Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-01
1.-THE AMERICA OF TODAY
 AND TOMORROW
Highly Instructive Lecture by pr
 Hills in Y. M. c. A. Course.

Marshaling a world of facts to his instant command Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hills of Brooklyn. N. H., charmed a large audience on Tuesday evening at the Central Baptist church in the second number of the Y. NJ. C. A. entertainment course. His subject was The America of Today and To- morrow, which was treated in such an manner as to hold the closest attention of his audience throughout. He was introduced by Rev. c. H. Ricketts. In the course of his address Dr. Hfllis made the prediction that Amer ica was to be a country of 500 million Eeople, and that our citizens are mak- ing money so fast by millions that they are turning to south and north on this continent to invest their sur plus, and that Canada and the United States. the two headr of the saxon family, are to control little more tGan half the human race. As things go on this continent they are to % in the world.
 He took up the question of how we are to feed so many people and said U..r solution of this would be m sci- He went on to speak of the fabulous and almost incomprehensible wealth and natural resources of this country, instancing California, Oregon, Alaska, ard the tremendous possibilities for electrical power in the melting snows or the mountain ranges of that coun- try.
 .ie asked the question whether we wore to be a great nation instead of l b z one. and said he was an optimist il the highest sense of the word for this c0-Ir try and it's outlook.
 He laughed at the proverb that the rich ire setting richer and the poor poorer. which he said was pretty but true. In this connection he stated .hat the rich live on their interest rom money. the poor on wages. In the lasc forty years the interest rate has been exactly cut in two while the wages had doutled. He was confident that the American intellect which had ac- conlT lished so much would not be blocked by the problem of a proper inheritance tax and some day We would find T way to scatter the ac- cunulated millions that when a man dies it would he impossible for Tim to leave more than from five to fifteen millions. and the rest would go t. the state. Between the arctics of poverty and the tropics of luxury was tlle temperate zone where the great things were accomplished. He does not a agTee with Herbert Spencer that we are headed for extreme socialism or With the president of Chicago univer- sity that all the conditions present in Rome before its fall are now present with us.
 He expressed confidence in America's atiity to assimilate the foreieners coming to it's shores and said he was Ircre afraid of the degenerate chill dren of the old stock looking to trade daughter for an English husband vith an educated whisker and watery eve All the nations of the world were e ming to school to this reDublic and tie America of tomorrow is to edu- ca te the world.
 He was enthusiastically appla uded at the close.
 The ushers for the evening were Noah Lucas Allyn l.. Brown, Harold Carpenter. Weston C. Pulleu, William s Elicit Fred C. crowell. Norman Kimball. k. F. Morrison and Woodruff SuI.ivan. NJ w. Meloche sold the tickets and Herbert w. Gallup took them at the door.