Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 24

              Page 2________________PIONEER_________________January 26,   1944
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Incidentally
	by Sueo Sako
   Soon thousands of Joe
nisei within the confines
of the relocation centers
will be packing their grips
to answer Uncle Sam's call
into the armed forces. He
will bo forced to bid fare-
well to his dearest ones
and newly-made friends who
shared the "bitter pills"
of evacuation.  That  is
going to  take more "guts"
than all those hysteria
mongers, race-baiters and
agitators of race hatred
can ever hope to display
or possess.
   Yes, when Joe nisei en-
trains for the army camps
he will embark on a
mission to establish a place
in this melting-pot nation
for all people regardless
of race, color or creed.
He will undoubtedly be en-
gaged on all battle lines
of this global warfare.
Perhaps Joe nisei will even
be fighting side-by-s id e
with some American doughboy
whose folks tabbed Joe nisei
to be a "second-class cit-
izen" because he happened
to be of Japanese ancestry.
Joe nisei will have indel-
ibly written in his mind
that these personal sacri-
fices are being made in
order that those remaining
behind the barbed-wire en-
closures or resettled in
metropolitan cities and on
Midwest farms will never
have their loyalty ques-
tioned   BECAUSE  OF RACE.
   Yes, Joe nisei will be
waging two battles simul-
taneously--on the United
States war fronts area on
the home front. On the
home front he will be en-
gaged in an all-out in-
vasion to convince the Ameri-
can public that Joe nisei
and his family are wort h y
citizens of a nation whose
ideals have always been for
fair play and   justice.
   As this is typewritten,
it is disheartening to
know even a staunch sup-
porter like the California
Agriculture Board who voted
against banning nisei farmers
from California after the
war on grounds of racial
prejudice has yielded to
pressure  and  rescinded   its
action. Yes, Joe nisei’s
achievements on the fight-
ing fronts will help combat
the activities of agitators
on the   home   front.
   I know out of the thou-
sands of marching Joe nisei,
there     will     step forth a
“Nisei Sergeant York” who
will symbolize the Japanese
Americans as a racial group
having displayed more cour-
age and loyalty than those
self-professed fanatical
superpatriots who believe
it takes the color of their
skin    and     incessant     flag
waving to be an American.
   G R A N A D A       P I O N E E R	
Published Wednesdays and Saturdays by the WRA and
distributed free to each apartment. Editorial of-
fice: PIONEER building, Amache, Colo. Telephone 63.
Reports officer:  Joe McClelland 	Editor: Sueo Sako
   Staff: Allan Asakawa,  John-Tsuruta, Harry Ioka,
Roy Yoshida, George Hamamoto, Jim Otsuka, Jim Otsuki,
Dick Kurihara, Amy Minabe, Ailene Hamamoto, JackKi-
mura, Tab Fujii, Roy Murakami, James Sakamoto, Yayeko
Morita, George Morita, Bob Miyoshi, Jack Ito,Russell
Yamaga.
Notify Your Draft Board
   Re institution of selective service for nisei adds
an important "must." All draft-age nisei must remember
to keep in touch with their respective selective ser-
vice boards. Many  have    been    negligent  of this  duty
since evacuation.  But now that Nisei are subject to
draft--they    are  also subject to penalties of a draft
evader if they don’t comply with selective service
regulations.
GADGET   THIEVES
CAUGHT IN ACTION
   A group of boys were
nabbed stealing hard-to-
get electrical gadgets off
the motor pool trucks re-
cently according to Police
Chief Harlow Tomlinson.
   "These culprits will be
treated accordingly after-
further  investigation on
the case," added Tomlin-
son.
CHECKS  FOR  CERTIFICATES  OF
INDEBTEDNESS TO BE  MAILED
  The Tule Lake coopera-
tive Enterprises, Inc., an-
nounces that checks on cer-
tificates of indebtedness
for the period ending June
30, 1943 are ready for re-
demption and will be mailed
within the next two weeks.
   Former Tulean Coop mem-
bers are asked to send their
certificates of indebted-
ness signed together with
the permanent addresses.
Any membership card not
terminated will be re-
funded upon receipt, added
Toshio Tomishige, director
of  information of the  Tule
Lake enterprise.
====RELOCATION===
   Mutsuko Kawaguchi, North
Manchester,Ind ., Feb. 22.
   Shirow Enomoto, Denver,
Colo., Jan. 26.
   Toyosuki Okumura, Chi-
cago, Ill., Feb. 5.
   Fumi Okumura, Chicago,
Ill., Feb. 5.
   Kuniko Mae  Okumuar,Chi-
cago,   Ill.,   Feb.   5.
   George  Kiyabu,New York,
NY,   Jan.   31.
  Koji  Nakasone,   Colorado
Springs,   Colo.,   Jan.   21,
   Pete A.  Furuta,  Denver,
Colo.,   Jan.   20.
  Akira Yamazumi, Chicago,
Ill.,   Jan.   26.
   Henry Tetsuro Noshima,
Pocatello,   Ida., Jan.   22.
   Bessie H. Matsuoka,
Washington, D.C., Feb.
6.
   Rose Fusako  Matsumoto
Washington D.C. ,  Feb.
6.
   Henry Masashi  Susukida,
Cleveland,   Ohio,   Jan.   26.
   George M. Ozeki,  Chica-
go,  Ill.,   Jan.   24.
   Teruko Matsumura, Gree-
ley, Colo., Feb. 1.
   George Kiyoshi Matsumu-
ra,  Greeley,Colo., Feb. 1.
Suetara Inouye, Denver,
Colo.,   Jan.   20.