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The New York herald., 1922-01-01
There Will Be a NameIess
Holiday Preceding New Years

Now listen YOU children, you will get
little of your own back in the new change
of the calendar. The Nameless Holiday to
precede New Years will be a little bit Of all
right for you.
Observe that the Nameless Holiday will
not be either day Of December or of jan
uary! 1t will not be a day of the week
either! II will not make us n day Older
time will simply stand still. The Nameless
Holiday will Just come in between Sunday
(which will always he the last day of the old
year, and Monday (Which will always be the
first day of the new year). So. then, here
you have three perfectly good holidays all
in q bunch together-Sunday, Nameless and
New Years!
Another bit of all to the good will be the
fact that Christmas Day, in this reform of
the calendar, will always fall (like New
Years) on q Monday. Here you have an
other pair of holidays which nobody can take
from you.
A third little bit of goodness-gracious will
be found I'm the use made of the extra day
OF leap year Now II is the 10th OF Febru-
ary-just another day to work or go to
school. 1t won't be so when the calendar Is
Strengthened out It, too will be Nameless
Holiday stuck in between the last day of
June and the first day Of July. Time will
stand still for It, too. No employer will be
able to make any use OF it. He would not
know how TO credit or debit II on his pooks'
because IL will be neither June nor July, nor
a Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday,
Thursday. Friday, or a Saturday either
And the reason for It will be this--to give
every year exactly ffty-two weeks. every
quarter exactly thirteen weeks, make every
month begin and end always on a fixed day.
and every holiday become a fixed day OF the
week and month!
Will the various countries adopt it7
The authorities Of the Anglican Church
have recently shown desire to accent a ra-
tionai reform OF the calendar which win pro-
vide for fixed instead OF movable holidays;
and now that the Church OF Rome has In
augurated a definite move In that direction.
there is reason TO expect successful issue
70 the work of the coming conference
In all probability the Vatican will invite
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

the average liner or train. corridor,
running from the crews quarters to the
passengers cabin, is a further insurance of
safety.
The ship will be equipped with four turbo
aspirators (system Rateau), operated sep
arately of the lower plant which propels
the vessel When the pilot desires to rise
these aspirators, set in motion for little
vacuum in the inner of the three chambers,
and lesser vacuum in the other two.
After rising to the height desired, this
being controlled by the extent of the
vacuum in the two outer chambers, tn,
pilot will start his propellers and fly off ir
the direction he chooses.
AS long as the ship is to remain in the
air the aspirators will maintain vacuum
but when the pilot desires to descend air
will be let into chambers. The ship in
descending can be controlled by means o.
the aspirators
Once the ship is on the ground II re-
quires no hangar. It's weight will hold Il
in face of the most severe storm, for its
interior contains no gas. From this point
of view its practicability for military work
is unlimited. Because of the lightness OF
it's construction and its great displacement
in the air IL can rise to heights of from
10000 to $4,000 feet, although for purely
commercial purposes a height of 5000 to
10000 feet is sufficient The aspirators will
be capable of heating the air in the two
outer chambers. which will add even more
to the buoyancy of the craft.
BY simple operation of the pumps the
craft can be held stationary in the air at
any height the pilot desires. The cabin OF
the ship can be loaded or discharged. or
passengers taken aboard or let off, by means
OF simple elevator. In the same man
ner fuel can be taken aboard. Its inventor
expects the craft to be able to carry pas
sengers between Paris and New York at
cost equivalent TO second class railway
fare. or about two-thirds of the cost OF
mileage In America. The time required for
the transatlantic fight should not exceed
eighteen houra
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Mushrooms Amazingly Powerful

Ealing, now one of London's busy suburbs.
not so many years ago was rural district,
where mushrooms were cultivated. But
times changed, the fields were built upon.
and everybody forgot the mushrooms. But
the mushrooms were not dead. The life
germs from which the mushrooms spring re-
manned active down in the soil.
How is a mushroom, so fragile and feeble.
able to force its way through concrete and
asphalt? How is 1t able to carry up with IL
huge stones which have been cemented
down? How is 1t that mushroom can split
a stout brick wall7 The mushrooms In
garden at Beckenham did this some little
time ago. pushing out block Of brickwork
and mortar Weighing ITO pounds. though the
mushrooms themselves weighed less than
three and one-half pounds. II Is the result
OF one of the wonderful forces OF nature
which men can examine and explain and yet
cannot cease 70 marvel at BY Its gentle and
continuous pressure, the growing and ex-
panding mushroom can lift weights big
enough to crush things . thousand times
ss strong as itsen
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Do Our Animals Develop
A Real Civilization?

backyards and alleys. Instead of the Him
aiayas, he has the backyard fence, and in
stead of his native wooded wilds, a forest Of
ash cans and iron gratirgs
He has had to unlearn many OF the habits
of his period of wild life, as we'll as those of
bfs domestic period, and has taken on the
habits that make him fit to survive I'm the
hazardous life of the back alley Habits OF
night life, it seems. have always been an in
stitution among cats, and these they have
retained I'm their alley habitat, as their night
ly festivals in all parts of New York testify.
The cat has also retained his habit of prey
ing on rodents and birds. but during his do
mestic period he learned that 1t is best not
to attack man, and this he has remembered.
He has forgotten his habit of meowllng for
the mornings cream and salmon. Instead
he has taken on the garbage can habit and
numerous others, all of which go to make
up the typical backyard feline culture In
this new slum life the cat has done very
well He has reproduced his kind In great
numbers and held his own against all
comers.
In measure, the alley cat has outstripped
his human analogue, the social outcast and
the vagrant. He has got along without
charity or other organized assistance. bring
ing his young to maturity as full fledged
and capable feline specimens So far. so
ointment. What will he do if man turns
against him and decides upon his extermi-
nation7 None of the things that he has
learned in the alley or In the wilds will
teach him how to meet that eventuality.
The only thing that would make the cat
n fit competitor with man in such n strug-
gle would be some way Of acquiring the
human trick of transmitting to the incom-
ing generation the habits which the past
has learned. That means n language.
books, a printing press an educational sys-
tenn. Without these things each generation
Of backyard cats must begin just where the
last started and not where the last left Off.
as is the case with the human species. Hero
is a problem for some feline genius or some
human friend of the race of cats: How TO
set up scheme of feline educational insti-
tutions based on the useful habits which the
race has acquired? Until the problem is
solved we humans may pride ourselves that
our civilization is higher. or al least wider
in range. than that of the backyard cat
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

o animals the New York alley cat,
i for instance, have a civilization of
- their own? Modern students of our
human society tell us that what we call cul-
ture or civilization is nothing but the turn
ing into institutions of the habits that man
has acquired in his contact with his envi-
ronment. Man, like the animals, they say.
is habit forming creature. He keeps the
habits which have been useful to him. forms
these habits into conglomeration of insti-
tutions and calls the result civilization.
From this point of view one might fairly
ask, DO the higher habit forming animals
have a civ lzation of their own? IL would
seem so. And these animal civilizations seem
10 get on surprisingly well under difficult
circumstances. The real test of a civiliZa-
ton would, no doubt be Its ability to adapt
iteelf to a changed and more difficult envi-
ryr,ment Under this test many empires of
man have gone down. and. conversely, many
animals have successfully endured. Take
the alley cats of New York as an example.
They came originally out of wild life. in
the Himalayas. in Egypt and elsewhere. and
they have been considerably crossed with
strains Of the European wildcat. They came
into Rome at some time. not long before the
Imperial period, and they have been exposed
10 considerable variations OF mans civiliza-
ton
when the European white man settled
America the cat came with him. Both throve
nightly in their new environment. Cat and
man appeared in great numbers. Period
lcally. as their numbers increased, certain
members of both races went astray or were
thrust aside by the ruthless march of prog
ress. The result was that neither OF these
wsed.d out individuals could fit into the
main scheme or get the proper economic
support rrum It. They we're out of Jobs And
so wp had the human phenomena known as
crimtnalisy. vagrancy and unemployment.
ana th~ feline phenomenon known as the
stray or alley cat
The New York alley cat Is a phenomenon
IN more ways than one. Coming out of
Asiatio, European and African wild life,
trauspiantod In q new CLINE and deprived Of
his Job as domestic mouser and pet he has
become a shrewd feline vagabond. a velvet
footed, free lance In the sub-human slums.
lie has met and magtered most of the prob
icns OF his new envs pnmsnt and has learned
n great many tricks about getting along In
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
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between March "a and April 24--on Holy
Saturday, the only New Years that existed.
Even the English March 10 was so far from
Christmas that there could be no possible
confusion with Christmas presents. These
New Years sweeteners had been, immemo-
rally, of prime Importance, not only to
children but to all house servants. clerks,
family dependents and feudal retaners.
Now suddenly, by some Juggling with the
calendar. their old familiar New Years of
Easter time had simply disappeared-along
with it's valuables Next winter there would
be the date-on January land vague
kind of promise to make good on that new
New Years; but January l was far away
and any child could see that its gifts
would merge with those of Christmas
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
THE MONTGOMERY CALENDAR.
MOTHER improved" calendar is

A MOTHER improved" calendar is one
~ suggested by c. A. Montgomery OF
\ New York. It is called 1.-The Globe
Perpetual" and beginning with Sunday
January l. the years will all end with Satur
day. December 81, being divided into four
equal quarters of 13 weeks col days) each
the quarter to begin on Sunday and end on
Saturday.
The 365th day is placed by itself AS New
Years. Leap Year Day. or Fourth Year
Day. Is placed between Saturday June 81
and Sunday. July 1, as an ertra day. not in
cluded in either week or month.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
TOT so very long ago the boys and
girls Of a certain public school were
surprised to find that the asphalt of


IN girls of certain public school were
surprised to find that the asphalt of
their playground was buging and crack
ing. Next day they saw that the asphalt
had been lifted bodily above the ground
on which II rested. It was as II there were
some giant beneath the playground. like the
giant in the fable who is said to have
caused an eruption of the volcano at the bot
tom of which he lay whenever he turned
over In his sleep.
But no giant had caused the upheavai of
this playground, nor had there been an
earthquake. The upheaval had been caused
by mushrooms. When this happened people
remembered that they had seen other up
heavals OF a similar character In that part
OF the country. Pavements had been raised
ana roadways strong enough TO bear the
heaviest traffic had had their surfaces
thrust above their surroundings. In every
case the Disturbances had been caused hy
mushrooms
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

the other churches interested to be repre-
sented at the MISUNDERSTANDING the
Greek Orthodox, which still adheres to the
Julian calendar and is now thirteen days
behind the rest of civilization.
So the work can go rapidly. There is
reason for a prompt decision. If an agree
ment among Governments can be reached
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
By JOHN ALLAN WYETH, M. D.. IL. D.

BY JOHN ALLAN WYETH, M. D., IL. D.
~ TOT less important than the world
N wide adoption OF the metric system
i for weights, quantities. distances.
&C.. Is the adoption of a uniform standard
for the measure Of time.
Thousands Of years before the momentous
discovery Of Copernicus Q520 A. d. that
the earth revolved around the sun. con-
firmed as scientific demonstration by the
telescope Of Calico in 1910, man had taxed
his ingenuity to devise a calendar or meas
ure of time by which the dates of important
events might be registered and the ordinary
affairs of life systematically conducted.
The Egyptian calendar of IL months OF
30 days lost approximately Az days each
year. while the Greeks. with their 1: months
of alternating 80 and 20 days, failed to ac-
count for 11N days. The first Roman calen-
dar had 10 months with 81 days allotted to
the first. third. fifth and eighth and 80 days
to the remainder, with 81 days omitted from
the reckoning The Chinese divided their
year into 12 months Of alternating 81 and 30
days, adding an extra month every 30 years
to make up for lost time. The Hebrew cal
endar was movable duplex of 1885 and
363-s5 days.
The early peoples of Mexico and Yucatan
had a solar year of IS periods of 20 days
and an astrological table of IS periods of 20
days.
The Julian Calendar One
Of the Modern Improvements
Julius Cesar, with the aid of Greek
astronomer, corrected much of the confu-
sion of these earlier methods of measuring
time by establishing year of 1854 days
divided into IL months, and In 1882 A. d.
Pope Gregory Kill, with insignificant modi-
fications, introduced our present system,
known as the "Gregorian calendar" with
some months of 81 DAYS, others of 30 and one
Of 2s or 20 days Illustrative of the COM
plexities Of this calendar. the following rule
is given for finding the day OF the week for
any given date:
Take the last two figures of the year. add
one-fourth of these. neglecting the remain
der. To the sum thus obtained add for the
various months as follows: January and
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

for the year 1923 a considerable advantage
will be gained-because the year 1923 COM
mences naturally on a Monday. So every
subsequent New Years can be a Monday
without any change Of habits And so we
viii fall into the new regularity as easy as
off a log.
We won't need any almanacs.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
IPLE CAL ENDAR MAY COME FROM PAPALCONCLAVE

New Years Belgium old painting The budding
foliage the background explained by New Years under ar
calendar falling between March and April a.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
How the Children Were Cheated of Gifts by
One Calendar Change Many Inter
esting Reforms Devised

October, I; May, 2: August, q; February
March and November A; June, s. September
and December 6; April and July. o. In case
Of leap year: January, O.; February. 8. Add
the figures representing the day Of the
month and divide this sum by z. The
mainder gives the number of the day of the
week.
Example: What day of the week was Au
gust rs, 1911?
ll-+2=13
For August
Date 2S
Divide by o44ts
AZ
Remainder 2
or second day of the week
Compare this puzzling complication with
the Bennett calendar, in which the days of
the week. month or year remain unchanged
forever.
BENEFITS Simpiifed
Calendar Is the One Indorsed
On June 7, 1911, Mr.. Charles Wilkes Ben
nett of Coldwater, Mich. submitted to the
editor of Science, in New York city. "sim-
plifted calendar" in which the year was di
vided into 13 months of % days each. The
additional month was called "Sol' (the
month of most sunshine in our zone) and
was placed between June and July. Publi
cation was declined. In 1919 my attention
was called to this subject and I am con-
vinced that the Bennett calendar Is a salts
factory solution of a most important and
heretofore vexatous problem.
While the period required for the rotation
of the earth on its axis has been divided into
twenty-four hours Cor one day., the time
needed for the earth to complete it's revolu-
ton around the sun is 365 days hours As
minutes and as seconds. Since there are
only 364 days in 13 months of % days each
there is one extra day in every year in the
Bennett calendar. and every four years Cor
leap year, an additional day to be dis
posed Of.
This may be done as follows The last day
of 1921 comes on Saturday. Sunday Of 1922
will be called New Year Day" and not
counted in the calendar, which begins with
Monday, January 1, 1922.
BY the Bennett calendar the month of
January. 1922. and every month for all time
would be as follows:
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

Every fourth year the day immediatel,
following February % will be Leap Year
Day." holiday. and not counted IN the
calendar
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

Elizabeth who tried the New Year gift
for children France when they lost by calendar
change several centuries
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-05

seemed poisoned. But the Inner
Mysteries of rheumatism made it
all clear to us, and now. we are both
free from the suffering and misery
We endured so many years. really
believe that | was the hardest man
In the world to convert. For me
to discard the old Uric Acid theory,
and what | now know to be abso-
lutely false. forsthe new. scientific
understanding OF the cause and cure
OF rheumatism, was almost like ask .
ing me TO change my religious be-
liefs. But l di0 change, and 1t was
a fortunate day for me and mine
when / did So"
NoTE--"The Inner Mysteries or Rheu-
matism" referred TO above by Pastor Reed
lays bare facts about rheumatism and It's
associate disorders overlooked by many
doctors and scientists for centuries past.
II II a work that should BE- In the hands
OF every man and woman who has. the
slightest symptoms OF rheumatism, neu .
ritis, soiatica, lumbago or aout. For
dress TO the author. II, r., Clearwater,
3s3 ID. Street, Haiioweli Maine will re-.
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Rheumatism by mall, postage paid and
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World should send now iest yon forget the
address, II you are not a sufferer cot out
this explanation and hand, or mail. IL 10
some afflicted friend or acquaintance
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END YOUR RHEUMATISM

been led Into taking wrong treat
ments under the old and false be-
lief that URIC ACID" causes rheu-
matism, Pastor II. w. Reed says:
AS do some OF our highest medi-
cal authorities. also now know that
Uric Acid never did and never will
cause rheumatisml But II took me
many years 10 find out this truth.
learned how 20 get rid OF my
rheumatism, and recover my
strength and hsalth through read
ing The Inner Mysteries OF Rheu-
matism,' work written by an au-
thority who has scientifically studied
the causes and treatment OF rheu-
matism and its associated disorders
for over twenty years, II was. in
deed. a veritable revelationl
Il had suffered agony for years
from rheumatism ana its attendant
disorders, and Mrs, Reed was also
tortured with the demon Neuritis.
almost beyond endurance. We had
read and talked 30 much about
Uric Acid that even our minds
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stretched II out over the waters, and
frogs lnnumerable appeared. When
tho dust was smltten by the rod II
became lice, Moses stretched out
his rod and the lOcusts came to dow
astntc the land.
Called upon by Pharaoh to dupil-
cate these marvels, the magicians
by their secret arts" turned water
into blood ana caused frogs to ap-
pear--ur at least, by some Ingenious
means. countcrfeited the transfor-
nations In question. when II came
to initiating the miracle OF the lice,
however. they failed entirely.
Afrccts and Gcnii.
Magic is the greater part OF all
primitive religions. the ritual of
which In largely composed of wiz
tricks. 10 IL so today. and the VA me
was true of the ldol-worshlppins
faith OF the ancient Egyptians with
primitive religion there Is always
much demonology mixed up. and
so II In not surprising TO learn that
supernatural beings OF frightful at
tributes lurked behind the mists of
popular Ignorance and superstition
IN the ancient land OF the Pharaohs,
when the pyramids were young.
The genii and afreets we're un-
ioubtedly OF prehistoric origin. As
we learn from tho Arabian Nights.
they were OF gigantic size. human .
like though lacking flesh and blood.
and lived to be 400 or moro years
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old. Usually invisible, they were
able to disclose themselves to view
when they 50 wished. developing
and terrifying.
Those mysterious and formId
able beings had their abode In the
Caucasus mountains. But they could
travel with the speed OF lightning.
and Pharaoh's sorcerers could sum-
mon one or another of them In an
instant's tiWc. Most TO be dreaded
by ordinary folks were the Afreets,
particularly horrible and malig-
nant breed OF demons. who were
called upon by the magicians 10
perform the wicked est tasks.
The Egypt Of Aaror's and Moses
time Gas revealed by the newly
discovered papyriJ, was n land In
which entertainments. magical trans
formations, and all the wonders OF
wizardy were as well established In
popular belief as are the most famil-
lar facts In nature today. The Ara
bian Nights arc not more full OF that
sort OF thing than was the every day
life of the ancient Egyptians.
No wonder. th6n, that Pharaoh
called upon the magiclans whenever
anything troubled or puzzled him.
They. and they only. could look be-
hind the veil by which the unknown
was hidden. Thus part of their
business was the Interpreting OF
dreams. They appear In the story
OF Joseph, when the monarch,
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consumed by the court in dispos-
ing of similar cases heretofore
ranged from one week TO year.
Names George. in behalf OF Will
liam Names George. his son. filed
suit for $4,000 alleged damages
against the Richwine Ice Cream
company. The lad sustained a
broken arm when thrown beneath
the wheels OF the defendants auto
while sleighing.
The Ice cream company immedi-
ately filed an answer. Testimony
was submitted. the case argued, the
Judge charged the jury. and "A YER
dict for 1915 was returned. The de-
fendant filed a motion for n new
trial; the Judge overruled the mo-
ton and the plaintiff was given a
check for 1915.
From the time the first petition
was filed in the court up to the
time the check was paid only 20
and fraction minutes elapsed.