Fight, Boys!

Get Out There And

Apia’s weekly “Samoa Bul letin” in January started a campaign against stone throw ing in West Samoa.

It said “this most revolting and dangerous habit” was all too prevalent in Samoa. Sometimes stones were hurled at drivers of vehicles, and in one recent case a driver, hit by a stone, had had the presence of mind to apply the brakes before he lapsed into unconsciousness.

Said the “Bulletin”: “Stone throwing is a most cowardly method of attack ... it is our hope that the law, by imposing the most severe sentences possible on those found guilty of stone throwing, will support our campaign to eliminate this deadly practice from the com munity.

“If grown men have a dif ference —get out. and fight it out, with your fists, like men!

“Do not wait for your quarry on a dark night and hurl a rock at him. Such conduct brings nothing but shame for the village concerned and the country as a whole.”