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V.A.L. BOVSAN AMERICAN VIEW WARM TIUBI TE OV PRAISE.Mr. I.. Boos, the president of Young Australia League, has receiv.d I-the following letter referring to tin1 bore cm U*ur.Thu writer. Mr. Garnet Holme, is the L'Kl' •l.Miiiaiic iii»triictor nt I In* Itfiiky In- I stitute, San FnuMincn, and i. not un- ■ known to Western Australians, he hav I Xotici iiiji uiHvHnunnied t.l« jmrxj of American urriiu I boys uim1«t Major |Vit«rti«, which vistt ned this State some time bark. I INflare«8 (iuerrero-street. San Krancinco. “** ulFebruary I —My deni Mr. Boa.,— 1^* Thanh you for your niri*tiiia.s greeting, it hiut been a great pleasure* to me to have been to much with the V.A.I... i) \uikI I a»*»ure you my heart felt very Ma .su«l when they cJi*u»p|Njir.Hl from view on their way East. ^-cwjI As von know. I travelled with thern * ‘ .« . »i a a uouncifor weeks, and I was enabled to .. ,net 21 very dear insight of the stnto - * ortn of the party. Ami I ran only say what Kolwr' everyone .lt;Ui sayw of the h#n*. They, ™l are a crwlit to the organisation, to nt ! their leaders, and to their «o*a»try. Thi* w 10 j* ik no new statement, bat it may be of stood, *nme extra weijrlit from the fart that j Mr.I alone have had the privilege of see- the ( jug behind the scene*. And yet that , This j. is a baily way to e.xpress myself, for ( and is ; I have never known a group of peer big pe pie who have so little 'behind the ' lt;*vr.scenes about them. The boys are Yiigar j what lIh'v misd to In*: they do not thern I wear two la*-*-*., our for the public and are sa i one for home use. That they are Uvs Hopo'i j and not angel* goes without savin-: , small j that they possess the human frailties • f per to boy* is also true: bui it is vrne too to hav e say that every one of the party sub- post \ ordinates and fights' bis temptation*, for nine i | the snke of the honor of the undertak- which , ing. Amongst so mnny boyn of such said t «liff.-r«*nt and difficult agc-K I have found workelt; I a straight and clean *tvm|»eratare” stated | truly remarkable. D.-spiU* tho mono- claim lt;. tony of continual welcome* nml speeches and I.and new host* I found tho boys evei latter j courteous to their entertainers. I have ,\j Men them politely answering the most ^pp.J tirxomc question* when their one desire , was to be in bod. parcelOwirgp Reid is working like a hero fo j and in all times and places ho is en- mjno , cournging the boys to practice and giv ;I ing tlwm his time ami uttentkui. Tim ^ ^consequence of this devotion is t hat the ^band is improving mightily and rooat ^ • j. favorable comment is hcerd wherever itI goe«. Arthur Coyne in the devoted and unsclfUl*. secretary, irnd quietly mas ^HY, ter* an amount of work vufBcient to turn his hair grey. He is singulurlv | ^• snc«-es*ful in his dealings with theatre j ! mnnagerv.nml everything work' smooth - The i ly ami with hanmmy. Reg. Franklin u;irij(K h:»s mode the luggage a holO»y. and 1 ,lova, •think ft mis plensut-r in counting th« v H. j baggag«* owr and over. He has prov«*d ••**„. ] himself imuliiablo os transport imi'ter. ' wulpa [ I do not think you can be told any-i - thing now about Jack. He lias the jn ^ , I wowliiful facility of eommand, ami |difficulties disappear when his seven lt;rn ^ i feet of leanness appear. Ho has. a» coaskl . ' you know, the unquestioning devotion ' mimn l ! of the entire party, and earns for him- ’* j self the n-sjKM-t and esteem of those he » | meets on the outside- I do not think t. I you rali.se how mucTT ftiis tonr of win- ^ mj| t cation means. Tl»e educational valne ^ ^ S j to tlie boys is great, hut I om sure « i tluvt its wlucutioual sith* Lai the Amen* ^ ^ i I can people is much more. Tin* ignor- /t ]lt;r y I ance ot Australia here is colossal nndpanytorei reico•Ug.willprottendder^.upreme. Nor do Uie Americans ^terest thrtn»-lvlt;», even if lh? Common wealth ri mfntioaotl. Auntral* is «iio rn .»t llioire. It™ a his ieliintltlio I’writic. mid it 1-1 I Btoy llK'renot just as it pUtiM*. Tlii* on«. has Wn broken down wherever t the party hns been. Itnl»rtiint p.vr jrh;|| |jo anil the leaders have had lliruat into their heads, not m rniteh any f.oW about Australia, as tho idea of ca[| Australia. The thousands ..f pe. pie ^ who have heard ami seen Jack and the ^ boys have been forced to realise the jjreat white nation way down south.Olid they have keen foreed to realise also that ihe Oriental problem is shar-..1 by nnotlior port of the Anslo-Saxon rate- Tlio prese’iieo of the boys and the statements of Jack have done morv to make people know about Australia than any si-honl k-arning nr newspaper articlt* ever ootild. Australia ones a debt -if gratitude to you fur the despatch of these splendid samples nf her sons. 1 thiok America looms very Inrue to an Anstl'oliun. whilst Austrabn i, „i no eoncorn to the Yankee. This State of a (Tails tlio party has altemi the places they have visited. ihoi1 must say that T am thoroughly ^ pleased with the way it. wind, the Californians have rom- through, and ^1 the wvivtune in Canada uns no less I, 111 in even d expressed in a different manner. And -a. I will wntWt my ■ “ . epistle with rongraliiiatioin. and again I» congratulations on the triumphal march «’ ,g vour sons of tho Wwl. 1 leH them 'rnl luip'py and united, prtis|iering fioanend ern U. taming gulden opinions; on their con tliirtl visit to Alamida there were more pan invitations than hoys 'a striking tri‘ ««' ' „tel a ervdit to their evmntry and null ' i, „ league Slay God bring them safe Ad. buck to Australia Accept my best uislitw, and Is-Iievo me to he, yours sin- — een-lv). Garnet He.lme.brol
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Boulder Evening Star
Boulder, Western Australia, AU
Tue, Mar 26, 1912
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