the boys were able to make certain elementary castings 
and patterns used later in the factory, the
school represented a considerable outlay of money
for the plant which supported it entirely. Several
factors appeared to have contributed to making this
establishment one of the most progressive of its
kind. In the first place it is a highly prosperous 
enterprise, the machine tool trade profiting
tremendously by the rearmament and building boom.
It was learned that the company earned an annual
dividend of 12 per cent on its common stock; under 
existing regulations, however, only a certain
percentage of such profits (between 6 and 8 per
cent) can be distributed, the rest being impounded 
in government securities or plowed back into
plant equipment, which in this case was spent upon
making the enterprise a "model factory." The work,
moreover, was of a clean and exact nature, the laborers 
being for the most part of the highly skilled
class who receive from RM 60 to 100 per week, an exceedingly 
high wage in Germany.  Finally, the plant's
president and directors were old Party members who
were eager to excel in National Socialist policy.
 
 On the whole, the Office Beauty of Work appears
to have rendered a creditable performance. Under
its influence almost every factory in Germany has
done something to improve working conditions to a
greater or less degree, although the consummation of