The founders of the League of Nations. Shows Woodrow Wilson reading newspaper.; Lord Arthur Balfour; M. Branting, Sweden; Gustav Stresemann, Germany; Fridtjof Nansen, Norway; Aristide Briand, France; Count Albert Apponyi, Hungary; Vittorio Scialoja, Italy; and Ignaz Seipel, Austria.
Weird boat made of junk ready for ocean trip-maybe'. A twenty five feet high and four ton heavy boat made by beachcombers in Fort Bragg, California. A beachcomber climbs onto the boat made by using fifteen thousand rivets picked up from city dump. A propeller on the boat is also seen. Beachcombers hope to sail to Germany in the boat, some day.
Benjamin Winters as President of Federation of Polish Jews appeals to the members to raise funds to help Jews. He speaks about the bad condition of Jewish people and children in Poland under influence by Nazi Germany.
A homestead on a farm in the U.S. Great Plains. Horse carts break the plains. A woman sweeps stairs. A man and a child stand on the plains near the plow. An explosion on the land. World War 1 news headlines: 'England declares war on Germany, Belgium invaded, French win at sea' and 'War news tumbles securities, Stock Exchange Closed, Wheat Prices Soar'. A man drives a tractor with a plow on a plain land and dust cloud rises. The plow breaks the plains. News headlines: 'Wilson proclaims war, Spy ring arrested, German ships seized' and 'War sends wheat soaring, Grain up 13 points, Pit in Pandemonium'. The postwar decline of the wheat market results in overproduction: Farm machinery is used to sow the land. Wheat grains are poured into a thresher. A steamer at a sea. Tractors are driven and plows break the plains. A dust storm in the foreground during dust bowl era. Overproduction of wheat. Notice of 'Farms for Sale' in lower prices. Farm machinery is used. The sun rises in the background. A notice of 'Own a farm away from home'. Overproduction of wheat is shown. Over-exuberance in roaring 20s market is shown by a stock market or commodities market ticker running large amounts of ticker tape and a scene of a 1920s African American jazz musician drummer playing the drums enthusiastically and smiles while another band musician in the background plays bass.
Author Leslie Charteris (1907-1993), a passenger on zeppelin Hindenburg's maiden voyage, talks about his trip from Frankfurt, Germany aboard the airship. He says it is the most natural way to travel across the North Atlantic Ocean.
Father Paul Schulte, a Roman Catholic priest from Germany, arriving at Lakehurst Naval Air Station aboard the German Zeppelin Hindenburg on the airship's maiden North Atlantic voyage, states that this is only his second trip to the United States. He would like to be able to have an airplane to explore "every nook and corner" of this country. He says "I don't like this country. I love it."