The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-07-09
DAY WITHOUT A NAME
Change in Calendar Arrange
ment is Proposed In Order
to Equalize Months
Length.

One day of the year will have to
be an orphan without a name, if
the projected reform of the cal
endar goes into effect. Instead of
wandering all through the week in
consecutive years, each date will
fall on the same day of the week,
year In and year out. One of those
who are working out the present
plan to reform the calendar is w.
E. G. Buesching of Halle, Germany.
A disadvantage of the present
calendar is the inequality of months,
quarters and half holidays. Holt
days such as New Years and Christ
mas may occur on any day of the
week, and this is source of con-
fusion in the business world. Every
day brings certain tasks in every
business, and if it were possible to
profit by experience and learn how
best to perform the tasks which
should be done on holiday, the day
before or the day after it, would be
of assistance to business men.
Then In making comparative re-
ports of receipts. the fact that the
same date under the present meth
DDS does not always fall upon the
same week day is annoying, as every
bookkeeper knows. Take the case
of Newspaper. Monday is dead
day, Sunday the best day of the
week both from an advertising and
circulation standpoint. But Sun.
day of this year Is Monday of next
year, so that it becomes necessary
to compare the days of the week and
not the same day of the month.
To arrange and adjust all these
differences would be very simple if
the real year contained only
364 days for 1854 divided by 7, the
number of days in a week, gives
fifty-two weeks But no Juggling
of figure can squeeze 3654 days into
ffty-two weeks of seven days each.
There is leap year every fourth
year in order to stow away that
troublesome one-fourth day, which
cannot be packed into the
week, and if one entire day is to be
left over each year there is only one
thing to do. The overflow day will
have to go without a weekday
name.
A good many clever minds have
been busy devising ways and means
to deal with the problem. Five
plans from five different technically
trained men are Identical. This
plan proposes to let December 81
go without weekly name, because
it is the last day of the year, giving
it some individual name all its own.
Instead of continuing February 20
as the extra day of leap year, day
is to be added to June, and the 31st
of June is to take the place of Feb
ruary 20. February is to have thir.
ty days. like other we'll regulated
months. Eight months will have
thirty days and four months will
have thirty-one days, in order to
procure the two additional days for
ill provided February.
Easter is TO occur on April s.
April had been suggested but it
was rejected for variety of rea-
sons. In the first place April | is
all Fools day, and in addition, the
first Of the month is busy day for
many people.
The new calendar has one enorm-
GUS advantage over the old. Mem
DRY is apt to attach itself TO days Of
the week rather than to dates. A
witness in murder case was asked
on what date certain event had oc-
cured. When asked how he hap
pened to remember the day of the
week when he could not give the
date he replied, Il know it was
Thursday because we always eat
pea SOM on Thursday.