The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-08-01
MAKE Up AND BOOST
METER-L|TER- GRAM

The World Trade Club has taken
the lead in urging the adoption by
the United States and Great Britain
Of the metric system of weights and
| measures. There are millions of
people in both nations who cannot
see why this was not done years
ago,
A long list of prominent men
have expressed their approval of the
movement. Among them are the
following: VIM. G. McAdoo, Sec
rotary Redfield, President Emeritus
Chas. M. Elliot, of Harvard Uni
versity, Henry Ford, Otto H. Kahn,
60. w. Perkins, John Hays Ham
mond, 500 of San Francisco's lead
ing merchants, and everybody else
who wants to makt business easy.
kilograms by the hundreds are
pouring into the World Trade Club
endorsing the change from our an
tiquated system of weights and
measures.
Dr. Joseph V, Collins, an eminent
educator, declares that the people
of the United States lose 1914, O0O,-
600 yearly in education because of
time wasted in teaching a system
SO much more complicated and diff
ticult than the metric system.
John H. Gerrie, financial editor
of the San Francisco Bulletin
writes the following editorial on
this subject:
The 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 don't believe it? They
are the most enlightened nations?
They are and THEY ARE NOT
In some things, YES! In one great
vital essential of these vital times, /
NO!
For Great Britain and the United
States are embarking upon the most /
colossal world competition in all his /,
tory with the WRONG KIND OF !
EQUIPMENT!
The are lacking world trade with |
the wrong tools.
Two hundred and twelve nations
and countries are doing business to- |
gether under the simple, practical, /
and universally understood METRIC |
system.
Two nations are attempting to do |
business with the PIP under the old |
fashioned, cumbersome, obsolete |
GERMAN system.
These two old fashioned, behind |
the-times, doing nations are Great /
Britain and the United States.
, An the system they are using was
DISCARDED AS WORTHLESS BY |
GERMANY half a century ago!
The two greatest CD nations i'll
the world are trying 10 do business
with Germany's caSt-Offs!
This, no doubt, is precisely as Ger |
many had planned. Having tied
weight to the heels of her greatest
trade adVersaries, this cleverly cum
ming country removes her own
weights and skins into world COM
merce on the wings or a system in
Watt, in 1888.
Think of the irony of it, An Eng |
lishman gives the world the logical, !
decimal system of measurement
which Germany adopts to her tire
mendOus acceleration in commerce |
and power and enrichment by Bill |
LIONS OF DOLLARS. In return
Germany fastens upon the land of
the Englishman to whom she owes |
so much the cum bersome tumble of /
quantity expression that is a terrible /
handicap to Great Britain in her
world enterprises.
But the REAL TRAGEDY is this: |
The United States slavishly follows
Britannia in her weights and meas
urcS and retains them, while all the
rest of the world, except these two,
adopt the decimal system which eV-
erybody understands!
1t is under this tremendous handi- |
cap that the United States enters
world trade. In all her dealings with
the Orient Oceania, Latin America |
and the remainder of the world out
side of British possessions this coun-
try must do business with two sets
of measurements-the METRIC, to |
satisfy her customers; the GER }
MAN, to humor the obstinacy of her
own manufacturers. But that OBJ
stinacy is calculated to cost those
manufacturers TENS OF MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY in lost
time and lost orders.
Try BLUE RIBBON" Cigar, sc.