REGIMENTATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24474, 6 December 1940, Page 9

REGIMENTATION

RULE OF LIFE IN GERMANY REVOLUTION IMPROBABLE "Hopes of an internal revolution in Germany, are merely wishful thinking. There is too much regimentation, ine only thing that is not regimented is breathing/ said Mr J. G. Gilbert-Lodge, of Aldwych, London, in an interview with a Daily Times reporter yesterday. "The mere fact that last year £43,000,000 sterling was gathered for the Winter Fund is a sufficient indication of the national unity, he added. ± . ._ Twenty-eight per cent, of a mans wages was deducted from him for Government purposes before he even saw it, Mr Gilbert-Lodge said. While on' a visit to Germany before the war he was the guest of a head of one of the largest factories in Dusseldorf. This man apologised for not being able to take him on a tour of the sights oi the city. He said he had to take his stand on the Winter Fund collection. "Do you mean to say that you. tne head of this organisation, have to go on a street corner with a collection box? " this executive was asked by his visitor. „ ' "Why not? I am a German, answered the factory head. This feeling, Mr Gilbert-Lodge said, was typical. In Germany .even the hair from the floors of hair-dressing establishments was used. It was made into carpets. In one year alone before the war 28,000 tons of old newspapers were sold to Great Britain at £8 a ton after collection from the people. All the old clothes were handed over to the Storm Trooper collectors for the fund. The people were fined if they did not give them. Then there were separate cans for ashes ana for garbage in every household. Asnes went into one, but all the scraps in the other were boiled down for pig and fowl feed. There was no waste. In this way. Mr Gilbert-Lodge concluded, the German people were regimented, in peace as in war. He discounted the suggestion of an internal revolution for that reason.