Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 40

              Page 2___________________  PIONEER_____________________March 22,   1944
   Just
Incidentally
    By Sueo  Sako
   I often wonder how many
nisei have watched our
younger brothers and sis-
ters laughing, joking,
pushing and even crying as
thev were  en route  to    the
elementary and kindergarten
schools. Oh sure, you've
seen them continuously,but
verjr few have taken the
time to ask,"I wouId like
to hear their opinion of
relocation center life in
their simple words?" Per-
haps, most of them haven't
given it a thought. But
under these adverse condi-
tions, they're bound to
have   something to   say.
    Our little kid brothers
and sisters are so young;
the majority of them un-
able to express their feel-
ings and thoughts; yet in
some manner or form they
must have attemped to ques-
tion if this type of exis-
tence is normal. Many of
them are unable to recall
their former homes. But
indelibly stamped in their
minds are-thrice daily,we
stand in line at our res-
pective mess halls;  we
share our showers and la-
trines with everyone in
our block; we watch movies
in seats where we ate;
fathers don't drive their
automobiles; on days of
poor weather we play in our
one-room apartments; and
mothers aren't so parti-
cular of our table manners.
All these small but signi-
ficant things will play an
important part when their
time comes for them to take
their rightful places in
America.
   In their daily classes,
they learn about democracy
and its ideals. Most of
these tots in some form
have learned at one time
or another that they are
detained "because we had
the wrong ancestors." And
as the older children con-
tinue to learn and read,
things they didn't under-
stand become clearer. In
their school books, they
wi.ll  eventually read  those
immortal words:  Ámeri-
canism is a matter of the
mind and heart; Americanism
is    not   and never was   a
matter of race or ancestry." 
Yet,   confined    within    re-
location centers. it's 
going to be difficult to 
fully understand that phrase.
   The longer they remain
in relocation centers, the
harder it's going to be to
shake off those undesirable
shackles acquired in their
long confinement. It's
going to be tough even for
well-prepared    nisei.      so
it’s going to be doubly
difficult  for  our  little
kid brothers and sisters.
    GRANADA    PIONEER	
  Published  Wednesdays  and  Saturdays by the WRA and 
distributed free to each apartment.                 Editorial of-
fice: PIONEER building, Amache, Colo. T         elephone 63.
Reports   officer:   Joe McClelland 		Editor:   Sueo  Sako
    Staff:     Allan Asakawa,   John  Tsuruta,   Roy Yoshida,
George Hamamoto, Jim Otsuka, Jim Otsuki, Amy Minabe,
Allen Hamamoto, Jack Kimura, Yayeko Morita, George
Morita, Yonemi Ono, Jack Ito, Toshiharu Matsumoto, Roy
Murakami,   Junior  Nakagawa,   Esther  Takei.
BRAVE  YANKS   WITH   YELLLOW   SKINS
   Before using some wartime adjective in front of the
noun "Jap," read the story of Sgt. Gary Hisaoka, of the
American army in Italy. Read how he rescued his wounded
white major from under the very muzzles of the German
guns. Or remember the modest way in which Mike Miyake,
another Japanese American from Hawaii, passed off com-
mendation of his bravery in bringing wounded men out
of Cassino.   A couple of months ago dispatches from
Algiers told of the Japanese-American surgeon who
labored on and on, without relief, to care for our
wounded   in spite  of his  four broken ribs.
   Wisconsin has reason to have more than ordinary
interest in the outstanding record that is being made
by these Japanese in American uniforms, for many of
them were  trained   in this   state   only about a  year ago.
   Wisconsin will  hope, as the men themselves hope,
that  the  bravery and   utter devotion to America   of these
Japanese Amerleans will convince the rest of us that
a man should be judged on his character and his ac-
complishment and not on his ancestry, the slant of his
eyes,   or  the  color   of his   skin.
   No better  antidote   could  be  compounded  for  the  po-
tent   poisons   of war-bred   suspicion and  racial   hatreds.
                                   -Mar.   11,   The  Milwaukee  Journal
      A   GOOD   JAPANESE
   Ben Kuroki is a Japanese American who has twice won
the Distinguished Flying Cross for his bombing work in
Europe.  His present ambition is to bombard Tokyo.
   Kuroki is a proof that not all Japanese are like
Tojo and Co., and that Japanese blood is not a curse
which inexorably dooms its possessor to damnation.
Kuroki deserves a place beside the many good Americans,
from generals down, who are of German blood .
                                                    -Feb. 23, Republic Times
PRESENTS   NISEI   VIEWPOINT
   ON   RACIAL  PROBLEMS
   PEORIA, Ill.-- (Special) Miss Chiye Horiuchi of Mini-
doka and Seattle this week represented the Japanese
Americans in a panel discussion here on problems of
racial  groups.    Miss  Horiuchi   is a   stenographer at the
local   YWCA.     She   resettled
here in the spring of 1943.
   The discussion was term-
ed a World Wide observation
and was sponsored by bus-
iness and professional girls
of the YWCA. Similar ob-
servances were held at Fort
Wayne and Elkhart, Indiana.
   Miss Horiuchi said that
although relocation camps
were set up as a military
necessity, many persons
keenly felt  their  new sta-
tus because German and Ital-
nationals were allowed
to remain in their  homes.