The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-13
SimpIification Of the Calendar
Excellent Work by Mr.. George Eastman.

N&ORG& EASTMAN, chairman Of the NabAOnat V0mmlstee
~ Calendar simpicatOn renders public service The
world of modern business and modern life requires further
simplifying Of the calendar, work that as Mr. Eastman
points out has been progressing internationally for centuries
g letter widely aou'sd uas saF1 ~r. considers
' Editor It S''na'f ~ ''H'H "-''''
& my Dear Sir:
II am sending under separate cover the report Of the
National Committee on Calendar SmpMfiCaion for the
United States which has just finished its impartial nvesh
cation Of national opinion on the need for calendar Inn
= feel that you and your newspaper which has CON
nuousy advocated calendar change would be interested
this report Personally hold strong convictions on the
need for Improvement particularly a. far Is the economic
world is concerned.
During tie Hunting Age Of our world the Lunar month
sufficiently good enough unit by which to reckon
time in fact when Mehuselah lived month counted
have been seventyfom years Of age. When the world
passed from the Hunting Age to the Agricultural Age the
s nsC e q ~
calendar evolved and 1t finally in 1852 seasonaly
synchronizsd by Pope Gregory This calendar well
enough suited to the Agricultural Age However
in Industrial Age and meet the modern situa-
ton must have precisely equal units Of time
ment The unequal pagan months should be equalzed
IS to contain equal number Of Christian weeks.
India has many sixteen different calendars and
80 on throughout the world The first step toward universal
peace in this world might well be the establishment
measure OF time universal and perpetual calendar
The enclosed brief history Of calendar changes is inter-
esting.
i feel that this is an important movement
gro EASTMAN"
It strange read Of India with sixteen different
and innnerable other methods Of calculating time
throughout the world.
smplficaton the result prolonged effort and slow
progress
AS there many calendars in India now So once there
were many kinds Of weights measures and money in different
countries
When Louis the Eleventh became king Of France he found
the mobiles issuing their money clipping the money
issued by the king diminishing its value taxing merchants
mat passed before their castles He improved that
The new calendar Of thirteen months every day coming
the year, should be put in effect would take
long time to put through partly Of some religious
superstition.
Various religions have various feast days coming on diff
terent dates In different years. and some think that to
systemic the calendar that the days week would
each come on the same day Of the month every year
some way interfere with religion.
No people through centuries have been able to keen track
OF important religious events.
How could the Mohammedans who didn't know how to
calculate Leap Year. know exactly day Of the week
monn ana year Mohammed got his horse Alborak and
rode up to heaven?
How do Christians know the day Of the week. month
and year on which Adam woke from his sound sleep and
found Eve beside him. in what week Of what month
year heaven and earth with everything therein were created
ABOUT oOUO years ago, according to fundamentalsm?
Wisdom proceeds with the reform Of the calendar and
let the various religions adjust themselves to it, they
done after protest for centuries.
When Pope Gregory ntegnty revised the calendar and
greatly improved it, there loud protests from people who
declared that their lives had been made shorter because
certain days were cut out Of month make