Show WAT A ft i I I Iso f 7 J so t M Ml 0 K l N o TTO E oI I a r I I J I GRA GRAI I TROY I I I By ILMO SOTT S OTT WATSON Drawing by Ray Walters Walter I r f II 11 IID D ND how many of our present units or of v 1 weights and meo measures ures j I cnn l cnn iou ou name find and give Ire d p rf f their relations to lo each other oilier r If It you can cnn It d di J n n that for nil of ot them Ij U U l ly y you re a most exceptional W r erson And AnI It If you I should hould set out to learn beware them beware I It was as Sir Hiram Maxim the great greal Inventor who once onre said I 1 L un on understand understand why ashy we e sU stick I to these weights and measures There was liS only one man who knew the English weights and measures h he studied them for tor thirty years and I 1 Ie e Just knew them all when the loor fell fellow 0 went mad and died I Ir r i ong ago H we ste the currency system and und In 13 led the world arid In adopting the lie decimal units of money In 10 place of or an aD absurd urd coinage ot of pounds shillings pence and farthings But for come some strange reason renson we e base hn lagged Ingell behind the rest of or the world In extending the decimal system which Is so co 0 simple an J easily cent c 1111 mI to other factors In our dilly d life W hen James W att att the Scotch inventor In announced the plan In 1781 1753 upon which the metric system Is based Washington JeITer Jefferson on Itol Hol ere erl Morris and Gou Morris Ind Indorsed Its adoption for our ts is measures me arid and coinage Wah Cach WashIngton Ington In his first t message to ci n II gress d Its adoption but Its lip op n to our coinage rr e only was made mude In 1 GG through the lie efforts eft or of harles Sumner Summer of or Massachusetts the metric Yle cyle n was made the 5 In the United States SlotS Put rut the lie n American seeming seemingly ly Iy wedded to an un outgrown n n has I referred to 10 go on using the old cumbersome system In the mean meantime meantime time lose more than linn countries rr of the world ha e d the tens and are enjoying a gre greit grest 11 adsan ad all allt ant t ige In comment education an nn i I corn com cornmon moms mOil world orld un on thereby Only In n Gnal and America ore are there I Icings s who ho are nut ulof or of step slip commercially and eion mica ly Iy with Uh m nun linn inn 1 CM fool 0 of oft t Ike he I cupl of or the world Horld orld who oho ho are ure tra I Ing IlIg on the thC ml metric lJ b biss 11 Th fh it tt we sye areu are u LC i n Ic u us of f tills this handicap Is h sh n en enby by bv the agitation hv by earl us or lions ions and amid hns has Iceo I e n an J ler r w ss ly my for curse s c me t time line f fir fin Jr genera general I lid ad III I 11 ti n of tl I e a marls system The shills of Illinois i forth tu ee and with Ith a 11 uc c Ined i n II of or Ij through thur state hJ hose hj e mein r 5 to 10 a stein lards lu rd ft The Tre e General I 1 of o o onena 0 n nena en s 8 flubs lubs lias hlll n a er en enship shIp of J 1110 ul mil It Its atilt n 1111 nal con n ut ul Grand Mich last Insl year nur passed a 8 n lulling up in inu inn u unless to eruct enact metric HI at ii liS as arc L U us I sible M Si I re r ut ing tI Ile Ie e same sinio n nure ure III I it u i elms din lief re nn an 1 I sump some hue ugo ago Lr Cr lIerl I red rd Britte n r of aim 11 II II ct-II he cle to 10 Introduce In tills n of con ron Ie mess ss o 0 metric standards stan lards I till III lint and press pres its lt It p II IIII I TI Tl e a need fr fc if r a 8 new set of or stun 1 I ird t l J JM M fr Pj i i HH M 1 I I I I 1 1 I I I I 1 Is 13 sho shown shon n b bi the fait fact t that lint this ills roun country try suffers a u loss IuS- of millions of or dol dollars dollars mars lars every ery year In ID Its world trade lie be because because cause of ot delay delays losses loss due clue to the n our ur standards und and the metric tan stall I 1 of or other oilier nations oDd and the dim In translating r ne In terms of the other 7 1 Ibe he se e e of ottlie the proposed metric standards bill as stated stater by on in I ritten n Is l gh e to the lie vi at rid I or of quantity It II I pi I I es I t l t semi lIh a n D u i 1 if f lern tern s cc lint nor ur units unit f of III ht min 1 men mell sure sores tray may IJ be alike mid find IlI II 1 Ia ut cat our oui land tin ID I 1 niso 1110 f r In accord tn C cilia lIh Iho those l of o n rT c the world at large The advance nd to tolie the lie metric system under und r this bill wU wilt not so much affect the making ot of things as It will III gO go the di of ot things by measure macure In contrast to our present stand standards are arc complex and e 1 1 I the metric system Is b simple und and d lIus based d mil u on min the lie decimal system like our currency Its units unite are logically Inter related 7 1 here e are three tun units the miter meter the liter iller and Ilia Ihl gram and nil all three an art deLi malls mall dl dl's i led or lily fled posh illon arid division are in 1 tu u mute moie the decimal p 1111 and and to I ou haw have IL |