Activities of students at a school in the Southern Mountains in the United States. Students study in a mobile library. Books kept on a table. They get one by one and drink beverage from a container using a common ladle. The students drink water from an outdoor fountain at the school. A girl operates a hand pump. Trees in the background. Boys climb up a hill. A building seen. Girls in a line walk down the hill. Other children climb up the hill in lines.
Activities of civilians in the Southern Mountains in the United States. A man walks on a path in front of a building. Men spill out the front door of the building. View of a rural home. Farmers walk near barn and silo. Views of various outhouses. A man opens the lid of toilet seat. A boy enters an outhouse in a field. A cow grazes near the outhouse. Interiors of outhouses.
Prosperous farm in rural Southern Mountains of the United States. A large well-built barn, with farm carts nearby. Fancy stonework on walls of barn. View of substantial farm home, with tin lizzie partially seen, parked nearby.
Rural life in the Southern Mountains in the United States. Men load straw on a cart. A building in the background. Women walk out from a building. Trees in the background. A man points at a map placed on a wall, and points out the area of the Southern Mountains, in the United states.
Fire fighters using backpack manual pumps to fight forest fire in United States. Water being pumped by gasoline driven pump, from a stream. Water tanks mounted on trucks for use in fighting forest fires. Aerial view looking down on a Douglas O-2 aircraft in flight over forest. 1930s experiments in using aircraft to deliver water to fight a fire. A man carries a 10 gallon water bomb and another one fixes it below the wing of an aircraft.
Members of the Roosevelt cabinet address the nation in the United States. They make predictions for the new year. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull seated at his desk. He talks about trade among nations. He states that the present program is to secure trade agreement. U.S. Secretary of War George H. Dern states that everybody will serve for the best of the country. U.S. Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson talks about the role of the navy. Postmaster General James A. Farley talks about the leadership of U.S. President Franklin D.Roosevelt and the fighting spirit of the American people. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace speaks about the conditions of farmers. U.S. Secretary of the Interiors Harold Ickes states that more jobs will be created by construction of public works. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper wishes all a new year.