year provided it lives up to the rigid standards
required. At present there are 104 model factories 
in the old Reich territory. This of course
represents a very small proportion of the total
number, but even if a plant fails to achieve this
title it may be honored with a Leistungsabzeichnung,
or a certificate of merit, for outstanding performance 
in one of the lines of endeavor, which of course
includes Beauty of Work. While these honors seem
to carry with them little material benefit, there being 
no evidence for instance that government orders
are primarily reserved for such plants, they nevertheless 
make the owners and managers very proud, and.
give them a certain standing in the community.
 
 Visits have been made to two plants actively
cooperating with the Office Beauty of Work. The
first, a chocolate factory near Berlin, had done a
surprisingly good job in brightening up somewhat
drab surroundings. It had six tennis courts, a
football field, a bowling alley, a terrace-for deck
chairs, and a swimming pool heated in the spring and
the fall by steam taken from the condenser plant.
There were two attractive canteens, one each for the
men and women employees, and large, clean changing
rooms with a locker for every employee.
 
 Far more remarkable, however, was a plant manufacturing 
machine tools (and munitions) located on
the outskirts of Berlin.    This was a "model factory"