AMERICA DESIRES ALMANAC ALTERED.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2989, 29 September 1919, Page 1

AMERICA DESIRES ALMANAC ALTERED.

I (Now York Correspondent of Daily Express.) I Having successfully commanded the I sun to move ahead an; hour in the j spn/ig and return to its {original poa- { non in tiio autumn, to wive sixty xniu- • uuvs of dayliglit per didhi, Americans ! arc now agitating lot changes in the I calendar to make it easjp* to compote | the day onLwhieh any falls trom } one to a million years iH- the future. I Tim present arrangeiijtfent of the I* mouths is being criticised as cuuibcr--801110, unwieldy, and lopsided. The calendar is being attacked' as a relic of the unseientilic era in than’* evolution, | when people worked by rule of thumb j and made all the unnecessary trouble I they possibly could. To restore the [ calendar to its rightful postion as the servant of man, the Equal .Month Calendar Association has been organised in Minneapolis, and is spreading its propaganda throughout tho country. “X, A Bill to correct tho calendar has been prepared for introduction in Congress. if the measure ist adopted, the year 1922 will see the United States possessing thirteen months per annum thereafter instead of ah inadequate twelve. But so much confusion would result if America made the reform alone, that it is considered improbable Congress will take action unless tho principal European countries join the movement simultaneously. Tho Minneapolis agitation owes its start to the well-known fact that people are always having difficulty in reckoning tho days in the future on which they wish to undertake any action. For instance, if somebody wants to do something on the tenth of next August, it is necessary to consult a calendar to find out that the day will bo a Sunday, which fact, will doubtless make a change in the date necessary. The Equal Month Calendar Association would stop this by making all months exactly alike. Every month would consist of twenty-pight days. Tho first day of each month would always fall on a Monday and the last day on a Sunday.

But twelve months M twenty-eight days each account for’only t!36 days, twenty-nine less than tho year’s total number. To take up the slack, tho Equal Month Calendar Assiociation Avan Is it thirteenth month created. Ills to be called “Liberty,” and is to ho inserted between February and March. “Liberty” is to hare twenty-eight days like all tho other months, leaving one day still out of the reckoning. It is proposed to attach this day to no month at all. It is to bo called simply “Now Year's-day,” and is to ho placed between the last day of December and the first day of .tanuary. The last day of December will always he a. Sunday, then will come " New Year’s-day,” and tho next day will be Monday, January 1. Similarly, every fourth year provision iet made for taking care of February 29 by placing a day, to be called “Correction-day,” oetween Sunday, February 28, arid Monday, Liberty I—“ Liberty” being tho name of the new month.