Evening star., 1922-02-26

Bank drafts, trade bills, wages and
adjustments are complicated. by
weekly wages being differently split
up by the parts of weeks ending on
one and beginning the next month,
quarter year, half year and year
nine months spread into fifth weeks
and three into sixth weeks.
Five Saturdays each were in Jam
uary, April, July. October and De-
ceinber. 1921. when housekeepers are
forced to buy fifth weeks meats,
groceries, etc. out of equal monthly
incomes. Many thus trend into debt.
or seek to sub from husbands who
also are found shorter of cash when
longer months end. These shortages
result in family and other troubles.
thus caused by unequal months.
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"CoNvERsELY. when storekeep-
~ ers find five Saturdays in
month, their inflated incomes encour-
age overbuying. causing worries
next month, when less sales on four
Saturdays fail to provide sufficient
money to pay for the longer months
purchases, thereby trending retailers
and others into debt and recurring
troubles.
1.-The inequalities in halves and
quarters of years are confusing and
develop unjust differences in business.
Moon wandering casters drift those
and other festival dates erratically,
forcing school, college and legisla-
tive periods TO inequitable lengths.
causing much inconvenience and
loss"
Mr.. Cotsworth's plan proposes to re-
place the dual names calendar" and
.'alma mac" by the name "yearal." The
"yearar' is designed to abolish all
calendar-caused inequalities.
1t is pointed out by Mr.. Cotsworth
that every nation now calendars its
days through the year by weeks OF
seven days. The days, however, Were
not so grouped when the worlds
many different calendars of clumsy
months were crudely imposed upon
our remote ancestors about 1000
years ago. I'VE cannot alter the
lengths of days. week or years" he
declares. But all the months can
be easily amended to the twenty
eight days used in February. 1919.
when the weeks quartered February
best for business and social con-
venience. That ideal month OF Febru-
airy, 1914" he said. lis my model for
the new 'yearar of thirteen months"
Sol has been selected as the name
for the additional month by Mr.. Cots
worth. Sol" he said. can lie in
serted between June and July. as
easily as leap day was put between
February and March. 1920, as Febru-
airy 20.
This proposed month, with the
twelve existing months, will equal
ly divide and complete the "yearal."
according to his plan. which
has been unanimously Endorsed by
the Royal Society and the govern
ment of Canada, and was indorsed
as decidedly the best by the Ameri-
can convention just closed at Wash
ington. d. C. New Year day" (with-
out any week day name) is prefxed
as an extra whole Saturday holiday
preceding January i, and included
in that month as January 90"
That will absorb the odd week
day now forcing all day names to
change throughout the 365 dates in
the year. Leap day." under this
plan, will precede July L as a sum-
mer holiday. without a week day
name, as July ''O.'
Those two changes are designed
to fix each OF the seven week day
names permanently to their fifty-two
recurring yearly dates Then the
same day of the week will always
cycle to its four fixed dates every
month, so that the. passing day of
the week will denote its current
monthly date.
The third but less essential change
proposed is to abolish moon wander
ing casters, by internationally fix
ing Easter at its most convenient
date, leaving each nation free to
fix its own national holidays and
festivals.
Every citizen in every nation"
said Mr.. Cotsworth, will benefit
every day by the congress of nations
adopting the 'yearar; that will
thence operate to their mutual ad-
vantage and be as easily used as
standard time which was so bene-
iicially established by the interna-
tional conference in Washington
about forty years ago"