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EXPENDITURES
Office expenses-administration 67,000 DM
Education 85,000
Streeet repairs, construction 100,000
Lighting, water and sewer lines, etc 92,000
To county (for hospital, street construction 65,000
Some of the above figures may be further explained, to give a fuller picture of the varied activities undertaken in recen years. The office expenses include not only salaries and such basic administration costs byt also the expenses associated with a great volume of paper work; for the city to responsible not only for records of births, deaths, marriages, sales of property [?] but also for hunting and other licenses and the time [cons.?] inspecttion. The expense for [?] teacher salary, the heating, cleaning and maintenance of school facilitles, buying books and other classroom supplies, and paying fees to share the costs of Beutelsback students studying in schools in Waiblingen or Schorndorf or other towns or other towns.

In addition to the annual budget items the city sometimes centertakes larger projects by special projects by special financing. Since the war several large low cost housing units have been built, with three particular groups in mind- the war widows, the sick and permanently unemployed, the aged. In the apartments (2-6 families in each large building_ One is given about a 50% [?] low interest loans for the purpose from the state. A second special project was the buying of land to be resold as house lots; the city acted in this way as real estate agent from 1945 to 1957 underpressure of the need to house refugees. Since then the demand in less and the price of land has risen, and so the city prefers to let such transactions be carried out privately.

Having presented the basic data on the structure and activities of Beutelsbach city government, we could perhaps proceed immediately to try to analyze its relation to what we see as the basic culture of the community. We would note then for example that it serves nicely the function of stabilizing the social organization the town: each social status level and each socio-econoimc type (Weingartner, shopkeeper, laborer, clerical workers, etc) is given a voice. But should we even in particular to the problem of cultural change, we would be in danger of serious misinterpretation to rest on this set of facts alone. For so few we hve seen only the government and the community, and have cosidered the town as though it were isolated, existing complete unto itself. But obviously this is not the case: Beutelbach is very much related to the larger world, and the government specifically is one "face" which the town presents to its surroundings. So we may not consider only the governments internal activity. We must first examine the forces which the environment exerts on the community and then finally in seeing how the government responds to this environment (as well as to the existing character of the town's culture), we can estimate its full role in cultural change.
Beutelsbach and the Larger World
One of the most important ways in which the environment influences Beutelbach. culture is in the pressure of population growth. There is to begin with some natural internal increase- last year 70 new babies were born (in most years 30-45) and this of course puts pressure on school facilities (at present one class-room for each grade level) and other services almost immediately. But to this internal growth must be added the pressure of movement into the area from other places. This factor has taken different forms since the war, and little history might suggest the city's response to present forms. In 1935 the population was fairly stable suggest the city's response to present forms. In 1935 the population was fairly stable.