Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-12


saying Thirty days hath September"
snd then counting laborlously on your
fingers TO find out on what day of the
week Christmas. or pay day comes
will BE ended II a bill by Representa-
tive Thomas schali OF Minnesota be-
comes n law.
| Representative SchnlI says that In
Minnesota business men are urging
n change in the calendar system.
Business men," he points dut. ARE
every day giving their pronissory
notes without knowing whether they
will come due ON Sunday or on some
day OF the week on which they have
engagements at distant points. The
amount due an employe who works
! by the month Is often In dispute II he
quits at the end Of any week previous
to the end ~ the month, becauce the
week is not an integral part of tho
month
Millions OF our people work by
4 tn month, and yet we have no such
thing as n standard MONTH We have
standardized everything else except
lcur measure Of tlme-the very thing
we use the most. We need a simple,
well planned calendar, so that we
would no longer have to consult an
almanac or engage in tiresome cal
culations every time we plan an en-
gagement or sign a paper"
The business men who feel most
strongly about the irritations Of our
present time-reckoning system have
organized into the Liberty Calendar
Association of America. One OF them,
Mr.. Joseph Barnes, OF Minneapolis.
has evolved liberty calendar. which
has been approved by experts on high
er mathematics, and by the Chamber
Of Commerce.
This calendar is the one which Mr.
Schall has submitted TO Congress. 1t
would divide the year into 13 months
OF four even weeks. Every week and
every month would begin on the same
lday--Monday--a the bill stands. And
every quarter Of 13 weeks would al
ways begin on the same week day
which would be a great convenience
TO business men.
A New Month.
The extra month was originally 70
be called Liberty, but this does not
exactly harnonize with the names OF
the IL months as they stand. 81
Vern. meaning spring, has been sug-
xested. Vern would fall between Feb
ruary and March.
The Irregularities necessary to4,eer
: a calendar accurate are provided foi
, by the inventor Of the liberty caIen
: dar. Thirteen months Of four weeks
each provide 364 days to year. Th'
Z 365th day, or rather the first, is mad
New Years Day. and a holiday. !
, would have no status as n day OF tn
o week, except that every seventh yea
Il would be observed as Sunday
Our leap year system is changes
somewhat by the liberty calendar
February still has only 2S days, bu
. $50 have the other months. so tha
/, there is no especial need to give II tn
extra day. Instead, leap year day
placed between the 2Sth OF June AM
j. the first of July and made legal holi
day. It occurs, as at present, ever,
four years, except once in four cen
turies.
: The calendar bill provides that No
: lvember IL, which would always fal
r on Thursday. would be observed a
g Peace and Thanksgiving Day, there
e by killing two birds with one stone
e Other generally observed holiday
would remain about as at present.
I The liberty calendar would solv
n one problem for the benefit of IN
church. Easter Sunday would alway
0 fall on the>14th of March. This Oh
: viates the difficulty of fixing the dat
each year by the ecclesiastical moo
and an intricate formula.
= The present method of determinin
O. Easter has long be,n regarded as ur
a necessarily troublesome. Europea
:, astronomers are now planning to cor
! fer at Rome next spring to mal
Easter Sunday a fixed date. and pc
haps 20 discuss Otner improvement
in the calendar.
II one important country made rad
cal changes in it's way of reckonir
Is time, other progressive nations, IL
claimed, would undoubtedly folio
!, suit. IL is not thought that the
. would be any difficulty in getting q