 Pressing a button at Washington, President Roosevelt stopped the construction of the 75 million dollar San Francisco Oakland Bridge in California, providing work for thousands of men. It is an honor to initiate the construction of the greatest bridge ever built, the largest construction job undertaken in the United States this year, the bridge between San Francisco and Oakland because it brings additional employment to thousands of men and women who are getting the material ready and to another six or seven thousand more people who will work directly on the job of construction. I think we can well say that this huge undertaking which is to be followed by many other useful improvements through the medium of the public works program symbolizes the upturn that has come to our industrial life in the United States. Now we take you behind the scenes with the press to interview General Johnson, Roosevelt's administrator for industrial recovery. What practical results can you suggest as having resulted so far from this act? Well, well for one thing the tax code is approved by the president to abolish his child labor. That's something this country has been trying to do for 25 years. It was possible to do because under the president's plan where everybody can do the same thing together it was not at all difficult to do. That's one thing also in respect to the tax code. If that's approved it'll restore about 1929 purchasing power to workers in the textile industry. When you explain how the consumer will be safeguarded against unduly higher retail prices which may follow these industrial codes. Well of course the costs go up prices have got to go up but we don't want them to go up any faster than costs go up and if we find extortion practices to step in and either cancel or modify the code and if the code is taken away those who were formerly parties to it are subject to all of the penalties of the Sherman Act. Throughout the country members of the Civilian Conservation Corps were inspired by the stirring message from President Roosevelt. Man of the Civilian Conservation Corps in speaking to you tonight I am thinking of you as a visible token of encouragement to the whole country. You are evidence that we are seeking to get away just as fast as we possibly can from the door to get away from free lodging houses to get away from soup kitchens because the government is paying you wages and maintaining you to do actual work. Work which is needed now and for the future. Work that will bring a definite financial practical return to the people of the nation in the future. Through you the nation will graduate a fine group of strong young men clean living trained to self discipline and above all willing and proud to work for the joy of working that my friends must be the new spirit of the American future and you are the vanguard of that new spirit. One of the president enjoys his vacation at the Lyle Phillips Polo Ranch. Here he is coming out of the stable after saddling his pony. John's a regular fellow and the youngsters seem to take to him. After picking the proper mallet he mounts his pony and starts out for the polo field. Learning the game isn't as easy as it looks but John gets right in there and plays with the best of them carrying down the field under the direction of coach Phillips. They say he's got the makings of a first rate poloist. He loves the game and hopes to become a 10 goal man showing the same fight as his distinguished father. It is the base of the whole recovery plan. Congress did its part when it passed the farm and the industrial recovery acts and today we are putting those two acts to work and they will work if people understand that plain objectives. It is time for courageous action and the recovery bill gives us the means to conquer unemployment with exactly the same weapon that we have used to strike down child labor. The proposition is simply this if all employers will act together to shorten hours and to raise wages we can put people back to work. No employer will suffer because the relative level of competitive cost will advance by the same amount for all of them. But if any considerable group should lag or shirk this great opportunity will pass us by and we will go into another desperate winter. This must not happen. The principle that applies to the employers applies to the workers as well and I ask you workers to cooperate in the same spirit. That is why I am asking the employers of the nation to sign this common covenant with me. To sign it in the name of patriotism and in the name of humanity. That is why I am asking the workers of America to go along with us in a spirit of understanding and of helpfulness. Well dear it looks as if we have the right man in the White House. He's surely leading the country back to better time. He certainly is. The executive committee of the business and advisory council chairman Gerard Pope tells their plan. The reports coming in show that many thousands of people have been put back to work and wages and salaries have been increased in the effort to restore purchasing power. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor. We all hope the emergency plan proposed by the President will prove to be a complete success. General Hugh S. Johnson recovery administrator. The President's Reemployment Drive and the National Recovery Act gives this country the greatest chance that any country ever had to pull itself out of a tight place. BC Fennec Company employing 21,000 people has through its president wired the administration pledging prompt 100% cooperation in the national industrial recovery program. We shall cooperate wholeheartedly throughout our 1478 stores throughout the 48 states. Warren Brothers the largest road builders in the country emphatically endorsed the President's National Recovery Act. In fact we are right now busy on a co-defare practice for the paving industry to be presented to the administrator in Washington. On behalf of Remington Rand and its 10,000 employees I have pledged full support to President Roosevelt in his industrial recovery program. Everyone should recognize that increased payroll means increased purchasing power. We have steadily added more workers and shall continue to do so. The International Business Machines Corporation is putting forth every effort to extend full cooperation to President Roosevelt's plan. I believe the President's plan is reasonable and workable. The Gillette Razor Company stands squarely behind the President in his efforts to increase the purchasing power of the nation. We have adopted his voluntary code and we urge all other employers to do likewise. The National Recovery Act has brought forth the pledge of millions to aid his program. The pledge to follow his leadership and the pledge to bring back prosperity. On leaving Washington for the summer White House in Hyde Park with Mrs. Roosevelt the President turned over the administration of his gigantic program to General Hugh S. Johnson. Seems as though the whole country had risen as one man to carry the President's requirements into execution. Secretary of Labor Perkins urges your cooperation. Purchasing power of the workers will be and must be increased. We shall see the results of this new conception which we are thinking of in terms of the new deal. Ernest T. Weir leading Pittsburgh Steel Magnet. The steel industry stands squarely behind the President in his great work toward national industrial recovery. The wage increase of 15 percent has recently been made. Amounting to about five million dollars per month additional distribution which is immediately transferred into increased buying power and results in additional employment with thousands of workers in other lines of activity throughout the United States. Steel production is the backbone of industry. The road to prosperity and the barometer of recovery as steel goes so goes the nation. Hours are going down wages are going up and more than a million working men are back on the job. Every day new factories report increased payrolls and added labor. Every day sees an increase of car loadings and shipping. You and I are beginning to spend the man across the street has a new car. These are the things that indicate better times and show that under Roosevelt's leadership America is going forward. Newspapers from metropolitan dailies to country weeklies. Banks big and small. Furniture stores everywhere. Barber shops. The clothing industry. Small retail establishments nationwide agencies and the theaters are giving their support and now here the NRA spokesman for the motion pictures Sal Rosenblatt. Every group in the motion picture industry has pledged the president through me as the deputy administrator in charge of the motion picture industry code that not only will the motion picture industry immediately write and enforce its own code under the National Recovery Administration but will extend every facility from every group and division to enforce all of the codes under the National Recovery Administration. In the coal mines the NRA has inaugurated a new era after a strike that threatened the entire eastern coal area. Twenty thousand miners returned to work expressing faith in Roosevelt. The new deal is give us a square deal and we're all back to work and we hope we may be able to continue so without any outside interference and to convey a message of hope Postmaster General Farley issues the first NRA emergency stamps. General Johnson how do you like the design. It's great and we fully appreciate the cooperation of yourself and your department. You believe it typifies the spirit of the NRA. It does play but I missed the blue eagle. We will arrange for that later General. 400 million stamps on their way to inspire America to go forward to prosperity with Roosevelt. The spirit of 1933 personal visit President Roosevelt makes his first tour of the Civilian Conservation Corps camps in the Shenandoah Valley. After inspecting Skyland the commander in chief takes a seat at the head of the table to eat with the boys and enjoys every bite of the plain wholesome food furnished at the camp. It's very good to be here at these Virginia CCC camps. I wish I could see them all over the country. I hope that all over the country they're in this fine condition of the camps that I've seen today. I wish that I could take a couple of months off from the White House and come down here and live with them because I know I'd get full of health the way they have. The only difference is that they put on an average of about 12 pounds of peace since they got here and I'm trying to take off 12 pounds. His daughter Mrs. Anna Dahl and her children Sissy and Buzzy meet him at the train. Delighted to see their distinguished grandfather the children join him in the car with Mrs. Dahl. The president takes Sissy on his lap and then the happy group rides away headed for high park and a Roosevelt family reunion and the president proves he is a good scout. In that time and when you come right down to it the ending is based on in other words trying to do something for the do somebody. It's based on cooperation. You know what that means. It's based on the spirit of service and it's going to work just like scouting has worked. See his son John. There he is riding to victory and young John put his mouth through its paces like a veteran horseman. Then John and his sister Mrs. Curtis Dahl competed as a pair while the president looked on and together they finished four with his horse New Deal. Roosevelt's faith the National Guardsman and reviews the 71st and 174th Infantry Regiments. Think in terms of a rounded hole but your responsibility your interest in national government ought to stop there. The greater part of government as it affects your daily lives and mine is your local government and the opportunity in this field of local government for improvement for betterment that will be felt in your lives is just as great as it is in Washington with his grandchildren and the seat of President Lee and among those who wave goodbye to him from the dock was his mother Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt and his daughter Mrs. Curtis Dahl grand son Buzzy after yacht Norma Hall President Roosevelt immediately took the helm of the ship of state with his arrival in Washington the chief executive ended his vacation as guest of Vincent Astard personally direct the progress of the NRA ready to deal with the nation's problem the president looked eager to get to work refreshed by his crew. How was your vacation Mr President? How was your vacation? With 1500,000 volunteers helping to mobilize the NRA consumers the president was delighted to learn that the housewives of America are lining up solidly behind him doing their part by patronizing the Blue Eagle. In purchasing my supplies for my home I considered a duty of every woman to support the always look for the Blue Eagle. I think the NRA is a wonderful opportunity for us women we spend 85 cents of every dollar which goes into the home with our united support it cannot fail. We women enjoy shopping in the NRA shop because we feel while we are doing so that we have the greatest opportunity since the war of doing our part in this great campaign. As you know the many governments in the United States the federal government the 48th government and the tens of thousands of local government are doing their best to meet what has been in many ways one of the most serious crises in our history the fact that people with property have been getting more from rents there have been fewer defaults on mortgages and bonds and various other kinds of investments people are not so worried about the banks and I believe today that you can go forth I won't say in the spirit of the NRA because you don't come under it all of you are going to work a great deal more than 40 hours a week I want to tell you that you are here by that if you want to work 70 hours a week God bless you go and do it Congress created the Tennessee Valley Authority to operate muscle shows we plan to salvage the wartime investment so that the plant shall no longer be a burden on the American taxpayer we have just announced proposed rates which after covering comparable expenses of private power enterprises will provide electricity for homes and farms at a maximum rate of three cents and an average rate of two cents a kilowatt hour cheap power however important is but a part of the great project as it was conceived by President Roosevelt the authority is directed and empowered to aid and to stimulate the plan development of vast natural resources and industries of this great region comprising seven states Virginia Kentucky Tennessee North Carolina Georgia Alabama and Mississippi an area almost as large as England in which live two million men women and children the methods which may be developed in the Tennessee Valley Authority for stimulating the natural resources of an area in an orderly way will doubtless be applied to other regions of our country well receives an ovation as he rides through the city seated in the car with Miss Marguerite Lahan his secretary and Mrs. James Roosevelt before going to Hyde Park for a brief stay the president's bed to his townhouse accompanied by a heavy escort of motorcycle police his arrival resulted in a family reunion and he remained in the city long enough to confer with friends and say goodbye to his eldest son James who was sailing abroad and here are Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt sailing for Europe with the first lady and the president's mother Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt who accompanied them to the dock to bid them bomb voyage a happy couple Betsy and Jim real rosebells for the continent as unofficial ambassadors of goodwill constitution of the United States to help you God Franklin Delano Roosevelt who solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and will to the best of my ability reserve protect and defend the constitution of the United States though help me God the menace of war grew into dread reality as American ships and ships carrying American citizens were torpedoed sent to the bottom by the ruthless campaign of the unseen tigers at the sea the submarines and finally the day came when Franklin Roosevelt's chief president Woodrow Wilson sadly and reluctantly set his hand and sealed the declaration of war countenance our boys marched aboard the transports assembled prepared by the secretary of the navy Josephus Daniel and his active and enthusiastic young aide Franklin D. Rosa was so valuable that the president sent him to France where he put the big naval 12 inch guns on military trains to battle back the Germans at Bear Dunn fireless as ever the young assistant secretary witnessed every phase of the war following its course from disarbonization dots through the munitions works in the great shipyard who rose a bellion order he went to the front met the great marshal push and saw with his own eyes and heard with his own ears the savage onslaughts of the Germans against the allies and the allies against the Germans the baptism of fire for the young civilian Germans surrendered in droves the end was near at hand and finally on that unforgettable november the 11th the blessed armistice came to the front the triumphant legions of the allies in the aef swept back from the hard one fields of victory and over the whole world rose a peon and plumber of hysterical joy at the end of the horrible struggle Paris London New York who could ever forget that surging glorious day of celebration in new york city from tip to tip of manhattan island the streets were jammed from curb to curb by people utterly abandoned to joy it was unbelievable incredible daising and dazzling as the american spirit unchained and soaring something to be seen once in a century victory is not all celebration hard work was yet to be done at home and abroad the president desired to bring about a just peace which would not carry the seeds of future war the high hope he went to france with our great commanding general john j perchingly side he reviewed a full division of crack proofs at show more general perching's headquarter and once more frank and roosevelt found himself in france this time to clean up the debris of war the aef was coming home now it's worked well done with song and cheering the pilot aboard the home of work down transport while assistant secretary roosevelt directed the sale and dispersal of naval supplies and cleaned up in his thorough style finally perching in the boys were back blackjack heading the greatest and finest army that ever assembled under the stars and strike and how a million people roared to claim that thundering day of the great victory parade in new york city presently there came crowding upon his mind all the pressing problems that he must meet problems of the day what to do about the millions out of work those in need none knew better than he the flight of those who stood patiently in the bread lines dull with discouragement with hardly enough spirit left to walk the treadmill of their mischief none comprehended more clearly than he at the time had come for action to relieve the necessities of men and women whose only desire was to get the work that did not exist while he rested got ready to retire from the governorship his keen mind was at work on the problem of all these unfortunate driven to idols precarious peddler and accepting the charity of people in the street times were becoming more and more troublesome there was agitation on every side prohibition agents were raiding liquor selling places destroying illegal beer new york's great population was around and the symbol of that feeling was a great beer parade in new york city marched all day and far into the night one hundred and fifty thousand people in line some folks were saying the statue of liberty needed a glass of beer to cheer her up she certainly doesn't look her old self in this picture but night and perhaps a little inside information of what was to take place on april 7th 1933 gave her a more agreeable aspect big girl down the bay was gazing one must suppose that that gave beer parade which was still swinging along on the electric lights of manhattan became violent toward the close of the year 1931 taking advantage of the depression of general unemployment the reds organized numerous demonstrations they swept down from all parts of the city of new york to the city hall in order to keep the communists from invading the city hall and upsetting the peace and order of the whole city it was necessary for the police to deal vigorously with never pleasant to see men clubbed and roughed about however misguided they may be but all appeals and persuasions were wasted in case of use the club were surrendered to the riot i am george nigh the quicker evangelist of madison wisconsin the great people of the united states of america are out exhibiting their manager the republican party has paraded the elephant around the ring and fed him so much booze that already his stomach is contracting and he's about to lie down with a belly ache the democrat party is paraded the jackass around the ring and fed him so much booze that he's lava to lie down in a drunken stupor the prohibition party took command of the darkest hour the nation had known for generations a real american with three centuries of inspiring family tradition and brain and blood president roosevelt can trace his love for the soil and rural life whose first ancestor plows martins and van Rosenbelt and the sixteen forty nine that was a memorable year when the family came over from holland settled in new amsterdam our president's branch of the family later moved up the hudson to duchess county in the year 1818 and there the president first saw the lighted day on january 30th 1882 the home of his boyhood with its comfortable frame colonial house his 500 acre farm his little change from the days when he was a babe and his mother's arm sarah delano roosevelt is the president's mother a lovely and gracious lady whose old american family were merchants whose fast clipper ships raced to and from china in the romantic key trade of the six in the old dutch bible she recorded the birth of her son franken and one wonders if you ever dreamed that the baby of three months she held in her arms would someday place his hand on that same old bible and take the oath as president of the united states it may well have been for sarah delano roosevelt may have had a happy motherhood the strange vision that sometimes descends upon the mothers of only sons an instant glimpse behind the veil of the future and we have a word for it that franken was an active and ambitious youngster who invariably assumed the leadership of his playmates in their boyhood sports even at nine there is visible in his face the poise and confidence that goes with leadership brought up an educated insane simple and thrifty ways our president passed from boyhood into youth and entered the second cycle of his career at eighteen well grounded by private tutors he was ready for university training and entered harvard and paid his first respects to the man who founded this great university john harvard he became editor of the college daily the famous harvard crimson writing with a vigorous hand and putting pep into the once staid and conservative sheet franken roosevelt left his impress at harvard he was a good mixer a member of many social clubs played football and was a member of the varsity rowing squad many a time he tugged at the sweep on the beautiful and historic charles river seen at the great annual boating duels between harvard and yale and cheered with the crowds on observation train and shore as the crimson of fair harvard and the blue of old yale battled it out in one of their historic regattas childhood the president has loved the water that harvard in those boat racing days he began to acquire his wonderful naval life there was a thrill of combat in those races on the charles which was dear to the heart of the real roosevelt a fighting roosevelt and even today men who went to harvard with franken roosevelt recall his charming personality his vigorous enthusiasm his ability to get things done he was a vital figure in all harvard activity steam with his senior class group and the time was close at hand to bid farewell to fair harvard out of college he turned to the law for a career and headed the law school at columbia university and while absorbing black stone within these walls he married elinor roosevelt his distant cousin and a niece of president theodore roosevelt as a young lawyer he began his career in a time of change in tumult the economic and social ideas of the country were changing one of the seething movements of the period was the demand for the vote by women and the stirring campaigns of the suffragettes 1912 franken b roosevelt made himself a national figure by the support of woodrow wilson under wilson's dynamic leadership the country staged one of the most dramatic fights for the presidency in all its history the great teddy roosevelt leading his bull moosh revolt against the republican old guard was delivering blazing speeches he rolled up more than four million votes for himself but wilson won easily supported by such enthusiastic lieutenants as young franklin roosevelt william howard tap defeated in three cornered race maintained the famous tap smile and took his defeat like the good soldier the state that he was on that historic 4th of march 1913 200,000 people attended the great ceremony at the capital which was fated to begin a new era tremendous consequences to america franklin roosevelt among the guests of honor on the inaugural stand as the new assistant secretary of the navy felt his heart stirred by woodrow wilson's demand for the new freedom and took up his work in the spirit of devotion to his country 1914 war bursting over europe civilized nation gone mad the great green host of the german kaiser pouring through belgium they uneasily threw out the nation's demand in all the great cities thousands marched to preparedness period the sidewalks as 140,000 people quelled the breast swept up the avenue with bands wearing patriotic airs and the stars and stripes waving proudly in the sunshine important world histories being made these days in london and elsewhere new leaders new ideas have seized the minds of men events are moving swiftly in the direction of progress economic stability and peace outstanding in the great forward steps toward world unity or the geneva disarmament conference and the world monetary and economic conference here in the british capital in the new geological museum in south kensington uh in these rooms which workmen are now fitting out for their significant role the fate of civilization itself may well rest and in these far-sighted straggings for universal good two great leaders stand out two great leaders of two great english-speaking nations two men of widely separated antecedents but of singularly similar viewpoints and leadership prime minister j ramsey mcdonald of great britain and president franklin delano rosevelt of the united states premier mcdonald was born in 1866 in the little scotch town of lossy muth in elgin county far to the north on moray fair he was of humble origin and is practically self-educated at 19 he came to london to do secretarial work and a few years later found him active in the socialist movement serving his apprenticeship at soapbox oratory and hide park and profalgar square and becoming and becoming noted in labor circles as an organizer and writer little did the nation suspect in those victorian days that the lean long-haired scotch scribbler would one day be a world figure secretary of the labor party for 11 years and then its leader member of the london county council for four years and then elected as a member of parliament these were the steps by which he rose to high estate in the nation's affairs the labor party's great success in 1923 resulted in his selection as prime minister and as their majesties wrote to parliament in the auspicious year of 1924 with all the famous trappings of age old regal pomp ceremony the entire world marveled at the curious twist of british democracy that plucked from the masses from the very bosom of anti-patriotic internationalism a self-made battler against british conservatism to be the king's man the creator of a ministry the maker of government so they soon became paramount in all international death parades in paris he is welcomed by premier aereo on the eve of the lozan conference his stand-on settlements and cancellation of lozan ring on the world and again in paris he and premier aereo confer at the critical moment when the french leader is facing the wreck of his ministry over the december war depth payment and then came the prime minister's epical trip to rome general bow bow italian air minister himself pilots the huge primoted hydroplane with the mcdonald party aboard from genoa to austria and there for the first time on record premier mcdonald and premier musulini meet on italian soil a meeting destined to result in the announcement of the famous four-power treaty europe's own peace pact embracing britain france germany and italy it is during this important conference in il-duce's own office that the elements of musulini's recently adopted peace plan is dropped a ten-year fact that now months after its presentation looms as one of the outstanding instruments of the era in world politics as the originator of the mcdonald disarmament plan the british premier was the first european leader sought out by president roosevelt after the great change in administration at washington invited to confer with the american president prior to the janiva and london parley's the premier and his gracious daughter journey to the united states where they receive with honor and acclaim by the city of new york in the fleeting minutes they have to spend in new york waters the eyes of america and of the world are on mcdonald today as he lands boards of train for washington the peace and probable prosperity of all nations are in balance this visit means much to the summers parley and on those parley's rest the structure of modern civilization itself an agreeable almost a startling surprise awaits premier mcdonald at the white house the american presidential residence instead of expected stiffness and formality the president and his charming wife are out on the front steps to greet with warmth and true american hospitality their guests from overseas the prime minister long has been close to the hearts of the american public his tribute to the forever nameless american fighting man whose heroic dust lies under the slab at their unknown soldier's tomb won their high regard the self-educated scotchman of the 80s is made a doctor of laws by george washington university and gets a real thrill out of the collegiate mortarboard on his visit to the majestic capital home of the american congress and the seat of government he has accorded the courtesy of the united states senate and addresses the lawmakers of our sister nation winning great applause and praise by his apt and enlightening remarks one of the highlights of his stay in washington is his appearance at the national press club the shrine of american newspaper dump and hosts of the national press club i am really delighted to be your guest once again he wants the machinery of production and of consumption to begin to go round again and we can't do that by any system of pure nationalist economics if you want to come across a good nationalist go to scotland in order to find it i'm proud of being a national i'm proud of my history i'm proud of my culture i'm proud of my kiff and my kin i'm proud of the park that we have played in the history of mankind but if i translate that pride of mine that nationality of mine into nationalist economics by engage in the rather tragic delusion of imagining that a scotland made economically self-contained is going to make its tribute to the world's wealth then what i shall find is this that i shall both impoverish myself and impoverish my neighbors outside my own boundaries the united states great britain france must protect themselves we have been going through difficult times what's the way to hand agree how to get out of them happiness contentment enjoyed by large populations living on high standards of life can only be maintained by a freely flowing international exchange now we're going to devise that freely flowing exchange is to be the main purpose of the international economic country washington for preliminary talks with roosevelt and with cordell hull american secretary of state including prime minister bennett of canada an edward ariel his mission ended premier mcdonnell says goodbye to washington having laid the groundwork for anglo american cooperation in the momentous days to follow days that are to startle the world with roosevelt's appealed to all nations for immediate action on the mcdonnell disarmament plan and for real constructive results at the london economic conference and so the premier is welcome back to number 10 downing street by a nation enthusiastically impressed with the greatness of his efforts for world bettermen what manner of man is roosevelt the sudden idol and magic leader of the american people whose first bold strides into world politics seemed to herald the dawn after dark years of post war turmoil what is his history