“WHERE’S YOUR NERVE?”

Shannon News, 6 November 1923, Page 3

“WHERE’S YOUR NERVE?”

MRS HOLMAN REBUKES BRITISH YOUTH. LONDON, October 17. Mrs Ada Holman, wife of Mr W. A. Holman, K.G., of §ydney, writing l in the London Daily Mail, asks: “Have your people lost their nerve?” and describes her amazement at seeing a Trafalgar square orator foam at the mouth at the suggestion of migration to Australia. He proposed instead endless fantastic experiments for the cure of unemployment, and spoke of Australia es if it were a, leper colony. “This attitude would be amusing,” says Mrs Holman, “if it were not tragic. Surely the ancient pioneer spirit can be revived. Why won’t the youth, of England accept Australia as their rightful heritage? It belongs to them by reason, of the pluck and enterprise of their forbears who cleared the pathway and made the rough places smooth. “I remember my grandmother’s stories of life in tents,’ when , they lacked nurses, doctors, amusements, education and, leisure, but never complained. “Nowadays, despite railways, leisure, comforts, and living conditions,' superior to those prevailing in England, the unemployed young man won’t take the risk of incurring hardships Avihich do not exist. To men ' who - can’t ■or won’t work, Australia ‘ says, ‘Stay - a+ ; home IV 5 '■"die 'W J /aVtj, b, k J