"GOOD FOR YOU."

Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15749, 6 September 1915, Page 9

"GOOD FOR YOU."

IiCOSEVJELT PRAISES AUSTRALIA

LUirmi: his whirlwind tour throusih Calilornia Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. ex-President, of the United States, spent iour days at the Panama Exposition at San Francisco (writes a correspondent), and paid au unexpected to the Australian pavdion. wliL'i'e lie was received by Air (ieoi-0 secretary of the pavilion. and by A 1 r C. F. Harrison, the weli-known Australian wool expert. I lie distinguished statesman kept 'Australian ofiie.ials busy replying 1o a battery of questions and made special inquiries as io Australia's system of military tr.-unina\ and spoke un. terms of extreme admiration of Australian legislation. Cjlonel Roosevelt was greatly surprised at the comprehensive character of the Com rionwealtli resources as exemplified by the "wide range of exhibits displaved in the pavilii'n. Colonel Roosevelt paid a second visit t) the Australian pavilion on the third day. -when he wa.s greeted by the band of the Australian Cadets, drawn tip in front of the. pavilion with the presentation colours of the United States and Australia.

Addressing the Cadets, Colonel Roosevelt said: — i4 I wi'fJi to say a v. ord to you. lads. on arc the representatives of that typo of training in Australia which I earnestly hope tile. I. nited States will borrow from >our country— the great Commonwealth t)f the Southern Seas. Australia. has; rcaHi-fod that 110 man is fit to vote i-uless ho is willing to fight tor tile r.etenee of his country. And in Australia every woman votes as well as every man. The Australian woman .knows that she is not a true wife or' l).other unless her husband and son are ftp and ready to defend their homes. .Nothing is of any worth to them tint cannot embrace with it national honour ana patriotism. aou a\ dl mn.ise that an unrighteous peace, is just as evil as an unugl.teous war. It is the houndeu < uty of all peoples and the basis of ail democracies to show that- tbev can combine decency and strength, that they can combine respect for the rights of ethers with the power to insist upon respect M.eing paid to their own lights. L greet you, young men. of Australia, and. through you. i congiatulate your Commonwealth upon the showing she had made both in peace and in war., Good for von! Good for Australia!''

hreo c-licors wore then siven for Colonel Koosevdt, and the Australian Cadets fnl.ou-eil it with their cadet veil and a Joud "Coo-op."

ji ' s ? n,K^s , I'fce home/' s-boiilo-1 Colonel, as he hurried away .Later lie promised to visit'Austratour V lalul 0,1 llis n "- xt