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Show WEIGHTS AND MEASURESEj HAMPERED THE ALLIES Major LaGuardia of the Air Service Thro h New Light on War. SAN FRANCISCO, July 23. Congressman Con-gressman Fiorello LaGuardia of New York, former major of the Air Service, Serv-ice, in charge of the fliers on the Italian Ital-ian front, has thrown interesting light upon the difficulties faced by the United States in co-operating with the allies in the world war. Major , LaGuardia has telegraphed the World Trade Club of San Francisco, an or-' or-' ganization representing 500 leading manufacturing merchants, pledging his support to the campaign that the organization is now waging for the world wide adoption of the metric system of weights and measures, now used by all the world except the United Unit-ed States and Britannia. In his wire Major LaGuardia points out that the world war showed the imperative im-perative need of standardization of weights and measures. He advocates the metric system. "1 still have unpleasant memories of the difficulty we aperlenced during dur-ing the war," he writes, "of the loss of time, the confusion, owing to dif-1 ferent systems of weights and meas- j ures used by various allies. We lost more time in translating specifica-1 tions and more errors were caused on this acocunt than toy anything else." The World Trade Club is receiving similar testimony from a great many persons who had experience with the difficulty caused by our present system sys-tem of weights and measures during the war. |