Show EVI EVIL L OF SCANT MEASURES lowers moral tone of trade in creases cost of living and adds add to hardships of needy I 1 if a false balanco balan cei Is abomination to the lord as we are arc told in tho the proverbs scant measures of every sort are equally abominable to roan man kind lowering the moral tone of trade increasing the cost of living and adding to the hardships of tho the noody needy it ft la Is rather curious therefore that a fact so obvious having occupied tho the attention of society tor for as ab long a po pe as the written record runs should at tho the present day havo have na no recognition in tho the laws or the ordinances of the state or city pennsylvania Is without official standards of weights or measure except of the most moat casual sort and philadelphia tiC has baa worried along for upward of a quarter of a century trusting solely to the honor of its tradesmen to give pound for pound and quart for cuart not to mention tho the scores of other measures of w weight volume and bulk bulk by which commodities are exchanged fo value in the markets how public confidence has been misplaced la Is now shown in dramatic fashion by th the bureau of municipal research after a thorough investigation by tho the actual purchase and test of a large variety of articles constituting the necessaries of average dally daily life philadelphia la ledger |