A novel method to pay fines in food to aid the needy (during the Great Depression). inaugurated by the Mayor of Marion, Indiana, Jack Edwards. A policeman of Marion stops a motorist who has broken a law and talks to him. The police officer checks documents. A court building. The interiors of the building shows the Court in session. A lawyer questions the motor vehicle law breaker. The man is told to pay a fine in quantities of staple groceries, vegetables and meat, equivalent to dollars. The man presents the goods and brings in a live chicken as part of it, which he puts on a table in the court room. An official acknowledges his payment, encourages him to be safe, and tells him he is free to go.
Crown Prince of Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst, being interviewed by an American reporter. Asked about unemployment in Europe, he blames the Treaty of Versailles and opines that until the Treaty conditions are fundamentally changed there will be no peace and no quiet, commercially or economically, in Europe. Questioned about the future of Germany, the crown Prince affirms his confidence in Germany's future, suggesting that if America had not entered the war, Germany would have defeated the Allies. The interviewer asks if he had ever visited America. He responds that he had hoped to go for the Olympic games, but the political conditions prevented him from leaving Germany.
Men fight with hot sprays as steam well erupts in Larderello, Italy. Scalding vapor columns rising as steam well erupts. Men battle with hot sprays in the foreground. Hot sprays seen. Mountains in the background. Men pull rope under 320degree heat and try to control hot sprays. Scalding vapors come out from pipe.
Thalia and Lt. Thomas Massie return to San Francisco, California. Thalia and Lt. Thomas Massie, defense counsel and their supporters pose. Thalia Massie smiles. Lt. Thomas speaking and smiling. Lt. Thomas and Thalia Massie standing together. People disembark from ship. Lt. Thomas and Thalia Massie disembark as they return after 'The Massie Trials'.
Celebrating of tulip time in Holland, Michigan. Large crowd gathers for celebrating tulip time. Local beaus scrub streets. Girls in white costumes. Boys march. Girls push baby trolley on streets.
Annual straw race in Chicago, Illinois. Straw race starts. Frosh (First year college students) and older students run with straw sacks. Freshmen and upper classmen fight with each other for straw sacks. They tear their shirts off while grabbing for straw. Young men pour straw out of sacks and throw sacks over a fence. Captains of the opposing teams shake hands at the end of the match.
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