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\n[1927?]  \n# COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGBAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  \n  Reproductions may not be made without permisslon from Columbia UniversityLibraries.                   \nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nFILM SIZE:          3mREDUCTION RATIO:      1/:1  \nIB IB  \nMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nDATE FILMED:                  5-8-97  \nINITIALS:                  比B  \nTRACKING\\#:                                                                                                2365  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n# BIBLIOGRAPHIC IRREGULARITIES\n\nHarrouff.Earl R                   ………………………      ………………--…  --      …         -----Proposed new system of weights and measures   ---           -*  --  -  \nMAIN ENTRY:  \nBibliographic Irreqularities in the Original Document:  \nList all volumes and pages affected;include name of institution if filming borrowed text.  \n  Page(s)missing/not available:_  \n                            \n  Volume(s)missing/not available:_  \n                           \n  Illegible and/or damaged page(s):_  \n                          \n  Page(s)or volume(s)misnumbered:_  \n                          \n  Bound out of sequence:_  \n                               \n  Page(s)or volume(s)filmed from copy borrowed from:                \n×unpaginated-[16]pages_Other:_                                    \n   Inserted material:_  \n                                     \nBY  \nProposed New System  \nWeights and Measures  \nByEARL R.HARROUFF  \nDO NOT DESTROY!  \nRead the contents carefully and passthe idea along.  \n308  \n乙  \nx227  \nEarl R.Harrouff,1016 Title Guaranty Bldg,  ST.LOUIS.  \nDECIMAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES  \nCan the Metric System of weights and measures be adopted in this country aseasily as a decimal system composed of terms familiar to the English language?  \nI feel convinced that the tables of weights and measures proposed by me possesscertain reasonal advantages.In the first place,this country is governed by its people,and not by a titled head who can decree on his own initiative that a new system ofweights and measures shall become effeetive to the exclusion of all others.Hencethe reason for the failure of metrie adoption in this country and its successful legaladoption in other countries.This fact metric advocates are well aware of.Nearlyeverything legalized by our congress under our form of government is,and in somemanner,must be a compromise.I do care to call my proposed tables a compromisebecause they are more than that.They have all of the valuable points in the math-ematics of the metrie system,and some are added to the metrie tables.  \nI have used our own language,which I think is a very essential point to deal within getting the matter to be earnestly taken up by Congress,and to gain enthusiasmamong the people.Why try to force this country to adopt a strange lot of terms,with a confusing similarity in prefixes,when the same mathematical end can begained more quickly and with less opposition,by the use of terms that are familiar?  \nMedical practitioners have not taken to the writing of metrie preseriptions at all.I believe they would have readily adopted the tables I have proposed.Medical menare addieted to the use of English terms.  \nEvery concern using the metrie system in this country must also use the systemwe now have.No advancement is being made by merely using two sets of measures.  \nThen there is the greatest obstacle of them all—that is the changing of the mile.What advantage is to be gained by changing it?—None.The commercial and indus-trial use of our weights and measures have no connection whatsoever with our landmeasure and with real estate transaetions.Land titles may change,but we knowthat the land tract itaelf is not moved about.Even though I dealt with this in mypamphlet under the discussion on table“K,”it is not my 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