Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1916 — Plan a New Calendar. [ARTICLE]

Plan a New Calendar.

For the benefit of those individuals who February 29th celebrated their first birthday since 1912, and who may feel more or less resentful because they have only one birthday while every one else is having to r, let this be a word of cheer. They may regain their lost birthdays. ’ If a group of volunteer calendar reformers have their way, February 29 th will go down in history a s the last February 29. If the European war could have been postponed a year or two there possibly would have been no February 29 this year. The war interrupted the International Congress to revise the calendar. which had just called to do away with leap year, unequal months and other mistakes generally attributed to Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII. This congress was to have rearranged the whole calendar into 13 months of four weeks each. Every month would begin on Sunday and end on Saturday. Thirteen months of 28 days each would account for 364 days of the year. The extra day would be tacked on th? end as a world holiday.