Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 25

              Page  6_________________PIONEER__________________January 29, 1944	
A.L.   MEMBERS
VISIT   AMACHE
   Four American Legion
State officials left with
a very favorable impression
after a tour of the center
Tuesday afternoon, accord-
ing to Harlow Tomlinson,
chief of internal security,
who  escorted  them.
   The officials were H.E.
Waring, chairman of the
third district from Lamar;
Mrs. E.Jensen, chairman of
the ladies auxiliary from
Brush,Colo.; H.L. Hinkley,
chairman of Americanism pro-
gram from Sterling, Colo.,
and P. T. Thomas, state com-
mander  from Denver.
NORMA  HAMAMOTO   LEADS   GIRLS'
SCORING   PARADE WITH 64-POINTS
   Norma Hamamoto of the
title-bound Ramblerettes
tops the girls' individual
scoring race with 64 points
tallied in four game. Team-
mate Chizu Kanda and Shoot-
ing Stars' Nami Kinoshita
are right behind her with
62 and 60, while dead-eye
Teruko Miyano of the Spurs
has accumulated 59 digits
in three   games.
   Following are the play-
ers who have tallied 15 or
more points.
N.Hamamoto (R)	 4     64
C.Kanda   ( R)	 4     62
N.Kinoshita (SS)	 4     60
I .Miyano   (S) 	 3      59
S.Washino   (T)      4      54
Y.Nakano   (RF)     3     32
H. Kashiwabara (RF)   3     32
A.Miyano   (M)      4     31
C.Takao   (SS)        4     30
M.Asakawa   (RF)  3     28
K.Yagi (SS)	4    26
M.Kawaguchi   (T)4    25
S.Suriyama   (R)     4     22
H.Inamasu   (SS)    4     19
R.Morita   (M)        4     19
M.Morita   (S)        3      15
B.Kochi   (T)           4      15
   LEGEND:  M. Manjiettes:
R, Ramblerettes; RF, Royal
Flusherettes; S. Spurs;  SS,
Shooting Stars, T, Toppers.
Evacuees Develop Bread-Line Complex
   A trait of which persons
of Japanese descent prided
themselves back on the coast
was their industry. It was
as     characterized     of them
as    their  brown skin and
slanting  eyes.
   They worked hard, put
forth a little extra effort,
a little extra time. They
didn't want to be average.
They were after results,
and they got them. They
learned through experience
that enterprise pays divi-
dends .
   It appears that this
valuable lesson has been
forgotten by a great many
evacuees. The bitterness,
hatred and dissatisfaction
spawned by evacuation have
curdled initiative.  In 
place of initiative, there is
the desire and attempt
to get by with doing little
or nothing.
   The Rev.Herbert Nichol-
son,who knows Japanese in-
timately, believes that the
most tragic aspect of eva-
cuation is the disintegra-
tion of industry among eva-
cuees. Work habits are de-
plorable. Some evacuees
have lost all drive and
perseverance. Yes, he saw
the reason for it at the
outset,but he sees no per-
centage in continuing  to
be that way. He hopes eva-
cuees will snap out of it
before too much damage is
done.
   Many evacuees figure the
government owes them much,
so they're going to take it
easy. They didn’t ask to 
be   sent     here,   so  why work
their  heads   off?
   They are the ones who
still     harp    on evacuation.
every opportunity they get.
Sure,evacuation  was a hor-
rifying pill to have to
swallow,and it's not going
to  be  easv to erase   it from
one’s mind.     But    dwelling
upon its injustices, which
righteous and intelligent
citizens and government of-
ficials are doing their ut-
most to rectify, will get
the  moaners  nowhere.
   Some chip-carrying eva-
cuees bring up the issue
of evacuation with nausea-
ating regularity. Whenever
they get the chance, they
corner any WRA official and
unload   their  grievances and
demand to know why they
 were     evacuated, what the
government is going to do
about it, and all that sort
of stuff which has been
hashed and re-hashed many
times.
   Some evacuees, bitterly
vindictive, are suffering
under the illusion that
they are “gypping” the
government which uprooted
them by bumming on their 
lobs.  On the contrary,
They are only hurting them-
selves by forming the ten-
dency to get away with ex-
pending as little effort as
possible.
   It is not expected that
evacuees sweat and slave
for so-called “penny ante”
wages of $12, $16 and $19
For a 176-hour month.  But
no one can expect, through
slack, indifferent work
habits, to maintain self-
respect.  They will only
develop the breadline com-
plex.
  When evacuess with lax
work tendencies relocate,
they usually become the
notorious "two weeks Japs"
by flitting from one job
to another. They can't and
don't hold down jobs very
long. They are inclined to
gravitate  toward, jobs    cal-
ling for a minimum of skill
and effort. And they leave
in their shameful wake en-
raged employers who turn
thumbs down on future eva-
cuees  seeking employment.
   On the other hand,nisei
with the proper slant have
viewed evacuation as an ac-
complished fact which hap-
pened during a momentary
lapse of a panicky democracy
at war, and are determined
to start fresh on a new
trail, leaving all gripes
behind.
   Their  diligence   has   not
become diseased.  If any-
thing, the uncertainty of
the future has invigorated
their enterprise.  Since
coming to camp, they have
learned new skills well
enough to go out and get 
lobs.  They wasted no time
being clock-watchers, work-
cutters, celotex-leaners,
canteen cowboys, roving ro-
meos, or first-class bums.
They learned, and they are
reaping the benefits of di-
ligence.
   To them camp was a train-
ing interlude, a spring-
board into a secure and
satisfying  future.  They
are keeping alive the trait
of enterpreise and diligence
which carried Japanese to
the top on the West coast,
and which if properly nur-
tured can some day zoom them
upward again in their new
homes.-John Kitasako of
the Heart Mountain Sentinel
Newspaper.