Highest it has been since the great depression. Up next on railamerica, we turn the clock back to 19 36. Lets go america is a National Association of manufacturers short film with an optimistic message. The film argues that life has improved because of American Ingenuity and the future is bright. Under the spreading chestnut trees, the smithy stands so saying the poet longfellow. Times which we sometimes call the good old days ago but just how good were the good old days . Times,cksmith of olden he had to be. He was. The pillar of the soil, the mighty man was he also and he had to be coming he was the Food Industry toiling for the necessities of life. The woman in the home. Not often do you hear her grandchildren side for the good old days not if they really know how she labors from don to dusk. From dawn to dusk. Need to know from whence we have come in from to appreciate what we have achieved and to have faith and opportunities to come through the american system. Founded upon liberty and freedom we have created progress that is envied by other nations. Watch the system work, america marching forward. And a more widespread distribution of the provisions of the industry than any other notion nation on the globe have ever seen. The gifts that stimulated Creative Minds in america. Ideas were taking shape and dreams were becoming reality. Andress was being won future wealth was being produced for all in new jobs and services. What in inspiration to our forefathers who toiled hard and long. If they could have seen beyond their horizons to such bit but such vision is given to a few men. There have always been skeptics, people willing to call the world finished 50 years ago. But the path for industrial progress has never been easy. Witness it is just a pen. It will never be practical. She wont run. She wont fly. As far back as 1830, there was an industry in america. From 7 00 in the morning until 6 30 p. M. At night. Satisfactory . Mr. Daggett. Deed, when can i start . You have started. Thank you, sir. Coat overur hat and there. You will do all of this work even faster than you can think about it. It is a can making machine. There is no future in this business if machines take our jobs away from us. There is no future anyhow. Stuff going to eat canned excepting for sailors . It cannot be done. It wont go. It wont fly. It wont work. We cannot do it. What is the use . Dismalin spite of the course that has ever been with us, america marches forward. Dear, that was a delicious soup we had tonight. You sure can cook. Im glad you think i can cook, dear. Progress. Made inventive genius has brought us a long way from the toil and labor of the frontier homes. , tools aree drudgery merely the extension of a mans arms. Whos back ache with the endless drudgery of daily tasks. Today, no spreading chestnut tree could cover the smith. The mills that require many blacksmith to meet the need for modern steel. The maker of weed now stretches out to far horizons because American Ingenuity has harnessed power and make it a servant to man. It is these few methods of modern industry that have provided progress, jobs, human comfort and greater opportunities for more people than our forefathers ever dreamed of by producing more of the things that people want. Progress. Jobs. Human comfort. And more wealth for more people. These things have not just happened, science and industry have worked. Worked together to improve the old and create a new and even at thenew methods Still Development stage throughout the nations thousands of workshops will create new opportunities, new jobs, more wealth for all in the years to come. Science holdsof television, the wings of power,w, new types of airconditioning, streamlined trains. Unnumbered things will be developed because of this nations imperishable heritage of the pursuit of happiness. It is this that is given us all of the industrial progress that we have achieved in the past and the certainty of progress in the future. A certainty as long as this great gift of liberty, individual liberty, to grow greater and better is valued and protected. You are descendents of pioneers but you are also pioneers. Opportunities still rise from every smokestack, test two, elaborate or a, workshop in the land. You have come a long way from the judge rate of the black Blacksmith Shop and a hand labor of that day. Your journey has just started because this is america. Where do we go from here . Straightahead and dont spare the horses. There are no more horses. My grandfather. I wonder what our grandparents would say if they could see the world as it is now. Great work, kid, carry on. Carry on, what . , the heritage, freedom individual initiative, opportunity. Lets go america this is American History tv. Covering history cspan style with lectures, interviews, and discussions with authors, historians, and teachers. 48 hours all weekend every weekend only on cspan3. Dissenting at the Supreme Court is a lecture series hosted by the Supreme Court historical society. Next on American History to become a university of arkansas law professor mark is introduced by stephen breyer. They discuss the details of several dissenting opinions decided between 1810 and 1927. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am from atlanta. And i currently serve as president of the Supreme Court historical society. I am