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Show i Fan cocfusii I OejMllR International . League Contends Con-tends There la No Scientific Scien-tific Reason or Merit in Months of Odd Length - WA8HIXGTOX. Oct. It Julius Caur, by tils unscientific jura-ling; of tha calendar, ha caused unnecessary confusion for centuries. jr members J of tha International Fixed Calendar i lea true, who advocate the adoption of a 1 1-month year with each month con- i tafnlna; tweiity-eljrht day and an In ternational holiday added each year to make up the days of the aolar calendar. There la really no reason why the calendar should be so broken up. lee true members say. In the days of the ancient Egyptians, who originated the calendar, work in a: with the shadows shad-ows of pyramids and obelisks, the calendar cal-endar was arranged with thirteen months of equal length, with flve-daya flve-daya festival at the end of the year to qua re thtnjra up with the sun. The reason for the pyramids and obelisks was their use In astronomy and calendar calen-dar making-. It Is said. In 4 B. C, Julius Caesar, dissatisfied dissatis-fied with the moon chasing calendar of hla day, adopted the Ke-yptlan system - -- wtth mrMtficatrons.' Ths Romans vara supcrstltloua about odd numhara, so Julius started to do with ths calendar calen-dar as ba had dons with ths world and when hs was through ths equal months wars all broken up, ths firs -day festival festi-val was ell m Ins ted. and tha months " war sirangad alternately with thirty and thlrty-ons days. , Bo pleased was ths Roman senate . with Caeaars work. H immediately named ths seventh month In his calender calen-der In his honor, and ths system Is known as ths Julian calendar. CACtAR'ft WORK CHANOf D. That worked for a while until one of Caesar's successors, Augustus byname, changed his forebear's work. In B. C. 2. and when his heavy hand was t through, ths calendar resulted In Its .present stats; lbs odd and even numbered num-bered months were rhanged around and arbitrarily fixed. February waa given a little mora liberty than ths other months, and the half-years were set on unequal bases ths first half getting get-ting only Itl days and the second 184. The Roman senate retaliated by changing chang-ing the name of the eighth month to honor Augustus, a that waa hla birth -month, as July waa Julius. "Constantino the Great." aays a eaa-ue puntioation, eonrcrrei the ever welcome Sabbath rest each seventh day on Europeans; but the unequal lengths of twenty-eight and thirty-one .day months Imposed by Julius and Augustus have alnce forced the Con-ataatlns Con-ataatlns weeks yearly to slice months Into different weeks, and at month-ends month-ends almost split weeks Into parts, in- oaeaanlly but needlessly confusing weeks and months." In lftll another change was made, when Pope Ore gory XIII found Julius had been wrong In hla arithmetic and made an error In computing leap years, and- that as a result ten extra days bad piled up from somewhere In the meanwhile. mean-while. The sun and the earth, according accord-ing to that time table, were not traveling trav-eling on the same schedule. Ho Gregory Greg-ory did what many other people have often wished to do. he dug out ten days from one month October of that year end threw them Into the discard, la order to read Juat the llet of March to . the Equinox and the rest of the calen- - tlar to tha seasons, . MOVED UP A WIIK. Klnce then we have been traveling under the Gregorian calendar. In consequence, con-sequence, the league complains, Gregory Greg-ory moved the C'hrletlan year's end which ever since the establishment of the Christian era had been celebrated at Christmas) from Christmas to January Janu-ary 1 one week farther away from "nature's year's-snd, December 12." Huaeia and Greece alone did not comply com-ply with that edict, and continue as of old. After several national and International Interna-tional conferences during 12I, of those Interested In the new movement, a final - in let-national conference was planned to be held some time during the coming com-ing year. It will be held here, at the prealdent'a calL. Many represntaryesi . f world nattona will attend, to discuss a program which Includes, I Location of the "Year day. removal of "Leap day to be a midsummer's holiday, the beet arrangement to fit ths present fifty-two yearly weeks Into permanent months, a name for the propoeed pro-poeed month "Sol.' the beat permanent date for Kaater, the beet date on which to begin the yearal- or equal month year (tentatively at 1:. and to -draft recommendations concerning the above Into tegialattve form for adoption by all nations and remit that etandard bill -to their respective governments to insert in-sert their national holidays therein and together make It law for their respec- live nations. , - Interested In tha movement, accord-'Ing accord-'Ing to the league, are: International cham be re of commerce. International conferences of Kuropean calendar advocates, ad-vocates, the International Astronomic union. International Roman Catholic churches (through the vatlcan. The government of Canada, the Royal Society Soci-ety of Canada, and the International conference of United Btatee snd Csna- dlan calendar associations have all unanimously Indorsed ths "International "Internation-al fixed calendar plan. as the heat thus far devised te remedy the defects In existing calendars. Practically. It is said, ths revised calendar cal-endar would aid tn agriculture In preventing pre-venting crop failures by planting at Incorrect In-correct times because the calendar calls for It. It would be of value to labor, and capital alike. It Is claimed, and would aid Industry generally. It would equalise dating systems throughout the world, and, finally, the 28-day month would free about per cent of monthly money now held for thirty and thirty-one thirty-one days. |