Show TWO STUPIDEST NATIONS no not russia and germany nor even nigeria and timbuctoo but great britain and the united states now what do you think about that you dont believe it they are the lie roost most enlightened nations ibea aie and they are not in tomi things yes in one great vitra vial essential of these vital times N no I 1 lr for great britain and the united states aro are embarking upon the most colossal world competition in all history with the wrong kind of 0 equipment rn nt they are tackling world trade with the wrong tools two hundred and twelve nations and countries are doing business together under the simple practical and universally understood metric s y ste em I 1 n two nations are attempting to do busness business with the under the old fashioned cumbersome obsolete german geiman system these two old fashioned behind the times dozing nations are great britain and the united states and the system they are using was discarded as worthless by germany half a century ago 0 the two greatest nations in the world are trying to do business busine 9 a with germanys germanas Germ anys cast offs this no doubt is precisely as ge germany many had bad planned having tied a v eight to the heels of her greatest trade adversaries this cleverly cunning country removes her own we gats and skims into world commerce on the wings of a system of hiie measurement su rement which gerra germany ny adopts to lier her tremendous acceleration in commerce and power and enrichment by oil jillions lions of dollars in return germany fastens upon the land of the englishman to whom she owes so much the cumbersome jumble of quantity qu entity ex expression presson that Is a terrible handicap to great britain in her world enterprises eat but the real is this tho united states slavishly follow britannia in her weights and me and retains them while all the rest of the world except these I 1 two adopt the decimal system which evey everybody body understands 1 ii is under this tremendous handicap that the united states enters world trade in all her dealings with the orient orent oceania latin america and tile the remainder of the world outside of british possessions this country must do business with two sets of measurements the metric to satisfy ter her customers the gernan german to hurior humor the obstinacy of her own manufacturers but that obstinacy is calculated to cost those manufacturers tens of millions of dollars dollar s annually in lost time and lost orders bulletin san francisco |