Salt Lake City, Utah, Monday One Year of Warfare Finds the Battle Tide Turning One year ago today, while a power professing friendship was negotiating a treaty of peace and while isolationists were assuring the American public that no alien assault or invasion would be possible, missiles of hate and destruction fell from a cloudless sky on United States territory destroying ships and planes, killing thousands of men in uniform, awakening Americans from their dreams of peace and immunity, and confronting the government with an almost incredible dilemma. It was a treacherous attack, maliciously planned and executed under a flag of truce. While suave and smiling emissaries of the Japanese government were negotiating with our state department, and arranging terms of a more amicable agreement, the Japanese navy, escorting plane carriers and directing submarines, was steaming across the Pacific under specific instructions to demolish our naval base and army camp near Honolulu. No declaration of war had been made a treaty of amity was already in force and a more binding pact was under consideration. To be sure, nobody trusted the junker Jap to any great extent but the hold acquired on the Nipponese government by its military party was entirely underestimated. The very first Americans to enter Japan or to contact Japanese officials suspected their sincerity from the Start. When Commodore Matt C. Perry, brother of the famous Oliver H. Perry, representing the United States government, sailed into Yeddo bay 89 years ago, he cautioned his men to keep in mind the possibility that outward signs of amity concealed a lurking animosity. The Japs might bow, smile, apologize and vow eternal friendship but he felt convinced they would say one thing and do another. On his return to Washington after establishing trade relations between Japan and the western world, the commodore took occasion to incorporate in his official report a reminder that once and for all, spying and deceit pervade their entire policy. His appraisal was not snap judgment as many financial and commercial leaders of those times thought, for native born Japanese have never changed except to develop and intensify these characteristics. Although Japanese authorities made occasional boasts of an intention to subjugate Asia and eventually extend their power over the entire earth declarations that antedated similar threats of the fuehrer by many years no one seemed to give them much attention. Nor did anybody seem inclined to heed the warning of General Homer Lea, published in 1909, when he said: The conquest of the Philippines by Japan will be less of a military undertaking than was the seizure of Cuba by the United States. No naval force, unless equal in combative ability to the entire Japanese navy and unless based on the Philippines at the beginning of hostilities, could have any appreciable effect in opposing invasion of these islands. Should there be a division of the American navy, the fate of the warships in Philippine waters would be but a repetition of Cerveras Cuban disaster in 1898, unless the land forces were sufficient to prevent Manila from sharing the fate of Santiago de Cuba. Since we suffered, not only the most complete and humiliating defeat in the history of the American navy at Pearl Harbor one year ago today, but subsequently lost the Philippines to the same aggressive enemy, it may not be amiss to remind Americans that there are certain features of modern warfare in which our military forces and government officials will always be unable to cope with the Germans and the Japanese: These comprise treachery, brutality, wanton destruction of property and deliberate slaughter of noncombatants. One year ago we saw and suffered a demonstration of these resurrected methods of a pagan past. Effective as they are when employed by barbarians, civilized peoples will never adopt them. The past year has been a continuous carnival of death and destruction. Our soldiers, sailors, marines and fliers have successfully resisted every assault of force and fanaticism during the past six months. We have gained toe holds in the Pacific and a strangle hold on the Mediterranean. The road is rough and strewn with bones and ruins. Nor is the end in sight. But we shall fight our way through to where victory is waiting. Names of Boy Soldiers Crowd Nazi Death Lists Exclusive dispatch to the New York Times and The Salt Lake Tribune STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 8 The names of 18 year old boys are found in ever increasing numbers in the daily long rows of black bordered death notices from the eastern front appearing in German newspapers. How urgently these boys are needed to replace casualties and how little time is available for their training is shown by the following obituary culled from the official nazi organ Beobachter: Our only son, Horst Milleville, fell like a hero during the heavy fighting in soviet Russia. He went straight from his classroom to the front without our ever seeing him in uniform. He was our entire pride and his early death has plunged us into unspeakable grief. He would have been 18 November 1. The German press contains a notice to the effect that all German families who have lost a son during the war will receive a grant of 300 marks about 120. Copyright by New York Times.