Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 23

              Page 2         PIONEER          January 12, 1943
TOWN HALL
        TALK
       by Khan Komai
  Eight and nine months,
of confinement with no real
source of income has dwin-
dled the purses of the
evacuees to the point where
meager pay checks and cloth-
ing allowances would be a
welcome relief.   These are
the only sources of income
for the center residents.
   Promises of the checks
to come will not clothe
young and old.   Ill equipped
to face the Colorado winter
after a lifetime in Cali-
fornia, warm winter cloth-
ing is needed to protect
them from a winter unlike
any in their experience.
   The few dollars that the
residents have coming to
them may undoubtedly seem
but a trifle to officials
who regularly receive  their
checks twice a month, but
even that trifle means much
to the workers here.
   The joy with which the
October checks, now two
months overdue, are received
by workers should make re-
sponsible officials realize
that  something    more than
glib promises are needed.
*      *      *      *      *
   Much ado has been raised
by the JACL and the ACLU
because of the deletion
by radio station KFWB of
all reference to Japanese
evacuation and their civil
rights from a broadcast
celebrating the 151st anni-
versary of the Bill o
Rights.
   Here in this camp is an
official who would appar-
ently welcome censorship.
The freedom of the press
has been guaranteed by the
constitution.   This freedom
is  being enjoyed here.
   But this official would
censor  all  articles   that
are published in this paper
that concern his department.
   Criticism of any and
all departments, if justi-
fied, should be printed.
Any comments or criticism
appearing in this paper
are printed with the in-
tention of improving exist-
ing condition in the center.
  If criticism is resented,
the department heads should
clean house first before
storming into the editor's
office demanding censorship.
G R A N  D A     P I O N E E R 
   Published Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays by
the WRA and distributed free to each apartment:   Ed-
itorial office:   PIONEER building, Amache, Colorado.
Telephone number 63.
Oski Taniwaki, director 		Bob Hirano, editor
   Staff:   Jiro Sumita, Taxie Xusunoki, Jack Ito,
Robert Asamoto, Tomoko Yatabe, Alice Taketa, Joseph
Ide, Choji Nakano, Elmer Ioka, Hiromichi Morimoto,
Tsugime Akaki, Jim Yamaguchi, Sab Okamura, George
Hamamoto, Masaji Murai, John Tsuruta, Hiroshi Ito,
Harry Ioka, Edith Kodama, Jun Taketa, Makoto Morita,
Yutaka Kubota, Ernest Uno, Roy Hamaji, Suyeo Sako.
We   Grow
   To give residents of the Granada center a more com-
plete and more timely coverage of the news, the PIONEER
will this week begin a three-times-a-week publication
schedule.       
   Under the new set-up, the newspaper will be distri-
buted  every  Tuesday,  Thursday, and  Saturday.   .
   We hope that in the not too distant future we may
be able to give our readers either a daily mimeographed
paper or a semi-weekly printed paper.    How soon we will
reach our goal depends largely upon the center's com-
munity enterprise set-up.
Contribution
   People are not hard to find who long and pine for
the time to do the things they have always wanted 'to
do. 
  The time has come and so has one opportunity.
  As a new feature of the paper, the intention is to
put out a magazine section at regular intervals, de-
pending upon the quality and quantity of submissions.
  Find an outlet for your new experiences and per-
spectives on paper.
   Short stories, essays, poems--any type of creative
writing will be welcomed at  the PIONEER building.
POLICE   ESCORT SERVICE
AVAILABLE TO RESIDENTS
  Residents wishing trans-
portation to the Granada
station to board a train
or a bus must fill out an
escort form at the police
station, Police Chief H.M.
Tomlinson announced today.
   Arrangements for the
transporting of passengers
and baggages will then be
made accordingly.
   Persons traveling on the
trains should purchase
tickets before 4 p.m. and
arrange for the checking of
their luggage to avoid de-
lay.   Bus travelers may buy
tickets before the trip.
   Send-off parties are re-
quested not to go to the
station because of the lack
of transportation facilities,
announced Police Chief Tom-
linson.
Agricultural   Labor    Survey
Being Made by Mark Hayashi
    An agriculture labor
problem survey is being
conducted  by  Mark Hayashi
of the documentation sec-
tion.
   The results of this sur-
vey will be presented to
the WRA and  to  the people.
to show the actual living,
working, and social condi- 
tions which the evacuees
experienced during the past
season.
   This will help to im-
prove the future evacuee
employment conditions and
will give the administra-
tion a basis upon which a
better resettlement program
can be developed.