can hardly be anybody to whom it does not offer some-
thing of interest,
 
 If a worker does not care for, or has not the
means to pay for, the more expensive sea voyages, he
may make a cheaper railway or bus excursion to the
mountains or to some part of Germany he has not seen.
Country people naturally choose trips to the big cit-
ies, Hiking tours are offered the most robust. A
person indeed may not wish to go anywhere but may pre-
fer instead to take advantage of the sport facilities
which include lessons in golf, tennis, skiing, swim-
ming, etc. A beneficiary of Strength through Joy is
enabled to enjoy grand opera, concerts of the best
state orchestras, and to attend the latest plays with-
in a week or so after they have been put on. If he
is young and ambitious he may learn, without recourse
to a correspondence, school, stenography, accounting,
drawing, foreign languages, or other subjects that
may help him in his career. The artistically in-
clined may be attracted by factory art exhibits, mu-
seum tours and special lectures, whereas those crav-
ing for artistic self-expression may take lessons in
singing or acting, or instruction on an accordion or
mouth-organ. Popular courses in German history or
literature are offered and encouraged (and although
these subjects are treated strictly along National
Socialist political and propagandistic lines they
seem to satisfy the urge toward self-education); while
persons with esoteric tastes may indulge them in