Show PICTURES JAPAN JArAN It IN DEFENSIVE r Returned L. L D. D S. S Missionary Mission Mission- ary Discountenances Discountenance War Talk and Gives Praise for Treatment Experienced Should there b be war between America Amen Ameri ca m and Japan and to one who has sojourned in Japan that s seems ems a a. remote possibility Japan would be the de defender defender do- do fender and not the aggressor said Owen Owen Ow Ow- en McGarry of Shelley Shelle Ida for four years cars conference president of ot the I. I L. L D. D S. S mission at Osaka and who with his companion Elder Myrl MynI L L. Bodily of ot Fairview Ida who presided o over r tho the Sapporo conference returned to Utah today The missionaries made the r re return ne- ne turn voyage oage In fourteen days das on tho the Golden Colden State of the Pacific Mail laU Steamship line on her maiden trip The missionaries were unanimous In commending the tho treatment accorded them In Japan They were treated dunIng during during dur dun ing their entire stay as guests and feel tho t the Japanese people are misrepresented misrepresented misrepresented mis mis- represented In this count country with ex exception exception ex- ex of oC their mercenary motives n I and their great desire to come to progressive sive siye America The American going goins to Japan tho the missionaries stated is first Impressed with the tho slowness and the number of men employed to do doI work ordinarily done by one man Inthis in inthis inthis I this country but upon Investigation It ItI I was learned that the Japanese handle the labor question In that wa way providing provid provid- ing employment for all There will be no L L. D. D S. S church built for the present In Japan because of the fact that foreigners are not permitted to own Japanese land Jand and the church h does not wish to take one of the tho lon lonI ions lonC I I term leases During the recent visit sit o 0 of I Apostle David 0 O. McKay of the L. L D. D S. S I church he Is reported to have assured the missionaries in that country that the field would be broadened and en enlarged enlarged enlarged en- en I as rapidly as possible and Elder Erter McGarry stated that the tho Interest is so strong it Justifies the additional missionaries missionaries missionaries mis mis- and will no doubt become a flourishing field The Tho elders report Japanese industries I Just beginning to pick up after aCter the war var ar depression which caused many firms to become bankrupt Lack of initiative JOhas O J has held Japan back they also stated it being a awell well known fact tact that no in invention invention In- In not even the tho rickshaw has ever been given ghen to the world by Japan I At their last street meeting before ie iea ling ing more than two hundred gathered to listen to their message and their curiosity for American learning whether I er religious or commercial Is Isery ery very great The elders have as yet not notI been replaced b by other missionaries rles I |