The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-09-03
NEW CALENDAR
MAY BE ADOPTED
HELENA SPEAKER BELIEVES PLAN
WILL BE ACCEPTED WITHIN
NEXT TWO YEARS
Revision Of Present Calendar to Cor
rect Inequalities and Discrepancies;
. Holidays Would Fall on Same Day,
Year After Year.

Adoption Of a new world calen.
dar, q revision of the present
Gregorian calendar to correct its
Inequalities and discrepancies, may
be universally adopted by 1889,
Andy Schultz, chief speaker at a
recent meeting of the Helena Ro-
tary club, declared. The world
calendar, he said, has been given
substantial backing by nearly every
country in the world and a proposal
that it be adopted has been placed
before q League Of Nations COM
to make its report in September
and if an affirmative recommended
ton is ratified by the other nations
the new calendar system would
become effective Jan. l, 1888.
The so-called world calendar which
is before the league, would start every
year on Sunday with each quarter con-
or 81 days. Each quarter would begin
on Sunday and end on Saturday. The
first month in each quarter has 81
days and the other two 80 days each.
Every month has 26 week days and
holidays would always fall on the same
day. For example, July 4th would al
ways fall on Wednesday and Christmas
would always come on Monday. The
year would contain IL months.
In order to make the calendar per-
petual, or identical for every year,
there would be two in~ter-calary days,
one placed between June 80 and July
l every four years and the other be-
The former would be Leap Year day.
the latter Year End day." They would
have no other names than that and
would be, in all probability, holidays.
Mr., Schultz, who has made a thor
ough study of the new calendar, told
his audience it would be far superior
to the present Gregorian calendar
which is not perpetual. The new calen-
dar, he said, would facilitate statistical
comparisons, coordinate the different
time periods and stabilize religious and
secular holidays.
Good for Business
Thus. under the new calendar, Easter
would always fall or the same day
and a merchant who wanted to get a
comparison on his previous years OF
Easter business, could gain a clear COM
parison for he would not have to take
seasonable changes, which had effected
his business, into consideration.
Comparatively few people realize
there has been concerted effort to have
our calendar system changed" Mr..
Schultz said, yet the movement has
been so strong that the change may be
upon us before we know it.
IF approved by the league, nations
would have to ratify the new calendar
Immediately so it could be instituted
on Jan. l, 1889, since that date falls
on a Sunday. If the calendar isn't be-
gun then it will have to be put over
until 1850, the next year upon which
Jan. l falls on a Sunday"
MI. Schultz, in describing the various
calendar systems which have been in
use, said he believed a lunar calendar,
or one which counted the time from
one full to the next as a year,
was in use when Methuselah. under
our calendar, would have been only 70.
AS an entertainment feature of the
meeting j. Miller Smith jr., played
several piano selections including his
own original composition.
Visiting Rotarlans at the meeting
were James Jorgenson jr., of Kalispell;
Sam r. White, Butte; Chef Drum