Simplified perpetual calendar proposed

A Perpetual Calendar which not only will divide the year into precisely 52 weeks but will enable one to compute all future dates without a printed calendar, has been devised by Lieutenant Willard E. Edwards, United States Naval Reserve, and has reached the Congress of the United States as a Concurrent Resolution requesting the President to urge its adoption at the peace conference. The proposed method would correct the irregularities of the present calendar by setting aside the first day of the year as a day apart from any week or month and thus permitting division of the remaining 364 days into exactly 52 weeks. The result is that the half-years then become equal, the quarters become equal, and the months faltinto the regular rhythmical pattern of 30, 30, 31. The first day of the year, New Year´s Day, would therefore be celebrated as a day in itself between December 31 and the second day of the year, Monday, January 1.