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Show Forget George's Birthday We're 11 Dap Too Late! birthday to jump 11 days. WHILE ON the subject of discrepancies, dis-crepancies, how about the cherry tree myth? That little legend was started by Parson Weems, clergyman, book agent and author. THE PARSON created the story honestly intending to promote pro-mote patriotic devotion and moral mor-al standards among youth. Feb. 1 1 or Feb. 22, cherry 'tree or not, America produced a leader who was monumental in winning the Revolutionary War, writing the Constitution and lending the United States in her infancy. Are you grumbling because you aren't allowed to enjoy the full spirit of George Washington's Washing-ton's birthday? YOUR COMPLAINTS are unjust un-just because Washington was born Feb. 11, not Feb. 22. Calendar troubles, dating back before Julius Caesar, started the events which created the birthday birth-day mix-up. CAESAR REVISED the calendar calen-dar in 46 B.C. because a king 700 years 'before him had slipped two extra months into the yen to give him more time to rolled taxes. By 1580, the spring equinox fell on March 11, ten days early. POPE GREGORY XIII ordered that ten days be dropped frnni October and one dav be 9dded to February. Great Britain adopted the new calendar in 1752, causing the actual date of Washington's |
