A NEW CALENDAR.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4871, 31 August 1925, Page 1

A NEW CALENDAR.

YEAR OF THIRTEEN MONTHS. WORK OF REFORM ADVOCATE. - After air absence of three and a half years visiting the capitals of Europe Mr Moses B. Cotsworth, a well-known calendar reform advocate, returned to Canada recently. He is preparing a new series, of pamphlets connected with calendar reform, after which he will tour Canada. “I have the most interesting and the most useful job in the world,” declared Mr Cotsworth. “Calendar reform its going to effect a great economic saving, and will otherwise benefit the human race, and I am glad to have had a share in accompolishing the cnange of calendar which 1 am confident will take place either in 1928 or 1933.” During his absence Mr Cotsworth spent the greater part of his time in Geneva as expert for the League of Nations on the revision of the calendar. He analysed the various proposals in connection with calendar reform for the League, and, itn addition, visited Government officials and representatives of business interests at Paris, Brussels, London, Washingotn, New York, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and other centres. Mr Cotsworth is. advocating a year of 13 months of 28 days each, and the astronomers decided at a conference in Rome that so long as the length of the year was not altered the proposed reform did not concern them. In addition to securing the passive support of the astronomers Mr Cotsworth met great success in approaching other interests,. All religious bodies, including the Roman Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the English Church, have agreed to fix Easter probably in the second week in April. This removes the first obstacle to calendar reform.

At Brussels the president of the international orgnaisation of industrial employers of the Old World endorsed the proposal, while at Amsterdam the general secretary of the International Federation of Trades Unions gave Mr Cotsworth a favourable reception. Through Lady Aberdeen and other executives the International Council of Women has become interested in calendar reform. In England, Mr Cotsworth states, all the railways have given unanimous.endorsement to the plan ais proposed by him. The Canadain railways, including the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National, have given the same endorsement. Mr Cotsworth is confident that on January 1, 1928, or Jriauary 1, 1933, the reform will be brought into effect. The change must take place in a year which begins on a Sunday.