Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 85

              July 24,   1943________________PIONEER_________________Page 3
Granada  Center  Featured
EVACUEES  ARE  NOT ‘SPOILD, PAMPERED,
AND CODDLED,’  WRITE   VISITING  NEWSMEN
   The  Granada center was
the subject of feature  ar-
ticles by a dozen newsman
from four states following
an "open house"tour of the
project recently. 
   All of  the stories were
unanimous in their opin-
ions that the evacuees were
not "spoiled, pampered and
coddled."   The  Monitor,
Denver newspaper, said  that
reports that the Japs have
a $350,000 school, beauty-
ful swimming pool, and are
fed the  best food in the
state are "malicious and
false."
   A comprehensive coverage
of the entire camp set-up,
(background,  administra-
tion, self-government, ed-
ucation,  agriculture, fa-
cilities,  and activities)
were made by each of the
writers.  The opinions ex-
pressed were impartial and
made  no attempts to con-
demn or condone.
   G. M. Hunsley of the
Albuquerque (NM), Journal
reported that the Granada 
center is  no "Lil Tokyo"
and that the Japanese held
there live in the American
way.     
   "To one observer at
least," he wrote, "this
center did not have much
of a foreign atmosphere.
The people talked the Amer-
ican language, engaged in
American games, ate Ameri-
can foods, displayed the 
American desire for clean-
liness to a high degree,
and even indulged in the
old American custom of grip-
ing a little now and then.'*
   Colorado Springs Evening
Telegraph's writer David
F. Clarke said about the
self-government  set-up:
"The Japs here are self-
governing , alhough strange -
ly for a democratic coun-
try, they use a council-
manager form of government
almost identical to that
of Soviet Russia."
   He praised the evacuees
as good agriculturists.
They have ..."coaxed  (grains
and vegetables) into beau-
tiful maturity.   Many of
the crops are new to this
part of the country and the
experiments appear likely 
to make  farming history 
here.
   Omaha World-Herald’s J.
Harold Cowan quoted the
Lamar(town 17 miles north-
west of the center) corner
cop as saying: "We don't
have no  trouble with the
Japs.    They're good indivi-
dually...But they're Japa-
nese!"    The writer thought
that evacuation ‘has result-
ed in sudden emancipation
of many of the older aliens
(issei) whose   previous
years were spent in toil."
   Editor George F. Williams
of the Antonito (Colo.)
Ledger News,and R.K. Welch
of the Kit Carson (Colo.)
Herald,both weeklies, gave
factual but impersonal re-  
ports of their visits.
   E. B.  Garnett  of the
Kansas City Star summed it
all up by commenting that
evacuation   is a story of
inconsistencies, strange
contradictions, inequali -
ties in social relationships
and adjustments for the
emergencies of war, and
that it is causing one of
Uncle Sam's worst headaches.
   ". . .life in all its com-
pilations, its headaches,
and its heartaches born of
war, goes on at the WRA
center at Colorado," he
wrote.   "Does it contradict,
or uphold Kipling's conten-
tion that, 'East is East,
West is West and never the
twain shall meet?"
   Wally Reef, news editor
of the Denver radio station,
KFEL, discussed the Grana-
da center curing his news
broadcasts of July 5, 6, 7,
and 8.   He was also a visi-
tor at the center during
open house._________________
     MOVIES
   TODAY
7:30 p.m.-8K mess hall.
8:15 p.m.--6H mess hall.
   TOMORROW 
7:30 p.m.--7G mess hall.
8:15 p.m.--7F mess hall.
   MONDAY
8:15 p.m.--High school aud-
   itorium (How Green Was
   My Valley).
   TUESDAY B  
8:15 p.m.-- High school aud -
itorium (Magnificent Dope).
  "How Green Was My Valley, "
the story of a family nev-
er conquered --neither by
armed men or hardship - hun-
ger or hate-nor by the
dark destiny that threatened
the greenness of their val-
ley,will conclude its four-
day run Monday evening at
the high school auditorium.
   Tuesday, "Magnificent
Dope,"starring Henry Fonda,
Lynn Bari, and Don Ameche,
will start a two-day show--
ing.   This sparkling satire
on high-pressure success
schools will be shown at
the auditorium Tuesday and
at two mess halls in the
lower part of the center,
Wednesday.
   A new schedule which
will  go into effect this
week end requires that mo-
vie fans cooperate and see
the  pictures in  their own
districts,    --Sueo Sako
EDITORIAL  LAUDS
DIRECTOR  MYER
   Commending WRA Director
Dillon S. Myer for slash-
ing the '"whole fabric of
downright lies and irres-
ponsible race-baiting which
the Dies committee has been
weaving not only around
the WRA and the administra-
tion,but also around a lo-
yal and peculiarly helpless
minority-Americans of Jap-
anese ancestry,"an editor-
ial appeared recently In
the New Republic, a weekly
magazine published in New
York.
   "It is high time," said
the editorial, "that dem-
ocratic-minded Americans
put a stop to this shame-
less persecution of loyal
Americans of Japanese an-
cestry.
   "We should accelerate
the WRA program of reset-
tling loyal persons of
Japanese origin,and demand
that this country make full
use of their productivity
in agriculture and their
proved skills in industry
and in the learned profess-
sions.
   "Let this minority know
that its faith in American
democracy has not been in
vain.”