The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-06-18


pendent days are to be known by their
names and not by number dates. For
i instance, New Year Day 1929" or
correction Day 1924" Thus every
calendar year for all time TO come is
provided with just thirteen months Of
exactly four weeks each. In order to
retain all the fundamentals Of the
present calendar, Correction Day" is
omitted from the last year Of all CEN
turtles not evenly divisible by 400.
This is necessary because our calen-
dar year is out of joint with the true
Solar year to the extent of "a seconds
per annum. Some people suppose our
present months are governed by the
moon, but this is a mistake, as the
use of Lunar months was discontinued
ages ago.
The new month of Liberty is placed
next after January and February in
the new form simply because Of sim
ilarity of sound, 1t is explained that
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so much with an idea Of furnishing
convenience for the next few years,
but it was constructed with a view to
furnishing a well thought out and
scienticfic plan which should be used
and appreciated through all the ages
to come. And because of this fact,
people must not complain about a lit
tie inconvenience in observing birth
days or about other matters Of a tri-
vial sort. Speaking Of birthdays
most people do not know that George
| Washington was not born on Feb. %,
but on Feb: 18th. He was born be-
fore our present calendar was adopted
by Great Britain and the American
colonies.
The summer season under the new
form is given four months, but each
of the other seasons is given three
months as heretofore. Il is claimed
that this arrangement will be more
true to nature than our present divi-
sion.
The plan also provides that Good
Friday and Easter Sunday shall al
ways be observed on certain fixed
dates. This was contemplated when
our present calendar was adopted
/ The officers Of the association are
informed that the French Academy Of
Sciences favors their plan and will
advocate its adoption by all the ma
tions which shall join the new inter-
national league. A bill for the adop-
tion of the Liberty Calendar has al
ready been introduced in our Con-
gress, and another bill will be intro
/ duced in both the House and the Sen
ate at the extra session. The bill
provides that the change to the new
form shall take effect on the first day
of the year 1922. This will make the
transition very easy, as that day will
be Sunday as well as New Year Day,
and the next day will be Monday,
January LIST. Thereafter, at the end
of each four weeks, a new month will
begin, and this will be the regular or
der to the end of time All the
months will be exactly alike, and this
will continue for all the ages to
come.
1t is claimed by the advocates of
this new plan that any thoughtful per-
son must admit that the calendar we
are now using is cumbersome and in
convenient in the extreme. 1t is
pointed out that because Of the abso-
lutte want of regularity, and also be-
cause of the several different lengths
of the months, the mind Of the whole
public is constantly kept in a befud-
died state, and that no one ever knows
even ten days in advance, on what
day Of the week the next month will
begin. Doubtless there are several
million small boys who would like to
be told right now on what day Of the
week next Fourth of July will come,
but nobody knows. A certain doctor
is quoted as calling our present form
a "ferocious mess" and the officers
of the association say he is not far
from right.
1t is shown that under this simple
Liberty Calendar one will be able to
tell on what day Of the week any
future date will fall, even though that
date should be a thousand years
hence. Also that under the new form
there would be no more FIVE Sundays
to the month to upset all our calcula-
tons. Every holiday and every ami
versary viii always fall on its par
ticular day of the week. It will be
on the same day Of the week in every
year. Strange to say, the Fourth Of
July, Victory Day (November 11th)
Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas,
will all come on Thursday every
year, after this change is made.
4 A promissory note given for any
number of weeks month"; and Years