THE NEW GERMANY.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1929, Page 8

THE NEW GERMANY.

“I am greatly struck by the «ist-care-aside and be-happy-at-all-costs attitude of young Germany,” writes May Christie in the September “London Magazine.” “For in this year of grace of 1929, the most free and democratic country in the world most certainly is Deutschland! Everybody works, of 'course, to the limit. From 8 a.m. till at least 6 p.m. the factories are going at full blast, offices at top speed, clerks glued to their desks, and all the little stenographers stenogging. But in the evenings and in every free moment on Saturday, and all Sunday, young Germany—yes, and, old Germany, too, for this new national ‘joie de vivre’ is awfully infectious—is out for air and fun ana exercise! Although I find the war is never spoken of, and apparently the new generation neither knows nor cares, nor even wants to hear one word about, it, and old scores seem entirely forgotten, 1 think this fun-plus-healthy-exercise craze is a definite post-war reaction. Young .Fritz and his girl are out to see that they (and their children and grandchildren, when they come) are magnificent specimens physically, albeit the last generation went for can-non-.'odder.” ■