A Note To Santa

NZ Truth, Issue 1200, 29 November 1928, Page 6

A Note To Santa

TN gathering up his novelties for the Yuletide invasion, old Poppa Christmas has been spending a great .deal of time m Germany. It has yet to be seen whether he has gathered wisely or too well. • The economic fact we may be inclined to overlook when we launch out into the shopping! areas m search of jumping-jinnies and twopenny trains for th\i clever annual deception of the young idea, is that Germany won the trade war. Further, she might have serious designs on the next. A sense of patriotism is a fine j thing, especially when we Blight be allowing our minds to dwell for a second on such fearful things as the next (scientific) war. "New Zealand-made" or "Bri-tish-made" should be embossed on everything we buy for the Christmas stocking this year. Otherwise we will have .to revise the old nursery rhyme : — "Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, So please put your savings m Herr Schmidt's hat." The old principle that trade with Germany was necessary m order to allow her to meet her reparation obligations has somewhat warped our sense of the fitness of things. Of all the nations drawn into the. war, none has made a quicker or more effective recovery than Germany.