Justice of the children's Court Stephen S. Jackson gives lecture before a Parent Teacher Association meeting. He says that best place to give guidance and caring to children is at home. He discusses the challenges for youth living during World War 2. He implores parents to make the home a strong foundation for children. Parents listen to speech and clap. Sign of 'Children's Division - Domestic Relations Court'.
European immigration to America from 1880 to 1914. A farmer and team of horses are silhouetted against the sky as they move in a field. They pull what appears to be a field kitchen and a thresher. Scene changes to men working at a drilling site. They appear to be discharging water from a well. Men with horses and rigs, lined up near a passing steam locomotive and railroad train. A dirt road in a town, cluttered with horses and wagons. Telegraph poles and lines are visible. A woman immigrant from Russia, recounts her imagined views of America being a land of milk and honey where fortunes could be easily made. View of an immigrant family. View of shanty houses clustered together around 1900. A family poses outside their rough dwelling in a city. Children pose near a huge cotton bale by a city storefront. A family poses on a rickety 2nd story iron porch on a building. Brief views of new immigrant families inside their slum dwellings. An historian speaking, notes that the East side (of New York City) had population density equivalent to that of Bombay,India.
A World War 2 era Liberty ship cargo vessel underway at sea. Crewmen on deck of the ship.
RMS Queen Mary returns to U.S. Aerial view of deck of Queen Mary packed with U.S. troops returning to U.S. from Europe after the end of World War 2 in Europe. Ship Queen Mary underway. Stacks of Queen Mary emit steam. Airship in flight above Queen Mary. Deck of Queen Mary packed with troops from dirigible overhead.
View from inside dirigible airship in flight in New York Harbor. Pilot and crew in cockpit of airship with view of ocean liner Queen Mary below. RMS Queen Mary returning to U.S. after end of World War 2 in Europe. Troops on the main deck of Queen Mary.
Shoreline shows a large sign 'Welcome Home'. Bow of the giant ocean liner Queen Mary underway. Tug boats approach Queen Mary. Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island. Views of skyscrapers and skyline of New York City. Ship Queen Mary enters New York harbor. It is filled with U.S. soldiers returning from World War 2 military service in Europe. Queen Mary in Hudson River.
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