Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1920 — Multiplies Too Fast. [ARTICLE]

Multiplies Too Fast.

At one of the army schools the perspiring aspirants for knowledge were going through the intricacies of a 1,10 *; metic. One raw youth was having particular difficulty with fractions. “It's very simple,” encouraged the Instructor.' “See this rule, now. How many tenths are there in It? Ten, of course. Now, how many hundreths? One hundred, Now, how many thousandths?” “P n!” explained the sufferer. “There must be millions of ’em.” — American Legion Weekly.