Evening journal., 1922-02-28
SHOWS NEED OF
BETTER AMERICA
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Commerce. presided and introduced |
DIR. Hills.
The speaker gave an outline OF his
'Better America" lectures, which he
has delivered throughout the coun-
try. A feature was the use OF new
daylight screen TO illustrate his talk.
This screen, although TIE room |
was brilliantly lighted, showed the |
bniant colors Of the educational
slides he used. Many OF them who |
witnessed the screen and the slides
believe this discovery marks a new
era I'm education. II is no longer
necessary to darken the school room
or the church or the moving picture
theatre Some OF the slides that he
used represented the new discovSsy
of color photography. The new
camera will, in a fifth OF a second,
take every shade in detail of a
flower garden or landscape or an
autumn scene.
In the beginning DR.. 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 report believed
that, ~ a bood had actually been plac-
ed in the hands OF these foreigners.
not less than 20 millions OF people
of foreign birth or children >of for
eign-born parents would have been
found to be able 10 read or write. OF
the fifty millions OF native Ameri-
cans. only one-haif OF one per cent.
were found to be illiterate.
In striking contrast comes Sweden.
Prussft, Denmark. England. Swift
zerland. Holland, France. only one
man out OF 5000 in Denmark is un-
able to read while we have seven
men out OF 100 who Acknowledged
they cannot read or write with a
certainty there are twenty illiterates
to the hundred.
Sixty years ago the Republic
stood fourth in terms OF education,
slowly It slipped back TO the fifth
place, sixth, seventh, eighth and now
the ninth.
DR.. Hills also referred to the in
telligence tests given by the experts
in the army. Four and a half mil
lion OF the American people are ex-
ira superior. six millions superior
and nine and one-half millions of
very high average. while forty-fve
millions are average, or low average,
or ID minus or inferior, while the
remaining 20 per cent. OF our people
are inferior and are spoken OF in the
report as defective by which &c is
meant that they will never develop
the intelligence OF a normal child
of ten years OF age
( The two lectures that DR.. Hills
gave today. each illustrated. were
tho first one on How Ability In
creases the Workers Wage and the
Nations Wealth." and the lecture on
Socialism"
DR.. Hills read a list OF ten out
breaks and forms OF industrial waI
that occurred IN one summer as q
reason for apprehension. lie said thai
what the United States needs toda,
IS an invasion Of intelligence; a re-
turn TO honest industry and obedi
ence to law. He analysed az Length
the average income OF tho country
> He argued that raw material IN cot.
ton. grain. iron represented the rud-
est form Of property. but that wealth
was really created by the intellig-
ence that handles the raw material
He illustrated this by a study of
what he called the era OF pig iron
with cents a mile for the passenger
rate and 10 cents ton for freight
per mile and showed how the ability
that changed pig iron into steel,
soon reduced the passenger rate from
cents a mile 10 2 cents, the freight
rate from 10 cents a ton per mile ia
is OF cent per ton per mile. while
' at the same time Il multiplied by
four the wage OF the worker in the
p steel plant as opposed TO old pie
iron foundry.
" He told the story illustrating with
u slides. of the 96 socialistlc expert
= ments in the United States and VIII,
- they all failed and how they brought
s. poverty and suffering instead OF
e prosperity. He dwelt at length up
:. on the failure OF the greatest social
r listic experiment OF modern time
o that has recently failed, the New
Australia colony founded in Para
y quay by William Lane and gav'
5. Twenty slides showing how socialism
+ ruined a beautiful land and left
d to weeds and novels.