Evening Star Newspaper, February 29, 1928, Page 6

EVENING 19287, LOTOS LANTERN 731 17th St. N.W. Mter shopping ar chnreh ston in rnaon ten and gennine Fng. muffine Sneeinl Club T siene 1 Club Lune o A Funch and Di Open Tbe Yourng lens Yoo 1319-1321 F Street STORE NEWS 6 THE EXTRA DAY OF LEAP YEAR the time of the meting of the church [ent calendar survive that long. the most picturesque expressions for |Lieut. Col. Wildurr Willing, Corps of council of Nice in 325 A. D. 80 when| The English expression, ‘leap year,’|Ieap year occurs in Swedish—‘skottar. | Engineers, at Fort Humphreys, Va., and | in Cnesar's time, but to that in 325 date ‘leaps over’ an extra day. day has spronted on the year as agArmy War College, Washington Bar A D. As n resuit Christmas still falls | March 1 1026, fell ‘on Montay and | Ereen shoot aprlm{s from a tree trunk.” [racks: Maj, Herbert 8. Clarkson, Fi Maj. Kenneth 8. Perkins, War Depart- the Latin, _and in scientific cir- ment general staff, to the 5th Field Ar- “After correcting the calendar, Pope |clos In English, leap year fs Gregory made a change in the leap [known by a variant of the old Roman- | ransfer Col. Ephralm G, Peyton, mh\“"’” A. Wells, Infantry, at the Army | C vear arrangements so that the calen- |derived term, bissextile year' ‘The ex- | nfantry, at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., |W" College, this city, to the 24th In- didate, May Nominate orrection in 4844 _ S proximately 11'4 minutes a year. He|M#rch, the latter kunw a5 'sexto | Wotmore, Medical Corps, from the Ha !nnr;v.q";,”?ug Bl'n‘r;'ln[, Ga. to the Yrigoyen arranged to have three leap year days|calendas’ The extra day was therefore | wajian department to the office of the | 120K School. Camp Meade, Md v accurate calendar! original Roman months we get the |than that of Caesar, but still there is a names ‘September.” “October.” "Novem- STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, { REC ALLS C ALEND AR BUNGL]NG Pope Gregory turned the calendar back | js rather an indirect one, It refers to |1t means, literally, ‘sprout’ or ‘shoot’ | Maj. Donald H. Connolly, Corps of E | In 1582, he turned it not to the position | the fact that after February 29 a F four days after the Winter solstice in- | March 1, 1927, on ‘Tuesday, but March - Artillery, at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., | DAIE FUR LI-EC]-ION\preGent Svstem. Best Found Yet Has stead of at the same time, as it should. [ 1, 1928, will ‘leap over’ to Thursday. ARMY TRANSFERS tra_day inserted by Julius Caesar to the office of the chief of Infantry, |[antry at Fort Benning, Ga. and Lieut 20, {5 @12 arbitrary months, the latter alter-|omitted every 400 years. ‘This was a) slight discrepancy amounting to near- ember. They mel 10 days in error from the situation at|February—it February and the pres-|known as ‘bis-sexto calendas’ One of [surgeon general, Munitions Bullding; | year and fes the idea that an extra |gineers, at Memphils, Tenn, to t to the Militia Bureau, War Department; Correctlon Needed In 4844 A. D, In the languages derived from : : Error Which Will Necessitate 24-Hour Orders Issucd at the War Department | UI°T7 at Fort Bragg. N. C.; Lieut, Col Radical Party, Without Can- | dar would not again eveep ahead 8P~} iaced between the 24th and 25th o Munitions Bullding: Maj. William G, {C0L Channing E. Delapiane, 20th In- rts [ nately 20 and 30 days long. From the |much more n H y three hours in 400 years or slightly ‘ninth’ and ‘tent 1R more than 44 minutes per century. In although they now relate to our ninth, | about 3,261 s after the Gregorian > properly measuring the tenth. cleventh and twelfth months. | correction the calendar, in spite of the cars than his remote| “The 12 months of 20 and 30 days |usual inserted and omitted leap years, % than were the found- | gave the Romans a year 354 days long. |will be in error by one day, so that an | tatos | Then superstition took a hand. They |extra leap year day will have to be | added one day for luck. The year was |omitted. It Is probable, therefore, that still more than ten days short: so every | the 4844, although supposedly a 1l have on days in fts s the bulletin, George Wash- lish- from ‘old | second year an additional month w: added. of a length decreed by t fests or pontiffs. And there fs where araft entered into the making of the yunh‘ndm‘ Days would be dropped out T 3 to favor some influential creditor, or T ot e 5 the cof- |months would be lengthened to in- crease some office holder's tenure. February 29 Hours: 8 AM. to 6 P.M. l . Mohammedan New Year Migrates. | Leap Year Appears. | ow far we have progressed | “In 46 B. C. Jullus Caesar, with the one has only to| help of astronomers, gave the calendar | calendar of the | g greatest reform up to that time, by e creation of leap year and leap year v. He gave 31 days to cach of six of | the months and 30 days to the alter- | te months, except February, which | received 29. This gave a He figured that there | left, and that by adding which we have come to B (e [ost | know as leap year day—he would keep After the short, anc | the days exactly in accord with the | > o | year. t by Moham- | “This approximation of Caesars was | 12 of heSC]ipe closest ever made up to that time: | ! but the six hours which he took as the | excess was just 11 minutes and 14 4!!: seconds too much to fit the facts, 'l'l\v'i vear, which theretofore had been fig- oAl ured too short, became for the first s staxted B time 100 long. " The old year lasted a V“rp“ Aution littie longer than it should, and so Q‘m;m‘, the | 1apped over a bit into territory that e ‘W_d*‘my‘ should have been recognized as that of a bringing the | the new Astronomical events, R Aty yuars info some| (nerefore, the Winter solstice, My obandoned the | marked supposedly by Christmas, fell inths and created the | o0 earlier and earlier dates. The lat- b ter was separated more and more from OSTONIAN B Shoes for Men S Quality Came First For 42 years the house of Chas. Kauf- Mr. Edgar C. Kaufman —of the Chas. Kaufman & Sons company I will now be associated with The Young Men’s Shop. . Our Great Sale | | T. EDWARD BOYCE i man & Sons has horne a reputation for high class, dependable merchandise. DR. MARY M. ATKESON IN RACE FOR HONORS r ga a corded in ap- idate for idency of Ameri- n's League. like shoe men, thirty years with the Family hoe Stare of this city, §s senic o gy e i e P Of the Entire Stock of day. 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