Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1917 — England's Need. [ARTICLE]

England's Need.

Howard E. Coffin, who is standardizing the American airplane, said to a correspondent: “Standardization is the modern efficiency method. The Germans have standardized their submarine. England is a great country, a brave country, an unconquerable country, but England needs standardization. “When an Englishman wants to say that a check is ‘for deposit only’ he doesn’t write that on it. No, that isn’t the English way. He writes* Co.’ “A Cambridge professor once explained to me some of the terms used at the great English university. “He said ‘full term’ means threequarters of a term. ‘May week’ is the first two weeks in June. ‘General admission day’ is the day everybody leaves. An ‘ordinary degree’ is one obtained by a special examination, and an ‘arts inspector’ is an arts students.”