Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-28
BROOKLYN PASTOR
ON BETTER AMERICA
Rev. Dr.. Newell Dwight Hills
Addresses Business Men at
MONDAY Meeting.

pont. In addition to the Chamber OF
Commerce., the members OF the
Rotary. Kiwanis and Lions Clubs were
guests OF the meeting.
DIR. Hills was to have spoken In
this city two weeks ago, but a sudden
attack OF bronchitis prevented. For
some time DIR. Hills has been deliver
ing lectures throughout. the country
on the general topic of Better
America" and II was on one OF the
phases OF this subject that he spoke
today.
His lecture was illustrated with what
In known as daylight f,im." a NOV
Ing picture that can be shown at day.
time functions.
Tho subjects OF the Better America
Lectures. each illustrated by 36 slides,
We're given as follows: 1. How ability
increases the workers wage and the
Nations wealth.
.. On the loyal classes who build
tho State and the disloyal classes who
undermine our institutions.
8. on the fundamental courses of
poverty in the richest land. in the
world.
4. The sanctity of property as the
logical inference from the sanctity of
life.
5. r. State socialism the perpetual
motion machine converted into eco-
nomics.
s. How Bolshcvism ruined Russia
and has ruined every land where ii
has been tried.
:. On the 5000 battle fields our
fathers paved for the Republic.
s. on the Republic as the golden
n,ien between Russian autocracy on the
one hand and Swiss democracy on the
other.
q False views OF equality as indus
trial revolutions.
10. on the wonderful gains made
by the American people during the
last century as reasons for believing
that our people could have a golden age
and destroy poverty. and ignorance
II the people would only return to the
Constitution and Ten Commandments
pr. Hills quoted at length from the
census, showing that seven millions
OF our people confessed to the census
takers that they were illiterate and
that experts on checking up the re-
port believed that II a book had actual
iy been placed In the hands OF these
foreigners. that not less than 20 mil
lions OF people of foreign birth OF
children ~ foreign born parents would
have been found to be able to read OF
write. OF the fifty millions of native
Americans, only one-half OF one pei
cent were found 10 be illiterate
I'm striking contrast" he said
''oomes Sweden. Prussia. Denmark
Only one man out Of 5000 In Denmark
Is unable 10 read, while we have sew
er men out OF 100 who acknowledged
they cannot read or write with n GER
tainty there are twenty illiterates L
the hundred.
sixty years ago the Republic stood
fourth in terms of education. slowly i
slipped back to the fourth place. fiftl
place. sixth, seventh, eighth and nov
the ninth"
Or. Hills referred TO the intelli
Eence tests given by the experts in tn
army. Four and a half million Of tn
American people are extra superior
six millions superior. and nine an,
one-half millions Of very high average
while IS millions average low,
minus and inferior. while the remain
ing 25 per cent are inferior and ar
spoken OF In the report as defective
iy which II is meant that they Wi
never develop the intelligence Of
normal child OF ten years of age.
The two lectures that DR.. Hill
gave, each illustrated OF the cours,
were the first one on how ability in
creases the workers wage and the Ma
tion's wealth and also the lecture o
Socialism. II was concerning this las
lecture that the late Senator kno
after seeing the illustrations and hear
ting the lecture said that he believe
that II these lectures could be place
IN every public and rural school hous
lr the United States and brought i.
the ten million immigrants and I'll
thirty million school children that o,
country would soon be immune I
raeicalism.
The speaker quoted letter frol
Herbert Spencer written Just befol
his death in which Mr.. Spencer, the
one OF the most influential men in III
world. said: "I have already wishs
you good speed in your enterprise bl
believe the enterprise TO be futil
The movement toward State socia
ism In Great Britain and the Unite
States has become an irresistih
movement. We have dreadful tim
before us in England but you ha,
Far more terrible times before you
the United States. namely. civil wa
immense bloodshed and eventually 6
hliterate despotism. of the severe
type" He strengthened this stat
ment by letter from Lord NJ
Caulley containing these wort
When the cheap land of the Unit
States is all gone there will devel
thereon huns and vandals will rise
and loot their factories and cities ju
ss the huns and vandals OF the fiji
century looted Italy and Greece a
gave the world a thousand years
the dark ages
Ir. Hills read a list of ten o,
breaks and forms of industrial "
that occurred In one summer as
reason for apprehension. He said II
what the United States needs tod
u an invasion of intelligence, a retu
TO honest industry and obedience
taw. He analyzed the average
come OF the country. He argued Il
raw material In cotton, grain. il
represented the rudest form of pr,
erty but that wealth was really c
sted by the intelligence that hand
the raw material. He illustrated Z
BY study of what he called the
W pig iron with Sc a mile for
passenger rate and 10c ton
freight per mile and showed how
ability that changed pig iron i