Strength Through Joy's Ownership              
                   of Travel Facilities.                    
 
 With a view to controlling prices, Strength
through Joy to an ever greater degree is acquiring
and building up its own travel facilities. It is
claimed that it will not thereby compete with private 
enterprise inasmuch as Strength through Joy
caters to a class of public different from that
served by the ordinary travel agencies, and furthermore, 
that its volume of business is so great
that in any case the organization will continue as
heretofore to resort to public hire as well.
 
 In the larger cities Strength through Joy is
establishing its own fleets of autobuses. It also
has about ten of its own Erholungsheime, or villas,
in various scenic parts of Germany (the largest of
them at Ruhpolding in Bavaria), at which workers
may pass extended vacations at somewhat lower prices 
than the standard rate of RM 2.50 a day charged
in hotels or private houses. Strength through Joy
has spent RM 60,000 for the construction of an experimental 
sleeping car especially adapted to relieve 
the tedium of the longer overnight journeys.
The car contains 90 beds and when eventually produced 
in larger numbers for the order of the Strength
through Joy organization, will be used to make up
trains containing as many as 1,500 voyagers at a 
time. With a view to saving money, ordinary freight