Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-30

| calendars for the months. He also
dislikes the names September, Oc-
teber, November and December,
which mean the 9TH, 9th, 9th and
10Th months, whereas in reality they
are the 9th, 10th, 18th and 18th.
and even objects to the word cal
endar because we have no kalends
like the Romans. To be consistent
he ought never to say that the sun
rises, when he knows it is the turn
ing of the earth that brings the
sun into view. This is surely &C
curacy and precision overdone.
He, therefore, proposes to call the
months by the beautiful and strictly
international and non-sectarian
names of Truth. Science, Wisdom,
Justice, Honor. Liberality, Love,
Beauty, Humanity, Happiness, Prog
ress and Immortality. Our 4th of
July he would call Tuesday the 10th
of Honor, and Christmas Sunday
the 9TH Of Happiness. However, in
the February number of L'Astron-
ONE Of this year he cancels these
names and calls them simply the
First, Second, etc. He also agrees
to begin the year on January | as
at present, instead of at the vernal
equinox on March n, as he wanted
before, but keeps his old aversion
for September. etc.
As Caesar Ordered.
Another method of reforming the
months is to return to the months
as Julius Caesar had ordered them,
and abandon those we have had
ever since his successor Augustus
tempered with them. This is to give
81 days to all the odd months and
SO days to all the even months, ex-
cept February. which is to have 30
only in leap years and % in COM
mon years, This evens up the
months much better than any other
l2-month scheme.
In all this babel of calendar re-
forming it is worthy of remark that
the world is religious enough not to
reject the week completely, but only
to insert an extra day once or twice
a year. The French revolutionists in
1870 divided the year into II months
OF so days each, and the months into
three periods Of 10 days each, with
five or six extra days at the end of
the year, The year began at the au-
tumnal equinox, eur September "a,
and the names of the months were
changed to Windy, Rainy, Hot,
Flowery, etc. With all his admira-
ton for this plan, Flamnarien sees
the inutillty OF trying to restore it.
The Date OF Easter.
The changing date of Easter is
the greatest thorn In the sides of the
calendar reformers. AS Easter is to
fall on the Sunday following the
first full moon of spring, so that it
has run of FIVE weeks from March
q to April Is, they say it's variable
position affects business in disas-
trous way, and they want it to be
fixed on the first or second Sunday
in April. Before trying to make
and enforce law to this effect, our
reformers ought to remember that
Easter is essentially religious fes-
tival kept by the Catholic church
ever since its foundation nearly 1000
years ago and its old type, the Pass
over, by the Jews since the days of
Moses. and that its date has always
depended upon, if not the true, then
at least the calendar full moon. That
the full moon be ruled out is prob
ably possible, but it would certainly
provoke serious religious trouble to
try and fix the date of Easter, or
even to break the world-old order Of
the days ef the week, without the
consent of the proper religious au-
thorities.
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