Calendar

A group of earnest business men met last week in an upholstered committee room in the Woolworth Building. They were members of the Manhattan Merchants' Association--a Special Committee on the Simplification of the Calendar. They discussed the various inconveniences which the world has been compelled to put up with since the days of Julius Caesar because of the clumsy time-divisions with which that dictator encumbered civilization.

Clement M. Biddle, President of the Biddle Purchasing Co., said that 137 plans for changing the calendar had been submitted to him, of which he had read 30. The plans were, in general, of two kinds--those that divided the year into four equal quarters, and those that gave it 13 months.

One gentleman proposed to make 1927 the beginning of a new world, the first year of time, 1 G.C. The initials, he explained, stood for "Globe Calendar," of which he was the deviser.

One Dr. Theodore de Daragic declared that each year should be divided into ten months, each month into six weeks, each week into six days. This would account for 360 days. "The remaining 5," said Dr. de Daragic, "could be added to the year as a series of holidays, each feast to be named after a great man--the first after Jesus Christ, the second after Columbus, the third after George Stephenson (part inventor of the locomotive), the fourth after Robert Fulton (perfecter of a paddle-wheel steamboat), the fifth after Henry Ford."

One Louis Rapaport, representing the National United Women's Wear Association, said that the needle trades want a stable calendar.