Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 4

              November 10, 1943__________________PIONEER___________Page 6
NISEI
POTPOURRI
   by  Roy  Yoshida
NO  TIME  FOR  FRIENDSHIP?
  TOM and I were good
friends, but we saw each
other too often for true
appreciation.   I took too
much for  granted.
   Then came segregation
"rumors," so we talked of
having a little get-together.
But   I  kept   putting   it   off,
too busy,maybe   soon any-
way,   there's time  yet.
   Bang! Came transfer
orders.   We were really
busy then; making prepara-
tions, packing and running
around completing last min-
ute  arrangements.
   And   before     we     knew  It
our little   circle  of  close 
friends     scattered   to the
four     winds,     not     knowing
when we'd meet  again. Per-
haps     never     in  one group.
This  was a  saddening  ex-
perience     and   it   taught   me
a  deep     lesson.     It     laid
heavy  on my heart.
   How about that "Tom" in
your circle?  Are you “too
busy"   for  him?
   THAT new  fella in our
block, I must get acquainted
with him some day soon.   He
looks like a nice chap.
Not this morning, too busy,
perhaps this evening. That
evening: no time, I'll just
say "hello" and wait till
another dav. Thus I kept
putting   it  off.
   Then one day  I decided
to say more than just  “hel-
lo", this time I’d gab for 
a few minutes.  But that
"precious few minutes"
stretched into half an hour.
I found him to be quite a
guy, gay and sociable, and
smart, too.    Not in the
book-worm sense but in the
ways of life that_make it
happier  and more  useful.
   Now, was that half an
hour wasted?  Whom shall I
thank for succumbing to the
urge of talking to him that
gained  me  a worthy friend?-
   MOST of us, in our race
against time, hold friend-
ship too lightly. In our
quest for roses we over-
look daisies, thus we fail
in simple social amenities
that mean  so much.
   Friendshrip, like a smile ,
is no good unless you give,
it     away,     yet monev can't
buy  it.
   WHO among us in closely-
knit relocation center can
be so smug as to say "No
time   for   friendship?"
PEACE   RESTORED
RIOTERS  WITH  BAYONETS
   TULE LAKE, Calif.,  Nov.
5,--Troops with fixed bay-
onets cooled the temper of
15,000 rebellious Japanese
at this segregation center
today after riots, assaults
and destruction compelled
civilian authorities to ask
for military aid.
  Tanks, armored cars and
hundreds of troops kept a
constant patrol of the  700--
acre barracks   city.
   Sullen internees watched
intently the construction
of a high, barbed-wire fence
barring them from Caucasian
offices  and   quarters.
   The 40-foot so-called
“shooting strip” between
two fences around the popu-
lated settlement was kept
clear.
   It was evident that the
future was up to the inter-
nees   them-selves.
   “Quiet has been re-
stored,” was the army’s
only comment.
   The troops,charged  only
with  the external security
of the project, as long as
the War Relocation Author-
ity could retain control of
focal points inside, moved
into the administration
area en masse after a civ-
ilian guard was beaten se-
verily.  More violence ap-
peared imminent, and the
WRA  called for help.
   Twenty    internees    were
injured, and 500, their
arms folded over their
heads, were rounded up, at
the points of bayonets, for
questioning.
   Long-smouldering resent-
ment on the part of the
Tule Lake internees,nearly
all of them proven or sus-
pected disloyalists, first
broke into the open last
week.
   They refused to harvest
crops;demanded better food,
oiled streets, changes in
white personnel; held 200
employes virtual prisoners
during a three-hour mass
demonstration and perpe-
trated   several   assaults.
Resume Public
Forum Meetings
   Relocation public forums
which were held before the
ban on public meetings will
be resumed again, starting 
Friday at Terry hall from
7 p.m., according to Samuel
Gordon, night school direc-
tor, Monday.
   Friday’s  topic will be,
“Your responsibility as a
member of your community,”
under the chairmanship of
Project Director     James G.
Lindley.    Discussions  will
center    around:   (1)  How to
make   new    friends     in your
new home;   (2)   Your   part  in
civilian defense programs;
(3)  Attendance    at     civic
activities;   (4)   The  fusion
of the Japanese and American
culture,  and   (5)  Assimila-
tian  and what   it means.
   The public is cordially
invited to participate in
the   forum.
FLOWERS,GARDENS
TO BE EXHIBITED
  An exhibition of arti-
ficial flowers and miniature
gardens will be displayed
at 60 recreation hall Satur-
day and Sunday,between the
hours of 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.,
under the  sponsorship  of
Madame Kunsen Ninomiya and
her students.
   These exhibits are re-
sults of several months'
strenuous work, and will
be well, worth the time of
viewing bv the public.
HOSPITAL=====
========NEWS
   Miss     Florence    Mander-
bach   and  Miss Dorothy Brown,
former  nurses of the Rohwer
relocation  center,  arrived
at  the  center  hospital Fri-
   During the month of Octo-
ber 140 patients  were ad-
mitted to the immunization
clinic, while 133 cases
were received in the pre-
natal   clinic.
====WANTED====
   25 nurses' aide at the
hospital.