At the station the voyagers were told by the
Reiseleiter (in this case a young desk official
from the Labor Front) to take their places in compartments 
bearing on the window the number of their
tickets. In this way there was no confusion or
rush for seats and the train was able to leave on
schedule at 1:30 on Saturday afternoon.
 
 The five hour and a half train journey was
passed by the writer in conversation with his compartment 
companions who were respectively a bank
messenger and his wife and a department store clerk.
(The writer would hazard a guess that about 80 per
cent of the participants were low-salaried employees
of the white collar class and only about 20 per cent
were actual everyday laborers. The party was composed 
mostly of the young and middle-aged with very
few older people.)
 
 An interesting fact ascertained was that many
of the travelers had been in the habit for the last
three years of regularly taking their vacations on
Strength through Joy trips. They were generally enthusiastic 
about the organization and in particular
with the arrangement whereby they could save up for
their vacations by putting aside a few pfennigs a
week for Strength through Joy savings stamps. The
general opinion seemed to be that while the shorter
journeys, such as that going to Helgoland were very.
strenuous, a real rest could be obtained on the long
Strength through Joy vacations at the seaside or in