professional categories was made up as follows:
 
Students ......................  4   156   1.9%
 
Members of the armed forces ...  5   735   2.6%
 
Tradesmen ..................... 11   091    5 %
 
Hand workers .................. 14   175   6.5%
 
Party and State officials ..... 21   699   9.8%
 
Laborers ...................... 40   827  18.4%
 
Employees ..................... 58   196  26.3%
 
Others (members of free pro-
fessions,housewives, etc. ).... 65   256  29.5%
 
                 Total ........ 221,135    100%
 
 Personal observation made at several courses
visited seems to check more or less with these statistics. It was noted that these courses were made
up in large part of women and young people, the largest proportion of the adult men coming from the employee or white collar class,-which would seem to
show that, despite its exceedingly broad basis of appeal, the organization has not yet succeeded in attracting the great mass of the workers themselves.
The attendance of members of the armed forces is interesting inasmuch as it is understood that this is
the only form of activity of Strength through Joy in
which amy recruits are now permitted to take part.
 
 The competent authorities declare that they are
less concerned with communicating in their courses
exact knowledge, such as dates and figures of the
kind learned in school, than in presenting impress-.
ionistic surveys, particularly in the matter of German history, where periods and personalities are