Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-15
WOULD HAVE IS MONTHS
/. OF Is DAYS IN THE YEAR
Minneapolis Men Have Plan ito Bring
About Reformation Of
Calendar.
MONTHS COMMENCE ON hoNDAY
New Month VIII Follow January and
VIII BE known as Liberty, Under
System Proposcd-New Years Day
Has No Date.

The accompanying shows a cut OF
the much talked-o: new liberty Cal
endar. The mere suggestion that this
plan OF measuring time should take
the place ot our present calendar Is
enough 20 make any real nice, old
fashioned. conservative person gasp
for breath. To such person il would
seem prsposterous that any one should
have the nerve and clrontery to
propose such a radical change in
our time honored and muchrevered
though atrociously constructed. Old
time calendar.
II would be, bad enough IL some one
were to simply offer slight amend
stance, as Caesar Augustus asked for
when he got reeved because his month
81 August contained only thirty days.
contained ihtr;H-onc This august per
tno nnsg IN his petty jealousy. asked the
done. this. They did it ny simply rohbine
iwenty-nine days. so that through all
me n'e,, aESs s me MS L.it,s; sawed.2if
year. However. il was a common
thing In those days 70 change the cal
endar semi occasionallN.
VIII Rebuild Almanac.
Eut--to get back 10 this Liberty
Calendar scheme: L is not simply a
s s,tn S sbanse Which Is proposeed by INC
plan. but they want 10 do awav with
az 81 Of the go little squares-;hirty.,
70 make up our yearly calendar. and
RI ,,,f, IN H. ,heir stead an insi enifican;
Ttopl. 7rstend to say tina, this little
Liberty Calendar o. on!y ,wenty-eieh;
new every wear. bat tina, a person
ailEht siniplE cut on; the above very
use 'I IL al GF The n TsEt i! E On card ana
indeed these men claim that after a .
fftwS months, experience under this .
have i memorize,d and ihe 9ns W. w'u sii .
printed calendars OF every sort might
seod n snI me ihS waste haske, tor
mean a saving o. SiS'60o,oo6 " ycsa
Ao The sP pedpi feT rTef 59tsd calendars
- =. nm e. Polls business and professional
men who ,ew months, since oreanilsd
oar Assocs;on a aSd are Moq now Gsisg-
me-: :sseiT PET calendar idea. Strange to
90 not belong 70 the ancien; and aCt
ssePtea oIder OF cranks. bu; they are
In ACT anonF pT ,5s IL business men.
I ItLrxS merchants and manuta cturers
sssosi, ; ,2ur Of The sly Officers Of the
S S;rt lea ding corporations The ten
a q are al! business or profes
com muni;y. :" me
Much Propaganda Work.
" course. We may be sure ,ba, s,o,
men would not have started on. on
b.9pas anda Ike this without looking
before they leaped. and il is s,a,cd
mat Tor two whole years before the
niatter was made public the pres;dent
OF the ASSOCIATION was corresponTirr
M Win sc,entists; educators and other
People or the doubling Thomas" class
with view TO getting their eynert
op.nlons and learning whether the BRO
posed Liberty Calendar would rea,jv
itsr The test. They also wished to
proved. The officers state iba, ~ ~
result Of This investigation fully con-
nrmed their opinion. and that they are
SSe es, n. ,hey have adopted the very
tnat can possibly be devised /, n,ns,
pc admitted that the plan is so s!mnie
as TO he almost startling. Also that
IN, Inc adoption OF this form would save say.
an immense amount of time and cffnr,
IN making ARRANGEMENTS for fuinrs
dates and in thousand other wave
IN framing the calendar. only thraa
s;ieht changes were made in the pres
ent form First, New Years Dav
MADE an IndeDendcnt legal bo1;,I.,'