Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-25

did not believe ;he proposed change could be imrosel upon the publ but that it mus come through educat Lu. In eXpaiaing the reform he said:
 To wt'.k out calendar, it is es- sential to bear in m nd that an as- tronGmical year cons sts of 3,652,422,- ; l66 days. It being impcss ble 70 base calehdar on so elaborate a number, he year has be Il heightened to .65 days and a quarter. Then, unler Pope Gregory, this leng h5ning has been compensated by the dropp ng /! of th.ee days Il the space of four centuries. 1f now we agan round off the figure and bring it to exactly a65 days, this annaal shortening of the years S compensated by the ad dition of one day the 29th day of February, each fourth year. Blu. 365 is nl.t q visible by [, so that the year is not made up of whole number Of weeks. It would be sufficient, how ever, to bring the number of days 10 a64 to adjust everyth ng.
 'Tne basis of the reform is the in genlcus idea of withdrawing from the regular course of the weeks the first day cf January. The first of .Jalin- ary would be New Years Day. This day IS already, according to our GUS tries, devoted to quite different cc equations from these of o:Eer days of the year; it therefore possesses a i peculiar character ard deserves to be dist .nguished from all other days.
 Tn leap year day would be in i tarp6lated, to be known as leap day, which would be placed. according 10 some, after the 30th of June, or ac- cord.ng to others at carnival time. This. of course. is a mere detail,
 "It We therefore cGncede that the day follow ng New Years Day is 70 be January 1st, we can then divide the year into four equal periods of three moaths each, each 91 days long, and, by a happy coinc dence, each of these quarters would consist of exact ly 13 weeks.
 'It will therefore be sufficient to cons der che of these quarters to un- ders and the whole.
 Tn order not to change too much cur present customs, We divide the quarter into three months, consist ng of 30, 90 and 31 days. Only the las5 month of each quarter would have 31 days, and there 31st days would be Sundays if we begin the quarters l on Monday It will be seen there fore, that we should preserve our habit of speaking m half-years, quar- teIs, nonths and weeks. It seems to us, therefore, that there would be a I good chance of persuading the public to accept a mod flcatiCn of the pres ent calendar.
 The following are some Of the ad- vantages to be claimed for this 'un- chang able calendar
 In the case of contract of en- plcymen, between employers ard wc.kmen, by the mon h. where ths contract terminated before the end of the month there could be no ques tion as to the rate of compensation since each month would contain the same number of working days, that :. 26. The months of 31 days would al comprise five Sundays. Fer persons who also worked on Sundays the dail, wage would have eight months 0 tn rty days and only four of 31 days At the present time We have sever uloutlS Gl oI udyS, t Ol oo dllu oll' of 2S Or 29, whic harrangemen dces not facilitate calculat 'ors.
 "In all industries CT cccupa ion. where payment is made as a rule b, the month, pay day could be set fol the goth of the month. with a cer la my that this would never fall ol Sunday. The same advantage woult exist for concerns which paid semi mcn;Ely, since the 15th of the mont] could never fall on Sunday.
 "Caculations of interest could be made, as at present, taking the com merclal year at 360 days, and tlis