One member from each society will be on this committee. It is hoped that the committee will be able to recommend a small number of brief and simple rules which may be used as a sort of grammar by persons who have graphic presentations to prepare and to interpret. Reports from this joint committee should be watched for so that any rules which may be agreed upon may be put into effect as soon as possible.

Improvements in the means of transportation by water, rail, automobile, wire, and wireless in recent years have caused a tremendous increase in the amount of printed matter and the amount of statistical material read by the average person. Newspapers and magazines are daily presenting more and more statistical information. If we study the subject even a little, it will be seen that each of us deals daily with a vast number of facts of a quantitative nature which could preferably be presented in graphic form. When graphic methods are more widely used for portraying quantitative facts, there will be a tremendous gain to accuracy of thought as well as a great saving of that most valuable thing in the world -- time.

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Abbreviations for chart work, 345, 346 Accidents, as affected by daylight, 140

in industrial plants, 144, 145

on railroads of United States, 134, 135 Accountants, viewpoint of, 300 Accuracy and significant figures, 326 Acker, Merrall & Condit Co., 116 Adding machines, pocket, 325 Advertising, bead maps for, 253

maps for, 238, 239