Middleton Family New York World's Fair(1939)

from the Library of Congress in Washington DC [Music] [Applause] [Music] ready one two and over 600000 young Americans are stepping hopefully out into the world this year looking for their first jobs the same number faced a similar problem last year an equal number we'll face it next year what chance of these boys and girls in a world already staked out morning sleep will they find welcomed or closed signs on the gateways of opportunity wait a minute but hope is there for youth than the world of tomorrow the answers to these questions are vital to every man woman and child in the nation they present grave problems to labor commerce agriculture and industry their solutions should be of primary concern to education and government for the quality of citizenship your Chilean early the facts involved however are both difficult and I gotta do it he's breaking my driver [Music] [Music] yes and I don't see because times changed like you said we've got no hardware stores we need the grocery stores all the doctors all the lawyers all the gas stations only everything but it don't stand a reason that a country with our record could all at once lack don't reach for young fellas no we just try and get a job maybe it is difficult but it's worse to be a quitter now you've got years of school ahead of you yet you let your friends talk you into believing you're licked already now listen son I wasn't going to tell you this but you're the reason we came here all the way from Indiana you've heard all the toppers now I'm going to show you the doers that's why I brought you and your mother to the fair he showed you think a lot about his stomach you probably had a good appetite yourself at his age of IRA nod miss has appetite to move house I don't know Sala Harlem right now oh come on everybody backwards is ready that's the best news ever eat inside hi mom boy am i hungry I don't know which I've been looking forward to the most the fair or your cooking mother don't pay any attention to him grandma he says that to all the cooks well you can't make a cook mad by liking a cooking that's a good thing for a young man to remember I'll say it is that's how dad but it's cooperation hey that's not a corporation that's private ownership a man's entitled to a stomach at his age anyway it's nice to have my family with me again even if it took a world's fair to get you here well we thought you had your hands full with just one member of the family nonsense Barbara's been a life saver really she has I'd have been pretty lonely here without her I'm hardly getting along with that art business she's studying I don't know tom it's over my head I gave up when she told me pictures on calendars weren't art world's keeping her mad your breakfast is ready we're waiting for you well we may be waiting but I don't think it's noticeable morning dad good morning bad morning mother good morning morning grandma what are you there and that's for a fresh little brother that's a fine way to treat a guy that's coming all the way from Indiana this year but there of course had nothing to do with it my I never realized what a good-looking daughter I had hmm oh pardon me we had Grandma do you have to run an all-night lunchroom for our boyfriends like mom did no there's only one and I don't see him very often why of course Jim Treadway from back home he's working at the fair you couldn't know better bad Jim's a fine boy chip off the old block he's going places not with me he isn't what are you trying to do get rid of me well Jim's a nice fellow of course only I'm not in love with him but Debs I thought you had you know some sort of understanding that was in high school I was young then I'm grown up now and I have better judgment when do we get our people to better judgment kid well I didn't know you were going with anybody else Babs is it somebody we know now Jane there's plenty of time we just got here last night and you want to know everything before she even gets a chance to say hello there's nothing to get excited about I'm not in love at least I don't think I am I was afraid something like this would happen oh stop flying off the handle I know all about who is he bad he's Nicolas Makarov my art teacher oh so you turned out to be a teacher's pet my supposed to take him an apple that would do from you young man Nick's been in America since he was a little boy but he knows the world like like we know Main Street he's a genius you like him oh sure we will anybody you like is okay with us got to be running along I'm late Oh will I meet you for lunch well I thought it'd be kind of nice if we looked up Jim Treadway first his folks said he's working at the Westinghouse building supposing we all meet there Debs why don't you bring mr. Mac your friend along we'd love to meet him sure lets him along Babs well alright if he can get away he's he's awfully busy right now but I'll ask him goodbye yes sir it's just what this family needs an artist now maybe we can get the house painted for another [Music] to the playground of science [Music] the same old bug that's a new one yeah hello Jim hello mrs. Harrison how are you mrs. Middleton Oh seein it's so good to see you looking wow it's good to see you again hello mr. Middleton how are you for your abs him you're certainly a sight for sore eyes sure glad to see somebody from the old hometown where'd you get it just last night your father mother saw so they said if we didn't look you up the first thing they'd never speak to us again Jim just what do you do around here are you a blossom I'm not exactly but um well I'm sort of back stuff for the guys when they can't answer a question I take a crack at it I don't know what I look it up which is often gee I didn't know you were that's right but to see before the fair open we took a special course of instruction to prepare us for the questions the company thought might be asked or do they stick you very often and how why just this morning a lady asked me how long did it take to leave the micro file in the time capsule [Music] we've been reading a lot about the time capsule could we take a look at it well sure and get to it this way time capsule of pupil I deposited on the side of the New York World's Fair on September 23rd 1938 by the Westinghouse Electric and manufacturing company if anyone should come upon this capsule before the year ad 6939 let him not what only disturb it for to do so would be to deprive the people of that era of a legacy here left them cherish it therefore in a safe wait five thousand years from now the peoples of the future will look back on us as we look back in the early Egyptians and Babylonians a time capsule down there is actually a message from our time to those those who opened and study it will know more about us than any man living today because the copper tools of the Ancients have come down to us from even farther back the capsule was made of a still better copper alloy called cuboid it's hard as steel and equal to pure copper and resistance to corrosion what I'm wondering is how anybody will know how to find it in the year what wasn't 6939 how to find it what's in it back to everything about it was printed in a book of record of the time capsule it's on permanent paper that's been distributed throughout the world libraries museums Lomas areas monasteries temples every safe place imaginable a committee aided by authorities in every field of science and the arts it's a complete record of our civilization is this exactly like the capsule yes is kind of way so you can see how it's packed these side cases show you the variety of things and ladies have a reveal a lot about us to future scientists it's your will they'll think we're nuts and these are the realism micro file yes it's hard to believe but only small reels of film are reproduced all these books papers magazines it's a record of 10 million words and a thousand pictures a small microscope is included but there are some instructions how to make a large reading machine so now to make a motion picture projector for the three special on Israel everything from samples of fabrics to a dozen different kinds of coral seeds I know something that isn't in it Nicky Mars you're lose bud Mickey Mouse Dick Tracy Barney Google there over even toys and money by the list of contents alone takes up 17 pages of fine print where's the world done up in a small package he's the most permanent exhibit of the family it'll still be here on the rest of this place is nothing but dust that's really mark have you got time to show some of the other sites do or they can use you men go along Jane must write some postcards home we look around and meet you later that's the writing room over there the glass enclosed room in contest cash prizes the winners are announced every Sunday evening during our small radio program so you see if you can give me the dope on that contest right here over there I might just as well have some of that cash is the next guy they can treat your betrayal looks like this Java Bowl watch the birdie Schultz remember him Jim six deluxe portraits were above me you'd better take another look he never had a camera like that man that's a television camera holy smokes does it work because you go down there mr. Middleton you can see in here but in a whole row of television receivers you better be good bud this is Frank Willis Frank this is buck Middleton hiya buddy oh yeah no just act and talk naturally oh is it going it's on hiya folks this is Clark Gable Middleton speaking as you can see if you've got your television sets turned on what stadium phone button Indiana the greatest state in the world and it's over well insisting in New York's okay - what do you think of the fair well as a guy I once studied about said I came I saw and I'm almost conquered all my doing dead we call this the flavors of science but it really covers a lot of our research activities mostly exhibits the major the visitors can operate by mental disks like these are used for control of carpenter electrician Richard there's none of whom devices they save your money by shutting off the card she white temperatures will reach only that hidden in the appliance see Jim don't you ever feel bad about this you have that chance to play pro football once in a while I get the urge to fly online outside of that that's more kick to this case I guess it must be pretty interesting what gets under your skin about research is the attitude of the men in the lab they work on the principle that nothing is impossible open your eyes but the fruits all around you by the whole pair is a product of a search one can of marveling at all the new things are inventing every day a company can't stand still under the American system of private enterprise it has two ways to go back go forward if it can make better products and the other third moves ahead to the tribe the other color gets a business but in either case the public penance you mean in very good yes that's where fellows like me come in in our research labs we have four main jobs you must constantly improve our existing products so more people will being able to buy them you must try to lower that cost by cutting waste of every material then they must anticipate the demand for new products before people realize they need them well that's only three jobs Jim I can't count the last is industrial prospecting like well prospecting through all gold sometimes we hit Russians like radio mechanical refrigeration or air conditioning then a hundred new industries spring up and thousands of new jobs are created and another boost is given to our standard of living just remember that but here's something else that might interest you but here's the oscilloscope talk or blow or whatever you did before into the mic you see a voice projected on the screen [Music] tell me Jim do you honestly believe that industry can make enough jobs in the future that they cared the young people that are coming along I think the problem is going to be the other way around the industry will make so many jobs there won't be enough people to fill up so you don't believe me do you well you sound like your includes with that you're liable to hear anything these days you're willing to sit back and let a lot of self-appointed leaders do your thinking for you yeah well they believe we're on the skid yes and the men who built this fair believe the opposite and what's more they back up their belief with 200 million dollars worth of facts maybe the other side would too of they weren't busted they'll stay that way till they learn have prosperity and pessimism don't travel together but they're like you bud they don't like facts then I'll introduce you to a few come along isn't it wonderful Nick beautiful I guess we're a little early what do you want to do anything but inspect this temple of capitalism their eyes popping out of their heads drooling over the very things that are taking away their jobs no don't get all excited my family think that America is a pretty swell place and I don't want you to disillusion I know I'm here to be exhibited mute but beautiful don't see that please I want them to like you to know you as I do did you tell them we're in love that I want to marry you that I've asked you 100 times it isn't like telling them that I've got a new hat I have to do it gradually the right time in the right place apply all the strategy we don't have the maneuver like a battery of Tanks we're not at war with your parents this is between you and me it isn't as simple as all that Nick listen to me Beth there's one thing in our lives it doesn't concern other people it's our marriage we can slip away up to lunch in it by dinnertime you can be Miss Smith oh not so fast Nick give me a chance to find out whether I really love you or not then if I do all right I want my family's blessings beforehand not when they can't help themselves I'm afraid of being cut off for the proverbial shilling darling you know money doesn't count where love is concerned no no of course not Pearson people have believed in finding out things for themselves these boys and girls are all members of the science and engineering clubs they're sponsored by the American Institute of the city of New York to incur as a scientific knowledge of young people movement spreading over the whole country now this is the kind of thing that appeals to me these same kids stay here during the whole fair you know that's constant rotation each group stays only a short time altogether about a thousand will get a chance to use the lab you know Jim the children seem to think that I'm an old fogy but I just can't help believing that our welfare is rooted in character not in fantasy is to me systems don't seem to can't have so much as the right train of men and women like these kids are going to be you can get my vote on that any day no system can make up for bad citizenship no sir well I think I'll go find mother and Jane I'll see you at lunch all right mr. Middleton and I'd like to show but a few more things he's a pretty hard fellow to convince yeah but I think he's weak me smart game by the way bud how's Babs okay she going to be here today I heard a say she was coming out here for lunch they never can tell about women everything she has he's consistently diving in the bottom at dark and greasy water to search for knives and forks dish water splashing around terrific great all over mrs. Roger never pray for this much help now she's pushing so hard it's getting all over me that's a little dangerous attempt to give a blow-by-blow account of what's going on that dishpan there's a lot of action over here she's mopping up with the towel I got the water some of the dishes she dried a few minutes ago that water cam is an awful messy looking site folks I wish you kathiria incidentally in the entire operation the dishwasher would use a total of 40 15 quarts of water which is a lot less than mrs. Rogers and over here please holy message before it's too late that water's coming out very fast too late there's the last drop of water folks the contest is over in exactly seven minutes and 58 seconds in that time mrs. Martin has washed 50 dishes and 40 pieces of silverware as ice cuts all over mrs. Drudge you may as well rest now as I said before ladies and gentlemen this contest is going to be scored on three counts first the time it takes to do the dishes unquestionably mrs. modern wins on that score second the cleanliness of the dishes they are clean they are dry and sparkling they could do 100 to any woman's table so mrs. modern wins point number two her dishes are certainly cleaner and now point number three the condition of the contestants mrs. modern looks as fresh indeed is when she stepped in the ring while mrs. Drudge ladies and gentlemen I give you the winner mrs. modern announcer said did you hear a mother in 15 years a woman washes dries and stacks a pile of dishes nine times higher than the Empire State Building imagine it well that didn't impress me half as much as seeing mrs. mother and read the paper but this is Ruby hey Babs shake hands with an old pal of yours why Jim Babs how are you it's nice to see you again you're looking well as usual oh this is mr. Makarov my art teacher Nick this is Jim Treadway one of the hometown boys glad to know you mr. mayor oh how I am and this is my little brother Bert hi mr. Makarov hello well seabeds we're on our way to the Hall of Power why don't you tag along and learn something well there's plenty of time before we meet the folks I don't know it might be fun what do you think Nick alright but don't expect me to be amused there's nothing funny about the tools of capitalism whoa look at that machine make ribbon 7-eleven carry me Adani you'd be near a ride if you call it up Frankenstein's monster yeah that's in your movies why do you call it that their machines like this destroy jobs think of the number of people who'd be working if we didn't have these power looms yes I guess every woman in America would be weaving and every home would be a sweatshop producing clothes for the family like they were before we had Poland I don't think I like that very much I don't think you'd like homespun clothes either grandma tells me they didn't have much style but they cost so much in hard labor you're warm till they fell apart that's what the Cossacks do in Russia every couple of years they peel off they're duds like sticking-plaster it might interest you to know that only the peasants do that not here they don't we ain't got any but you didn't answer next question I mean about moves like this keeping people out of work a fellow with a red beard asked me the same thing the other day he waited while I looked it up and there were four textile mills in America in 1800 employed a few hundred workers and used water power today with electric and other power around a million persons are employed in the textile industry the clothes are so cheap no one has to make his own that I think answers your question what's over here Jim it's a manipulator table use the steel bloomin name you can control a billet with these switches photoelectric equipment keeps it on the table I suppose you're gonna tell us machines like this benefit labor and how not many years ago steelmaking is a dangerous occupation now the safest places tioman can be is in the middle it's safer than his home that's right capitalistic propaganda oh you're kidding I'm stating a fact I know one steel plant employs ten thousand men 15 of them lost their lives at home in other places not one was lost in the steel works that's hard to believe there's the answer right there electrical control instead of swinging a sledgehammer all day and risking his neck the steel man sits where buddies and does his work of the master switches well if one man can do all that with a machine then I agree with Nick it can't help but lessen job here's why they don't herbs it's very simple machine production makes better and cheaper products as a result more people want and can buy them that in turn creates a demand for more labor that's just one of those so-called economic loss it doesn't work in practice it works in steel printing textures and automobiles and they're the most mechanized industries in the country yes go see what's over here name that's your break this is your guy let's just company make any really large equipment with the Treadway yes they do so I'm so big it has to be shift piece by piece for example electric furnace we made for a large motor company is 330 feet long I thought so those are the kind of machines at this place men mass-market industries don't modernize to save jobs mister Makarov their aims to increase production that's how employment is created the only way in fact general statements don't mean much to me mr. trenway alright pass then I know of one year these people spend nine minutes what you call a labor saving machinery that same year they increase the payroll about 40,000 men nearly time for lunch yes I guess you're right they'll probably be looking for us please be careful during lunch dad look some things the same way Jim does and he might take you seriously but I am serious I know but promise me that you won't start a mountain all right if you say something but I won't enjoy myself [Music] and please come early then we can have a chance for a nice long talk thank you very much I'll be glad to come sorry I have to break away now but I must get back to school I enjoyed meeting you all sorry but I must go oh boy was that a meal I could go for chair like that all the time yo dude you'll wind up on a sideshow well did I behave all right only don't misinterpret dad's approval of Karl Marx we thought you were talking about relatives of Groucho and Harpo all right I don't believe I know them I'll see you in class Babs how do you lean them here now I won't take no for an answer you're coming to dinner too and like it hey Jim how about you and dad the Hall of Science you're good for that I'll be glad to bird fine how about you mrs. Harrison would you care to join us no thank you I want to show Jane and Barbara some of the things in the Hall of elector you living I'll say elect you're the model man you will be doing as tricks of to apply that's me [Music] this way [Music] that's what I call smart making time the theme of the home exhibits I don't get it what's not about it but if there was one thing a woman in my day never had enough it was time master some head - if they had a bossy husband don't tell me you're against husbands grandma no indeed only against slavery domestic or otherwise that's why I like electrical engineers they signed our Emancipation Proclamation beautiful pitching me nothing it's paradise no one who hasn't cooked over a wood stove but the light of a kerosene lamp can really appreciate what it all means it would say the good old days a grandma yes um anybody who wants and can have my share this is the new electric dishwasher that's key but dad would sure go for it they're the official dish dryers Tom's going to get me a dishwasher like that for my birthday was the last thing he ever does but mother your birthday was last month well I've just decided I'm going to have another this is nice and very modern masculine too is that a three-way for life yes man you should Joe make these rooms Barbara it's a subtle way to say they speak in the right path but what do you mean grandma even I just have to live so there's no harm in showing them how you'd like to do it that's old-fashioned there are more important things today than home it may be but I don't know what they are I always figured raising my family and keeping your grandfather well fed and happy was pretty important so did me but Nick's different he wouldn't care if you bet him sawdust just isn't interested in such things we put away a mighty good lunch for a fellow who doesn't care but it doesn't care really he's an idealist you should hear him in class he talks more about Aristotle than he does all you tell you how Aristotle got through trying to be a philosopher don't believe he did well he talked the richest woman in all Greece into Maron I am so ladies and gentlemen of the great deal of pride and pleasure I present to you electro the Westinghouse Motoman electro come here and here he comes ladies and gentlemen walking up to greet you under his own power [Music] stop [Music] you see all I need to do is to speak into this phone and electro does exactly what I tell him to do sometimes but I don't see why I'm telling electro story when he's perfectly able to tell his own so let's listen and see what electro has to say to us today all right electro will you tell your starring please who me yes you okay to it ladies and gentlemen I'll be very glad to tell my story I am a smart fellow as I have a very fine brain of 48 electrical relays it works just like a telephone switchboard if I get a wrong number I can always blame the operator by the way I see a lot of good numbers out in our audience today electron beam yourself quiet please I'm doing the talking I'm sorry that's the most remarkable thing I've ever seen boy what a god that guy make on my team now I electro a moment ago you were bragging about being able to count on your fingers do you remember that what we're going to find out about that now do you remember how many children were born at the same time to a certain family up in Canada you remember that all right let's see if you do count them on your right hand one two three four five five well that's absolutely correct he's almost human he wasn't so big I taking for an engineer all right now electro I know you enjoy these and I'm really going to try to give you a nice pleasure out of these so here we are you got that now hold on to it you may now smoke this cigarette go on oh yes selector oh you do need a light too don't you all right here you are and folks he's only two years old to just learning how can he do all those things Jim he's full of motors gears calves and photoelectric cells he could fill a book with all the electromechanical principles involved in the thing all Emacs is a heart and a brain he asked me I said nothing well then all it lacks is a heart he's not the only one late letter word for a gusty wind in Patagonia begins with you ended things I'm sorry bud I won't do it again well that's alright I'll give you much this before I ever do [Music] see Jim things Westinghouse developed first just disappeared well suddenly I mean well it's easy at B no electrical industry it's put the world back 50 years yes well I figured all the others are right about what they saw at the fair so if I tell them what wouldn't be there without Westinghouse I wouldn't have any competition they've got something there bud go to hey wait a minute Jim run eat some first all right consider three out of the thousands of things we pioneered and where would be without them just a second all right go ahead the first alternating current or AC as most people call it it permits the economical sending of electric power long distances from where it's generated second the steam turbines for use and the big power stations where electricity is made and third radio broadcasting the Westinghouse station KDKA Pittsburgh was the first to broadcast programs in a regular schedule do you think those are enough well you make over a thousand other products you could mention [Music] I don't like that guy either Jun I didn't say I didn't like them we'd be surprised what a fellow like me finds out just keeping his eyes open Jim come over and talk to me [Music] how are you coming along well I thought I was doing alright until burbs well I'll turn from sound just like your father he wasn't very smart where women were concerned either it wasn't until he fell off the roof and broke his leg but your mother found out that she loved him do you think that would help I don't think it's necessary most women you will find husbands who see the world pretty much as they do religion politics yes even communism they do it unconsciously it's bred into them from childhood yes they can make mistakes too and they can also correct them I never know time had so much to do is love I don't understand what you mean exactly by abstract form Nick that's the trouble with verbal language it's too clumsy to express elusive qualities but to me abstract form is the essential substructure in short the fundamental rhythm underlying our conceptions of spatial limitations do I make myself clear Oh perfectly it's very clear now say say this weather is almost as good as Indiana's don't get up what do you got there mr. Makarov one of your paintings yes it's a work but I'm rather fond of a good piece of abstract painting don't you think oh it's it's remarkable certainly got a lot of color no doubt about that what does it represent represent why it doesn't represent anything why should it it's a picture an independent entity there's no reason to imitate something else hmm no I suppose not it it's just that I'm sort of used to looking at pictures of people and objects you know why why well it's why if you want a house or a flower you can go and look at or what if you want them represented you can have them photograph so who I allow them to intrude into pictures yeah yeah I guess you're right well if you young folks will excuse me I think I'll take these flowers in and put them in some water I think they need a drink dad's idea fine art is rearing a two-fisted family too bad he ought to keep up with the times I meant to show you this before what do you think of it it's unique all right I don't think I've ever seen a ring like that it's really a collector's item a rare specimen of barbaric jewelry it's been in our family for about 300 years 300 years notice it's color by it's a study in polychromatic harmony it's beautiful really lovely oh no Nick I couldn't take a ring like that what priceless don't be silly I want you to have it please I couldn't think of it really wear it for a while there's no harm in that as a favor the provincial better just for a week or so [Music] how does it look now that you're wearing a tie continue this ring has been for over a dozen generations the official seal of the trophy love my family I think the others would like to see it mother [Music] it's too big to describe in a song or a sonnet so dress yourself up in your best bib and bonnet the westinghouse man has a welcome upon it for you when you come to this fair winner in our letters home contest a very young man from Riverdale in yeah dear ol Indiana garden spot of America mr. bud Middleton all right this way your prize-winning leather and the Western cars contest made all the judges sit up and take notice these are unusual judges that's all they took well let's see you had all your family with you according via letter so you wrote that letter to a pal of yours back in Riverdale didn't you yeah it's a Toby Parker but I will know how much about collie is until I get back home and find out if he's been dating my girlfriend oh maybe you made a mistake writing to tell me remember he gets half of your money you know well that's okay but I'm serving notice that's as far as I Sharon goes well that's fair enough but tell me bud what are you gonna do with your prize money well I think I'm going shopping for pots to make a shortwave radio says they are folks the boy of tomorrow but no fooling bud really you wrote a mighty interesting letter it described how the fair would look without the electrical contributions of pioneers like Westinghouse imagine a fair without electricity hey the folks hello well I'm going to spare the details that you went into in their letter and suppose you just sum up what you said if it weren't for a fellas like these Westinghouse engineers what would this pair be like well I don't think they'd be any fair well that's bound to isn't very much to the point [Applause] but I believe our vice postmaster in charge of judges the personable is Bennett has the verdict ready as to the grand prize our double award for the best letter this weeds clop am i right miss Bennett yes I have it here mr. Perkins and who may I ask is the lucky winner the winner is mr. bud Middleton boy the jackpot electricity here they come [Applause] [Music] grandma and will you see of New York the bigger it gets the same as mainstream back [Music] maybe we can get what I need [Music] I wonder if they've got any new gags [Music] [Music] the spittin image erotic you're at without soul we might be wrong and may I see that box of rings in the middle of the window you can search the city but you won't find a nicer piece of costume jewelry that's a perfect copy of a ring in a Moscow Museum is it very expensive well I'll be very honest with you it's worth more but you can have that for $2 and at that price I am practically giving it away I have a half a dozen if you please [Music] aren't you let me fix these things miss Hasson you know big feet that's my next alas husband big food say I make sounds you didn't knock your eye out that's why I'm doing the mouth IRA I have use for my eyes today huh ears is all you need if that fern gentleman's coming he's sure got a powerful tone mr. Makarov to be the guest of honor anything I can do to help you left your ring on my desk my brain that means bad luck of some sort and I've got my ring so you can see greatness of the Ring come from my father I don't know hello everybody can I help Oh what's the matter with you babes are you sick no no I'm all right Oh I declare I think you lose your head if it wasn't you dong here it's your ring I found it on my dresser what's wrong don't you want it the very same wonder all our money where'd you get them all bad so lands six online [Music] do you know what this is all about love it me should I know Jamie come on take these sandwiches in them and stop looking at me as if I'd stolen your purse [Music] my face is used to this shave twice a day why I should look pretty is beyond me you won't even know I'm around where's my de Beckett Oh dad's lecturing in the bathroom you know that's no way to treat a valuable ring like this you might lose it [Music] say how many of them have you gotten any way too many hey everybody is eating combustion for hours hmm food is good but the service is awful oh say kid just how many rings are that guy Nick give you was he in a jewelry business [Music] [Applause] good afternoon miss Barbara and yes the mr. Mackall there's all here come on in so just lay your hand on the table dancin follow me [Music] good afternoon mrs. Middleton hello bud mrs. Harrison how are you mr. Middleton haven't you lost something young lady shouldn't leave their valuables lying around I found this on the hall table why just study in polychromatic harmony don't you think what why the dirty crook told me there was only one of them [Music] land's sakes Allah who are done bastard I think you're scared of that you didn't even wait for a job you want to be ashamed of yourself Tom Middleton what do you mean by carrying a gun a gun why I don't even own a gun that is that practical joking son of yours I'll have you know Tom Middleton is just as much your son as mine well now that the guest of honor is departed what are we gonna do it was a new watch what are we gonna do Oh I mean afterwards well I know and whether or not I got to do everybody take our shoes off and listen to the radio can't you listen to it will tomorrow we can put it around the house and we get old tonight we're going to look for a silver knife just 46 years ago this month I was doing the same thing watching the lights of a World's Fair the Columbian Exposition in Chicago that was the first American Fair lighted by electricity yeah and Jim's company furnished most of the lighting for you we've come a long way since then hey Jim did you hear about the day masking when they keep his feet the lagoon [Music] [Applause] I can't help it bubs I've got to talk please do not know doesn't let me hold on to you I wonder if in years ahead would be as bright as this we haven't seen anything yet darling by all this is merely a sample in the real world tomorrow [Music] you this has been a presentation of the Library of Congress visit us at loc.gov