Evening journal., 1922-07-11
EDUCATION IS
GREAT NEED
DR.. Hills Gives Talk on
Ten Commandments and
Constitution
WILMINGTONIANS
HEAR LECTURE
Special to The Evening Journal.


NEWARK, July 11.-Return I,
the Ten Commandments and th'
Constitution of the United States
was suggested by DR.. Newell Dwigh
Hills, of Brooklyn. noted preacher
and lecturer. in ,acture before the
! University of Delaware Summer
School lact night as a cure for pres
ent day evils Of the country.
This was ore of the series OF lee
lures arranged by the Service Citi-
zens for the benefit of those attend
ing the summer school and for any
one else desiring 10 attend, the lee
lures being free. Wolf Hall whore
the lecture was held was crowded
mington came here to hear DR..
Hills. Among the Wilmington vis-
itors were Judge and Mrs. Hugh NJ.
Morris, former Chancellor Charles
NJ. Curtis, fopmer Judge David T.
Marvel, Lieutenant Governor ]. Dan
forth Bush, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert II.
Richards Mr.. and Mrs. Caleb E.
Burchenal, Mr.. and Mrs. William G..
Mahaffy and others.
Dr. Walter Hullihen, president Of
the University introduced the speak
er whose subject was 1.-THE Ten Com
mandments and the Constitution of
the United States" In his opening
remarks DR.. Hills SAID he could very
easily take an optimistic view Of
conditions in this country today. He
then compared conditions here espec-
tally as to our debt and ability to
pay with conditions in England,
France and other countries. The
revenues OF our government he said
are sufficient to pay our entire ma
tional debt with the revenue of the
first five months of the year. while in
the countries mentioned It will re-
qulre generations for them to pay
their debt. He referred TO the trou-
bles OF the country but added he be-
lieved that we had the institutions
to cure them.
DIR. Hills said the most important
book OF the year Is the United States
census. This country he said Is
now but ninth asSo education among !
the nations Of white people Of the |
earth. The census shows that seven |
out OF every 100 Of foreigners of the
country confessed they could not /
read or write and figures show that |
out OF SO million foreigners 20 mil
lion of them cannot read or write. /
The percentage OF native born who /
cannot read or write is of course
much smaller.
There never was q great nation |
and never will be a great people" !
said DR.. Hills, who are an illlterate |
people. As a rule. failure Is ignor- |
ance and success Is knowing how" |
There is something perfectly appal- |
ling in conditions in the United States |
he said when It is considered there
are 20 million people here who can
not read or white.
Salaries have been raised in every !
line said the speaker except in the
school room. He told of recently |
visiting Lexington, Kentucky, where I
he saw a man who specialized in just |
the training of one promising two- |
year-old colt at a salary of $4,000 a |
year. Just before that he said he !
had visited a high school where in (
various rooms he saw one teacher /
teaching herds of from 30 to 90 chill
dren, who were receiving not more
than $500 a year.
The advancement and betterment
Of the country. he pointed out, has
got 10 be through education. There
Is only one way DR., Hills said, 10
make money for the state and that