Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 47

              April  15,   1944__________________PIONEER_______________________  Page  5
  NISEI
POTPOURRI
     by  Roy Yoshida
A LITTLE BIT
   'Tis truly said,"A Lit-
tle bit goes a long ways,"
You find such to be true
in your daily life in some
form or     other.
   It's that wee bit of
extra effort that raises
the "great" above the com-
mon; that rewards the win-
ner over the loser. Raise
the standard a couple of
inches and you set a new
record. Break the tape a
fraction of second faster
and you come in first. All
of life's struggles follow
this pattern. The compete-
tion of getting something
out of life is very keen
and only the perservering,
the extra-effort giver can
hope to make a real suc-
cess   of  it.
   Now, what does it take
to make this sort of a per-
son?
   That, guys and gals,
takes in a lot of territory
but one of the most impor-
tant ingredient is PRIDE.
Without that you  can't
gauge your efforts,nor can
you find incentive to bet-
ter yourself. All of us
have pride to a certain
degree but many of us fail
to make  proper use of it.
   No matter how drab your
daily toil may seem, if
you make a game of it-if
you make an honest effort
to do better than the "last
time"-your toil loses its
drabness. It's you versus
your job. If you take pride
in your work (I grant
you that it is trying at
times), if you have the in-
satiable desire to win over
your job,then your efforts
will bear fruit.  But if
you continually allow your
job to come out on top,then
you're soured on life and
on your daily chores-you
need readjustment, but de-
finitely.
   If your day to day ef-
forts are nothing more than
just "going thru the motions,"
then the world will soon
pass you by-you won’t even
be able to "bring up the
rear."
   Never be satisfied with
your daily good work. Just
keeping it up isn't enough,
you must put that incentive-
giving pride to task and
raise your standard. Our
society is full of alibi-
Ikes and one-eye-on-the-
clock guys, so a go-getter
can find plenty of "rewards"
lying around waiting to be
picked up by "extra efforts ," 
    Be a record breaker and 
be a winner-in your daily 
life. Take a bite of PRIDE 
and enjoy the taste of SUC-
CESS in your endeavors.
Remember, “A little bit
goes a long ways.”
NISEI  SOLDIER  AND  WAC
WIFE  SHOW  PATRIOTISM
   CLEVELAND, Ohio, Apr.
12--Yosh "Nickie" Nakagawara,
now a sergeant in the US
Army, when told by t he
officers of the Japanese
Imperial Army to "be a
good soldier" early in
1941 took it to heart.
Today, with his Air WAC
Pvt. Cherry Nakagawara, he
sets a handsome example of
true patriotism to many
Americans.
   It was on the eve of his
induction into the US Army
in December of 1940 that
he received word of his
father's illness in Japan
and was granted permission
to visit  there,
   "The Japanese officials
treated me as an alien,"
he recalled. "The police
would assign a plain-clothes
man to follow me every
place  I went.
   "When the government
found out that I was about
to  enter the American Army
they didn't say much about
it-just told me to be a
good  soldier.'"
   Sgt. Nakagawara, 26, is
formerly of Alameda and now
a member of a station hos-
pital complement at Camp
Bowie,   Tex.
   Cherry, whose home town
is Oakland, Calif., joined
the Air WAC last January
and is stationed at Wright
Field, Ohio. Her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. Shiozawa,
with two brothers and three
sisters are living at the
relocation center in Topaz,
Utah, Another sister, Mrs.
Yuki Katayana, who is mar-
ried to Cpl. Taro Katayana
of Camp Shelby, Miss., is
employed at the Cleveland
WRA office.
   As if that were not
enough service people for
one family,. Pvt, Cherry's
twin sister Mary, is the
wife of Pvt. Ronnie Nagata,
stationed at  Camp Savage.
NEW  JERSEY  FARMERS  ASSAIL
EMPLOYING  NISEI  WORKERS
   PHILLIPSBURG, NJ,Apr.11-Farmers of a small farming
community 10 miles from here in Warren county de-
manded the immediate removal of five Japanese-American
workers   on a Great  Meadows  farm at  a mass  meeting.
   Indignation of the citizens reached fever point
yesterday with the arrival of four more American citi-
zens of Japanese parentage to join George Yamamoto,
who was assigned to the 100-acre farm of Edward Kowa-
lick two weeks ago.
   The Warren county Board of Agriculture last night
adopted a resolutidn calling for removal of the five
men in the interest of community peace and announ-
ced that the WRA, which imported the four men from a
center in Arizona, would be asked to comply with this
request.
   Henry Patterson, of the Philadelphia regional WRA
office, who assigned the men to Kowalick's farm at the
farmer's request, termed the protest a "tempest in a
teapot," caused by a few "stubborn and ignorant people,"
   The immediate attention of  WRA, he said, was to
keep the  five men on    the     Kowalick    farm.    He  said  he
had contacted    the   sheriff
of Warren county and t he
New Jersey State police and
was assured by those auth-
orities that the situation
would be kept under control.
   Yamamoto, he disclosed,
was   one  of three  Japanese-
American farmhands who
figured in a similar up-
heaval of public feeling
a month ago in Sussex coun-
ty, Del., and likewise is
the father of a son who
was drafted in the United
States Army a  fortnight  ago.