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ARIAS A AVL Se 6 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, June 17, 198) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Resist dealing in metric measures (From page 5) 200 years ago, who warned that the new system was defective, inadequate, and not soundly based, others went ahead and ignored the atributes of the system they already possessed. They SA Ra } Cad iv Gh FET TR SG aE A SY ree SX oy 23 ON A 0%, XY i. 24 5S £) 7, 2 pe remember Gordon Glasglow his M.D., Hardy Purdy his M.D. and Sc Miss Hazel Adams, Myrtle won honours in the 'vocal examinations held at the Ontario Ladies College. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 20, 1946 The cost of a subscription to the Port Perry Star was $2.00. Mr. and Mrs. G.H. Hutcheson celebrated their golden Wedding Anniversary S.Sgt. Byron Holtby of Quebec i is at home on a weeks vacation and he attended the marriage of Harold Holtby and Margaret Bailey. Mr. Bell of the Canadian Bank of Commerce has been transferred to Tamworth. Prospect community met at the school to honour bride-to-be Miss June Cochrane. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 21, 1956 The Community Park at Brougham was officially opened on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Snelgrove and family attended the birthday celebration of their aunt, Miss Snelgrove of Little Britain who has reached the age of 100 years. Ontario County has gone on record as favouring compulsory automobile insurance. Citizens of Manchester received a cablegram from the Lord Mayor of Manchester, England. The message read, "To the Mayor, Manchester, Ontario - '"Man- chester, England sends greetings and good wishes to its namesake in Ontario on this Namesake Greeting Day." 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 15, 1961 While Rev. EW. Fuller is away during the summer months, Rev. R.F. Stackhouse will have charge of the Anglican services. : Miss Jean Bright, dance teacher treated her Seagrave class to a bus trip to Hamilton to see the 8th Annual Baton Swinging Festival. The District Annual meeting of the South Ontario Women's Institutes was held at the United Church, Myrtle. Mr. Charles Trinka, R.R. 4, Port Perry has completed his third year in engineering at the Univer- sity of Toronto. At the lower end of Queen Street, Bell Telephone are busy hooking up the cable which was laid through 'the ice of Lake Scugog last winter. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 16, 1966 Prince Albert United Church celebrated its 100 birthday. A history of the church was initiated by Mrs. Earl Martyn, Mrs. Clayton Love and Mrs. W.C. Smith, who edited the manuscript and got it ready for printing. ) } Mrs. Betty McGee of Greenbank, was in Napanee visiting relatives during the latter part of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Larmer of Blackstock enter- tained a number of friends in honour of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Colwell who are leaving in September for Brazil as Missionaries of the United Church. Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Grose of Uxbridge were declared winners of a new Rambler car plus other prizes in B.A.'s Musical Showcase T.V. Program. The winning ticket was drawn at Manchester Garage, co-owned by Mrs. Wanninkhof. Passports for Expo '67 were advertised for sale in the Port Perry Star and were available at local- chartered banks. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, June 16, 1971 Port Perry's Centennial baby, born on June 9 was Steven Michael Wren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wren of R.R. 1, Nestleton. Mrs. Victor Larocque, of Cedar Creek entertained nearly one hundred people at the trousseau tea held for her daughter, Debbie. Mr. and Mrs. Kimmerley of Torrence, were weekend guests. of her sister, Mr. and Mrs. C. Newnham and son of Prince Albert. Mr. Stan Bruton was the fecipiam, of Seenmal plaque during a special luncheon a 0 College of Pharmacy in Windsor, Ontario. 'Port Perry's Centennial celebrations were quite successful with visitors in attendance from Montreal, California, St. Catharines, Tillsonburg among other places. ET A TS TR A could have made metrics scientific and time-related by adopting Mouton's' milliare (thé nautical mile) and making the metre the equivalent of the' Anglo- Saxon rod -- 79.20" as 1-10,000,000th. part of half the length of the equator, the "distance the earth moves in exactly 12 hours. Instead, what did they do? By. not 'scientifically -calcu- lating the earth's circum- ference as the Egyptians and Anglo-Saxons had, they set about measuring a quadrant of the earth's surface by laborious physical means. It is not surprising they came up with a false value for the metre, or 1-10,000,000th. part of a quarter of the earth's circumference. And even if they had appraised the metre accurately, it would have been useless for navigation, because it would relate to a 6-hour instead of a 12-hour clock. The true length of the - metre, then, is 39.6", not the inaccurate 39.37" it represents today. The true meter (39.6") relates to the 36" yard in an exact 11:10 ratio, as it should in allowing for measurements taking the curvature of the earth into consideration. This means the present metre is an . abortion that is 0.23" or almost ¥;"' short, making for 23" or nearly 2 feet per kilometre... So when metricits brand the duodecimal system as antiquated, hodge podge and unscientific, we should look at facts. These are that the Ancients, Anglo-Saxons and Gauls knew far more about mathematics and metrology than certain revolutionary hotheads of 200 years ago. Both the land and nautical miles are soundly rooted in solid scientific metrology. Our system. is much superior, being based on an intricate relationship in ordered ratios between duodecimals and decimals, both linked to time. It was because metrics did not relate distance to time to render a meaningful scientific system that it was rejected by Jefferson and Adams and many scientists are unhappy with it today. It is also the reason why the nautical miles must be used for navigation on land, sea and in the air, and why feet and fathoms are still entirely relevant as depth and altitude scales. So what place. has the kilometre and metre in all this - grand schéme? Absolutely none whatsoever. They are inaccurate, arbitrary, artificial and unscientific imposters. And since the metre is an erroneous and unscientific distance measure, the derived litre and kilogram are likewise meaningless. How can scientific mile- posts be restored? In one. fashion only: continued public hostility, the likes of which abolished the Metri- cation Board in Britain and kept the milepost signs. Enough complaints to metric . peddlers will make them back-pedal. Resistance to dealing in metric measures in stores will 'make merchants see the light. But perhaps letters to MPs are the best weapon, from every- one, till the politicians realize the political cost of continuing the ridiculous scam for the benefit of the multinationals, or, in our most charitable interpre- tation, they come to know the metric delusion for what it is. And the sooner this is . accomplished the better, since Canadian children are being brainwashed with a measurement system totally unrelated to scientific reality. Movements like Sally Hayes' "Operation Humbug" (Help Undo Metri- cation: Bug Your MP( of 67 Crown Drive, Peterborough, Ont.; Dave Elliot's "Anti- Metric Canada', 190 5th. Avenue, Ottawa; and Alan Stones "Stop Metric Now," are all avenues for petitions and signatures. - The alternative to action is 'a Canada that has swapped a pearl of science and common sense for a ghastly mess of metric pottage. Ian B. 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