Show Joseph C. Grew Warns Half Will Not Defeat Japan By JOSEPH C. GREW United States Ambassador to Japan until thy outbreak of and author of From for the Department In connection the to complete the nation's Hut Stump D. C In describing one of the big air battles over a recent newspaper account tells of an American flyer who parachuted from his crippled plane to the waters of Lunga The Navy craft which picked him up next went to the rescue of a Japanese pilot seen struggling in the water nearby As the rescue boat reached the Japanese flyer he suddenly pulled out his aimed it at the drenched American pilot and pulled the trigger The cartridge failed to Then the Japanese officer turned the gun on himself with suicidal Again he pulled the trigger and again his revolver failed At this point an American sailor knocked him out with a boat hook and pulled him aboard the American craft a Almost daily one reads eye-witness stories such as this and all of them clearly demonstrate that war with our enemy in the Pacific cannot end in For ten years I lived in The truth as I know it from close observation is Nothing less than the exertion of our maximum individually and in a war of offense will bring our beloved country safely to the longed-for haven of victorious The Japanese arc pawns of a senseless but mighty militarism a warrior caste which is ruthless and cruel beyond From the flood of eye witness accounts of atrocity and bestiality one Lb JOSErH C. GREW Says It's Fight to Finish fact shines We must utterly crush that machine and caste and we Americans think that collectively and ally we can continue to lead our normal leaving the spirit of self-sacrifice to our soldiers and we shall unquestionably run the risk of a stalemate with I do not have the slightest doubt of our eventual victory But I do not wish to see the period of our sweat and tears indefinitely and unnecessarily prolonged We must not fail to realize that we are up against a powerful fighting a people whose morale cannot be broken even by successive defeats and untold economic a people who gladly sacrifice their lives for Emperor and We must also remember Japan did not start this war without carefully laid military plans for victory over the United States and a peace dictated by their war lords at the White This is a total the only answer to which is a total American It is a war in which half measures of any kind mean incredible waste of energy and human In this sense a half-filled War Savings Stamp album is symbolic of a half There I am roughly million partially complete War Stamp albums now in circulation These uncompleted Stamp albums in a like a million threats to a speedy and victorious On the other for every War Savings album completed and cashed in for a you the owner have helped some soldier or sailor take a forward step on thc uphill road to total victory U. S. Scouts Enjoy In true scout the Boy Scouts of Neola packed their grub and cooking and spent a night in camping in thc open last Camp was made near thc power plant at Uintah where and were enjoyed during the daylight hours and campfire activities took up the remainder of the Sunday morning services were after which the boys had a few farewell rides and then prepared for thc homeward They were accompanied by Lee and transportation was furnished by Tal Alice Mecham returned home last week after visiting in Provo for some time with her and Mrs Workman and family moved into the William Wilkerson home in last Arbun Wilkerson has purchased their farm two miles north of The Misses Lois Redden and Lela Mitchell of Upalco were week end quests of Glenda Miss Colleen Timothy of Roosevelt spent the week end visiting in Neola Ulah Smithson and LuElla who recently graduated from the Roosevelt High have obtained at the J. C. Penney store in and Preston Keel of Provo were visitors last week at the home of Keel's sister and and LaVell Horrocks Reva hot lunch supervisor visited the Neola school kitchen last Mrs Deone and Mrs Matt spent the fore part of the week in Utah and Sanpete Mrs Spencer was called to Pleasant by the death of her Morris Winn made a trip to Vernal last |