Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 39

              Page 2_____________________PIONEER_____________________March 18,   1944
     Just
Incidentally
         By Sueo Sako
   This column has con-
tinuously taken a"crack"
at proponents of discrimi-
natory legislation and
other advocators of race
prejudice by different
methods. Many have and
will severely criticize my
attitude and policy. Many
critics question my method
of informing our public
exactly what is going on
"in the outside world,"
Some insist that by always
reminding and harping on
nisei and their problems,
we are crying for self-
pity. And instead of at-
taining our ultimate goal
of informing the American
public properly, we have
utterly failed and on the
contrary, have injected
false ideas of discrimina-
tion and race prejudice in
the minds of nisei confined
in the  relocation centers.
   John Q. Public must re-
alize there are always two
aspects to every problem.
It all depends on how one
looks and studies the ques-
tion.
   We attempt only to pre-
sent the nisei viewpoint
on all matters correctly
and justly. We keep hit-
ting at those who cannot
and will not believe facts.
We won't and cannot take
it lying down. We hate
to see some misinformed
nisei relocatee venture
"on the outside" expecting
everything to be a "bed
of roses." On the other
hand,we want all residents
to know about the opportu-
nities that are available.
We want them to re-establish
themselves into American
society well prepared.
   A plan for racial toler-
ance and complete under-
standing proposed in 1939
at Springfield, Mass,, has
been successfully applied
in that community, and is
now called, "a communi-
ty's total war against pre-
judice," It's a double-
barrelled program of edu-
cation-"within the schools
as well as the re-educating
the educated in the old
New England town-meeting
style." With an enviable
record  of    5 years  of suc-
cess, the plan at least
should be given a thought
or two. Other communities
might well substitute such
a positive program for
their present negative ap-
proach to the important
question.
   If believers in true
democracy want to call this
nation "a melting pot for
all races," inauguration
of some form of plan along
this line should be given
serious and immediate con-
sideration.
   Then, and  only then, we
might not hear the repeti-
tion of Kansas City’s Toshio
Sano incident or another
nation-wide hubbub of a
nisei wife of a white man
in Martinez, Calif,, ousted
by thoughtless  neighbors.
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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,  Esther  Takei.
    Letter  TO THE EDITOR.
TO THE EDITOR:
    The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in
America today asked the cooperation of the religious
press in dispelling the confusion created by the use
of a similar name by an organization calling itself
"The American Council  of Christian Churches."
   The immediate occasion for the statement was the
evidence that an ill-considered resolution recently
made public by "The American Council of Christian
Churches" is being erroneously attributed, in uninform-
ed circles, to the Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ in America. The resolution in question proposed
that the government of the United States make a delib-
erate bombing attack upon the  Shinto  shrines  in Japan.
   When the resolution was first made public the of-
ficers of the Federal Council paid no attention to it.
They assumed that readers would be fully aware of the
difference between  the American-Council of Christian
Churches, which was recently organized by a small group
of ultra-Fundamentalists, and the Federal Council of
the Churches of Christ in America, which has been in
existence for thirty-five years as a federation of his-
toric Evangelical denominations. It is now clear,how-
ever, that not a few readers of the resolution in ques-
tion have been misled.
   Particular cases in point are the Japanese-American
papers, The Utah Nippon, issued in Salt Lake City, and
The Rocky Mountain Shimpo, both circulated among Japa-
nese Americans in resettlement areas and relocation
centers. These newspapers,in printing the resolution,
interpreted it as coming from the Federal Council of
the Churches of Christ in America, and so erroneously
concluded that it represented the main body of American
Christians.   Loyal Japanese Americans have been so pain-
fully distressed by the resolution that the Federal
Council’s officers have felt it necessary to make a
public disclaimer of any connection whatever with the
resolution.
Samuel  McCrea Cavert
The  Federal Council of Churches
297 Fourth Avenue
New York 10,   N.Y.
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BIRTH:
   To Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Kumai, 12h-2B, a boy, Mar.
15.