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Show Bo You Know Meter and Liter? Better Brush Up IF YOU do not understand the metric system of measurement, look it up and learn it. For there are strong indications that the meter and the liter will soon displace the yard and the quart in all your dealings. A movement backed by scientific and business organizations or-ganizations in all parts of the country has been started to accomplish this change. And the meter propagandists have made a strong case. The chief reasons why we should abandon our system for the metric system are that the latter is much simpler and easier to learn, that it is more accurate, and. above all, that it is now the compulsory compul-sory system in every civilized country In the world except the United Stales and Great Britain. That is the big fact. In all of our dealings with foreign peoples and governments we are handicapped because we do not u-'e the same system of measurements. American scientists were compelled long since to adopt the metric system, with the result that many of their publications are Incomprehensible. Now the war has convinced thousands of persons of the necessity for using the universal language of measurement in this country, with the result that the meter has many new and influential backers. "This country has lagged behind the rest of the world by neglecting to adopt a system of quantity expression so simple that the average child of ten can learn Its essential features tn teu minutes," is the way H. D. Hubbard, one of the experts on weights and measures at the bureau of. standards, uta It |