Film opens showing German astronomer, Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, who designed the solar telescope housed in the Einstein Tower observatory. He poses in a white laboratory coat (without his glasses) and then steps away to put them on and climb steps leading the way to the tower. The unusual building sits in a park-like setting on the Potsdam Telegraph Hill and contains Finlay-Freundlich's solar telescope for observations related to the theory of relativity. (Although he did not work at this facility, Einstein endorsed its construction and mission. In his honor, it is named the Einstein tower, aka Einsteinturm.) The remainder of the film shows various views of the observatory.
Crowd gathered outside mansion, in Terre Haute, Indiana, being dedicated as the Gibault School for Boys, under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus. Reverend Francis T Jansen celebrates mass. Crowd listens. Few people seated on a bench in front of the house. Crowd stands in garden. The Right Reverend Joseph Chartand of Indianapolis delivers a sermon. Large crowd assembles. The State Deputy Joseph M. Nurre speaks with the crowd and shows an autographed baseball sent to him by Babe Ruth.
Elihu Root, Secretary of State Charles F Huges, Senators Henry Cabot Lodge and Oscar W Underwood pose on steps of a building. Cameramen take pictures. Automobile parked along road in the background.
President Warren G. Harding, and his wife Florence Harding, pose in the White House garden with crowd including U.S. Post Office postmasters from across the country. President Harding tells Mrs. Harding they are being filmed on movie camera. She looks toward camera and raises her right arm with hand in a fist, in an enthusiastic gesture, and smiles. Two bearded postmasters talk in front of the White House. Film slate says they are "from Gopher Prairie," (perhaps a reference to an unnamed small town in the U.S., or to Sauk Centre, Minnesota, after which Sinclair Lewis' fictional town of "Gopher Prairie" was modeled in his then-popular novel "Main Street"). A puppy dog emerges from a mailbox on the ground.
Sir Harry Lauder goes to Sing Sing Prison prison, in Ossining, New York. Harry Lauder followed by other people and official walk along a passage outside a building. They stop at the entrance of the building. Sir Harry Lauder smokes pipe while he talks with people.
Founder of Second Ku Klux Klan (KKK), William J Simmons, appears before a Congressional Committee in Washington DC. View of committee members seated.
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