Boy and girl students learn various skills in the United States. A 1920's film clip imagines a future where women may be out of the home and men stay home to cook. Slate reads, "When the future wife leaves for the afternoon, she will say to hubby, Now, John, you have dinner all ready by the time I get home." Boys are seen at a domestic cooking class. The boys are wearing chef hats. A boy makes a pie crust and puts it in a pan. The boy fills the crust with apples, adds a top crust, and trims and crimps the crust expertly. Boys are shown eating the apple pies they have made. Girls work at a machine that automatically forms pie crusts. They feed flattened squares of pie crust into the pie crust making machine. A different group of girls in a cooking class prepare a pudding. A family at a dinner table eat the pudding.
U.S. Navy sailors undergo a training in the United States. Sailors scrub pieces of cloth placed on tables. Sailors in white uniforms work beside a large mound, likely coal, and carry stretchers of coal working as two man teams. The sailors work unload coal in baskets from a smaller boat to their large anchored ship. View of sailors laughing while digging near coal pit. A sailor covered in black coal dust.
U.S. Navy sailors work aboard a ship in the United States. Sailors work in the engine room of a ship. The sailors work on pumps, compressors and other machinery. Various wheels and instruments in the engine room.
U.S. Navy sailors work aboard a ship in the United States. Sailors work in the engine room of a ship. Two sailors in front of a large instrument with dials. They take readings. The engine room telegraph. The sailors rotate a wheel looking at the dials on a panel. Navy officers and sailors around an instrument. The navy officers and the sailors look at a large panel with instruments.
A film shows various activities of U.S. Navy sailors in the United States likely during a training event. A group of sailors peel potato vegetables. Giant pile of potatoes beside the sailors. The sailors take their seats in an outdoor mess and eat. The sailors write on papers.
Street sign in a small city reads 'Main Street'. Cars drive along a wide street. Men confer on sidewalk outside a building. Many cars are parked along the curb. Man with a package "jay walks" across a street causing difficulty for drivers who must avoid him. He, in turn, rails at the drivers. Pedestrians on sidewalk look over unpaved roadway. Man, on upper porch of a building, looks out over cars driving on the street below. A woman cleans window of Hotel upon which "Hotel Dayton, Under New Management," is painted (presumably in Dayton, Ohio).