SPORT For the promotion of national health, Strength through Joy encourages the participation of workers in sport beyond the time when they might normally cease to have opportunities for bodily exercise. The organization induces factories to build or hire sport fields and arrange competitions, and itself offers numerous sport courses for which the fees vary between 20 and 40 pfennigs per one and a half-hour period of instruction. Strength through Joy employs about 1,500 instructors and it' is train- ing a large number of younger workers to serve as its own sport teachers. It is estimated that in 1937 about 8,000,000 workers took part in Strength through Joy sports. Leisure Time The organization of leisure time is cared for by two offices, that for Leisure Time proper and that for Popular Educational Work. An inquiry having shown that only a small percentage of workers had attended the theater or opera, Strength through Joy started a "back to the theater" movement. The organization owns two theaters in Berlin and one each in Breslau and Munich Where plays and operas are offered at between 75 pfennigs and RM 1 (including the checking of hats and coats). |