The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-03
Sil1pIified Calendar
Ration Plan Sequel
Efforts Being Made to Revise Present Time Arrange
ments to Insure Careful Planning for Future

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task TO take the weekly food budget
money and spread It into It's varioiis
portions over the allotted period.
But with q can Of peas worth 50
many ration points, meat Of various
types, weights and grades, each de.
handing It's share Of the strictly
rationed points, meal planning takes
on involved significance.
Lomg-Eaul Meal Plan
Meals are going TO have TO, ne
PLANNED FOR the long haul 1t 4S
not at al Uncomfortable that II the
present plans OF the OPA are fol-
lowed It will be necessary 10 puff
chase an entire period" supply Of
canned Oraprocesseds foods 81 pfacs
tically the same time. Upfortun.
ately this supply must be husbanded
to last over1a longer period Of time
han the city or other housewife is
accustomed to. l,hT
Ration points can't be spent ia
he same proportion as money from
The family budget Money and IA
ION points have little In common
because prices charged for fd0ki
may fiuctuate but the points IN the
food ration book Will remain dis
tessingly static. 'l h,
Housekeeping In the future viii
call for long-range planning. The
canned, dried and frozen fruits. the
canned soups or processed meats
purchased Morday may have to be
made TO- last far into the next
month, and that Is where the
present calendar will add to todays
kitchen confusion.
Take for example August with its
Ave Sundays. Sundays can for Ell
ira food and extra planning. There
Is the usual heavy Sunday break
fast, followed by the: big lazy Sum
day dinner! These two meals mean
extra ration points. Yet these extra
Sundays, \ scattered, haphazardly
through the year, have not been
taken into account by the OPA.
Then, too, there Is May with FIVE
Sundaysyand q holiday. May is o
month that will call fora lot OF
figure work on the part Of the house.
WA4Sp buE110Q 1uHCQuklVdIlGs III
Double Bookkeeping u
. The solution to this mysterious
new system Of household, doubles
entry bookkeeping, says ! J7Oward
Brooks, a New York restaurant
owner, Is to hasten the adoption
Of the ordered, perpetual World Cali
endar Of IL months and equal quart
ers. The World Calendar, advo.
Gated by several nations Of South
America as wen as several Euro
peail nations, has been studied and
endorsed by business and profess
siotal men Throughout the world.
It divides the year into four equal
periods, each quarter composed Of
three months. The first month in
each quarter has 81 and the other
two have so days. %sf MAJ K.
4 With this equali1ed system OF
time keeping, each month has 90
weekdays. Month dates i stay put
and the weekdays and dates re-
main constant.
SO Mrs. Housewife, with her ra-
ton point account book spread
on the bread board and her budget
money arranged IN neat piles, would
always know that the first month
In, each quarter Included ave Sun
days, with each OF the other two
months 3 four Sunday month. &
slmplifled Calendar q h
The World Calendar Association,
q non profit organization formed
in 1880, has enlisted the housewife
to urge upon the government TO
adopt this. siimplified calendar for
her future planning, now that Amer
lea has become the granary Of the
world. Si,, aaN 4f ~,
with the world Calendar In use,
meal planning for the. future viii
become q simple system instead of
q haphazard, date-checking be-
problem; while the ur,-
certainty Of the present calendar
will give way to orderly progress IN
the business and social world, ~
90 Of u s.s' ~ ~. II T. q,