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Show GERMANS WOULD MIES Wealthy Cass Imports Choice Goods oi World While Poor Appeal for Food 1:1:1:1. ix. Aug 14. sine, the rals-l Ing of the blockade, Germany has imported im-ported 10.000,000.000 marks' worth of s 11 perfumes chocolates. oranges 1 . . . 1 ites and othei luxuries from abroad, and the poor ore clamoring fo: oatmeal and condensed milk, ac-1 cording to German advocates of ' the sin, pie life " A new movement knon as the League for the Regeneration of Qer- r.K-.ny, which preaches plain living and luf.h thinking, a return to old-lime simplicity, coupled with a revival of 1 iii llcctuality j.s opposed to tho crass njUVteriallsm Of the present da) bios been started hero. It ceprecatc? the daily issuance of 1'6,000,0UJ marks In; 1 iper current v by the government. An appeal la made to the people to confine themselves to the essentials of life no more foreign-made clothes or luxury fdods, no more expensive 1 pleasure trips aiuoatt, no moa cosily presents. The promoters, among whom are former Finance Minister Count Hood-cm: Hood-cm: the economic expert, Walter Ratheneau and a dozen well-known professor! and social welfare workeis. emphasise that they are not ascetics Iii r prohibitionists but that they make .1 plain appeal to the common sense Of the people to restrict their general . cpenditure for the .vike of the Fath-j e-lnnd. It is claimed for the movement that It is entire! non-partisan and that It has the official endorsement of the government. |