"The Samoa Leader"

Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 23, Issue 32, 10 August 1923, Page 3

"The Samoa Leader"

(To the Editor Samoa Times.) Sjr,—presuming that you have ple'ntv ol ps hi your priming press, J be« to-proffer a few pars pertaining to the periodical whose perky title prefaces this palpably pedantic profusion of platruintr prognostications. * In a particular publication of your Pacific paper, you, Mr. Editor, pointed out with pardonable pathos, the alliterative sub-title of " The Samoa Leader " viz ' Advocating the Productivity, Prosperity and Persistent Progress of Western Samoa." Now, Sir, as a patriotic public person, I pensively pen the' proceeding prosaic platitudes, purposelw.to proTl^^P • pur P <>rt Mlrignim of the publication in question : 1. PKODrjCTiviTY.-Th* philanthropic promoters of the paper have a purpose in perpetrating this titular peculiarity • they prophesy that, to produce a preponderating profusion of its priceless products, the peopje of this prolific province must participate practically and perseveringly in a preconceived plan Primarily, they propose that the practice of pulverizing all progeuitorsof predatory pests be peremptorily performed ; that promiscuous piles of particles possessing putnfying and larvae-propagating properties be precipitously placed upon pyramidal pyres ; that, as preponderating principles, professional planting prudent protection and perennial purzinJ should prevail, and that pertinacious perseverance towards the pinnacle of plant perfection be practised, inordertoplurallze the present pn>i>ortion of profitable productiveness.

-• I RQSPKRlTY.—Permanent prosperity presupposes a plethora of physical psychical and prudential proclivities; therefore a propaganda of plausible precepts and psychological pabulum, prompting the potentialities of personal propriety public practice, and political prowess! must be persistently promulgated, to pr *. pare the present and prospective populace for the position of prestige, privilege and prerogative predetermined for them bv a l'attrnal Providence. 3. Pkrsistknt Progrkss. Possible only to a people who are prepared to plan, plod and persevere. The prize' productions at Muliuu'u—from a pine to a paopno— proved the possibilities of a painstaking people, if publicly patronized and professionally pioneered. During their popular peregnnationsthe/tf/d-r patricr and his party have had pleasant parleys and perceived propitious prospects and phenomenal progress. Projected pictures portraying preventatives of plague and pestilence have proved to be a puri/yinir proposition. In progressive' places, patient pedagogues and persevering pupils- are pilosophically pursuing paramount possibilities. Picturesque plantations are presenting primal perfection, with promise of plentiful paying products. Pleasant passages are becoming possible over partly paved pathways and permanent ponts. lu fact, in view of such prodigious prospects and the persistent pursuance of a practical purpose and progressive, policy, ixjtularit partisans are prone to prune their pessimistic phraseology and pronounce pteans of public praise. Predilections par ixcelleiUi! BUT my peroration portends that, for the possibility of Persisleni Progress, the panacea is prefixed not with a " P •' but with a" \V—." "Latmart est orare." Youra, A PADRE-PRINTBR, Malm,