President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses a large gathering in Gainesville, Georgia. He expresses concern regarding the poor economic condition of southern states during the Great Depression and advocates for higher wages and against a system like feudalism. He says the problems are caused by selfishness on the part of a few, leaving one third of the nation ill fed, ill clad, and ill housed. He says "Georgia and the lower south may just as well face facts." He says most wage earners get wages that are far too low, and that "there is little difference between the feudal system and the fascist system" and that he is opposed to both.A large number of people gathered outside a building as they listen to the President.
Conservation Work in the United States during the Great Depression. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) renovate the house of Alexander Stevens, Vice President of the Confederacy, in Crawfordville, Georgia. View of the house with a statue of Alexander Stevens in front. The slave quarters near the house. View shifts to the oyster shell walls at Georgia's Santo Domingo State Park. The Government CCC program restores the park. Young men workers of the CCC march in front of restored cabins at Schoenbrunn springs area near New Philadelphia, Ohio.
Chicks at a chicken hatchery in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Woman inspects incubators where 150,000 baby chicks are being hatched. Sign above chicks reads “Reliable Hatchery, inc. New Brunswick, N.J.”. Young girl gathers baby chicks on her lap. She is surrounded by baby chicks of various colors. A duckling among chicks. Girl with chick on her head smiles. A baby chick.
Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry in Savannah, Georgia. Barbour Lathrop Plant Introduction Garden. A scientist works on plant and tests soil in a laboratory. People in field work on plant and Tung trees.
Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry in Savannah, Georgia. Barbour Lathrop Plant Introduction Garden. A man plows agricultural field, driving a plow with a tractor. People in the field work on plant and Tung trees. Men work in farm, observe the plant growth using a scale. One man makes notes about their growth.
Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry in Savannah, Georgia. Experts in a bamboo forest. One of them digs ground using a shovel. He pulls out a root from the ground. He cuts it into two equal parts from center. The experts drive away in car to the headquarters of U.S. Department of Agriculture, Biological Survey. The name plate consists of portrait of Migratory Waterfowl Refugee bird. At the headquarters a man puts the root into a clipper for processing.
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