the order of delivery.
 
 The German press reported that the Strength
through Joy and Labor Front offices, with which orders 
must be filed, have been swamped since August
1st, and that during the first three days 50,000 applications 
were received in Berlin alone, incidentally, 
as it will be some time before even the manufacture 
of the car will be begun, it is observed that
the Labor Front will be able to accumulate in the
interval a tidy sum from the installments received, on
which, of course, no interest is allowed.
 
 It has been claimed in the German press that the
Strength through Joy car will do more for cheap general 
motorization than has already been accomplished
in the United States. While such claims make good
internal propaganda, their validity, or rather their
immediate fulfillment, is doubted in responsible circles. 
At the former par rate of 1 Reichsmark equalling 
$0.25 (which is probably not a valid comparison 
in view, inter alia., of differences in respective 
wage scales, but which may be taken to give every 
benefit of the doubt to the National Socialist
argument), the price of the Strength through Joy car
would come to approximately $250, which is certainly
cheaper than any new American car. For this price,
however, the American worker may obtain a good second-hand car which, considering the quality of materials, might well have as long a life as a new