The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-06-18
HILLS SEES A
new AMERICA
DiSbeIieyeS Assertion of Ultimate
Downfall.
AMERICAN CONTINENT FUTURE
HOME OF HALF THE RACE
nent the Future St0reh0use OF the
World.

DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, taking for
his subject America Today and To-
gave a large number of Twin
Falls citizens food for thought Tues
day afternoon at the Chautauqua ses-
sion. Dr. Hills may not be classed as
a finished and polished orator but for
soundness of his logic and clearness Of
expression has few equals. DR.. Hills
kept up the interest of his big audience
through the entire address. Not one
person failed to listen attentively to
new and big ideas concerning the fu-
ture/ of America The interest was
shown by the continual applause
Throughout the afternoon.
DR.. Hills in his opening remarks
referred to the prediction of several
noted economists that America and
particularly the United States, must in
eyitably fall, due to the degeneracy of
American politics and American life.
The speaker did not at this time make
direct refutation of these predictions
but before the close made it perfectly
clear that he saw bigger and bet
ter America for the future based upon
foundations of our resources and upon
the high ideals of its citizens.
| That United America, stretching
from Alaska to Patagonia would have
more than the entire population of
the globe was the startling statement
made by DR.. Hills, which in develop
ing did not look wild in the least
Claiming that over one-half OF the
agricultural land of the globe was con-
fined to this continent and would thus
lattract and hold the millions now on
the verge of industrial and physical
starvation in England, Germany and
all the European countries he said that
America must be the greatest influ-
ence on the globe as her resources
continued to develop. America as the
4 bread box of the entire world did not
prove so startling when DR.. Hills
showed that China and India were to-
day supporting hundreds from an
acre of ground where we support less
than twenty-five.
Unlimited supplies of coal and steel
making iron were here to feed the in
dustries, for a thousand years, while
already Europe is searching with little
, success for new fields of these essen
tials to manufacturing industries.
Electrical development according to
DR.. Hills, was but slightly touched
! as yet, and that from the Alaskan coal
mines electrical energy for heat, pow
: er and hundred diverse arts would
: be conducted through pipes all over
the United States. CA theory of Thos.
Edison.)
: After showing the depleted resources
of the old world and the opportunities
in America, the speaker predicted that
because of the financial interests con-
trolled by Americans in Canada, Mex
leo, Central and South America that
/. coalition of the whole continents would
be forced by financial control into
some sort of union. Turning from
the geographical advantages the divine
: entered into his closing portion of the
,, address in which he sought to show
! that on five points depended Americas
future and that instead of the dread
: of a dying out race that American
ideals were growing year by year
:, That economic conditions were not as
!, bad as painted and American intelli
: gence applied to the problem was grad
: ually working out remedy. HI
= thought the time would come when fivs
thousand dollar salaries would be thu
lot of the majority of all workingmen
DR.. Hills did not believe that the IN
tegrity of the American people wa
below that of olden times and went OF
-Lto show in a number Of instances
where the clergy were on hfghe
plane, and that American people wer
1t alive to their problems and facinI
t. them courageously.
le While DIR. Hills facts should be tn
t. actual knowledge of every American
le who claims to know and love his coun
try, yet few in his audience coul
re truthfully say that they really kne,
re one-tenth of the truth. It Is big me
at like DIR. Hills delving below the sui
e. face who do the thinking for most {
the people and because OF their clea
vision and earnestness finally lodg
the germ of an idea In receptive sol