Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 13 | "Tribute to Caesar"

C Tribute to Caesar I I CAESAR has been dead and gone for lo 10 these m many ny centuries but the world pays trib tribute Ite to him according to to the on calendar simplification The committee composed of If many prom prom- men in iii different walks of life and by George Eastman the Rochester c ll ra manufacturer points out that while Cae Caesar ar was a good general and politician he heas vas as a terrible calendar maker Julius Caesar Iii ii 40 B. B C. C constructed the calendar were we're using now Caesar took the Egyptian calendar corn com posed of 12 months of 30 days each with live festal holidays at the end of the year and andt t those five extra days into the months so they would run odd and even in length because it was lucky to have odd numbers He had one of these lucky months July his birth month named after himself lii In 28 B. B C. C the committee finds Augustus Caesar named his birth month after himself and nd in order to have the lucky thirty one days l in it stole a day from February and tacked it onto nto his month calling it August Subsequently to satisfy landlords who complained that hat this m made de too many days in the third quarter of the year he switched September 31 to October 31 and to keep the odd and ev even ii sequence changed November 31 to December De De- cember 3 31 1 I The committee asserts that the complex economic structure that modern progress has raised in which accounting statistics and corn corn- count so vitally our year old unequal month calendar has become costly and clumsy One proposed solution would give us thirteen months of twenty eight days each with the day separated as a iou iou- I day and known as Year Day and observed as an extra Sabbath Leap Day would be transferred to June 29 and also observed as asa a holiday The months then it is pointed out would be steady and dependable The committee will em embody ody its conclusions in a report to 10 the secretary of state in connection with an international conference it is propos proposed d to call to decide the calendar question The inquiry seems to have many good points The people will hear more of is campaign