Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 6

              Page 2_________________PIONEER__________________November 17, 1943
____________GRANADA  PIONEER______________________________
   Published Wednesdays  and Saturdays  by  the WRA and
distributed     free     to  each apartment.     Editorial   of-
fice:   PIONEER  building, Amache, Coloradao.
Telephone:   63 			     Editor:   Sueo  Sako
   Staff:   John Tsuruta,  Allan Asakawa,   Henry Kusaba,
Roy Yoshida,George Hamamoto,Jim Otsuka,   John Kawata,
Jim Otsuki,Dick  Kurihara,Amy  Minabe,Ailene  Hamamoto,
Jack   Kimura,Tad Fujii,  Roy Murakami,   James  Sakamoto,
Yayeko   Morita.________________________________________________
Unsung Heroes And Heroines
   Center farm's harvest season is over. Lest we for-
get,we must pay tribute to the farm workers who toiled
in the cold weather and sweated in the sweltering heat
so there would not be 6,000 or more empty stomachs
during this coming winter months.
   Sure, these elderly issei-men in old faded levi’s,
and women dressed in jeans and wearing homemade bonnets--
received their $16 monthly for their efforts. But for
this paltry sum, just look at the unbelievable results
of their six or seven months of sweat, grime, sore
backs, stiff necks and legs.
   Nearly four million pounds of vegetable crops.  Breaking
it down into monetary figures.    It's worth easily
$190,000 with production cost a mere $50,000-that' s
good business in any man's language.
   And aside from the money value-there were other
contributions made and invaluable experience attained
that cannot be purchased for any sum.
   For example, habucha, an annual tea plant, native
of Asia, but grown commercially in California, was
grown for the first time in Colorado. And for the
first time, potatoes, lettuce, celery, spinach, lima
beans and onions were successfully produced in this
immediate area. Colorado farmers rubbed their eyes
in wonder as Amache farmers produced mung beans or
better-known as bean sprouts which brings a good price
of 12 cents per  pound.
   All this is history now. But, Amache farmers, we
salute you for all the headaches and hardships endured.
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   Letter  TO    THE   EDITOR
TO THE  EDITOR:
   Farm Division workers wish to express our sincerest
thanks to the mess division for its generous coopera-
tion extended to us by having the Koen mess hall open
all  through the harvest season.  We  wish to thank
especially Messers “Tiny” Wells, Ted Tanaka, Iwao Ha-
tanaka,and Norman Kishi of the mess division for their
individual efforts who have contributed greatly toward
the successful completion of the harvest season.
           Nobu Sakamoto
Acting Farm Supervisor
Farm Division
A  SUCCESS
3000  Witness
Flowers, Gardens
   0 ver 3,000 residents
jammed the hospitality House
last    Saturday     and  Sunday
to view the beautiful displays  and
spectacular displays of
artificial flowers and min-
iature gardens under the
sponsorship of Madame Kun-
sen Ninomiya  and her stu-
dents.
   Madame Ninomiya stated
that the success of the two -
day exhibit was beyond all
expectations and congratu-
lated her students for the
splendid job they performed.
===WANTED===
...a helper at 11H nursery
...an assistant librarian
and landscaper at elemen-
tary school.___________________________________
Incidentally
	By Sueo Sako
   Dr.  Reece N. Pedicord,
chief medical officer at
Tule Lake, who was beaten
by fifteen young Japanese
in the recent riot, was
aboard the train which
pulled into Granada depot
with 51 Tuleans Sunday morn-
ing at 9:30 o'clock.    Dr.
Pedicord,however,continued
his journey to an undis-
closed relocation center.
………………………………………….
   Following excerpts are
from a letter sent to James
G. Lindley from a nisei
soldier at Camp Shelby,
Mississippi:
   "I am a soldier in the
United States Army. But
that is a minor point, the
main thing is about the
item that appeared in the
Newsweek Weekly Pictorial,
Nov. 8, in which appeared
the picture of nisei women
associating with German
prisoners of war.   Who is
to blame remains in ques-
tion,but it gets me so mad
to think of women from your
camp associating with lousy
Germans,who are our enemies
who have destroyed every-
thing noteworthy of life,
liberty, and happiness.
   "We have volunteered in
the U.S. Army to show the
people we are Americans like
the rest,but the action of
these women… make our ac -
tions mediocre, merely in-
creasing the hatred against
us. This is not my opinion
but the opinion of a great
many volunteers of the
442nd.How can we live this
down? .. .Please use more dis-
cretion on who leaves the
camp to work, they are the
builders of our future!"
……………………………………………………………….
   C o l umbia university's
class in Japanese has dwin-
dled from sixty a year to
a mere four students, be-
cause half of the group
found the language too dif-
ficult. One of the remain-
ing quartet revealed that
after a year's intensive
study he knows only between
1,200 and 1,300 characters,
whereas a well-educated
Japanese knows 3,000. The
students claimed that with
the aid of a dictionary it
would take 15 hours to read
a Japanese editorial.