The Cordova daily times., 1922-10-23
CAESAR MADE
 TROUBLE WITH
 HIS CALENDAR

1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. - Julius
 Caesar, by his unscientifc juggling
 of the calendar, has caused unneces-
 sary confusion for centuries, say mem l bers of the International Fixed Cal endar League, who advocate the adop- tion of a 13-month year with each month containing twenty-eight days and an international holiday added each year to make up the 365 days of the solar calendar.
 There is really no reason why the calendar should be so broken up, league members say. In the days of the ancient Egyptions, who originated the calendar, working with the shad- ows of pyramids and obelisks, the calendar was arranged with thirteen months of equal length, with a five days festival at the end of the year to square things up with the sun. The reason for the pyramids and obelisks was their use in astronomy and calen- dar making, it is said.
 In 46 B. C., Julius Caesar, dissatis- fled with the moon-chasing calendar ot his day, adopted the Egyptian system with notifications. The Romans were superstitious about odd num- bers, 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 eliminat- ed, and the months were arranged al ternately with 30 and 31 days.
 So pleased was the Roman Senate
 with Caesars work, it Immediately named the seventh month in his cal endar in his honor, and the system is known as the Julian calendar.
 That worked for a 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 ill it's present state; the odd and even num-
 bnrpd months were changed around and Arbitrarily fixed, February was given little more liberty than the
 other months, and the half-years were
 set on unequal bases-the first hall
 getting only 1S1 days and the second
 1S4. The Roman Senate retaliated
 by changing the name of the eighth
 month to honor Augustus, since that
 was his birth-month as July was
 Julius's.
 "Constantine the Great" says a league publication, "conferred the ever-welcome Sabbath rest each 7tf
 day on Europeans; but the unequa
 lengths of 2S and 31 day months i'm posed by Julius and Augustus nave since forced the Constantine weeks
 yearly to slice months into differen
 weeks, and at month-ends almost spill
 weeks into parts, necessarily but need
 lessly confusing weeks and months
 In 1852 another change was made
 when Pope Gregory XIII found JulluS
 had been wrong in his arithmetic an'
 made an error in computing leal years. and that as result ten eAIr' days had piled up from somewhere Il the meanwhile. The sun ana th' earth according to that timetable were not travelling on the same scheo u1e. So Gregory did what many othe naonle have often wished they coul do, he dug out ten days rom OH month-October of that year-an threw them into the discard, in oroe to readjust tbe 21st of March to th Equinox and the rest of the calenda to the seasons.
 Since then we have been travelin under the Gregorian calendar. In COT sequence, the league complains, Gres orv moved the Christian years en (which ever since the establishment of the Christian era had been celebra E ed at Christmas) from Christmas | January 1st-one week farther ava N from "nature's years end, Decembe 22nd." Russia and Greece alone di E not comply with the edict, and col ' tinue as of old
 , After several national and intern X tional conferences during 1922, \ those interested in the new mOvemen l a final international conference Wa