Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 53

              Page 8____________PIONEER________April  3, 1943
_____________GRANADA      PIONEER_________
   Published Wednesdays and  Saturdays by the WRA and
distributed free to each apartment.      Editorial  of-
fice:       PIONEER building, Amache, Colorado.
Telephone:  63.                                    Khan Komai, editor
Think    Resettlement
   Leave clearance can be issued at the discretion of
the project director except in certain cases is  the
report  that has come from Washington.   This report,
following word that the WRA will provide financial aid
to workers needing it in re-establishing themselves,
will speed  up the   resettlement  of  evacuees.
   The inevitable delay experienced hitherto in ob-
taining leave clearance has been a big factor in the
inability of evacuee and employer to come to terms.
Local clearance and the hostel system now in operation
should  erase the   obstacle of time  and   distance.
   Any hesitancy on the part of the individuals because
of monetary reasons shouId be eliminated with the pro-
mise of  financial  aid.
    The sooner the young people break away from the ec-
onomic protection afforded by the relocation centers
and the sooner they resettle themselves into a normal
American way of  living, the  better it will  be for  them.
   Living a sheltered life within the center is taking
away from  the independence and the initiative of the
evacuees.  
   The longer the stay within the center, the more dif-
ficult will  be  the  readjustment.
   Take   advantage of the   latest  orders.   Think resettle-
ment  constantly.
Letter TO THE EDITOR
TO THE EDITOR:
   The enclosed page of
the  Ossening Citizen Regis-
ter may interest you.   It
contains two pictures taken
at  your  center.
   I probably would have
paid very little attention
to these pictures if it
were not for the fact that
I left the staff of the
Ossening newspaper to join
the Army and now I am lo-
cated at a relocation center
such as the one these pic-
tures were taken at.
   My name has been on the
PIONEER mailing list  for
some time.    I want to take
this opportunity in thank-
ing you for sending me your
interesting   publication.
   Your editorials are
really worthy of high
praise.   The boys on your
staff who enlisted in the
Army recently are to be
congratulated.
   CPL.   PAUL  A.   LUCAS
   334th MILITARY POLICE
   ROHWER RELOCATION CENTER
   McGEHEE,   ARK.
EVACUEE   PROPERTY
TO   ARRIVE   SOON
   Word has been received
here that a carload of evac-
uee household property was
shipped from Los Angeles
on March 25, and should ar-
rive at Amache on or about
Thursday.   Distribution of
the baggage will be handled
by  the   Property  office.
S.F.  CHURCH   HEAD
WILL  VISIT   SPEAK
   Dr. G. K. Chapman, head
of the San Francisco Fed-
erated churches, will
speak on the subject of
resettlement at Terry hall
Monday evening at 7  o'clock.
   Dr. Chapman is now on a
tour of the 10 relocation
centers.
   The public is cordially
invited to  attend.
====TRANSFER====
   From  Poston,  Masao  Ni-
shijima.
VITAL
 ====STATISTICS====	
BIRTH:
    To Mr. and Mrs.  Norman
Satow, 9H-12F, a girl, at
the center hospital, March
30.
   TOWN   HALL
          TALK
    Ralph Smeltzer, director
of the Brethren, relocation
hostel, left  a  very  en-
lightening  and encouraging
message  to  those  seeking
outside  employment.     The
hostel  plan,   pertaining to
the    evacuees,     was     first
proposed   in    Manzanar  the
beginning  of this  year by
Thomas   Temple.     He   took  13
eligible   persons   to  Chicago
and within a week,  most  of
them  were  employed;   all
were working  after the sec-
ond    week.     The     immediate
success   and  the  soundness
of    the     plan   brought  the
prompt    endorsement  of WRA
Director  Dillon S.  Myer.
   The hostel idea, briefly,
is to provide a temporary
place for job-applicants
to. stay and to aid them in
every way possible in se-
curing work.   In this way
the evacuee is relieved of
many of the problems con-
fronting him upon entering
a  strange  city.
   Smeltzer emphasized that
the housing situation in
Chicago is not acute be-
cause it is not a vital de-
fense area; that the people
are very tolerant toward
the evacuees and show lit-
tle racial discrimination;
and that the Army's gener-
al draft program has left
openings in all fields of
work.
   He cautioned against
the idea of evacuees taking
any kind of a job just to
get out of camp and trans-
ferring to a more suitable
job at the first opportune
moment.   Actual experiences
have shown that those quit-
ting their jobs after a
few days have caused em-
ployers to harbor ill
felling toward the evacuees.
The hostel system will over-
come this because the job-
applicants will have di-
rect contact with their job
possibilities and employ-
ers.   This will then en-
able the employees to find
something suitable to be-
gin with.
   The hostel idea seems
the best yet conceived for
those wishing to relocate;
at least it should prove
an incentive for the ones
who have wanted an outside
job and were hesitant about
going.    --Richard  Toyama