Evening star., 1922-02-08
POOR0[DCA[ENDAR
SUFFERS RELAPSE
Astrological Experts Present
Schemes RevoIutionizing
Present Record System.

Our poor old Gregorian calendar
suffered servere relapse today at
the hands Of its reformers.
Astrological experts deluged the
Liberty Calendar Association Of Amer
lea in convention at the new National
Museum with their pet schemes for
revolutionizing the familiar register
of the days and months OF the year.
Their plans. some exceptionally
radical. vary from the ancient Chinese
to the absolute abolition of the names
of the months and their substitution
by numbers.
Some of the calendar reform plans
recommended to the association are:
The equal month or liberty calendar
plan which provides for the setting
aside Of New Year day, making 1t an
Independent holiday. 1t also sets
aside the extra day in leap years as
an Independent legal holiday called
naming 3s4 days into thirteen
months. with exactly four complete
weeks in each month.
Swiss Plan Suggested.
The Swiss plan. which also sets
aside the New Year and leap year"
days. but divides the remaining 364
days into four quarters OF ninety-one
days each. Each quarter would con-
tain one month of thirty-one days
and two months of thirty days.
The Black plan, which provides for
the omission from each calendar year
OF New Year day and also the onlis-
sion OF the extra day in leap years,
carrying these years forward until
the accumulated number thereof is
sufficient to form a complete week.
An added week Is then interpolated,
making q fifty-three-week year.
The Robertson plan, which sets
aside New Year day and an extra
day In leap years. 1t then provides
that the first two months OF each
quarter should contain four complete
weeks, while the third months of
each quarter should contain five weeks.
Under this plan there would be eight
months in the year of twenty-eight
five days each. making a total OF 364
days In the calendar year.
The Alex Philip plan. which proposes
to make no break in the continuity
Of the week. Neither would il make
any change in the present Gregorian
August and restore II to February.
thus undoing the foolishness of that
august parsonage Augustus Caesar.
who robbed February of one day and
added it TO August in order that the
month named in honor Of him might
be as long as Julius Caesars month
Of July.
The Ghilian plan. which sets aside
New Year day and leap year days and
divides the remaining days into ten
months OF thirty days each and two
months of thirty-two days each.
Metric Week Five Days.
The metric plan. which provides for
seventy-three weeks of FIVE days each
in the calendar year. 1t provides for
ten months in the year which contain
alternately thirty-seven days and
thirty-six days each. there being five
months OF thirty-six days and five
months Of thirty-seyen days, making
A plan proposed by Dr. G. c. Savage
of Nashville. Tenn. which would
practically restore the ancient julius
Caesar plan and also adopting cer-
tain features of the Jewish calendar.
The convention Of the association
was called primarily to indorse the
simplest and best of the calendar re-
form plans. However, when some of
the aforementioned revolutionary
was deemed too great for the con-
vention, and a committee was ap-
pointed to study them. On this COM
mittee are Joseph u. Barnes Of Min
neapolis, Mimi: DR.. A. F. Beall of the
bureau of standards. Prof. Moses B.
Cotsworth of Vancouver. B. c.. and
DR.. c. c. Gaines. president Of East
make its report at this evenings ses-
sion of the convention, and has in
dicated that 1t will recommend the
liberty calendar plan, q bill for which
has been introduced in the House by
Representative Shall Of Minnesota.