Hollywood actress Myrna Loy, a supporter of the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation, speaks about her visit to an orthopedic hospital and further talks about current campaign against infantile paralysis in children. Children in full body casts. Young polio victims in hospital. A girl with abnormal arms lies in bed. Affected child do exercise in pool. Several hospitalized children. Myrna Loy makes an appeal for donations.
Socialist Eugene V Debs waves his hat in front of U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. He walks towards people waiting. Telegram from Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty informing Warden of the U.S. Penitentiary that the President (Harding) had commuted the sentence of Eugene V. Debs . Debs poses with two women and a man while exiting the White House in Washington DC soon after his release. He walks off with a group of friends.
Audio only. 'This I Believe', Radio Network Program. Essay on an insurance executive, Morton T Jones. He was in the insurance business all his life. After graduating from the University of Missouri and serving in World War I, he joined his father and brothers at the RB Jones and Sons Insurance firm. He then became the managing director of the same firm. In 1929, with other businessmen he organized the Kansas City Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Morton also served as President of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. He talks about his role as a businessman and a church song that helps him deal with his daily problems. He states his firm belief in God and how that faith and wisdom guides him. He also talks about the importance of the human element in companies and quotes Winston Churchill.
Audio only. 'This I Believe' Radio Network Program hosted by Edward R Murrow. Essay on an English mathematician Fred Hoyle. He has taught in Saint John's College of Cambridge University and conducted series of lectures on nature of universe in past. He speaks about visiting church when First World War ended and receiving a sermon telling him to pray to God in thankfulness that the right side had won. But he realized in school that Germans claim the same. Every nation has its own rules of behavior. If a particular action happens to fit in with the rules of society, people describe it as a right or a moral or a just action. Fred Hoyle adds that he personally doesn't believe that the present world can be run successfully on moral principals. He further speaks that people that outgrows its natural resources becomes both a nuisance and a danger because an over-swollen society sooner or later will try to grab the resources that belong to someone else, which of course must lead to trouble and possibly to war. He says that we are so with self-satisfaction at our righteousness that we are failing to appreciate the really important issues.
Audio only. 'This I Believe' radio network program episode. Essay on Chairman of Columbia University, Sociology Department, Robert M Maciver. He speaks about his ways of observing things when he was young. He further explains that we never learn things and the causes of things. We learn more about things and the things change amazingly as we learn but we never learn to explain their being. We discover the atom and it becomes another form of energy. It’s hard to explain the form of energy. If someday energy turns out to be something else again, we are no nearer explaining than before. He says that everything belongs forever with other things, but how it belongs and will belong he cannot comprehend. He speaks that we have something in common, the common pulse, the common life, a common destiny. He adds that the wonder is within him, encompasses him and lies forever beyond. Knowing no name for it, he calls it God.
Audio only. 'This I Believe', Radio network program hosted by Edward Murrow. Essay on General Manager of Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Edmond Rieder. He speaks that he was drawn to hotel and hospitality business because he likes people and it gives him opportunity to meet interesting people of different nationalities. Further he shares his experiences while working for a hotel industry. He says that all people are fundamentally good and that only misunderstanding and distrust sow the seed of trouble which when coupled with fear, leads to misery. He speaks about going through tough times in life and finding solace in reorientation in his family, where he learned a new true meaning of love, respect and faith. He adds that the strongest dissensions came only from suspicion and lack of understanding of the facts involved, and could easily be overcome by sincere cooperation. He likes people and this is what he believes.
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