Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-03-23
MONTH OF CENTUARY.
TO INTRODUCE TIN
THE YEAR.
Indiana Editors Idea to Have a Year
of Thirteen Months, All of Which
Will Be of Equal Length-Advan-
taEes Claimed for the Plan.

VIII be or Equal Length-AdVan-
tages Claimed for the Plan.
At the Paris Exposition an attempt
will be made to have the entire world
adopt the new calendar of thirteen
months devised and copyrighted by G.
II. Bundy, editor of the Marion Qnd)
Morning News. 1t Is to be urged be-
fore the commission already appoint
led to consider this ingenious new sys-
TEN, that 1t is the only uniformly prac-
;tical method of measuring the fight of
the years. No calendar in present use
is satisfactory. The one used by Rus
,sia is twelve days out. That in use
in China was four days wrong, but Las
iedict. Our own is forced to drop
leap year in 1900 to be with the sun.
Mr.. Bundy's solution of the veXed
problem is the Introduction of a new
month, which begins the year and is
called Centuary, in commemoration
of its adoption between two centuries.
The name Is urged as being particu-
larly well chosen in that it is not local
to America, but would be acceptable
to every country.
Every month will then have just
twenty eight days. Every month and
every year will begin upon Monday,
which will also become the first day
of every week. Sunday being the last.
Every month will consist of just four
weeks, thereby simplifying commercial
transactions, and 1t will no longer be
necessary to hunt up dusty calendars
or almanacs to find upon what day of
the week certain date fell in previ-
GUS years. Every day of the month
will fall upon the same day Of the
week. year in and year out. Holidays,
too, will always fall upon the same
days of the week.
The plan only provides for 364 days,
leaving approximately one and one
fourth days over on each year. AS soon
as enough of this time has accumu-
lated to form several days an addition
al week will be added to the month of
Centuary, making that year longer by
seven days without disturbing the fix
ity Of birthdays and holidays, which
even under the present system are by
no means 365A days apart, although
we have come to regard them so.
There Is some question as to whether
the new month should come at the first
or the last Of the year. Mr.. Bundy
favors placing it at the first of the
year, in order not to disturb Christmas,
the peoples favorite holiday.
Should the new month be placed at
the first of the year some radical
changes IN holidays will be made
Our present New Years Day would
disappear. Washington's birthday
would fall on the 25th of January, 'un-
less" as the author suggests, respect
should be paid to his memory on the
new Feb. 22--the seventy eighth day
of the year instead of the fifty-third,
as at present" There being no month
with thirty days, Decoration Day
would disappear. 1t Is suggested that
it be set for May %. The Fourth of
July would become June II, If 1t con-
tinued to remain as now the one hun
dred and eighty-fifth day of the year.
Thanksgiving Day would fall on the
last Thursday in November, as at pres
ent, and Christmas on the last Thurs
day In December.
These changes are not deemed OBJ
jectionable once the "shoek" Is over
come, and 1t Is pointed out that their
recurrence is already, under the pres
ent system, advanced one day each
year
The inventor of the proposed new
calendar Is confident that it will be
adopted. 1t is claimed Commissioners
Peck, the American Representative to
the Paris Exposition, has promised his
support when the commission meets.
Mr.. Bundy says the plan Is growing
rapidly in favor as it is becoming
known and understood. and he has re-
ceived many letters from prominent
people approving the proposed change.
Cincinnati Inquirer.