Power Behind the Nation

[Music] ours is a powerful Nation found on faith and equality men and women came here fleeing the oppression and Poverty of the old world seeking Freedom Looking For A better chance in life in the new through the years the urge for Independence personal and political grew into the American Spirit a living force that is the foundation of our power today and urge toward wider Horizons that is still pushing on Vigor of Mind and Body we owe to inheritance from the Pioneers who carve the beginnings of our nation out of the Wilderness with backbreaking toil clearing Farms draining swamps building their homes Mills and towns with Bible Axe and plow braving hardship and death they settled the Great Central Valley and Generation by generation pushed on across the trackless Prairie over the grasslands to the mountains through the passes to the promised land following the star of Freedom they opened the way for the millions who poured in after them to settle the West link the oceans with roads and finally rails for the Swift Iron [Applause] [Music] Horse and so was built for us a mighty nation mightiest in the world a productive power unequal anywhere else built up by free Americans for free Americans today New Yorker and California Midwest farmer Rancher of the great Far West Yankee fisherman Southern tobacco grower Craftsman and laborer industrial worker artist men and women in all walks of life we are shareholders in the greatest Enterprise on Earth the United States of America unlimited our strength character of our people young in heart independent in thought and nature skilled of hands inventive industrious and creative all these go into the shaping of an American out of this great Melting Pot of races and people the highest class of skilled Craftsmen has been developed by American Labor and Industry American Enterprise has harnessed Fire and Water wind sun and soil to produce an abundance of everything giant turbines generators Motors turn the wheels of production throughout the land facto seed with steam flare with flame Bel smoke and fumes Roar and strain night and day to produce more and more of the vital materials and the Commodities of this Industrial Age from the earliest dawn of civilization Commerce and trade have determined a nation's standard of living production and distribution are the backbone of Commerce providing the jobs and goods and services for the nation in mass production this nation has no equal the automotive industry the assembly line turning out so many things so fast from interchangeable [Music] parts so vast and varied is our power to produce to meet every material need of man we can Glimpse only a few of the highlights of the complex picture of our industry Trace here the more colorful strands that make up the endless pattern of American production and distribution the fabric of our power and plenty we have a weal of Natural Resources Nature's gifts to this fortunate land out of Minds 70,000 of them comes coal essential for an industrial nation the source of so much of our power and [Music] strength we mine more coal using more labor saving devices like this coal cutter than any other people this black treasure from the earth is blasted crushed transported to supply power to transform raw materials into thousands of things of beauty and everyday use coal feeds the fires of Industry forging The Riches of the nation with an inconceivable volume of searing heat to make steel most useful of [Music] metals molten steel pouring from boiling cauldrons and in Inferno of White Flame black smoke and fumes rising from stack and chimney that spells production mounting high and higher raising our standard of living as it mounts produce plenty and we shall have plenty never has man had the power to produce for his needs as we have that power today pits and quaries and oil fields dis Gorge a multitude of substances [Music] fuel Copper granet Building Stone highgrade iron ore we have dug deeply from the Earth to replenish the and a world in need as here in the largest open pit mine in the world tremendous masses of crude materials have been mastered making glass melting aluminum purifying beating molten copper cast roll drawn spun from thin wire to burnished cable not only in the Treasure below the Earth are we fortunate but reaching to the sky in soaring perpendiculars is another Rich gift of nature our magnificent forests [Music] to enrich and beautify our land we must plant another tree for everyone we [Music] cut hogging giant Redwood sections on the way to the mill Pine cut with Precision converted into Lumber by ingenious power-driven machine lumber for American Homes countless uses for pulpwood millions of tons a year to be processed into the paper we use so lavishly by still other intricate Machinery paper is invested with color and [Music] ink the press a free press a powerful protection to a democracy is the right to information as guaranteed to us by the Constitution our press augmented By Radio communicates truth knowledge and understanding to our people and to all the peoples of the world the ever expanding scope of the motion picture that breaks through the barriers of language and nationality to entertain to speak in the Universal tongue of music and to educate a powerful medium for the diffusion of knowledge and Good Will among men and Nations to help build a peaceful world now let's take a look at our peaceful fields of Fertile Earth and living green lucky man the farmer grows in own groceries shares Nature's Bounty and Beauty rests in the shade of his own California Vine or Georgia Peach Tree by means of tractor and Harvester and combine by improved machinery and tools and equipment our farm production is prodigious grain from the middle west cotton from the south every section of the country has its special product from the Northeast Rich maple sugar from the Northwest fine wool for your winter coat from the southwest hides leather for your shoes and meat and food a power for peace in a hungry World abundant production being further increased by improved methods of soil conservation by the magic of water here a giant man-made canal detours billions of gallons to acres that never bloomed before transforms them into wide expanse of rich green fields to yield a Bountiful Harvest a tremendous stream of food from every part of the land rolls to Market on the wheels of a transportation system unequaled anywhere in the world a salute to American Enterprise and engineering skill capital and labor that has built up and constantly improves our vast network of Railways highways with their fleets of trucks our system of waterways shipping canals for Inland Transportation breathtaking Bridges and for Air transport the plane an American invention that has shrunk time and distance brought continents within a night's journey of each other conquest of the air we are only beginning to comprehend its power we have put rivers to work harness the floods with gigantic dams of concrete and steel to make Power electric power white coal for industry River current transformed into electric current carried from Powerhouse over the miles to your house to the houses of Industry electricity Powers This Modern robot Which shapes a formless mass into delicate glass tumblers with fantastic ease and without the touch of human hand performs an unbelievably intricate task with rhythm and precision turns out the finished article by the thousands colors dyes Plastics synthetics magic in the industrial Arts Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of us in this age of invention and applied science yes since Benjamin Franklin first discovered electricity we have come a long way in mastering and directing this wizard Force to make Power and Light but Nations do not live by their material power alone our basic principles of government by the people with liberty in law our free institutions faith in God and man there is a real power behind the nation whether this American way of life this last best hope of Earth shall endure is up to us farmer and mechanic teacher doctor businessman and Banker what are we doing to strengthen our great heritage today the Peace of the world depends on the stability of the United States the nation's strength depends upon the wisdom the work and the thrift of the people our security is the nation's security that is why our treasury urges us to save Purity can regularly in United States savings bonds the safest investment on Earth our shares in the future strength and prosperity of America the land we own the land we love I north or south or from the east or west my f all only swep [Applause] bre to Glory this is my [Music] country on Earth be my Al America the [Music] [Music]