Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 97

              Page 3_______________________PIONEER_________________ September 4, 1943
SHELBY'S   SWIMMING TEAM
COPS CHAMPIONSHIP  TITLE
CAMP SHELBY, Miss. ,
Sept. 1 - -With only one
week's practice,eight swim-
ers from the Japanese-Amer-
ican Combat Team Infantry
regiment won the team title
in the Southern Amateur
Athletic Union Senior Swim-
ming championship at New
Orleans by a score of 53-
17.
   Runners-up were the teams
from Camp Livingston., La.,
Texas A.and M.,and Nether-
lands Flying school, Jack-
son, Miss.
   The nisei stars,all vol-
unteers from Hawaii, won
four first places and placed
in every event.
   Captain and coach Takeshi
Hirose,former National AAU
100-meter champion, paced
the Japanese Americans to
victory,with a first in the
50-yard free style,a second
in the 100-yard free style,
and  anchored the two win-
ning relay teams.
   Other nisei competitors
were Francis Tanaka, John
Tsukane,Charles Oda,Robert
Iwamoto, and Hideo Mizuki.
   Nearly 100 athletes
competed in the champion-
ships.
CHICAGO SUN PATS
EBERHARTER’S  BACK
   The Chicago Sun recent-
ly carried an editorial
declaring that "At last a
member of the Dies commit-
tee, Representative Eber-
harter of Pennsylvania ,
has challenged the irres-
ponsible attacks of the
majority on the WRA's han-
dling of Japanese Americans.''
   Continued the editorial:
   "Mr. Eberharter has the
courage to dissent and to
cite facts to counter the
majority' s generalizations
...If Mr. Eberharter keeps
up the good work, it will
be less easy for the Dies
committee majority to make
political capital by irres -
ponsible procedures and
loose charges.''
    The editorial charged
the head of the committee,
Representative Costello,
(a Californian) had politi-
calfortunes tied to Calif-
ornia prejudices.
Fair  To  Seek
Two  Purposes
   continued from page 1
both  residents and people
on the outside to see the
results of our farm program.
   The fair committee ex-
plains that the purposes
of the exhibition are (1)
to demonstrate to the peo-
ple of the center and those
on the outside the variety
and quality of product
grown on the project farm,
and (2) to emphasize the
importance of quality pro-
duction.
   According to the list
of rules  issued by the fair
committee, all exhibits
both for exhibition and
competition must be in place
by 12 o'clock noon, Satur-
day, Sept. 11.    Judging of
entries will commence at
1:30 p.m., Saturday.    Exhi-
bitors are urged to be pre-
sent when the judging takes
place .
   Mimeographed copies of
the fair, entry lists, and
general results are being
distributed today to center
residents. Extra copies
may be obtained from the
fair manager or from the
farm office.
‘THIS  WORLD’
CARRIES ARTIST
OKUBO’S  DRAWING
   A two-page spread fea-
turing the drawings of Mine
Okubo and her story about
the first days of evacua-
tion was carried in the Aug.
29 issue of the This World
section of the  SF Chroni-
cle.   The feature was cap-
tioned "An Evacuee's Hopes
--And Memories."
   Said This World:
   “A third generation
Japanese American,Miss Mine
Okubo is an art graduate
of the University of Cali-
fornia and she needs no
introduction to the Bay
Area. Her debut as a writer
was accidental-her explan-
atory notes with her sketch-
es were so much more. This
World simply incorporated
them into the article."
   Excerpts of a recent
speech made in San Francisco
by Dillon S.  Myer, WRA di-
rector, were also included
with Miss Okubo's story.
   The author is a resident
of the Topaz center in Utah
and was recently awarded
first prize in an art com-
petition sponsored by the
Friends center at Cambridge,
Mass.
ONLY  FEATURES DIFFER
   Speaking recently before
the Pueblo Rotary club, Kay
Sugahara of the employment
office was quoted by the
Pueblo Chieftain as saying,
"There is as much difference
between me and To jo as there
is between Joe Dimaggio and
Mussolini, or Wendell Will-
kie, who had German for-
bears,   and  Hitler."
   Sugahara w a s    further
quoted as stating that"The
trouble is we have American
ideals,American education,
American loyalty, but a
Japanese face." He said
that the nisei we re anxious
to  help  in  the  war  effort.
   "We don't want to be pam-
pered, "concluded Sugahara.
“We just want a decent
chance to work and to help
make this democracy  work.
It was an act of God that
we have parents of a certain
race, but oar loyalty and
desire to fulfill the
Christian spirit of this
country is as great as that
of any Caucasian."
   Paul J. Terry, superin-
tendent of education, was
also a guest speaker.
EDITORIAL  LAUDS
WAC'S  DECISION
  That the WAC'c decision
to accent a limited number
of women of Japanese descent
as "highly commendable" was
cited in a recent editorial
in. the Capital Times, Mad-
ison, Wis.
   "The only unfortunate
thing"stated the editorial
"is that it should be felt
necessary to limit the num-
ber of applications that
will be accepted...
   "Last spring a combat
unit of Japanese-American
volunteers was organized.
Everybody who has come in
contact with it...feels that
there is no better outfit
in the Army. The white of-
fleers insist that they
would be  happy to storm To-
kyo in front of their slant-
eyed, brown-skinned men,"
coneluded the editorial.