house fronts, the laying out of parks, better paving, 
and the display of attractive advertising signs.
A competition is carried out whereby towns strive to
be the "model village" of the Gau, and it is reported
that as of 1937, 3,168 villages and 677 large estates
containing numerous farm workers had been appreciably
beautified.
 
 The Office Beauty of Work achieves its aims by
propaganda, pressure, and competitive campaigns.
The cost of the improvements is made to lie almost
entirely upon the employer and factory owner. The
Office distributes a periodical setting forth practical 
suggestions and takes care that it is represented 
at the larger national exhibitions by exhibits 
of its own, which for instance may show a model
work bench or locker-room, or some other improvement.
The agencies or the 0ffice in many of the Gau boards
of Strength through Joy maintain consulting bureaus
to which manufacturers wishing to renovate their
factories or build new plants may apply for advice
and even completed plans. There are now being
built, for instance, from model designs prepared by
the Office, a new factory club house in a town in
Southern Germany, a mine-house in Silesia, and a
community center near Brunswick. Some of the bureaus 
keep lists of architects who have made a specialty 
in modern factory planning and who are available
to execute commissions.