Native American Indian youth recovering from TB at a sanitorium, is seated on a bench outdoors, when his doctor joins him. In hope that the Native American youth can be helpful to members of his tribe, who are suffering from epidemic of tuberculosis, the doctor explains the disease to the boy. He shows sketch of the lungs and describes them and the progression of TB and its accompanying symptoms. The boy asks about medicine for TB. The doctor says none exists, but nature can heal a lung if it rests, just as a broken leg can heal if rested. The boy asks about his operation. The doctor tells him it is pneumothorax, and explains it with help of illustrations how a lung is collapsed so it can rest and heal and then reflated. Asked about the cause of TB, the doctor tells the boy it is caused by a living organism, and invites to see it in the laboratory. In the lab, the doctor show the boy two test tubes, one of which contains cultured organisms from a TB patient. The boy sits in bed with hands behind his head pondering the role of social hygiene in the spread of TB.
Views of sheep dipping of herds owned by Native American Indians. Stockade-type pens erected to hold and control sheep. Workers guide the sheep into a channel where they are immersed in a solution (insecticide and fungicide) under direction of U.S. Government experts. Stong young Native American men are seen picking sheep up and placing them into the liquid-filled channel, where others, including women, prod them along through the bath. One of the men (acting) appears in distress, and companions help him to a car, which drives away with him. Scene shifts to young Native American woman and her Grandfather (named Slow Talker), outside a building as physician comes out to tell them their friend, is very sick with tuberculosis. He says the heavy work at the sheep dip caused his lungs to bleed.
Dramatization: Outside her log home, a Native American youth (actor) speaks with Native American Indian girl (actor) about their friend afflicted with tuberculosis. He suggests that the girl be examined for possible TB. The girl's grandfather sits nearby listening. He stands and says, "I'll take Nema (granddaughter) and the doctor shall examine me too."Scene shifts to doctor showing the grandfather an X-ray of the girl's TB-free lungs. clear. The doctor then shows the grandfather his own X-ray confirming TB. The grandfather realized he is the source of TB in his family. He agrees to undergo treatment. At the door of the hospital, he bids the young couple farewell. Back at the family log home, the young woman, now a mother, is seen with her baby, as a visiting nurse admires the child, as her husband stands outside looking in. Later, the young married couple show their baby to her grandfather,while he sits in a wheel chair on the sundeck of a sanitorium. He bids them goodbye and them ponders the need to stay away from them (until healed) to protect them
A large crowd gathered on an open ground in the United States. People hold the flags of the U.S. An official wearing a cap. He addresses the large crowd.
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, United States in World War II. An honor guard stands beside officials. President Roosevelt honors the war dead during the Armistice ceremony. U.S. soldiers with rifles in hand. A wreath placed on the tomb of a soldier in the cemetery. An official with his wife places a wreath in the cemetery.
The U.S. Navy Department in Washington DC, United States. A number of vehicles drive past the U.S. Navy Department. The flag of the U.S. flutters from a pole on the building. United States Secretary of Navy William Frank Knox with U.S. Navy Admiral Harold Stark; Captain Beatty; Vice Admiral John Henry Towers and the Assistant Secretary of Navy ( Air) A. Gates. The officials discuss important issues during the meeting. William Frank Knox smokes a pipe while speaking to the group.