'The civil authorities continue their campaign against superstitions and bad customs. Following on the recent order that Taoist and' Buddhist masses may only chanted without drums and cymbals and only between the hours order that men and women may] not be present together on these that only plain food the rules of their orders served to the priests and that the worshippers shall - disperse as soon as the chanting ends. The old custom of staying behind for a fow games of cards dominoes. is specially forbidden.
Calendars are also having the attention of the police: Though, stringent orders have been issued that the old-style dates are not to be given, it is found that one firm' has brought out a book giving the parallel dates for the next hundred years ahd another has {issued a list of the parallel dates for 200 years to come. The sale of these books is banned. It is also found that calendars have been issued with symbols which indicate to the initiated the lunar dates, and wese too, are to be suppressed. A point which sees be overlooked by the authorities is that people in the-country must know in vance the phases of the moon, and while for the first six months of 1930 the phases will indicate ti dates of the lunar year, the in-el dence of the intercalary month will render the calculation of dates in the lunar year impossible after June. To give the phases of the moon in a calendar 4s not superstitions, but intensely practical.
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