[Vwdiesel] Metric crusade of Hagars. ---( metric and decimal will WIN )

[H . Hagar.]

Since colonialists brought with them the measuring methods of their homeland, confusing and contradictory measuring systems came to America. For instance, the imperial gallon used in England did not come to America. The U.S. gallon is a smaller one, and was called the Queen Anne wine gallon by the British. Today this difference in size between the Imperial gallon and the U.S. gallon causes confusion when converting to the metric system.

"Weights and Measures may be ranked among the necessaries of life to every individual of human society. They enter into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. They are necessary to every occupation of human industry; to the distribution and security of every species of property; to every transaction of trade and commerce; to the labors of the husbandman; to the ingenuity of the artificer; to the studies of the philosopher; to the researches of the antiquarian; to the navigation of the mariner; and the marches of the soldier; to all the exchanges of peace, and all the operations of war. The knowledge of them, as in established use, is among the first elements of education, and is often learned by those who learn nothing else, not even to read and write. This knowledge is riveted in the memory by the habitual application of it to the employments of men throughout life."

Hagars first meeting with Miss.Amerika ?    WOW it was LOVE at first sight.

I was so lucky.     -----   that was 1953.

Hagar.

PS :
Finally in 1975 Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act. The major provisions of the bill provide for:

  a.. Adaptation of SI as predominant system of measurement units 
  b.. No specific timetable 
  c.. Voluntary participation 
  d.. A Metric Board 
  e.. Costs of Conversion 
  a.. treat as other costs of doing business 
  b.. no tax credits or subsidies 
  c.. hardship cases to be reviewed by Board
  Stupid Stupid Stupid..