The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-15
WINTER VISITOR
GIVES idea OF
new CALENDAR
FRANK J. Kicker EXPLAINS
HOW TWELVE MONTH Pc
RODS WOULD BE DIVIDED
IN REVISION

Every so often the proposition
to change the calendar comes up
for discussion. This idea has been
discussed for hundreds of years
and today IS again being discussed
and various pans and propositions
are set forth as substitutes for the
calendar now in use.
The reformation of the calendar,
so-called because admittedly it
does not perfectly serve the pur-
pose desired is being advocated by
a government agency known as
the statistical board, the members
of which are Henry Morgenthau,
Jr., secretary of the treasury;
Henry A. Wallace, secretary of
agriculture; Daniel C. Roper, sec
rotary of commerce and Frances
Perkins, secretary of labor.
The calendar most generally
used today is the Gergorian calen-
dar, devised by Pope Gregory
XIII in 1882. There were few
changes and corrections made in
1852 by the American colonies
and Great Britain, but the calen-
dar of today is deemed by many
to be unsatisfactory.
Several plans have been made
for changing the calendar, the
most popular of which seems to
be to divide the year into thirteen
months of 20 days each, the
months to begin on Sunday and
end or Satur lay, with all holidays
falling on Monday. At the end
of each year there would be an
extra holiday to bring in the 365
days of the solar year. Leap
years would be provided for with
an extra holiday to be observed in
mid-year.
Presents Idea
Frank J. Kicker, summer resi-
dent of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
but winter resident of Key West,
who owns fine home here, arriv-
ed several weeks ago, accompan-
led by Mrs. Kicker, and presented
to The Citizen his idea of what the
revised year should be like and
with the same number of days and
extra holidays, but retaining the
same twelve-month period.
Mr.. Ricker's idea is in printed
form showing the twelve-month
period divided as follows: The
first, fourth, seventh and tenth
months contain five weeks, 35
days in the month; the other
eight months contain four weeks,
90 days in the month.
In other words, January, April,
July and October each contain S5
days; February, March, May, June,
August, September, November and
December, % days, with each week
throughout the year beginning nat
urally with Sunday as the first
day of the year.
Same Number of Days
This calendar, as proposed by
Mr.. Kicker, contains the same
number of days, S64, as would the
proposed Is months a year calen-
dar and would have the same num-
Der of days in excess on New
Years and one day in excess every
other year.
At this time there are a num-
Der of large industrial corporations
which have adopted the thirteen
month calendar, in order to make
monthly comparisons year after
year and for the purpose of main
tanning the same sequence of en-
ployment periods which is not pos
sible under the present system of
time division ny months.
The United States is announced
as supporting the idea of an inter-
national convention to consider
proposed changes, and one of the
ideas under consideration is that
the new. calendar begins on Jam
uary 1, 1899, as Jauary 1 falls on
Sunday and will not again occur