flying from washington and his personal plane president truman makes a sweeping survey tour over the mississippi and missouri flooding or is to get a firsthand view of the damage done in the latest floods to hit the midwest scenes like this to cause the president to renew his demand for towns expectantly awaits the worst many people are flown out the red cross center using dirt filled trucks and heavy road equipment army troops and civilian volunteers make a desperate effort to reinforce dikes and levees the rampaging waters are reported reaching crests four and five feet above the highest defenses and for a while it seems that many communities will be engulfed subsidies like council bluffs and omaha and many others although suffering damage called up the river the nation rus losses run to millions in a crucial season for america's farmer only been released by the army and they show how american soldiers in japan under the recently ratified peace treaty got a little known world dangerous these lows look like flowers with broad petals and here is an assortment of spanish bread this chilean bread is baked by a method used before columbus the variety of designs is almost limitless these argentine loaves are braided like hair since the war ended the first numbers call years later it's obvious that america has invested wisely in young farmers sprout and the excerpts manlike and for now the sprouts are members of a strong new community of modern pioneers who are helping strengthen america unlike the pioneers of the last century many advantages and they're thankful for them because in a well built house with adequate leisure they can live and work as better farmers and better american cab to just join the sprouts growing herd of cattle these are two weeks so they will be fatten for market on the rich land the sprouts of one but first they provide some roping practice for on park avenue new york city provides a contrast to the sprouts down the words farm life forty four stories of glass and stainless steel the problem of watching this news guys draper's fourteen hundred windows was solved by this remarkable invention suspended from a mobile power plant running on railroad tracks around the building's top and electric elevator travels up and down the sides steel cables raise and lower the elevator which moves on its own tracks on the wa the building is completely air conditioned by these gigantic cooling unit all windows are permanently seal of the saving on original building costs and on later heating and cleaning costs the blue heat reflecting windows can be cleaned from the gondola on which we're no writing in six days by only two washers the building is the headquarters of a soft manufacturer who has a natural interest in keeping things clean this is probably the first time a window washer was invaded by someone sitting in an office cowering high above the city's traffic this shining skyscraper of tomorrow find to new directions in modern living program its transmitters are the most powerful ever installed aboard ship the biggest is three times as effective as the largest american broadcasting station some special programs will be sent directly from the ship that is being shown most of them will be relayed from the united states or from other broadcasting stations abroad transcriptions would also be used the turntable float on a gyroscope and operate smoothly even in rough water in the battle against communism the courier ship without guns goes into battle armed with the greatest rapidly striking for impersonating an enemy now and one of the largest paratrooper operations ever staged the entire eighty second airborne division will hit the dock to join the vast mock battles raging below one but the dam is completed already some of the floodgates have been closed and the water is slowly rising in the valley water which will soon be producing electricity to help other villages to electrify farms to start factories to bring prosperity to the whole countryside old bells in the church are taken down the bells the toll for weddings and funerals that announce the fateful days of war and peace evacuated the living to where the water already pushes its muddy fingers into dean begin to move they'll be reimbursed by the government for their losses and somewhere another teen will grow performance and a revolving stage the first ever built anywhere is re manpower runs the mechanism of the stage invented by a village carpenter seventy seven years before such a device existed anywhere in the western world as does its american counterpart this revolving stage from its rapid scene changes the play the japanese classics far older than this theater itself and sometimes twenty thousand people attend them the stage can also be raised on board to suit the demands of the play however there is no electric or hydraulic power but only human strength to do the job the ancient dramas enacted here are of a formal highly conventionalized nature and are almost meaningless to westerners but the japanese audience finds every moment of them in falling instead of a curtain falling the stage turns at the end of the play leaving a blank wall us it's almost an innovation this century old japanese contribution to the theatre the oldest of the the emotions of the audience excitement fear pity laughter the reasons for the existence of everything large or small white house home of american presidents symbolizes the nation's development and growth fall like the nation that has undergone many changes when john adams first presidential occupant moved in an eight hundred the building had not yet been completed british troops burned down the white house while president madison was living there in eighteen forty during the war of eighteen twelve by eighteen seventeen it had been rebuilt to receive president james monroe and for the first time it was painted white and the executive mansion was the center of a busy city now let's put away our book and look at the modern white house four years ago a survey revealed that the building was in such disrepair as to be dangerous for occupants congress appropriated nearly seven million dollars for an extensive reconstruction program no fundamental changes were to be made and each piece of wood work or stone was numbered so that when it was returned to the reinforced rebuilt interior it would be sure to go back to the place from which it was taken cornerstone marks another rebuilding under theodore roosevelt in one team to the building was first begun in seventy ninety two originally this presidential seal was on the entrance floor there is the rebuilt white house today as every american citizen made let's go in and look around john maybe he's eighty years old who has been on the white house staff forty three years shows us into the main hall this great corridor looks much as it did when the white house was the only government building in the little federal city of washington put back in place again a lumination is provided by crystal chandelier the blue room is also used by the president to receive guests to steak dinners the great east room another of the rooms open to the public was intended originally as a ballroom a rarely used for that purpose in modern times the concert grand piano is a mahogany decorated with bari leave soon go which depict a number of typical scenes of american li by the president for small or informal receptions the mantel piece was imported from england in eight hundred fifty in the center of the great over song rug has been woven the presidential se luncheon from ceiling to floor the walls are carved in panels the sixteenth president abraham lincoln looks down pensively over the big table of dark gleaming mahogany  of blue green glass is an innovation installed during the latest rebuilding of the white house we are downstairs again in the hall leading out into the gardens the white house was originally called the president's palace but it official name is now simply the white house that simplicity despite the buildings magnificent says impeach the white house is no one man's property it belongs to the american people