Show 11 WEIGHTS AND S congressman florello fiorello laguardia Guardia Ija ot of new york former major in the air ail service in charge of fliers on oil the italian an fron thas thrown interesting light upon the difficulties faced by the states in operating cooperating co with its allies in in the world war M major ajo r laguardia has telegraphed the world trade club of san sail francisco an organization representing represent inq leading manufacturing merchants pledging his support to the campaign that the organization is now waging for the world wide adoption of the metric sy system stiern ot of weights and measures now used by all the world eceil capt the united states stales and britannia n a in his wire major laguardia points out that the worlds war showed the imperative need of standardization of weights and measures lie ile advocates the metric system 1 I still have unpleasant memories ot of the difficulty we experienced during the war lie he writes ot of the loss ot of time the contusion confusion owing to different systems of weights and measures used by various allies we lost more time in translating specifications arid and more errors were caused on this account than by anything else the world trade club is receiving similar testimony from a great ciany persons who had experience with the dif caused by our present during the war |