Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 37

              Page 2_______________________PIONEER_________________March 11,   1944
   Just
Incidentally
      The latest and most
startling cry of war hys-
terical and emotional people
comes from Delaware this
week in protest over a few
incoming Japanese-American
relocators. Some 100 Dela-
ware farmers, are putting up
a big  fuss  and shedding
"crocodile tears" that nisei
are a "menace to our wives
and children," I should
like to know of any record
showing a resettled nisei
who sneaked around in the
dark and forced any physical
harm on American women or
children.
   The uninformed American
public has failed to realize
that one of the greatest
drawbacks in the relocation
program that WRA officials
are fighting is that evac-
uees themselves are afraid
of unfavorable public sent-
iment which might result in
bodily harm to them.
   Rather heartening in this
turmoil is that the employer
of these first three nisei
relocators has declared he
will "back his new' workers
to the limit." But on the
other hand, the protestors
are yelling their heads off
that they would prefer to
import German or Italian
war prisoners under military
guard than permit the in-
flux of nisei to over-run
their community. The Dela-
warites forget that the re-
cord of every individual of
this "yellow menace" has
been checked with the files
of the Federal Bureau of
investigation.
    lt is serious when
thoughtless people will let
their emotions make them
prefer that their neighbors
shall be the very persons
their sons, husbands, fa -
thers and sweethearts are
fighting against on the far-
flung battlefields. One
would think that they would
prefer loyal Americans as
neighbors no matter what
their ancestry may be.
   One can easily account
to a certain degree that
Easterners are always
cool toward strangers re-
gardless of color, race or
creed. It will be unfortu-
nate  and  possibly many un-
forseen complications may
arise if racial prejudice
and hatred should take root
in a community whose fore-
fathers believed in free-
dom and equality.
                       GRANADA   PIONEER
   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, Roy Yoshida,
George Hamamoto, Jim Otsuka, Jim Otsuki, Amy MInabe,
Ailene Hamamoto, Jack Kimura, Yayeko Morita, George
Morita, Yonemi Ono, Jack Ito, Toshiharu Matsumoto,Roy
Murakami,   Junior  Nakagawa.
   Democracy  In  Action
   Carrying approximately 35,000 signatures, safely
over the required 26,943, a petition barring Japanese
aliens from owning real estate in Colorado was filed
with the secretary of state Tuesday. This petition
was circulated after a special legislature session
killed a similar amendment proposal. This proposed
amendment will be  placed   on the  November  ballot.
   Recent developments in Salt Lake City and Denver,
affaires d'Dr. Lechner, and the above-mentioned alien
land measure are surely the signs of "anti-seeds" blown
inland from' California taking root. The shadow of
California's racially Intolerant group is getting long-
er and longer, and more ominous each day. And like a
gluttonous giant it is attempting to get as wide as it
is long.   It has long passed the stage of telling its
own people what to do with the Japanese problem, but
has "consented" to look after the affairs of other
states  far and  near.
   And to fight this current of hate and distrust,
this whirlpool of discouragement-we have but one wea-
pon. That age-old power of the pen. We must utilize
it  fully to  our best  interest.
   Letters to editors, letters to legislators, letters
to government officials, letters to influential and
fair-minded citizens, letters to our friends of all
nationalities, and letters to our severest critics.
Yes, even to our SEVEREST CRITICS. With facts and fig-
ures,with candor and care, with heart and soul. First
have something to say. Then say it so that people will
read   it,   understand  it and believe   it.
Let's  go,   fellow nisei,   a  good  cause is worth a  good
Fight.   That's  the democratic way. --Roy Yoshida
PREDICTS  LOCAL  HOSPITAL  TO  FACE
LIMITED  NURSING  SERVICE  SOON
   The nursing service in
all community hospitals
throughout the entire Uni-
ted States has reached a
definite crisis,states Dr,
William T. Carstarphen,
chief medical officer.
There is not a hospital in
the entire nation that is
not feeling this reduction
in nursing personnel due
to extraction for war service.
   Here In Amache,adds Dr.
Carstarphen, we are at the
present time, in. a much
more favorable position.
However, it is temporary
and I have reason to be-
lieve that ultimately, we
will be faced with almost
the same situation as now
exists in most of the com-
munities within the United
States.
   To meet this grave con-
dition in the shortage of
nursing service, we must
begin to recognize the nec-
essity of abolishing lux-
ury nursing in all of its
form, Dr. Carstarphen con-
tinued. Also to reduce to
a minimum the hospital ser-
vice, our doctors must ad-
mit only those patients
who must have hospital at-
tention. Unless we face
these facts now and begin
to act accordingly, much
more drastic measures will
be forced upon the hospital
management in order to
meet this situation, Dr.
Carstarphen concluded.