakers and hat
CONNECTION have been busy ever since.
Switzerland has agreed to start the
ball rolling and the diplomatic con.
ference asked for by the congress at
London will be held at Berne.
In the meantime France has discov-
cred that the vatican will not make
any opposition, providing certain con-
ditions are fulfilled. Cardinal Ram
:, polla declares that II the nations get
> together on the thing the vatican
might indeed take the initiative itself.
However, the pope would make action
:, on the part of the church conditional
upon the Greek church adopting the
: Gregorian calendar, thus reformed.
o HTOtSStdutS nave hidue SihAilai wv
!. larations.
That 100000 soldiers will be neces-
sary to bring Morocco around to look
ing at things from the French view
point, is the opinion Of the best
judges of the situation in the new
!. protectorate. There will soon be hall
that number of troops available in
: that part of Africa but these are not
believed to be more than half enough
:. to conquer the land.
And there's the rub. Lucien Mile
: voye, a political writer, points ou
this fact and then asks: "And wha
: about the German frontier?' Hi
: question makes the best of Frencl
!, statesmen shake their heads doubt
: fully.
Frances army numbers less thar
100000 She has a population to draw
from of less than 100000, Ger
a many's army is considerably aboyi
ne the 100000 mark and her population
lg is half again more than that o
ell France Also the German soldier /
ri naturally more robust. taken on tn
m average for France is forced to pres
ell into service young men not any to