New Britain herald., 1922-10-12
CEASAR BEGAN THE l TROUBLE WITH TIME
Unscientifc Juggling of Calendar
 Made Matters Worse

Washington. Oct. l2.-Julius Caes ar, by his unscientifc juggling of the calendar, has caused unnecessary confusion for centuries, say members of the International Fixed Calendar league, who advocate the adoption oi a l3-month year with each month containing twenty-eight days and ar international holiday added each veal to make up the S65 days of the solai calendar.
 There is really no reason why tho calendar should be so broken up league members say. In the days oi the ancient Egyptians, whp ortAjnateG the calendar, working with the shad. ows of pyramids and obelisks, the cal. eRdar was arranged with thirteen months of equal length, with a Ave square things up with the sun. The reason for the pyramids and obelsks was their use in astronomy and cal endar making, 1t is said.
 Change System
 In 46 B. C., Julius Caesar, dissatis. fled with the moon-chasing calendar of his day, adopted the Egyptian sys- tem-with notifications. The Rom ans were superstitious about odd numbers. so Julius started to do with the calendar as he had done with the world and when he was through the equal length months were all broken up, the five day festival was elimin- ated, and the months were arranged alternately with 30 and 31 days. So pleased was the Roman senate with Caesars work 1t immediately named the seventh month in his cal endar in his honor. and the system is known as the Julian calendar.
 That worked for while until one of Caesars successors, Augustus by name, changed his forebear's work, in B. c. 2s and when his heavy hand was through, the calendar resulted in its present state; the odd and even numbered months were changed around and arbitrarily fixed. Feoru- ary was given little more liberty than the other months and the half years were set on unequal bases-the first half getting only 1S1 days and the second 1S4. The Roman senate retaiated by changing the name of the eighth month to honor Augustus, as that was his birth-month as July was Julius's.
 Constantine the Great says a league publication, conferred the enth day on Europeans, but the un- equal lengths of 2S and 31 day months imposed by Julius and Angus tus have since forced the Constantine weeks yearly to slice months into diff ferent weeks, and at month-ends al most split weeks, into parts, inces- sanity but needlessly confusing weeks and months"
 Another Change
 In 1852 another change was made, when Pope Gregory XIII found Jul jus had been wrong in his arithmetic and made an error in computing leap years, and that as a result ten extra days had piled up from somewhere in the meanwhile The sun and the earth, according to that time table, were not travelling on the same sched- ule. So Gregory did what many other people have often wished they could do, he dug out 10 days from one month-October of that year - and threw them into the discard, in order to readjust the Fist of March to the equinox and the rest of the calendar to the seasons
 Since then we have been travelling under the Gregorian calendar. In consequence, the league complains, Gregory moved the Christian years end (which ever since the establish ment of the Christian era had been celebrated as Christmas) from Christ mas to January 1st-one week farther away from natures years end, De cember 22nd." Russia and Greece alone did not comply with the edict, and continue as of old.
 After several national and interna tional conferences during 1922, Of those interested in the new movement, final international conference was planned to be held sometime during the coming year. It will be held here, at the presidents call. Many repre- sentatives of world nations will attend lo uloIuSo O. piO6 uili " iiiNii
 To Change Time
 Location of the Year Day" re- moval of Heap day" to be a midsum- IT CTS holiday the best arrangement to fit the present 52 yearly weeks into permanent months, a name for the proposed month Sol" the best per manent date for Easter the best date on which to begin the "yearal' or equal month year Tentatively set at 192s), and to draft recommendations the above into legislative form for adoption by all nations and remit that standard bill to their re- spective governments to insert their national holidays therein and together make it law for their respective na. tions'
 Interested in the m movement accord ing to the league, are: International chambers of commerce. international of European calendar the international Astrono-
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