The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-02-04

when Valentines Day was something
for more lively anticipation, Febru-
airy has never been our favorite
month. By its end we are looking
forward to spring and have never
been too much concerned that it had
only % days in most years. But if
you are one who has felt that
| February was sighted by Gregory
when the present calendar system
was devised, it will be of interest to
know that the wrong may be righted
perhaps as early as 1856.
If the proposed world calendar
is adopted, as it will be suggested
at the next session of the United
National Economic and Social
Council, February will have 80
days. Matter of fact each month
will have 80 days save the first
month of each quarter which will
have 81. (This will provide book
keepers an extra "a hours to file
their social security and with
holding repprts.)
And this will leave one extra day
at the end of the year to make it 365.
This day would be observed as a
world holiday. On leap years another
world holiday would be tossed in at
the middle of the year.
The proposed world calendars
would simplify things no end. For
one thing there would be no wonder
ing whether Christmas would fall on
Tuesday or a week end lit would al
ways be Monday. There would be
no need for making adjustments in
business statistics for the fact that a
month may have anywhere from "a
to 81 weekdays in it; they would all
have 26.
Perhaps the printer of the
BIufton Community Calendar
Twas really just ahead of the
times in leaving off the 31st day
of December on the present issue.
But if so, what happened to the
world holiday?
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JOHN H. KELLER, known here as
a graduate of Bluffton college, and
more widely as an authority on Ohio's
extraordinarily history appeared in
the news twice during the past week.
He was named for a new term on the
Allen County Historical and Achaeo-
logical Society's board of directors
last Wednesday, and earlier in the
week was named as n of the 10000
"last-trip" passengers when Cleve-
land streetcars made their final run.
Keller is a Nickel Plate conductor.
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THE ADDITION of the third di-
mention to moving pictures and syn
chronized sound which seems to place
the audience right in the middle of
the action is not the only bid the
movie industry is making to keep the
film business and the neighborhood
theatre alive in these days of COM
petition with TV. George Carmack,
operator of Bluffton's Carma theatre,
tells of arrangements being made to
"pipe-in" special television programs
directly to the screens of the movie
houses. The Button man recently
attended a meeting of exhibitors in
Cleveland where plans for the theatre
TV network were discussed.
Recently, George said, the first
program was tried out with a broad
cast of a Detroit motor company
sales meeting being flashed on movie
screens in New York, Chicago and
st. Louis. Movie people who saw it
were enthusiastic.
There may be a day not too far
away, Mr.. Carmack says, when
New York stage productions will
be viewed by theatre audiences in
towns like Button. TV broad
casts of sports spectacles for
paid theatre audiences may also
grow out of such a network.
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FEBRUARY, of course will always
rank important to Americans as a
birthday month. The log cabin of
Lincoln and Washington's axe and
the cherry tree Will be depicted many
times over during their anniversary
month. This year Mr.. Lincoln's
birthday anniversary occurs on a
Friday while Mr. Washington's comes
on Monday, making two nice weekend
holidays if you happen to be one who
takes those days off.
Incidentally Mrs. r. l.. Triplett
observes the EmancipatOr's birth