Tensas gazette., 1910-07-29
PROPOSED NEW CALENDAR.
Divides the Year Into Thirteen
Months, Each Having 2s Days.

We have received from San Fran.
cisco, a copy Of q proposed calendar
whose aim Is to avoid the acknowf
edged drawbacks of the Gregorian cal
endar by substituting one that Is bet
ter suited to the requirements. ofsour
everyday life. Although the Gregorian
calendar dates from the year 1887
long before that many and various I'M
movements had been suggested Tor
conveniently dividing the S65 days OF
the year into weeks and months. Our
correspondents ask: Are we not
again far enough advanced beyond
the times of 1882 to adopt certain otn'
or changes?" And they offer q calen'
dar which divides the flfty-two weeks
of the year into 13 months, each hav'
ing exactly twenty. eight days. the
first Of January and the first OF every
one Of the twelve succeeding months
fall on a Sunday, and the 2Sth or last
day Of each month therefore, falls on q
Saturday. The obvious advantage OF
this arrangement Is that. since eacn
day OF the week must be one OF four
numbers out of the 2Sth (Sunday for
any month Of the year being either the
list, sth, 18th, or 22d: Tuesday either
the Sd, 10th. 18th. or cath, etc. II one
knows the day Of the week 1t Is posi-
bic to find the day Of the month quick
" and without reference to a calen'
dar.
The additional month necessary un'
der this system is named by its spon'
sors Vincent; and 1t Is placed In
the calendar between June and July.
Thirteen months Of twenty-eisht
days, however. give total OF only S6i
days for the year. and to accommodate
the odd day 1t is proposed that be-
tween Saturday, the last day OF DE.
cenber. and Sunday. the first day .oi
January, there should be a day to DC
known as ammo Day." 1t Is not rec
oenized as a calendar day, and. be-
yond its name, has no other distinc'
ton to separate It from the last day
OF December. Any labor done on
Ammo Day would have to be a matter
of special contract or agreement NO
interest or rental will accrue upon
that day, and for all such purposes II
would be considered a part OF Dec
%. Leap year is provided for by an
extra day between Saturday. Vincent
IA. and Sunday, Vincent Is. THIS
would be known as "Mid-Anno Day.
and It would be treated In all re-
speots similarly to Ammo Day.
Although there can be no question
of the simplicity and convenience OF
the proposed calendar. in respect &c
any prospect of its immediate and
worldwide adoption we fear 1t mus.
be classed with those two other greal
desirables, the metric system AND
the longer daylight day." We are
not more firmly convinced of the ad
vantage OF this and those PROPOSE
tions for simplifying and rendering
easier and more pleasant the round
OF daily life and Its duties than we
are that to bring about these sug
gested improvements will take man!
wears of arduous and persistent agi
tation.-Scientific American.
MANY of my opponents" said Jos
eph Chamberlain in one Of his tarff
reform speeches, "are as ignorant o
my proposition as was a certain farm
er, many years ago. Of the umbrella.
This farmer made a journey q
some twenty miles on foot to small
town. AS he was about to set on TO
home again a hard rain came up. AM
his host loaned him an umbrella
novelty at the time-opening 1t him
self so as to save his friend all pos
sible trouble.
"A week later the farmer brough
the umbrella back. The weather wa
bright and fine, but he held the COZ