The advance Australia

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N 059.4 ADV
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Melbourne : F. Davison, 1897-
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Vol. 15 No. 12 (12 Dec 1911)
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THE  

ADVANCE AUSTRALIA  

Keglstared at the General Post Office, ftiein.  

for transmission Post «n • Vowsnsper  

VOL. XV., No. 12.  

DECEMBER 12, 19 U.  

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PER ANNUM  

»OST FREE  

RONISCH  

Tho World's Greatest  

Piano for Australia.  

Sole Agents  

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SONS  

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We will take your old piano  

in exchange for Ronisch  

and allow you fair value for it  

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Plano in Victoria.  

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or terms from 20/- monthly  

CDt Advance Australia.  

Subscriptions—2/- per annum, in advance, post tree.  

Notice of discontinuance must be given by Old Sub-  

scribers to the Manager in writing, and payment made  

up to the date of the last issue. Such subscribers  

accepting delivery of the paper are responsible for  

payment, and we intend to strictly enforce this con-  

dition.  

For Advertising Hates and general information,  

apply to the Manager, Monahan’s Buildings, 231  

Flinders-lane, Melbourne.  

ALL REPORTS OF MEETINGS, Etc.,  

Contributions on National or Association. topic*  

should be sent to the Editor, Monahan’s Buildings,  

231 Flinders-lane, Melbourne.  

Members are particularly invited to forward re-  

ports on any matters of interest to the Association.  

Such reports require to be disseminated through the  

branches in every part of Australia for the benefit of  

our great organisation. We will, therefore, gladly  

receive and insert them if space will permit.  

SPECIAL NOTICE TO BRANCHES.  

We will be glad to receive items of Association  

news and reports of branch meetings. This will  

tend to keep the members more in touch with each  

other, and promote friendly intercourse in manner  

that must be beneficial to the Association.  

STRAIGHT TALKS TO NATIVES.  

No. II.  

Practical A.N.A. Leadership.  

“ He’s great A.N.A. man!” How  

often is this remark heard, and how  

rarely does it represent the truth What  

constitutes an A.N.A. man Again, pro-  

vided our definition of the ordinary  

A.N.A. man is an accurate one, “ What  

constitutes great A.N.A. man?”  

Many will agree that too much talk  

and too few actual results ensue front  

the national work of thirty-two thou-  

sand natives, who in Victoria can claim,  

literally, to be A.N.A. men. The mere  

connection for the benefits along friendly  

society lines is no very great credit to  

the Australian born, who, knowing the  

association’s financial stability, is wise  

enought to invest therein. The foreign-  

born gentleman cannot share in the pros-  

perity of our young and sturdy benefit  

organisation. The other aspects of the  

association’s mission are equally bind-  

ing on the units that constitute it. The  

payment of the subscription is one very  

necessary duty. The studied attendance  

at branch meetings is another desirable  

habit to acquire; third is the good  

fellowship that one should show to the  

newly-elected members, whose strange-  

ness may or may not be apparent. An-  

other department to be developed is the  

mutual improvement side. Many of our  

biranches almost ignore this, notwith-  

standing the mention of it in the usual  

welcoming speech of the president.  

The individual members should study  

with the intention of being better able  

to exchange authoritative opinions on  

scientific or other, not merely political,  

subjects. The political side of the  

branch work should be watched so as to  

ensure the most searching inquiries into  

political questions, with view to mould-  

ing national opinions quite above petty  

party prejudices. The spirit of service  

should be quickened. The offices of the  

branch are open to all members. To  

many men to be out of office is to be  

out of the association. They must be in  

the limelight or their affection for the  

cause languishes. To these vain persons  

office is no sacrifice, but duty to be  

performed and paid for by contra in  

honour and glory. The experience of  

many branches is that many members  

who have aspired to the dignity of office  

have ambitiously clung to the same until  

the president’s chair has been filled by  

them, and then the meetings of the  

branch, which all through their official  

connection with they were urging others  

to attend, become forgotten dates. Some  

other alluring aggrandisement has  

caught their vanity, and they very  

wisely, from financial point of view,  

continue in nominal membership; but,  

as far as the conduct of the branch is  

concerned, they are dangerously indif-  

ferent, and when their opinion is sought  

the same is sometimes not as compli-  

mentary as it might be. Their enthu-  

siasm dies with the tenure of their office.  

But there are offices which at inter-  

vals show opportunities for public fame  

and notoriety. To be elected delegate  

to the conference appeals to the tastes  

of most ex-presidents. Certainly the  

branch in many instances pays the ex-  

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