The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-26
THE LIBERTY
 CALENDAR

An organized effort is to be made to improve our time calendar. The &<Rorican Equal Month Calendar Az 1ocladon has been incorporated by fifty leading Minneapolis business and professional men with that end in view. The sole purpose of this or Eanization will be the securing of a. change in the calendar so that all the months shall be of exactly the same length. This is to be accom- plished by the adoption by Congress of the Liberty Calendar, which Is very simple modification of the cal endar now in use.
 l nthis new calendar there are 13 months of exactly four weeks each, every month commencing with Mon day. In the construction of the calendar only three slight changes were made in the present Gregorian form. They are as follows;
 First, New Year day Is made an fn- dependent legal holiday. It is placed between the last day of December and the first day of January. It is not in cluded in any week or month.
 Second, another Independent legal holiday called "Correction Day" is provided for leap years, This Is like wise placed between the last day Of one month and the first day of the next. It is not included in any week or month.
 Third, the remaining S64 days are divided into thirteen months of ex- actly four weeks each.
 The names Of the months in this new calendar are January, February. Liberty, March, etc. The use of the word Liberty will Anericanize the calendar at the same time 1t is made
  form all holidays and anniversaries will fall on the same day of the week. A promissory note given for any mum Der of weeks, months and years will always come due on the same day of the week 1t was given. It is claimed that the saving of time and menta. effort in making calculations for flu ture dates will be beyond all compre- hensions.
 Furthermore, 1t will cause a say ing of nearly fifteen million dollars year in cost of printed and litho- graphed calendars, as no printed calendars will be needed when this new form is adopted, It Is estimated that the total saving of time and money will equal fully fifty million dollars e year in this country alone.
 The association will also assist in the organization of similar associa- tiOns in other countries and will work for the adoption of the reform by other nations also, If an Interna- national Council is established the matter will be brought before that body.
 Since neither the number nor the length of our present months Is gov erned by changes of the moon or by any of natures laws, it is claimed that the change to the new form can be made very easily,
 The plan also provides that Easter Sunday and Good Friday shall be placed on certain fixed dates. It is explained that the setting of these on fixed dates was considered at the time our present calendar was adopted. The placing of these on fixed dates would simply be another step in the much desired absolute regularity.
 The officers of the association state that the plan has met with the un animous approval of the highest au- thorities Congress will be asked to pass a bill which the asso citation will have introduced. The bill Is very carefully drawn and provides that the change shall take place on Sunday the first day of the year 1922.
 Among the organizers of the Amer fcan Equal Month Calendar association are bankers. lawyers. merchants, manufacturers and other leading business men. Four of the six ofic- CTS are officers of banks, or leading corporations. The directors are all business or professional men of high standing in the community.