by certain German business men, who offer a much
higher estimate of the cost of Strength through
Joy to the Labor Front, it must be accepted as
the only official statement available.
 
 With respect to the budget of Strength through
Joy, it has been possible to obtain only very rough
figures. According to the official in the treasury division of the Labor Front, the debit balance
of Strength through Joy, that is, the total money
expended for ordinary purposes, was approximately
RM 135,000,000 for 1937, while the credit balance,
that is, money received, amounted to approximately
RM 107,000,000. The difference of RM 28,000,000
was made up from the subsidy of RM 35,000,000 received from the Labor Front, the remaining RM
7,000,000 of that subsidy representing capital outlay on new equipment, including the installment for
that year toward the cost of the two new cruise
ships.
 
 On the income side Strength through Joy received RM 81,200,000 in payments made by yorkers
for their vacation trips, and RM 16,517,000 in
payments received for theater tickets and other
forms of entertainment offered by the Office for
Leisure Time, the total of these amounts coming to
about RM 97,717,000. The difference between the
latter sum and the figure of RM 107,000,000 representing the total ordinary revenue of Strength