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Metric System but missed the opportunity for complete 

 simplification by not making it the exclusive standard. 

 Early in the World War, the War Department found it 

 necessary to adopt the Metric System for the Army in 

 France and no other units were used. In 1919 the Brit- 

 tan-Ladd Bill was .introduced in Congress making the 

 Metric System the only legal system of measurements, 

 allowing a transmissional period of 10 years before the 

 bill should be effective. As an indication of some of the 

 organizations in Illinois that have advocated the use of 

 the Metric System, the following list is erven : 



Illinois State Senate: 



Chicago City Council : 



South Side Business Men's Association. Chicago: 



Chamber of Commerce. Elizabethtown ; 



Logan County Medical Society ; 



Chicago Laundry Owners' Association, Chicago; 



Tiie -t-Ones. Chicag ; 



Millinery Jobbers Association, Chicago; 



National Association of Box Manufacturers, Chicago : 



National Association of Loose Leaf Manufacturers. 

 Chicago: 



National Association of Retail Druggists, Chicago; 



National Manufacturers of Soda Water Flavors, Chi- 

 cago ; 



National Refrigerator Manufacturers Association, 

 Chicago : 



Women's Association of Commerce, Chicago: 



Chicago Heights Chamber of Commerce, Chicago; 



Chamber of Commerce, LaSalle: 



Illinois Valley Manufacturers Club. LaSalle: 



Commercial Club. Liberty ; 



Chamber of Commerce, Ottawa : 



Illinois Wholesale Grocers Association, Peoria. 



This is only a partial list of Illinois organizations re- 

 commending and urging the adoption of the Metric Sys- 

 tem. There are thousands of organizations in other 

 states as well as national organizations in the same work. 

 A concerted effort by all of these organizations, headed 

 by the American Metric Association, would be able in the 

 next few years, in the opinion of the committee, to bring 



