South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-26
BY LOUIS LUDLOW.

reform wave has struck a new sub
Ct.
Therefore. n a few years from
ow, So-and-S SO should inform you
hat his baby was born IN the month
z Liberty, don't be surprised or
(. assify him as a new addition 20
% list OF lunatics. For. II the
test reform movem ent. which
s oints out that months are not con-
rolled by the moon or any natural
" and hence may be charged as
: earcd. r. successful, your friead
D. aud-So may be absolutely rtght.
The "ref0rmers" are now after Old
nan Time him self. These reform
rs, howsv' r, are not tie profes-
ionai mes enga ged in m raj cru.
8 AIDES. They are a group % sciea-
SITS who have been stu lying the
present calendar for more than %
cars and who have come % the
onclusion that the existing time
yBtem IS a "ferocious mess" Fur
hermore, they believe that they
ave worked out at last a method
decidedly more convenient than the
present one.
#NANT THIRTEEN MONTHS.
And now they have organized an
ssociatiOn 20 conduct a campaign
or the education or public sonti-
= nent. which Is the regular business
Ike procedure Of the professional
II moral" reformers The purpose Of
his campaign Is 10 obtain the Of
s. cial adoption by congress of this
s hew method Of time recording,
amed by its originators the Lib
s. rty Calendar" The moyment'
s moreover. has received the endorse
3nent OF Rep. Thomas d. schaIl. OF
s Minnesota. who has introduced a bill
or the adoption OF the newly pro-
posed calendar.
The proposed Liberty Calendar"
ID adopted by congress. VIII provide
or 13 months instead Of u In a
year. each month Il be OF exactly
-FOUR weeks The proposed new
method OF time recording is out
d lined in the following manner;
i First. New Year day becomes an
Independent legal holiday. 1t is not
Encluded in any week OF month.
Second, another Independent legal
holiday called Leap Year day" Is
provided for leap years. II stands
Sncluded In any week or month.
Encluded in any week or month.
i Third. the remaining 364 days are
Eiivided into Is months OF exactly
hour weeks each. every month COM
Enencing with Monday and ending
with Sunday as each week OF seven
bays begins with Monday and ends
with Sunday.
! Further explaining its proposal
Tor a new. method OF time recording,
she Liberty Calendar Association OF
america" which is the name OF the
F ORGANIZATION formed TO advocate the
plan. says:
"In order TO retain one-seventh
! Df the time for Sundays, each sew
|enth New Year day becomes New
'Year Sunday and each seventh Leap
/ Year day becomes Leap Year Sun
hay
The months in this new form are
January. February. Liberty, March.
April. May. June, July. August. Sep
Itember. October. November. Deem
her. There are four months i'm sum
mer seasons and three in each of
|the others. Liberty is the first
month of spring
|EVERY DATE on SAME DAY.
THE advantage OF this form can
bot be over estimated. The saving
Iof time and mental effort would be
Immense. Every day of the month
would always fall on a certain day
|of the week. In every month the
|ist. sth, 18th, 22nd. would always
be on Monday. The End, 9Th. 10th,
Esd. always on Tuesday; the Sd
|ioth, 18th. and 25th. always on
"Wednesday; the 4th, 18th. 18th and
|25th. always on Thursday; the 5th.
hath. leth and 26th always on Fri
DAY: the 6th. 18th. goth and 27th
always on Saturday; and the It'll
|l4th. 31st and 2sth always on sun
day.
zone would always know the day
OF the month as easily as one now
knows the day of the week. Good
Friday and Easter Sunday are set
on certain fixed dates in March. The
Fourth Of July. Armistice day,
day and Christmas
would all come on Thursday every
year. oddly enough, the Declare
ton OF independence was signed on
Continuing in its arguments for
the adoption OF the proposed LIB
erty Calendar" the association, in an
ANNOUNCEMENT today, says.
There have been many different
calendars and several dirrsreRt forms
IN use. In olden times the Calendar
was changed frequently and on the
slightest pretext. The month Of
February formerly contained %
DAYS. but one was taken from II and
added 70 August simply 20 gratify
the vanity Of that august parsonage, /
Augustus Caesar. for whom August
was renamed and who wanted IL 20
containing 81 dass-the same as July /
which had been renamed for Julius /
Caesar. No reverence for the calen- /.
dar in those days.
PRINTED CALENDAR USELESS.
While our present calendar Is /
very inconveniently arranged. II can (
easily be made so simple and con- /
venient that printed calendars would
soon be unknown. The necessary /
changes can be made and put into I
operation that neither business nor (
society would be at all inconven- 4
fenced. II could be adopted 20 take \
effect and without any friction what
ever. on Sunday, the first day OF the .
year 1924. Six months experience \
under this new form would make US
wonder why we put up with the
present form 90 long.