TEN COMMANDMENTS
,' SOMETHING GERMAN WORTH , -ADOPTING. .'•-.•■■..■ The following German ten commandments might, says a'correspondent,-well be adopted by the English speaking nations, altering the word "German" to "British"':— ' ■ •■' ' ,';'._ (1) In all expenses keep in mind the interests of your own compatriots. (2) Never forget when you buy a foreign article your country is the poorer. (3) Your money should profit no one but Germans.. ,■ . '.'-, , • "'» . ■ (4) Never profane German factories .by using foreign machinery. ';••, (5) Never allow foreign eatables'to be served at your table.
(6) Write on German paper 'with a German pen, and use, German blottingpaper, / .",■ ,' (7) German flouri Gorman fruit, and German beer can'alone give your body true German energy.' .
(8) If you' do not like German malt coffee, drink coffee" from German colonies; ~' ' •■ . ':';,■ ; /.,'■ "■'■■■: (9) Use only German clothes for your dress and German hats for your head. '
(10) Let not foreign flattery distract you from these precepts, and bo firmly convinced, whatever others say,' that German products are the only ones worthy of citizens of the German Fatherland. : '. . , .•,.-.':■'.. \
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 4 November 1914, Page 6
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169TEN COMMANDMENTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 4 November 1914, Page 6
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