On The Road To Tomorrow (1940s)

[Music] all right you you on the March boys and girls  of today on the road to tomorrow boys and girls who live in  places that to us so far away no boys and girls who speak strange  tongues a few of us understand [Music] boys and girls who press eagerly forward  toward various widely Divergent goals foreign girls of many lands and different races yet  all loyal and patriotic all doing their best according to their lives and all imbued  with the hope that is the prime blessing of you each group believing implicitly that it  is on the only fork of the road to tomorrow that leads to the bright future which every race and  Nation conceives to be its own peculiar destiny 50 years from now our American Youth of this  passing day will keep a rendezvous with all these other boys and girls in the councils of  the world and what our own youth stand for then will have weight more or less in determining  whether that will be a better day than this or 50 years from now the world will be for  all these boys and girls of many lands and races have made it for they will then be the  Elder Statesman in the parliament of mankind foreign that's why John deebs are so much more  important potentially than he may seem to the Casual eye John and his fine wool Ohio  sheep especially his prize-winning Merino Ram and that's why the appreciative care that Mary  Cowell lavishes on Snow White her purebred airshiper may have a certain bearing on the  trend of History for they belong to a youth movement too John and Mary and more than a million  other Farm boys and girls in this land of ours a youth movement that represents the great  basic industry of America agriculture [Music] one million five hundred thousand boys and girls  and this Ohio boy is one of them learn to do by doing is a watchword of the 4-H clubs Merle Voris  learns by feeding purebred Durock Jersey Hogs Jimmy jump learns his part by  reading Belgian draft horses surprise silly Linda Ann won the  governor's trophy of the Ohio State Fair across the river in Kentucky where  the horses are of a different breed we found another 4-H club boy whose  specialty is tobacco this is Junior Spillman suckering his crop the second that  he has grown as a 4-H club member [Music] Eleanor Clement who lives nearby in Indiana  is skilled both in homemaking and farming with five years in club work including three and  food preservation she is now a 4-H club leader down in Louisiana in the picturesque  Acadian country we meet Anna Burley and that excels in making clothing as well  as in baking wholesome and nutritious bread across the high plains and Over The  Great Divide down among the foothills of California we find Glenn Goble busy  grooming his cat for a livestock show and farther down the coast not far from the  old mission of Capistrano where the swallows returned so surely we see Melba Ruth love at  her sewing machine nelber Ruth enjoys sharing home responsibilities a she enjoys other  things too she wants to be an astronomer in Puerto Rico 4-H girls make seashells a  money crop here's a doll made holy of shells rain a with this 4-H goose Miriam and her Exquisite 4-H uniform proudly  presenting her purebred Hampshire sow [Music] demonstration teams acquire skill and  confidence that tend to make for more enlightened rural leadership  these girls are from Colorado this is Louisiana stock judging team thus the 4-H  club member devotes head heart hand and health not only to better farming or homemaking  but also to better citizenship [Music] year selected representatives of these clubs  meet in a national 4-H Camp in Washington there they visit National shrines  learn to appreciate more fully the responsibility of citizenship perhaps meet  the president of their country face to face and hear from his own lifts and formal  words of greeting and counsel [Music] American Farm boys and girls on the road to  tomorrow a youth movement rooted in the soil in the cardinal virtues a movement that  has spread to every estate in the union to Alaska to Puerto Rico Hawaii Samoa Guam and  the Philippines a youth movement that without benefit of any propaganda whatever has spread to  Europe Asia to other Americas and the antipodes to Cuba for example where we see  Rolanda mascara in his 5c Garden the Pod River raila needlework Club Cuban 5c  clubs have nearly 7 000 members [Music] similarly the movement has spread to Canada to  Venezuela South Africa Australia New Zealand China Finland Sweden Norway Denmark and to  Latvia where until not long ago a hundred thousand boys and girls wore the same four-leaf  clover emblem that John Dees and Mary Cowell wear wore the same emblem and were and were  Bound by the same solemn vow the 4-H play my community and my country these are The  Apprentice citizens who take the road to tomorrow as representatives of the farm  communities of America and of where the 4-H move taken route these boys and girls  move forward toward that remote Rendezvous where the issues of Tomorrow will be met we  may rest assured that the world of 50 years hence may just let take pride in the work their  hand shall have done the council their head shall have given and the Loyalty their hearts shall have  devoted to the service of their homelands [Music] for this is indeed a youth movement that America  can commend to posterity one that seeks to achieve its ends without taking anything away from  anybody by the production of useful physical wealth and the creation and cultivation of  helpful spiritual and social values a youth movement that is altogether National yet one that  unites boys and girls of many lands and different races by a common Bond a youth movement dedicated  to unselfish service in which its members strive to Build a Better Home a better community  and a better country and thus of course a thank you foreign