The Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) marches in Washington DC, United States. The Bonus Army marches. Two of the men holding U.S. flags. The U.S. Capitol in the background.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is reelected as the next President of the United States. A large crowd gathers on a street in Washington DC. They cheer and applaud. A motorcade passing on the street. The U.S. Capitol in the foreground. Roosevelt seated in a car passing on the street. He arrives outside a building with an official and waves towards the crowd.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt arrives in Arthurdale, West Virginia. View of new houses in the area built through US government New Deal programs. Roosevelt seated with other officials in a car. He arrives to inspect one of the government's new rural settlement communities. People gather on a road of the rural town. Roosevelt seated in his car and talking to people who have gathered around, including men, women, and children. A boy nearby wearing a Boy Scout uniform. President Roosevelt makes a joke as he pets the nose of a steer, saying that "it's what people call a West Virginia moose." A family poses for the camera on a porch. The people laugh. Scene changes to Roosevelt addressing people in a hall, as the graduation speaker for the local high school in Arthurdale. He speaks about the new tax bill (the Revenue Act of 1938), saying "At midnight tonight, this new tax bill automatically will become law. But it will become law without my signature or my approval." Scene changes to a dance. The First Lady of the United States, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt enjoys a square dance in a dance hall. Men playing musical instruments including guitar and banjo, and a caller calls out the changing moves of the dance as Mrs. Roosevelt and others dance.
A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Lucky Burns and Dick Kincaid working in the mine. They talk about the work. Dick asks Burns whether he wants or not to drill a 'snubber' there. He refuses and says that they will give more powder to the top shots. They enter the mine the next day to start the work with their tools and equipment. They look at the area they were working on. Their shots were standing up. Dick says that they will have to work and dig the shots down. They load loose coal in cars. Burns suddenly falls and gets hurt by a mass of coal. A miner tries to help him and get him out of the coal pile. He applies a tourniquet to stop bleeding. Exterior of a house. Injured Burns seated outside the house. He reads a booklet about first aid. Dick standing nearby. He tells more about the instructions given to them during a safety course. Dick says that he can get copies of any of the booklets from the U.S. Bureau of Mines. They talk about a topic in the booklet that shows how barricades saved lives during mine disasters. Burns realizes that he was wrong in not attending the safety course. Mary Kincaid arrives and talks to Burns. He talks about information given in the booklet. The information is given about the fact that half of deaths in mines are caused by falling of roofs and coal over workers. Exterior of a house. A woman comes out of the house and meets a man.
A film titled: 'The Story of Dynamite' on the advancement of the United States by using raw materials. A man and a woman pouring water in a container from a ditch in a field. Water wheels used to furnish power. Prairie schooners moving across the field. Steamships underway at sea. Trains on a railroad track. Buildings along the sides of streets in a city. Traffic on a street. The country advances by extracting great quantities of raw materials from the earth.
A film on uses of dynamite in the United States. Use of explosives for advancement of agriculture. An area is cleared for agriculture by exploding it with dynamite. Smoke rises from the explosion. Men watch the explosion. A ditch is dug with the help of dynamite. An old church building is exploded with dynamite to make a new building. Smoke rises from the explosions. Ice jams are broken by exploding.
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