and teachers can be sent periodically to the smaller
torres and villages.
 
 The Sport Office works in different ways. After
the War, and particularly during the more prosperous
years of the 1920's, many factories built playing
fields and swimming pools for their workers. In
collaboration with the Office for Beauty of Work,
which aims at improving working conditions, the
Sport Office seeks to encourage the building or extension of such facilities. If a factory has no
available space, the Sport Office may induce it to
hire a nearby field if this is feasible.
 
 For those who would otherwise have no access
at all to physical exercise, the Sport Office undertakes 
a great deal on its own initiative. Taking
over school gymnasiums or hiring or borrowing any
kind of hall available, it will give public courses
with its own instructors in general gymnastics (for
men and women together), calisthenics for the elderly 
and for mothers, tap dancing, etc. These are
known as "open courses," meaning that a person may
join them at any time and is not bound to attend
regularly. The Strength through Joy charge(double
in the case of those not entitled to its special
rates) is 30 pfennigs for an hour and a half of exercise, 
with a reduction of 20 per cent for the
purchase of five tickets. The so-called "closed
courses" in which participants must start at the
beginning and sign up for the whole course, embrace