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the Gregorian Calendar since , the 16th Century. It's net perfect, but everybody is gradually getting used to it. So what happens? P pops an international organization called World Calendar As sociation, Inc., panting to toss into the discard our time-honored device for keeping track of Aunt Emmaline’s wedding anniversary and other dates. WCA wants to substitute a less capricious veesion called (not entirely by coin cidence) the World Calendar. - » ” « AS SHOWN by the illustration above, the World Calendar would rig it so the same date falls on the same day, year after year. , This is a stodgy approach to the fascinating variety of life, but undoubtedly appeals to the strawgrabbers who find less and less to cling as the years go by. Association members have some pretty good talking points. Those interested may wafl their orbs over the following: » n

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” i ONE — Businessmen would] caper for joy at the regularity. Satisticians ‘a n d bookkeepers foam at the mouth trying to compare this quarter with the next, and estimating irregular incomes. The number of weekdays in a month varies from 24 to 27. Four months have 30 days, seven have 31 and February this year has 29. The quarters consist of 90,

91, 92 and 92 days, respectively. e an am of last year had . - yong ays, the last half 184. ns TWO—Tourist bureaus and re-| ors. Good Axmi sort operators pine for the World | \ Ww as. - a Calendar to stabilize the holiday as 10

situation. A year in which Labor Day | falls on Sept. 1, instead of Sept. 7, costs. resort people a whole week | .of late vacation business. Indlan-| apolis businessmen harvest a slimmer crop of lettuce when Me- | morial Day falls on Tuesday than when it falls on a week-end. } 8 = =» { THREE — Astronomers, bless their tidy souls, approve the change. | Dr. Robert G. Aitken, late director emeritus of Lick Observatory in California, called the Gregorian Calendar a hodge-podge. Of the! newer system, he wrote: | “It is a scientific document; it] is simple and perpetual; it meets all the social and economical as well as astronomical requirements.” :

% NR FOUR—Look how handy. Noi need to change the calendar on| the wall until the Boy Scout ple} ture gets dirty. : Calendar manufacturers won’t| be happy to feel their business pants drop about their ankles, of course, but reformers always take the broad view that minorities jouldn’€ be allowed to impede

More opposition to adoptidn of the World Calendar might be forthcoming from 100,000 Americans born on Feb. 20. Some have no other claim to fame, Some are scious women who just love having a birthday once every four years. Why should interfering meddlers thrust an yr

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for a moratorium on births on Worldsday, June 31. So that date | every fourth year would sow a new crop of special-birthday cele-| i brants, if WCA'ers want to worry | about it.

” 2.8 { LAST OF ALL comes consid eration of the wage-earner. Collectively, Feb. 29 when it otcurs during the week provides a billion-dollar paycheck. This| would be gone forever in the)

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v day, June 31, is planned as a per- ; ' eee manent holiday. —_ “This article is not purely specu-| : 2 4 / a \ lative. The World Calendar has \ a"good chance of taking over. | RE ~ : IXY, % & NY ; p A If your country's delegates to| .e : X LU SIVE : j ; \ + ~N a \ A :

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the United Nations hadn’t been so stuffy, it might have gone into effect two years ago. But the U. 8. representatives at that time ineisted on postponement of the question, urging that the agenda was “to crowded.”

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tion, Inc., claims enthusiastic “ : EE Fis | y : support from Canadians and Mex-| j 1 a . | § : jeans, keen interest from the rd |B | : Latin American countries, and | ea |B mts ToT) J \ i agreement from Switzerland, | EN pL rer ov & | 5 Belgium, . Greece, Turkey, China,| es ; kf [Fe TIE 4 : : Japan and France. i : a EI ER Hid | Jil il | Should the U: 8. and England i : od : : pi y ‘ ‘get steamed up, the World Cal- Lo Nest Ek ] ] | 3 3 A y RN § NE eX ; a ar — 3 J. % : : { :

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