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it has not yet succeeded in extending the maximum
benefits of long-range travel to the real workers.
The provision of free journeys by such devices as
a "pfennig-fund" raffle is no solution of the problem, any more than is the granting of free trips on
the basis of meritorious (and possibly political)
service, inasmuch as this expedient can only include a small proportion of the workers of a particular plant during a given year. The fault for
this state of affairs would seem to lie toothed in
the general economic structure rather than with
Strength through Joy which seems to extract the maximum opportunities from the facilities at its disposal.
 
 With the exception of the longer excursions
noted above, the other activities of Strength
through Joy are well within the range of means of
the ordinary worker. The theater entertainments,
sport and educational facilities are offered at
minimal prices, whereas the drives for the improvement of working conditions cost the laborer nothing at all. For the organizers the problem presents itself chiefly in the form of devising new
and attractive programs, and these the National
Socialists, with their highly developed instinct
of popular appeal, have been immensely successful 
in doing. Incidentally, being curious as to whether 
the workers were particularly grateful to National
 
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