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Show (to) "LOOK IT IT. ' i ! 'T H INKING men and women will do well to con-j sider the striking arguments brought out by the World Trade Club of San Francisco in their! campaign for adoption of the units of the metric system of weights and measures. They show a striking anomaly: That the met-i met-i ric system was Invented by a Briton, James Watt, 111 17s:, and yet all civilized nations have adopted, it exclusively excepting the United States and Greet Britain. That the so-called "British system" of weights and measures is of German origin a relic of the old German Hanseatic trade league and yet Germany Ger-many ecrapt it in 1H71 and adopatd the metric system, invented by a Briton. People of Britanie and America may well ask themselves whether they are not carrying conserv-etiem conserv-etiem too far. The Metric System is no untried theory. Its principle the principle of decimal computation-has been used in the monetary system of the United States since 1780. If the United States had heeded Thomas Jefferson, we should also have adopted this system of weights and measures based on decimels so simple a system that a child can learn its main features in ten minutes. We know how well it works with money. It will work equally well with weights and measures. The World Trade Club has started the ball rolling. What we all need is to look the subject up. |