Granada Pioneer, Vol III, No. 19

              Pag^ 2.
PIONEER
.January 6, 19X-5
0THSR NIGHT I was talking to one of the local
USO junior' host ease's--a
hard worker in. therart -of.
ent e r.ta in ihgv v 1 s It ing rii. s e i
.soldiers,* I, asked how she.
was making cut and.she replied wistfully that she
was kinda tired but making
out okay.
This comely and lively
lass said that being "on;
the job" several nights
straight makes one a bit
weary. But she continued
good humoredly,' when she
saw how' much enjoyment Joe'
Nisei on furlough got at
the service "center-- her
weariness vanished.
But what she failed to
mention, perhaps with modesty, was that the ' enjoyment written on any soldier's face is the result
of sincere efforts expended,
by the hostesses who truly
want to entertain their
guests.'A natural reaction
of "chemical" Nisei GI to
the power of "catalyst" USO
hostess.
This column has nothing
but admiration for the fine"
work done by Amache USO's
s eni o r and j unio r ho st e s s e s. '
DECENCY
r\ GREAT DEAL of effort is
r\Aput forth in sponsoring
a farewell dinnerparty for
the local boys departing
for active duty in the Army*
And the affair runs into a
lot *£ dnirkr's,'- Butimore
"expensive" than the money
involved i$ •,ithe" vthbught
and the. heart that is put-
in to the task of properly '
honoring the boys and their
parents'. •
Tn humbly ask the cooperation of the people, manager, councilman, and the
mess crew of the block involved, and to make all
the necessary general arrangements are enough to
give anybody a balloon sized
headache. And y e t they
gladly do it because they
feel the result -is' worth
the effort.
Few nights ago their
faith In -that belief was
given a severe jolt. At ■
Tuesday night's farewell
party at 9L mess hall, a-
couple of honored  guests
|  Published "Wednesdays  and  Saturdays by the IfRAj
land distributed free, to each apartment.  Editorial
joffice; PIONEER building, Amache, Colo. Telephone"63.
Reports officer: Joe I'.cCleiland Editor; Roy. Yoshida
Staff:  Rosie Arima, Allan Asakawa, Asano Easai,
j'Henry Eusaba, Tsugi Eayahara, Amy Einabe,  Ben Miya-
■hara,  Yayeko Iviorita, - Florence Oxida,  Shigeko Mae
jSakamoto,Sadami Sake,Henry 'Shimada, Johnnie Tsuruta,
iMao Yamaguohj..
Japanese -Section ■-. . .
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Hamakawa/, Hiromiohi Mof:imc
£ D I T O It ;  A L
. ■« Editor: Ichiro Tonno
Ko-ichi Nomiyama,' Mojiro
o. '
W.
Retit ions are circulated in  Yuba and Sutter coun-
es asking Major General Pratt to suspend the order
"the temper of the times
Birron N. Shingle, Pres-
p omitting citizens of  Japanese ancestry to return to
C -»] i f o m i a h ab i t a t i o n s un 111
shall have been moderated."
ident of the harysvilie Chamber of Commerce, supports
it with the argument that the acute housing shortage
will make the return deplorable at this time,
We site these as typical of the curious misconceptions that the emotional factors of the issue impose-
upon persons who would not err in affairs of calmer
.judgement. The Western Defense Command has no authority to deal with "the temper of the times" or relieve
the housing shortage by keeping persons out .of their
propertyt The order of exclusion was military for what
seemed good military reasons, The reasons now. existing no longer, the military authorities have no alternative to rescinding the exclusion. If there is legal
means to' prevent it, the lav/ and not the Army is the
correct agency, ■ If . there is not, the Army .'cannot do
It- illegally*'
SEE. CHRONICLE, Dec. 27.
fALftnW§mCNC9V5 COLUMN
An Americ. -' cit:
en ol
the. "dry pa:
speeches—just
_^^_^^_^^^__^^_^^^^__ German ancestry was waiting
—i——.,— ^—, „ ; down Powell Street, in San
(enlisted reservists) walk*' Francisco,  when he was
stopped by a soldier who
asked: "Can you tell me the
way to Chinatown?",. .He replied: "Yes, of course, it
is two blocks over and two
blocks to the left; but you
don't want to go there,because you are a Jao"...The
soldier replied: "And you
are a Gorman". * .The citizen
■ said: "How did you know?"
y-'- iff Elbe soldier replied : *n I
know because live killed a
lot of them the last Wo
months in Italy,and I'm en
my way home to Seattle".,.
The citizen of German ancestry looked at the uniform
of the soldier and saw on it
. a Presidential Citation, the
Purple Heart and a few cam-
■ paign ribbons. ■
Telling -this  story
about himself he' said;
"Boy, was I embarrassed I
The soldier was of Japanese ancestry and a member
of the famous 100th Infantry .Battalion. u
■od out before the ' program
was over. "Eating Part"
was over so the boys
not .want^jjg to-stay for
•I"--such 'as,
 l" s I rammed I
(to w&3| slangy.'), They were
going to a dance and had
to pick up their "dates."
They had an "excus e- -on
crutches." They were to
be honor guest's at this-
d anc e,
By wa 1 k ing o ut t h e y
"saved" ton m.inutos--per-
haps 15 at the most, A
cheap price for a man's
character as a gentleman,
In'a relocation center,
much of man's pride, for
that/matter woman's too,,
have been sadly neglected.
But down deep inside any
person ■ there is a bit of
that thing called decency--
just waiting to be called,
now, isrl't •':'■ -a' shame' we
don't call upon it of teller?