Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-01
THIRTEEN.MONTH YEAR
GAINS FAVOR OF BUSINESS
COtswOrth Plan for New Division of
Time Also Considered by u. S.
Government and League.

Fleming, builder Of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad and inventor az
STANDARD time" now in use by all
railroads OF Canada and the United
States.
For many years Mr.. Cotsworth had
been working out the details Of ri9
revised calendar and seeking to in
terest governments in ita adoption.
He was obsessed with its dnsiraniHtv,
and so spent practically his entire
resources upon IL. just as Pall.ssy,
the potter, spent his fortune. deter
mined to achieve his end in en3mel@4
chinaware So Cotsworth was selling
priced family portraits and furniture
to enable him 10 go on telling the cor
fused world that thirteen months %
% days each would simplify all prob
lens Of time. Sir Sanford Fleming
came to his support and financed hin
for years: now Mr.. Eastman taxes W
this white mans burden and together
they interested the League Of Nations.
and for four years the League. through
its special committee. has been study.
ing methods, including the Cotsworth
plan Mr.. Cotswor:h has been serving
as an expert with that League com
mittee.
Describes Leagues Work.
Mr.. Eastman. in his speech before
our United States National Chamber
of Commerce. so describes what the
League has accomplished:
After examining the i35 proposals
received-alI Of which Mr.. CotSwoTt1
anaIvzed-the Leagues committee rs.
ported that the calendars defects
could best be remedied by assembling
an international conference to decide
these four simple questions:
First. Whether the calendar should
have its weekday names perpetualIy
| fixed to the same dates in every year
| by including an extra Sabbath n the
| last week OF each year.
Second. Whether quarters Of the
year should be made equal by altering
| two months Of 80 days and one Of 81
days. or whether 13 equal months o.
! four complete weeks should be estao-
/ lished, with the new month inserted
| between June and July.
| Third. Whether Casters date should
be fixed on the Sunday following the
| present sth OF April.
Fourth. Upon which year the sim
plified calendar shall begin"
| Under the Cotsworth plan there VII
/ be Is months 10 a year. each month
consisting Of weeks-2S d3ys. The
| extra month will be made Up Of the
| last - days OF our present June.
| with the first Is days Of July. hat
will leave 50 weeks 20 MAKE one year
| and weeks always 20 make a month.
| But that amounts 10 only ga i.ays.
Mr.. Cotsworth would add an extra
| Sunday or holiday following the list
Saturday of his year. So two Sab
baths would come together az the end
Of the year. which is Just as Moses
| established the year " in a 'tiouble
Sabbath" neviticus. xxiii.1-eu. Seven
| Sabhaths shall there he complete: even
unto the morrow after The seventh
Sabbath shall We number So days. and
We shall offer new meal ocfarins unto
| the Lord"
Extra Sabbath Plan.
This is the reason savs Nj Cots
| worth. for the extra Sabbath ar.
rangemen, inserted in the ca,ensiar AZ
the date OF Pen;ecost. Its mos. impor-
| tant effect was thar il caused The Mo-
sale calendar TO become e-.irsly PER
petual. 50 that the work 6avS and Sab
baths throughout the year ann rcTIy
recurred onsthe same fixed dates
This calendar consists ct - stand
ard months as follows: