Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-30

are to be known by their names
and not by number dates. For in
stance, New Year Day 1928" 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 funda-
mentals of the present calendar,
correction Day" is omitted from
the last year of all centuries not
evenly divisible by 400. This is nee
essary because our calendar year is
out of joint with the true Solar year
to the extent of thirty-four 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 dis
continued ages ago.
The new month of Liberty is
placed next after January and Feb
ruary in the new form simply be-
cause of similarity of sound 1t is
explained that the new calendar was
constructed not so much with an
idea of furnishing a convenience for
the next few years, but 1T was con-
structed with view to furnish
ing well thought out and scien-
tific plan which should be used and
appreciated through all the ages to
come. And because of this fact,
people must not complain about a
little inconvenience in observing
birthdays or about other matters
of a trivial sort. Speaking of birth
days-most people do not know that
George Washington was not born on
February %, but on February IL.
He was born before our present cal
endar was adopted by Great Britain
and the American colonies.
The summer season undar tho
new form is given four months, but
each of the other seasons is given
three months as heretofore 1t is
claimed that this arrangement will
be more true to nature than our
present division.
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
nations which shall join the new
international league. A bill for the
adoption of the Liberty Calendar
has already been introduced in our
Congress-, and another bill will be
introduced in both the House and
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 Years Day, and the next day
will be Monday. January 1. There
after, at the end of each four weeks.
a new month will begin, and this
will be the regular order to the end
Nf
exactly alike, and this will continue
for all the ages to come.
1t is shown that under this sim
pie 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 thou
sand years hence. Also that under
the new form there would be no
more five Sundays to the month TO
upset all our calculations. Every
holiday and every anniversary will
always fall on its particular dav of
the week. 1t will be on the same
day of the week in every wear
Strange to say, the Fourth of JuIy
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas
will all come on Thursday every
year, after this change is made
A promissory note given for any
number of weeks. months and wears
will always mature on the same dav
of the week it was given. Hundreds
of thousands of notes and contracts
are executed every day of the wear
and it would be a great convent
ence to both parties to the contracts
If they could know on what dav of
the week each obligation would ma
ture. This is impractical now. but
under the Liberty Calendar the ma
turity day would be known at once.
The new plan will also be great
convenience to both employers of
labor and to employees.