The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-10-14
CAESAR STARTED
TIME TROUBLE
Juggling Of Calendar Cause
OF Confusion Through.
out Centuries

sary confusion for centuries. say
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each month containing tw'nV-e'ght
days ana an international holiday
added each year I" make np III" S"'
days OF tn" solar calendar.
There is really u" reason why the
calendar shonid p' 81 broken up
leagu" members say, In the days of
the anci.hi Esyptiahs' WI" oriSinat-
I'd the calendar. WORKING Win the
shadows oi pyramids ana oh'i'shs'
the calendar was arranged win thif'
teen months of equal length, win
rive days festival ut the end of the
year to square things up with the
sun. tn" reason Tor the pyramids
ana ob''iskS was 'h'ir ns" III as'roh
omy ana calendar mahihs' u IL SAID
In 70 w. e., Jnlius 'a'aar' dlssat'
isfied with the moon-chasihg '"ien'
dar OF his DAY adopted the Egyptian
system with modifi'ations, Th'
Romans were snperstitious about odd
numbers so julius started to do with
th. calendar as he had done with
the world and when u" was through
the equal length months wcr" all
broken up. th" fi,e-day festival was
eliminated ana III" months were ar
ranged alternately with 80 aud 3l
days.
So pleased was the Roman senat"
with Caesars work. II Immediately
named the seventh month In his cal
endar In his honor. and the system II
known as the Julian calendar.
That worked for while until Que
OF Caesars successors. Augustus by
name. changed his forebear's work
In b. c. ~ and when his heavy
hand was through. the calendar re-
suited In is present state: the odd
and even numbered months were
changed around and arbitrarily hS'
ed. February was given little more
liberty than the other months. ana
the haR-years were set on nneqnaI
bases-the first haIt getting only
Isl days and the second ls'. The
Roman senate retaiiated by chang
ing the name OF the eighth month To
honor Augustus as hhat was MS
birth month as July was Juliuss'
constantine the Great, says
league publication, conferred the
ever-welcome sabbath rest each Hh
day on Europeans; but the unequni
lengths OF rs ana 81 day months I'M
posed by julius ana Augustus nave
since forced the constantine weeks
yearly io sii months into dinereh'
week. and at mon,h-ends almost split
weeks into partN, inceisahtiy nut
needlessiy co USING weeks ana
months"
| In 1852 another change was made.
when Pope Gregory Slll FOUND Jul
ius had been wrong In his arithme'
tic ana made an error IN computing
leap years. ana that as result ten
extra days had piled up from some
where in the mean"hiie' The sun
and the earth according to that Tim"
table were not travelling on the
same schedule. 50 "resory ala what
many other people nave often wished
they could DO lie dug out ten days
from one month October OF That
year and threw them into the dis
card, in order 10 readlnst the 2ls'
OF March To the equinox ana the
rest OF the calendar 70 the seasons,
Since then We have been travelling
under the Gresorian calendar In
consequence. the l"agn" complains
Gregory moved tn" Christian years
end (Which ever since the establish
m"nt or the christian era mad been
celebrated at CHRISTMAS from