The Nome nugget., 1928-05-19
MOVE UNDER WAY FOR
 NEW CALENDAR PLAN
COtsWol1h scheme Is One of Many
 Being Considered

The so-called Christian calen- dar,' which has been handed down through various stages from the days Of Babylon and Egypt, has within recent years been the object of searching criticism and is ap- parently about to be subjected to r'ore.
 \ movement is cu foot. sponsor ed by the League of Nations and by bodies of public opinion repre- scented in various scientific. social and business organizations. to re- form the Gregorian calendar and 10 substitcte an international fixed calendar that will be more in keep ing with the demands of modern civilization.
 Present Calendar Relic of Ancients
 Our present calendar, which diff fers from those observed by such great agglomerations of peoples as the Mohammedans. the Jews, the Chinese and the Hindus, IS l relic of the ancient civilization that flourished in the Valley of the Nile 5000 years ago, and has been hand ed down from era to era thru the Jews. Greeks and Romans. until it finally reached ns in its present form. loaded with rA= tnconven- fences inherent in the peculiar su perstitions and beliefs of the past.
 The principal defects of the so- called Gregorian calendar are three. First, it arbitrarily divides the solar year into 365.242 days into certain periods of unequal length. namely, the months. the quarters and the half wears The month varies from 2S to q days; the quarter varies from % to 92 days. and the half year may vary from 1S1 to 1S4 days. These inequalities are source of inconvenience and econ omic disadvantage to large classes of people in business and profess sional life. They are also fruitful source of inacuracy in. the compil- ing of statistics and other exact data upon which science depends.
 Division of Month Objectionable
 Feature
 The second objection to the Gre sorian calendar lies in the fact that each Of the twelve months, except February is divided into four weeks. plus two or three extra days which causes both day names and dates to chanee from month to month. instead of being constant. as they would under more regular division of the calendar year.
 The third defect lies in the fact that the calendar changes each year. There are fifty-two weeks and one day in every solar year, with an additional day added every leap-year. The Gregorian calendar tgnores the extra year-day, and teckons time continuously from month to month. with the result that every year the date of the month falls on q 9iAerent day of the week
 Conspicuous among the inaccura cies that result from the use of tho Gregorian calendar is the wander ing Easter. whose date varies from March 2o to April 25 with disad vantases both from 2 ~eligious and civil point of view. The idea of fixing q certain invariable date for Easter is becoming closely linked with the movement for calendar re- form.
 Several plans are '7nder ronsider- alton for the reform of the Gregor- .an calendar. but the one that has gained the most serious considera- tion is that devised by Moses B. Cotsworth, an Englishman. born in 1859. who as result of his work as a special investieator for a British railway company discovered the deficiencies Of c7r present svs tenn and devised z new one that is conspicuous for it's simplicity and logical clarity. The result of his research was published in 1902 in a book called "The Rational Alma nac." dealing with calendar reform.