Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-08
DIR. HILLS OPTIMISTIC
 FOR AMERICAS FUTURE


 return to the manufacture of souls. man. hood with brains and intelligence, said Dr. Newall Dwight Hills of Brooklyn, N Y, in lecture on America Today and Tomorrow at the Community house on Monday evening under the auspices of the Brotherhood of the United Congrc- gational church before an audience of about 400.
 Dr. Hills reviewed the conditions of America today and had very optimistic view of the future, as he believed that the ornnipotent power that governs will | never allow any nation or ins.itution whose ideals are freedom, liberty and justice to fail or be obliterated from the earth.
 Mir. Hills, who was introduced by Ma than A. Gibbs, president of the brother hood, said in part:
 America today has no million people | and has doubled her population in so I | years four times. and her wealth from | | he resources has increased accordingly | There was one time when there was only l l one republic in the world, and now thert | are many. all patterned after the consti- l tuition of the United States. The infiu- | | enee Of this constitution has been far | reaching Edmund Burke. when America | was in it's infancy, said that this constl- | tuition would eventually be the funds-
 mental type of constitution of all gov I eEHl1lelIS anu Jldl uOQ2rC1leS would l pattern their governments after this. The recent war has piled up a debt
 that will equal half the income of Great l Britain and France, yet the United States ] In one year has an income from her re-
 sources that equals half of Great Brit aims resources in 500 years. America has
 three great gifts-cotton, coal and iron
 America produces about 50 per cent. of
 the worlds cotton. large percentage of
 the worlds c0z1 and lar
 percentage of the iron. Little by little
 these have built up a powerful and re-
 sourceful nation. Property has been one
 Of the leading factors toward education and religious training He who has prop
 erty has the means of educating his chii- dren and guiding them along right paths.
 Yet property is equally dangerous in an- other respect, for abundance leads man |; to forget his God. A man will say grace
 before soup. but does he ever thank God s after the dessert?
 , I believe in an all-onnipotent power
 that will never let a nation fall with $ ideals of liberty and justice such as are : written in our constitution. although
 there are menacing, subtle forces at work s trying to do away with this government . These forces are working so subtly that ,. if we could see them clearly we would d be filled with fear. Take the events oi f the past two years, the black and whita e riots in Chicago and Washington. ths V L W. w. riots in Vancouver and Seattle Q the Geary strike. the Boston police strike the civil and feudal wars in the south. am an oDtimist to the last degree and If believe in an institution s,ich as our d and.that we can do what our fathers in tended we should. This institution should get back to where it was, a maker O d manhood and souls.
 d The great questions of the day con d front us. First, there is the one wit 1T respect to war. The war, as can be seen T. is trying to move from the battle plain t. to the hills of peace. -The powers of tn 'n world are striving for this end. whethe e. through fear or otherwise. England an |: France are weighted down with we s. debts and the average proportion h. France is s1,000 per person. Her peonl 20 are destitute yet each one must bear hi ss burden. This burden has become UT
 bearable and the people are becomin al dwarfed under the loda. A growing bo he if weighted down with weights and UT d. derfed becomes dwarfed. and If given a he opportunity. to grow and expand he ca ed shoulder his load cheerfully and it
 chids play. So it is with the nation 6 give them 10 years and they will shou H. der their burden easily Billions al H. spent annually for armament, and Il 6) people pay Have an International poii,
 force and an international supreme cou
 to decide oh the issues of the day. Gil
 them 10 years and then the nations ca
 shoulder their load.
 IN If you people could read some of Il h. foreign language newspapers printed ,v. this country you would be surprised " what you find in them They preach a, tic archy and revolution, but why shou ed they as where there is one loaf of bre; ty In the country they came from there a mi four here. Look at Trotsky. Four yea ,t- ago he gathered about him 45o followe h. with the intention of going to-Russia al ,+a overthrowing the. young republic that h: 1i been. based on our own constitution V
 gave those 450 passports to do this al
 it ultimately cost 500, ,000 precious live Socialism is another question. In | =, last election 914,000 voted the sociali -cE ticket. What did they vose for? On pa re- 41 of Marks Communisc Manifesto ' idI find that the creed of the socialist is tn mn Eve hold to abolish the holding of all D, ar vate property, we hold to abolish all ! H. litical institutions, we hold to abolish 'e- legislatures, parliaments and congress- K; we hold to abolish all religious belie ed- Then on another page there is a stat m- ment that says: ''we believe in the col
 munity of woman" Again we find th ov. they advocate the destruction of all I will litical institutions by force and revol om tion. This si what 914,Ooo voted f ere Socialism is an expedient to avoid { the necessity of thinking. We have had
 experimental socialist colonies. and T ted. one of them was a success. They a for like the perpetual motion machine -hr Jo- dreds have been invented but never h au- one worked. What America needs Is sa individual excellence of the people. a ,it, not socialism.
 re- Intelligence is another important f: ay, tor. Once America was in second pls .m- in regard to the rliteracy of her peou of Now she has dropped and droped UT en. she is in the ninth position of the I ae tions of the world. Our forefath, an evolved the common school, but tod
 only about 53 per cent of the childr N attend the schools. Has our syst
 broken down, is the idea out of da.
 No. we don't use them. He have starr NG | our teachers as we have starved
 preachers. School teachers should hs 5 sufficient salaries to allow them to D 1ne vide for their needs and improve the eN- selves. Our moral teachers are und -eee paid and it is disgraceful. In New Yt uc- last year there were 14,000 murders. .He iails are full of young people and an ol lew of crime is sweeping over us. Things
 not well. We cannot build a nation non illiteracy. The America of tomorr ion will be made up of the finest, clean hin race of people on earth. provided we the rify the blood of the people of tod id Purify the blood so that the brain tiss lain will be active and productive mad inte