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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL'. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1908.
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WHS . in
FOR ALL '
Jiangs Fronr the ' Half Cent
: Article toV GO-dent Art
Works - Chaldean, Aztec
and Roman Have Made the
Calendar What Itls.
By FREDERIC 3, HASKIX.f
(Copyright, 1M, by Frederic J. Haakin.)
Washingtn, Now 14. American busi
ness men have paid $18,000,000 for their
stock of 1909 calendars to be given
away between now and the first of Janu-
-1 ary. Advertising calendar come to al
most every office and household, are ac
cepted aa a matter of course, are used
''very- day during the year for reference.
and are thrown away.
une calendar mauihr firm has lbD
' traveling- men who are- on the road all
, the time. The i stock of calendars for
,11909 has been printed and most of It
distributed. The calendar makers have
forgotten about J99, and they are out
now hustling for business for the season
of 1910.
Calendars of the kinds which are
.distributed gratis range in cost from
one-half cent to sixty cents each. There
are very few aixty-cent ones, and there
are very few half-cent onets. Many of
the "art" calendars which are given
away with apparent prodigality coat as
much as twenty cents each. I
There isn't a town in the country
big enough to have electric lights and
waterworks that hasn't a half dozen
concerns whose managers think it wise
to remember their patrons with a holi
day gift in the form of a calendar.
Banks are the heaviest buyers of cal
endars, in the whole business world. Al
mostevery bank outside of. tha very
large cities gets out an annual calendar,
and most of them seem to think It wise
to pay a good price and get one of high
grade.
The free distribution of calendars
has lart-elv displaced the free almanac
which ..was a feature of the holiday
season a (feneration ago. and which
still maintains its sway in the more
rural sections of the country. The free
almanac, in its turn, had displaced the
old - fashioned IiIkIi - priced almanac,
which had to be purchased every year
for the guidance of a weH-regulated
ramuy.
Calendars Oqfce Bailable.
The fact that everybody can have a
calendar for the asking, and that there
Is rever any question of dates. Is 'so
generally accepted that It is interesting
to go back to the days when such thlngc
were not dreamed ef. The oldest calen
dar elmanac printed In Kngllsh which Is
contained In the enormous calendar col
lection of the library of congress at
Washington. Is Klchard Grafton's Per
petual Calendar, printed in ixinaqn in
1611, the fourth year of James I.
Mr firaftnn evliientlv soueiit to sup
ply a long-felt want, and he Issued this
little volume with Its tables of time
which would enable anybody to calculate
the date in any year. One of the tables
Is entitled "a sure method of finding
th. Hov nt Vniiter forever. Kvldontly
the "sure method" was not explained to
the satisfaction or every reader or Mr.
IJraftnn'a nnlenrinr. for on the fly-leaf.
written In the quaint handwriting of
the days of King Charles is tne rouow-
""Memorandum: That a mutual obll
. gatlon was made upon ye 6 day of
March betwixt Mr. Rowland Plater and
my self That iff Easter day fall to be
upon the 22 day of March In ye year
1668 he should pay to me ye Burn of five
pounds of lawf utl money of England
to be paid to me upon ye day after
Kaster. teing r,aairr iyiimujhj , ...
of March. M668. But if it should not
fall upon ye sam az nay oimnrcn
then I am to pay him ye said sum of
five pounds upon ye day and year before
. Mentioned: Attest: Tho. Rhaxpe.
It was J40 years ago that the two
English worthies backed their varying
Judgments asMo the coming of Easter
with good coin. Kaster came that year
upon April 1. but as England haf not
then adopted the new style calendar
the English Easter was on March 23
and the good Master Thomas Sharpe
won his bet. Times have changed and
manv calendars have outlived their use
fulness In these 840 years, but. as that
old memorandum attests, sporting blood
is sporting blood, then,-now and always.
Bnssia Behind the Times.
The most Important movement touch
ing the calendar now under way is the
agitation In Russia for the adoption of
the new styie or uTrurm;i
Russia still uses the ld style or Julian
calendar, and consequently is 11 days
behind the rest of the cnrisuan worn
In 1 1 Aatmm
The Julian calendar takes Its name
from Julius Caesar the first great cal
endar reformer. The ancient - Roman
a - b imiurfoi't that It was nec
essary to interpolate an extraordinary
..... vr iii AavM In order to brln a the
vernal equinox back to the date of
March 74. wnmi n nan u-u in
reign of the Roman king Numa, 700
vears before Caesar. At the same time
the 10 months of the old Roman yer
were increased to 12; the year was
made to consist of S6B days-the
nearest approach yet made to the length
of the true solar year; and If was ar
ranged to add anextra day each four
vears. That was the beginning of the
leap year as we know It. taesar gave
. . i , n. h..m.Ka. r JAnvm .till
reckoned to them. With the exception
that August had bit J SO days and Feh
..,. 9 in nrrttnarv vears and SO
in .leaD vears. July was named for
Julius Caesar and when hla nephew
Octavius became emperor under the
title of Augustus Caesar, the next
month was called August. Augustus
wanted to have Just as long a month
as his great uncle, so he .took one day
off February and gavev it to August.
No change has been made In the or
der of months since that time and the
only change In the days has been in
the added day of ' leap year. Caesar
Interpolated the intercalary day be
tween February 24.. and 26.
How Xap Tsar Performs.
The Romans numbered, backwards
from three fixed dates in each month,
the Calends, the Ides and the Nones.
The Calends was always the first of
tho month, so that, in the .backward
8reckoning February 24 wasthe sixth
calend 'of March. The extra day was
put in after the sixth calend and was
called "the second sixth," or the "bis
sextile" day. It was not until two
centuries ago that the added day was
made February t.
But with all the great reform Caesar
ccomplished, he did not take into ac
count an error of 11 minutes. 10. 88
seconds, in the length of his civil year,
although Ms astronomers knew of it
at the time. That error amounts to
three days In each 400 year. By the
time Gregory the Oreat came to be
pope the error had amounted to It
days. There was great agitation for
a reform of the calendar led by ths
English monk Roger Bacon, who is
credited with the invention of gunpow-
. der. The pope decided to reform the
calendar, rightly thinking that he would
by that act make his name stand out
In history as one of the most illustrious
of the successors, to St. Peter.
8o it was ln lo82 that the Catholl
countries dropped 10 days out of the
month of October and the new style or
Oregorlan calendar, was adopted. It
was arranged .to correct the error-of
the Julian calendar by omitting the bli
Mtii.aw from the end-Of-the-jcentury
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B II II Ii "III I II II II
ii ii ii 1 1 1 1 n u ii
CLUBWOMEN
Did Tot Work Against Mrs.
-Roberts in Milwaukie
School Election.
Milwaukie, Or.. Nov. 14. To the Ed
itor of The Journal In a recent issue
of the Telegraman article no doubt In
tended as an authentic report of the
special election of director of school
district No. l., Mnwaukle, has caused
much indignation among the women
taxpayers. The , article was headed
"Milwaukie Fair Sex Downs Woman,"
made the assertion that the Milwaukie
Woman's club, no doubt meaning the
Mothers' and Teachers' club 'ihad
Jumped Into the campaign" and ac
complished the defeat of one of their
own members and had for their slogan
"Eect any one but a woman."
Furthermore the article stated that
Mrs. Roberts, the defeated candidate re
lied upon the solid support of the sta
ters in the Woman's club, but in this
she was mistaken as some of them even
took the floor declaring that school di
rectors must have great business quali
fications. Further assertions were that the
women as a unit voted for Berkemelr,
there being three women to one man
present. But the very reverse was .the
case. The same is true of the state
ment that some women tookthe floor,
speaking against a director. This is
entirely false in every particular as the
only woman who spoke 'during the elec
tion seconded, in very favorable terms.,
the nomination of Mrs. Roberts. This
can be proven by every one present at
the meeting.
This false and entirely uncalled for
report 15 a manifest injustice to the
members of the Mothers' and Teachers'
club inasmuch as they took absolutely
no part as a body in the election nor
was any member asked to sign the pe
tition requesting Mrs. Roberts to be
come a candidate.
This report is evidently the work of
one either ignorant of the facts In the
case, or desirous Of gaining cheap no
toriety by working such an anonymous
article. It is quite evident that the
writer did not wish his identity known.
The Mothers' and Teachers' club at
a largely attended mneting held Fri
day -afternoon, declared the article in
unmistakable terms as false and mall
clous. Believing that the report places
the club In a false light before the pub
lic, and desiring to express their appre
ciation of the work Mrs. Roberts has
done as President of the club. A
committee was appointed to bring the
matter before the people by asUng the
press to publish this article. i
The sole purpose of the Mothers'
club is to be unitedly helpful to the
children of our district, to aid when
help is needed, and in an unostentatious
way to bring "the home and the school
in closer relation to each other.
The members of the, club regret ex
ceedingly ths accusation as set forth
in the above named article) a ad trust
that we as a club may not be forced
Into such uncalled for publicity.
Committee on Publications, Mothers'
and Teachers' Club.
Excavations In the old catacombs at
Guanajuato, Mexico, have revealed hun
dreds of mummies of persons who must
have lived many years before the first
Spanish invasion.
A FEW CHOICE LOTS LEFT
years, Unless the VlatS or -we year . aik,.MM.MMWMat...----
aivi. h . t Ann 'I'liia nmiu mm ... -.
year aays in eaen vv J,'1'"? "
the civil calendar so closely to a cor
reot adjustment with ; tha solar ySir
that additional correction win not toa
necessary la over 48,000 years, v -, ..'
- How saaUr's Hate Xm Tigsd,-., -
r), Dnn. nnnpt 1M not correct the
whols error - of IS day?- He c.hn.?e4 1
only 10 days, bein influenced to that ,
nTn i.w ..... nt lint. The first'
quarrel between the eastern ana . tne
wMt.m hiirith MtnA ft early SS A. !
173. about the date of Easter The;
Asiatic churches, under -the lead of
Polycrates, bishop of Epnesus, a dls
clple of St. John, celebrated the four
teenth day of the Hebrew month Nlsan.
i ne western cnurcn, uiuor
Victor, blahoo of Rome.i celebrated
day fixed according to the' metnoa
still in use. The quarrel continued for
many years, and was finally settled at
the famous counn- of Nice, held in
Asia Minor In the year 825. .
That council agreed, that 'Easter
should -be the first Sunday after the
full moon that falls upon or next fol
lowing the vernal equinox; and that
March 21 be accounted the vernal equi
nox. As the true vernal equinox should
bave been March 24, the three days,
error in the Julian calendar was not
corrected at Nice. Pope Gregory did
not -wish to undo- the work of the coun
cil of Nice so in correcting the calen
dar be dropped but 10 days of the 13 (
In error and made the vernal equinox i
to fall on March 21. By the time Pro
testant England adopted the Gregor-1
Ian calendar, which was In 1752, the
error had' increased to 11 days. It is
now. 12 days, and if Russia would make
its calendar agree with that in use in
the ..rest of the world. It must drop
12 days and fcse a short year of 353
days.
The observations of the ancient as
tronomers on .the plains of Chaldea,
the wisdom of the ancient Aitecs, the
work of Numa and Caesar and Gregory
all these go to make up the well-nigh
perfect calendar of this modern fcge.
And in the United States there are
business men spending 318,000,000 a
year that every household may have its
calendar without . money and without
price. .
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