Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 8

              Page  2______________________PIONEER__________________November   24,   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 			Editor:   Sueo Sako
   Staff: John Tsuruta, Allan Asakawa, Henry Kusaba ,
Roy Yoshida, George Hamamoto, Jim Otsuka, Jim Otsuki,
Dick Kurihara, Amy Minabe, Ailene Hamamoto, Jack Ki-
mura, Tad Fujii, Roy Murakami, James Sakamoto, Yayeko
Morita, George Morita, Bob Miyoshi, Harry Ioka, Jack
Ito._____________________________________________________________
  Letters  TO    THE   EDITOR	
TO  THE EDITOR:
   Once again, we must agree to disagree.  The PIONEER,
under past editors, has generally expressed our senti-
ments ; but now the reverse is true.  Your Mr. Yoshida
sounds like an underling of Gen. de Witt or some simi-
lar  un-American fanatic.
   First,   he  refers   (as  they do) to “an American lady”
meaning an American citizen  of Caucasian lineage amd
to  himself and  to  us  Americans   of Japanese descent
Japanese;  then he   crowns   it     with the insult, “I am
taking   Issue    with    the     idea   of  forgetting all about
.your mother  tongue"   (Japanese).     This is the sort of
sophistical   thinking-    which gives other Americans the
unjustified   right  to  regard   us  as “a foreign element”
and  to  treat   us  accordingly.
   He may be impeccable to  speak of and to himself in
this manner (being Japanese); but please, we who are
American object to our inclusion in such a category.
An American is an American regardless of ancestry, and
their language is NOT his language. Moreover, w.n.a.
will tell him that many relocatees were and are diffi-
cult to place simply for the pathetic fact that they
are unable to speak their mother tongue, American,
intelligibly.
   Nobody is disputing that the Japanese language is
important to the "War Department at Camp Savage; but
there it is a part of this unnatural expediency for
the winning of a war.    It does not enter into the
course of normal life, since it is not our duty to
perpetuate the language of ancestors from, other coun-
tries   in this   land   of  ours.
                                                           Yours  truly,
                                            (Miss)   Jonnie Aizawa
                                                                    11H-1-D
TO THE EDITOR:
   We, the parents of the polio patients, wish to ex-
tend our sincerest thanks to the center residents for
their splendid cooperation with the administration
personnel during the polio ban.  And especially to the
center doctors, nurses, and the entire hospital per-
onnel for their untiring service they have rendered 
to provide the best medical care to our stricken child-
ren.
   We join with the center residents in celebrating
the   lifting   of  the   polio  ban. 
   So to the personnel of the center hospital, adminis-
trative personnel, and the center residents we sincere-
ly thank you for   your   fullest   cooperation and kindness.
Sincerely yours,
Hansaburo  Kochi   7G-1B
			Kazuto Tokuno	11H-4D
			Yazuno Yokote     12E-1B
_______LOST_________________
   Navy pea-coat in jacket
size. If found please re-
turn to the Mess office or
the Garage .__________________________________________
VITAL
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BIRTH:
   To Mr.and  Mrs.Murakami
11G-8A,   a   girl, Nov., 21.
Incidentally
   By Sueo Sako
   In last  week-s   confab
Frank Cross of the re-
ports division in Washing-
ton DC, related an en-
couraging incident result-
ing from the Tule Lake riot
publicity.
   A certain nisei relocatee
was rather disturbed over
the unfavorable stories in
the newspapers and expressed
his   opinion to the  employer
that  incidents similar to
these would create anti-
Japanese sentiment for all
nisei who have resettled.
   Heartwarming words came
from his employer as he
emphatically declared, “My
boy,don’t look back at Tule
Lake-instead look at your
fellow brothers fighting in 
Italy.”
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   The departure scene at
Tule Lake had its moments
of drama when 370 Tuleans 
were routed to the various
relocation centers on fif-
teen minutes notice.



  A sad-eyed, black-haired
girl help up the proceedings
for more than an hour by
hiding in  a stack of luggage
in the hope she would be
left behind to marry her
sweetheart, who remained 
behind in the segregation
camp.
   Meanwhile her parents and
family friends searched
frantically for her, and
when thev finally located
the heart-broken lassie,is-
sued parental orders that
she board the train. With
one last, lingering glance
towards the acreage of cot-
tages and barracks,she re-
luctantly climbed into one
of the  Pulmans.
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   Studying the Japanese
language must be plenty
tough according to Nathan
Leopold who is serving a
life sentence in the State-
ville prison. Leopold has
mastered six languages and
started to learn Japanese
more than two years ago so
he might "be of service" to
his country, but it was so
difficult he was forced to
abandon  his  ambition.
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   Happy days are here again
as Jack Ito,Lil Neebo art-
ist   rejoined  the  PIONEER.