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Penrod and his gang don't want to let neighborhood "goodie-goodie" Georgie Bassett into their club, but Penrod's father pressures him to allow the boy in because his parents are wealthy and prominent members of the town. Finally the boys agree to let Georgie join, but first they demand that he undergo an "initiation", and they're determined to make it one that Georgie won't soon forget.

Young Sonny's dying father leaves him in the care of Breezy, a hobo he has mistaken for a wealthy businessman. Breezy takes Sonny and his dog along with him on his travels, and they find themselves in the health resort of Sulphur Springs, where Cyrus, the owner, mistakes Breezy for the medical advisor for whom he's been waiting. They soon discover that Cyrus actually isn't who he appears to be and that something shady is going on at the resort.

A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any more with the father's relentlessness and heavy-handed treatment; she leaves and takes Bill with her. The father must decide what's more important--maintaining his iron discipline over his family, or his family itself.

A boy and girl take over a consignment of mouse traps to sell for two other children whose efforts have not met with success.

A young actor arrives in town from the city and proceeds to break up a love affair by taking charge of an amateur performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Johnny, seeking to play a joke on him, fills the donkey's head which the actor uses for the part of Bottom, with honey, but a swarm of bees, attracted to the honey fill the head instead. With eyes "stung" shut, the youth is seized by deputy sheriffs for running away with a partly paid for automobile. This they sell to Johnny for the amount of the balance due and the love affair is patched up.

After his wife dies, Roland Keene finds work as an actor with a road company, provided that he give up cards and liquor. The troupe has a poor season, and Keene is stranded in a mining town in Placer Valley. He meets Sal Flood there, and they are soon engaged, bringing west Keene's young son, Benny, for the wedding. Sal leaves the operation of her saloon to Keene, devoting herself to winning Benny's love and affection. Keene soon resumes his heavy drinking and is constantly cheated at cards by a professional gambler named Osner. Despite the interference of Steve McGregor, a mining superintendent, Keene continues to lose heavily to Osner; and, eventually, in order to pay off his IOU's, Keene is forced by the gambler to help him rob the saloon safe of McGregor's mining payroll. Benny sees his father steal the money and is injured by the blast from the dynamite used by Osner to blow the safe; but Benny still has faith in his father and, the following day, lies to the sheriff rather than implicate Keene. Keene is overcome with remorse for Benny's injuries and sets out to bring back the stolen gold. He tracks down Osner, and the two fight in the car of an aerial tramway. Osner falls to his death, Keene returns the gold, and he is pardoned and happily reunited with his family.

A group of children attempt to make a film of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and by accident make a real comedy of it - giving it a ludicrous touch that makes it a far more agreeable subject than it is in the way it is usually portrayed.

An authoress reads her scenario to the director and producing manager in the presence of the youthful cast who are to decide the question of acceptance. The story deals with the children's activities after they find refuge from a shipwreck on a south sea island, and as she reads, the action takes place. The final shot shows the children's pleased acceptance of the story.

Johnny is the editor of a little local paper full of scintillating gossip called "The Whisper," and Gertrude is the society editor. Everyone in town is saying that it has more news than "The Daily Tribune," and Old Man Jones is very hot under the collar. All "The Whisper" needs is a "big scoop," and with the aid of a false-alarm burglar scare and a flash-light photograph they get the picture of what they think is the burglar, and they sell out at a good price to Old Man Jones, the Tribune owner, just before their latest issue appears with a front page picture that nearly gives the Old Man apoplexy.

The children put through an ingenious scheme to rent a haunted house to save an old woman from eviction.

Johnny and his pals succeed by means of their radio sets in apprehending a bank robber.