Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-01-02
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1920.
THE WASTE OF INEFFICIENCY

7 " these days OF fervd commercial and individual
i competition, when efficiency is the watchword Of
each individual and of nations. it is embarrassing
to consider the many inefficient methods and customs
which seem to have been wished on" to us by less
enlightened generation, and which we seemingly lack
the courage and hardhood to discard merely because
we have become accustomed to them. Among such
is our present system Of weights and measures, the
universal typewriter keyboard, which has no JUS
tcaton other than its priority and general use; and
now, at this opportune time of the year attention
is directed to another glazing inefhcency of pracc-
ally universal adoption We refer to our present cal
endar system. We have often tried to figure out the
reason of our present division of time into months
and ascribe a reasonable explanation therefor, but
could not And neither, dear reader can you, our
opinion. In fact it is claimed by certain experts that
our present calendar is "ferocious mess" and we
believe he is right A more inconvenient arrangement
could hardly be conceived There is no regularity in
its construction and its months are of several differ
ent lengths.
We certainly should have better method of
measuring time, and we believe that such calendar
system is offered to us by the American Equal Month
Calendar Association with headquarters at 400 Onei
is designated as the New Liberty Calendar. and is
iOiiHSd 40 ioHoWS'
First-New Year Day becomes an Independent
legal holiday, 1t is not included in any week or
month.
Correction Day" is provided for leap years. 1t is
not included in any week or month.
d-the remaining 365 days are divided into
l3 months of exactly four weeks each, every month
commencing with Monday
Na;tber he epoth nor the number IF orr months
is governed by the moon or any natural law, hence
they can be changed as fit. The months in
this new form are January, February, Liberty March
etc.
The use of the word Liberty" for the new month
proposed especially fitting, in more ways than one
The advantages of this form cannot be overest
mated The saving of time and mental effort woulc
be immense. All holidays and anniversies would al
ways fall on the same day of the week A pomissory
note given for any number of weeks, months anc
years would always come due on the same day of tn,
week it was given The plan also provides that Coco
Friday Easter Sunday and Thanksgiving shall Away
be observed on certain fixed dates
Under the arrangement Of the Liberty calendar
you business men would set definite date for you
board meetings, for city council meetings. for var
ious club and religious meetings, such as occur ONLY
once or twice month. The discrepancy in pay roll
of employees who work by the week or month
which are frequently bone of contention, would b,
entirely done away with, and the keeping of the ex
pense accounts in many establishments greatly sim
pli6ed
This improved form of calendar has been APP
proved by the highes authorities 1t could be adopt
ed to take effect Sunday the first day of the yea
1922, and the change would cause scarcely any ja
or friction whatever