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Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3205, 11 September 1934, Page 3

Commencing Saturday / * isM •l ~ m ftZ. mm m mm m Wmmm “Turkey Time ,, FOE YOUNG FOLK A GERMAN COMPETITION “Can typists darn socks?’’ was a question to which the last day of the great national occupational competition for young Germans should have pointed the answer (writes the Berlin correspondent of “The Times’’). For a week the young competitors of both sexes, numbering, it is now stated, some 1,200,000, all over Germany wrestled with the practical tasks theoretical examination papers set by the organisers, the Labour Front and the Hitler Youth, with the idea of stimulating interest in work and discovering talent worthy of encouragement. On the last day, came the turn of the clerical employees’ group: clerks, typists, shop assistants, and so on. “Der Mbntag” describes the day as spent by a : sroup of igirls between 14 and 16, whose test was held in a school-room. The general knowledge test, came first. There were questions to answer such as “What significance has the Hitler Youth for me?” to which, apparently, a highly-approved answer is “The Hitler Youth is not there for me, but I for the Hitler Youth.” Then came more practical questions, such as what to do. to stop heavy nose bleeding. There followed household tasks, which none of the girl competitors were spared. However efficient they may be at their own work, they must show that they have an idea of how to tackle those everyday tasks about the house of which every German girl, as a future housewife and mother, should be capable. Holes had to be cut in stockings and darned, buttonholes sewn, and other tasks were set which a busy office girl may tend to leave to others at home. The competition concluded with the test in the competitors’ own occupation: Typing and shorthand, correcting bookkeeping mistakes, and answering questions such as “What would you do if you were sent to the bank with a cheque and lost it on the way?” The shop girls were set questions of tact: how, for instance, they would handle a mother and daughter who simply could not agree on a frock for the daughter. A Little Stimulant Week-end Guest (on Wednesday): Really, old chap, I haven't the nerve to impose upon your hospitality longer. Could I ask you for a bottle of nerve tonic? : ' 1 *‘ f ■'HT'' Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Coughs and Colds, never fails.