 The Cavalcade of America, presented by Dupont. An original radio play inspired by the life of John Sutter and the California Gold Rush, starring Edwin Jerome in the role of John Sutter. The Dupont Company, makers of better things for better living through chemistry, presents the Cavalcade of America, dedicated to those men and women in every walk of life who have shaped the destiny of America in the past and to the youth of today who will shape the destiny of America in the future. Before proceeding with our Cavalcade play, we pause for a moment to bring you an urgent message from the American Red Cross. Money is needed now to buy food, clothing and medical supplies for suffering people in war-torn Europe. Americans have never failed to answer cries of distress from far-off lands. And we cannot fail now in this sad hour. Send your contributions to your local Red Cross chapter or to the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. California in the year 1839. California under Mexican sovereignty. Purple Valley, missions, ranchos and hapsienas. At Monterey, His Excellency the Governor Juan Batista Alvarado has arrived at his capital on the Pacific. Striding across the courtyard, his cloak billowing from his shoulders like of a million clouds, he is surrounded by clamoring, excited settlers of valleys. Governor the cattle plague is in the valley again. Governor what do we do? The cattle are dying! The cattle are dying, the cattle are dying. The cattle are dying! We'll have to leave the valley. Perhaps the enders are anxious. We'll have to return to Mexico again. Same story. All the way up the valley I hear it. Big cattle, whole herds dying, plagues, derivations. But what can I do? But we don't want to go back. Show us how to cure the cattle. Please, Excellency. One moment, one moment all of you. You have your ways of curing stock of the plague. Try it, make it cure them. We have tried, but it does not good. No farmer I don't know how why do you come here to me you are the excellency the governor you've got to help us Would if I could you all know that Must be some way must be someone who can read our cattle of this place If there is I'll offer 50,000 pesos 50,000 These in your horse up excellency. I have heard of a man during one effort. It was on my ranch. It was this man Why are you brought in here he left where he is now? You must be found what was his name thing or he was to his excellency he was John so you are the remarkable captain John That is my name your excellency, but why remarkable remarkable enough thing yours. I have heard you can cure our valley cattle of this place All of your herds in California can be cured as easily your excellency. There is a remedy. I learned in Switzerland We care for our stock because they were members of our family I Will give you 50,000 pesos if you leave it to this natural place. I can pay you in gold. I am sorry your excellency. I'm not interested in gold But you must be mad then your all men want gold your excellency What do this gold can you feed it to starving people? Can you cure a sick cattle with it? Captain Southern you are a strange man You mean you do not want well certainly I want well I did not in two or three years of hardship getting to California to acquire the gold that destroys men That is not what I promised my wife. I'm not and then I send the Switzerland to her to come to me I want to show her real wealth and real wealth is land very well You cure the cattle the land is yours But as far as the far hill there as you know it is already taken up, but I want this far beyond the hill The valley of the Sacramento would part of it. You want capital sir. I want all of it The entire Sacramento Valley all east and west from one mountain range to the other What what you ask capital is equal to half of France and your little Switzerland to be cut into one corner of it That is why I wanted your excellency. You say you do not understand me Perhaps you would if you had grown up in Switzerland proud at little palm Always I dreamed and told Anna of a place like this like the Sacramento Valley The Bass Plains in fertile land. Now I understand a little yes But still it is much land you asked Perhaps it is too much for my people to understand your people have been here for years and have not dared to set foot on it They will never develop it. I did but can you if I don't you can have it back Give me a professional grant if I make good, but I promise The land is mine capitalists other You read us of this place and you will have the chance to develop the whole valley of the Sacramento But you succeed you hold it That is the buzz. Hello captain. Hello to your excellency Where is it boys? The mighty fine cap Yeah, yeah, he's a mighty fine cap and Looking like she's got something to be proud of to see or to That's it. You've just had the first half bond for that's right Some other time Emily captain's busy But we've got something to ask him. We just gotta know what is it speak up. What is it? Go on any you ask him. No, you're the one to ask him. Yeah. Well Well, you were marrying us when they told you about Betty. Oh, oh, yes, I was marrying you wasn't I there was I oh Yes, I didn't fight finish Just clock Emily Taylor. I now pronounce your man and wife You must have a name who do you mean them the calf show the calf First thing born in my land the first of her that will cover these Like a first seed that grows and multiplies for it has greatness in it a thousand poles Yeah, it is the beginning of everything like in the first book of the Bible Let me one. I am going to name you That's for Genesis How much more is it to your farm? We have been on my farm for miles and miles Laura, but we do not call it a farm here We call it a run show and mine is the biggest run show of all. And what do you think of it? I'm a darling. I Do not know what is in Johan Oh Now I'm not darling. I have not changed so much. I was always like this only in Switzerland I could not do the great things I have done and the greatest things I will so here you will get used to it Morning Oh Yes, put 50 men to work at the middle See that the grain is all ground before the cops come down from Petter River and the bill Marshall I sent down number from the new tannery you put your men to walk there There's a new bunch of feathers showed up down the valley captain good They need a hundred more up in the south orchid the next group can go to the vineyard. All right. We'll put them All right. Goodbye captain. Come come boys get up Some of my foreman on the darling I have many others for all the thousands and thousands of acres of wheat and grapes and I need them all They must get the money for I must work every acre to hold it and Declas are coming every week from all the 29 United States to live on the me captain Nothing to be frightened of honor Yes Yes, I am my child of a lamb bigger than all children as big as half a cramp. You see From the mountains there to the others yonder and as far as you can see between it is all mine Who who boys? Here they are. Yes, what's that? Of course But I still live in a force why because I am the chief of all the government of the frontier of the Rio del Sacramento It's not much like Switzerland. Is it on the darling? No No, Johann everything is different You forget all your worries on the darling I the king commanded for tonight. I get a Spanish piercer May I have everyone's attention, please? I propose a toast to our distinguished guest is excellency the governor of California I thank you captain shorter I shall respond with a talk to the great man who more than fulfilled his agreement with governor Alvarado and Rightfully is entitled to his new organ For he has changed the wilderness to a paradise and it's colonized it with many people They talk to captain Flutter the owner free and clear of all the lands in the Sacramento darling Come on the darling, let me show you the plans. I have made for a house, but your hand will have a house already I love it It's for It's not a house. We must have a mansion and I have the plan for it. Yes It shall be a house fine enough for John Sutter and his family But you understand you have a truly appellate. Of course it is. Yes, you see here is the reception hall Here is the drawing room and here my audience came there. I shall hold court as required by my official authority It will be very nice and sure if it is not too expensive But what do I care for expense my crops this year will pay off the loss of my death, but let us be careful, Johan I'm afraid it's not don't come down on my foot. Oh now. I'm the darling still and the powers. They can't take it from us The promise move on to Please Only a few rooms. It may be Johan. That's maybe we can throw this sometime well but There is a little farm on Feather River. I might feel you a little house Now I would be happy Johan because someday we may be glad we have such a little farm on the little house I Ordered you to stay at the new mill till it was finished the mill I got something better than a mill for you captain. I told you marshal the new mill must be finished as soon as possible Here's why I'm here captain But have you in the bag? It's gold No No, not gold sure it is gold pure gold Along the back of the American River right at the mill at the middle Yeah, the screen's lined with it. You can pick it up with your hands. You told anyone. Oh, not a soul. You must tell no one Oh, I won't captain, but they'll see us taking it out They are not taking it out mark What are you crazy? I would be crazy by the word of the surround I would not have a workman left at the mill. I have too much in best of their There's enough gold there to buy 10 mills and enough gold to lose everything I have put in here in the valley marshal I've got to finish this harvest everything depends on it the back to the mill marshal Forget you ever found let's forget a fortune Oh fortune under my feet not even lean over to pick it up. Oh, no I'm going back there and pick up a million dollars And then I'm gonna spend it and go back for more and spend that the rest of my life on big and spend big and spend Yeah, that's it. Why'd be crazy not That's what gold does to you. That's what would happen to all of us You could all get just like you are now crazed of gold It is a fever marshal you have got to forget. Oh, no. I don't know captain Have I not always Then go back to the mill and do as I say never tell anybody You mean nobody outside of you listen the gold will stay there. It always has I hope it always you're wrong captain Sutter You can't hide gold for long I haven't got time for another one boys They get back to the mill captain Sutter wants lumber. Whoa lumber can wait John. It's long drive back But it's a long drive that has no turning this day. You're both need another drink. Yeah. Yeah, that's right All right, same thing said let's have one for the Scotty too, huh? All right all in the house boys That took the car to them, huh? Hey that do that do especially when the we whistle is rusted Neat thing like a hard ride to do that in my shoe. Well, maybe I won't be making that long ride much longer What do you mean? Oh nothing Now that's all it's got a quick to sawmill are you master quit that sawmill? Hey, I should say not a better. Let me pay for the next one Marshall. You haven't much money What do you mean? I haven't any money your press was empty. I saw it Trust the Scotchman and notice that sure it's empty, but I always keep a reserve Well, if you believe he's got a reserve fit set us up again. All right What do you think this is a lot of rocks? I'd say a lot of rocks, huh? I guess you guys don't know gold when you see it gold. That's what I said partner. That's pure gold gold Yeah They discovered gold of a turner. Come on. Let's get over there and take out a claim. No, no, you can't come on my land It is mine. You have no right. No, right, California. Yeah, pick up the move No, my land all of it all mine not yours Oh I'm gonna roll head to California No, no, it is mine you can't take it from me. That's my land. Yeah, you heard me No I Like a swarm of locusts Anna Nothing left but stubble now. I know your hand, but we still got a little fun. We can go there and be happy happy No, Anna, I have still got height in me. I won't be happy until I get it back All of my land. That's how your hand. There is a base. I am not like not yet, Anna Sam Vernon. Howdy Sam. What are you gonna do now captain? I am going to get my land back every acre of it I am set on filing suit in the United States court under my original claim. Well, that's the whole northern half of the state Captain if you proceed with this suit, there'll be trouble among the settlers And if you land only in trouble Johan, please, please don't do it Anna every ounce of gold in this financial belongs to me And I will make them pay me back Every cent but you've already despite gold. Why do you not? Gold can be used to restore these lands That is the only reason I want it. Well captain There's one thing certain Win or lose. This is going to be the biggest lawsuit in the whole history Now what Hank? Sutter says he's going to get all that land in the Sacramento back Going to court about You think he can drive us off our farm? That's what? Why he's crazy Crazy in that yonder maramine Come on get it Did you ever hear the like Sarah? That great goat of a Sutter trying to say we're on his land. They ought to pin him up where he belongs Tired whiskers to the gate for him Yeah, that's what the crowd's doing over at the courthouse big mouth Sutter trying to get back our farm Has been his land all the time. Yeah big mouth. That's more you can say for his wits the judge will fix him The court playing the captain John Sutter Did in fact hold the prior title to these lands in suits and therefore? He is entitled to full restoration of all his property and absolute title there too Sheriff's come to drive us off Get the boys together meet tonight down the Sutter's court. Got your pick men We're ready No Everybody's gonna be in on this where we're heading for ain't gonna move away anyhow You ready? Yeah. Come on. What we're waiting for we'll get that Sutter coyote tonight boys. Let's go Yo, huh? What can I do I'm afraid no No, no, no Laura don't be afraid you see honey. It's only some of the squatters being driven off by the sheriff But they're coming here to the force. What what is that? Out the back way No, I would say It won't do any good to stay or even to try to stop them All right, I'm gonna go Out this way No time to lose come come this way. They can cause the fields back here. Oh, yeah Yeah, I will help you Yeah, yeah behind the chat we will save here for a while ruin My land and ruin now our mansion burned before it was finished even though we do not need such a big house We have to do the farm it isn't all my work destroyed everything in action All because of the gold it drives them mad. Just as I said gold gold They're taking from me but it's mine. It's all because of their greed their grief for gold But I will come back the law says this land is mine. Mine. It's going to be Morning Laura Well, then father home mother's inside mr.. Brennan, and I think I think a matter mr.. Brennan Just a little business talk over with the captain and it'll keep Today's time But it's the news I've had a wire from walking in captain Well, if it was good news, then you would have a happier look than you have Much prepared about the appeal of the settlers of the Supreme Court They reversed the judgment of the lower court that upheld your title to these land I'm afraid this feather river farm is about all you have left captain Maybe maybe this just as well, maybe this is enough for them, but you know how well Nothing else to say captain I'll be going Goodbye, Sam. You're always welcome here. Thank you captain Hey, Anna Maybe you're right This farm here, you're not full of shit Just as my honor always Your hun the other land They're all gone now You don't mind that you'll hunt but be along before I came on us. You could be here long after I am gone I have been riding these days over the little farm. I have been thinking a few things out Maybe I expected this today Well, you're home. Yeah, I Was greedy on it. Not for gold. No But for power and land Power and gold. They don't matter. It is the land that matters the land and it's people Yeah, the people who will build these valleys with little farms like ours People with their crops and their orchids their homes Yeah They would be the ones who would make California greater than I could or any one man And so John Sutter and those heroic pioneers of California take their honored place in the cavalcade of America Thank you, Edwin Jerome And now our story from the Wonderworld of chemistry In California as everywhere they found that real wealth was not gold But the hard-working earnest people who settled there people and the useful products that people produced What pains taking hands and creative minds can do with nature's raw materials is well shown by something a Columbus found on his second voyage to the new world He saw natives playing games with bouncing balls that were made from the staff of trees Those bouncing balls were rubber But not rubber as you know it for the stuff that goes to make the many modern rubber products You use as much more than raw rubber out of a tree Often a dozen or more other materials are added to raw rubber to make a compound suitable for your tires Your hot water bottle your garden hose or whatnot down a list longer than your arm This list is so long in fact that one company alone is said to make well over 32,000 rubber products Almost every important use of rubber was predicted by a smart Connecticut Yankee 100 years ago when rubber was little more than a curiosity Needless to say he didn't have automobile tires on his list, but he did suggest rubber tires for wheelbarrows That's Connecticut Yankee Charles Goodyear did a lot more than imagine ways of using rubber He made the wide use of rubber possible by a great discovery vulcanization In the early 1800s a factory was started in Massachusetts to make rubber clothing and shoes life preservers and wagon covers They weren't much good in hot weather. They melted and got sticky and in cold weather they cracked Today Jupans produces many chemicals which have aided chemists of the rubber industry and improving the quality of rubber products Some of these chemicals give rubber the right consistency for manufacture others aid vulcanization And still another group give greater resistance to the destructive forces of oxygen and sunlight and to cracking caused by constant bending But in addition to helping improve products made of natural rubber Jupan has created a new kind of rubber called neoprene Products made of this man-made material serve industry where other products fail In the development of neoprene chemists have forged another link in the chain making America secure within her continent For here is a material that must be counted among the items for national defense Neoprene is another remarkable expression of the Jupans pledge better things for better living through chemistry And now the cavalcade of america's historian dr. Frank monahan of Yale university Next week cavalcade presents a musical tribute to america's beloved delight opera composer victor herberg Whose charming melodies have woven a spell of joy and beauty into the fabric of an american era Gone but never to be forgotten It was dean's sailor who summed up his musical genius when he said victor herberg never wrote a vulgar line of music For his contributions to the happiness and spirit of americans in his day and in ours Our next broadcast of cavalcade will honor the memory and the music of victor herberg When you visit the world fair don't fail to visit the jupan exhibit There you will see firsthand many of the wonders of chemistry The orchestra and the original musical effects on the cavalcade of america are under the direction of don voris This is battle rise dale sending best wishes from jupan. This is the national broadcasting company