Show w T Z yol 11 vol IT wo to TOPAZ 31 51 A TEST the x MIR UTAH EDITORIAL ones loyalty to his country announcement of 41 supreme test of dofollowing the war de- last week that japanese i n the united american citizens will be accepted in undergo ready to army youths that test tand stand states birth land of are to loyal the their prove they to the young men who will volunteer to serve their nation cation in the armed forces will be giving their ut most not only to the united states but to the entire Ta japanese american population for they will be placing their lives at the disposal of this nation in an effort to prove that the great majority of the group they represent are loyal mean to many of the young men enlistment may moan aspirations hopes and up perhaps forever giving for worldly success to others it may mean the post but to all it moans pon ement of further education and the wiling acthe sacrifice of individualism a perilous ceptance cep tance of military life for their coun and cause the of the japanese american arys cause people us to take same time frankness compels exception to the fact that such volunteers will be placed in a separate unit instead of being allcomponent and normal con owed to become an assimilative ind armed the forces of sp narato we are not unaware of tho value of a so koscs certainly g id a burp purposes propaganda fighting unit for kropa by such a unit any deeds of distinction performed bl corn jid naand mont colmont be out avorable for singled f will we wo phase forgetting avo not ore this attention tional present opportunity the of orious in deleterious but we believe such segregation delet civilian life would be equally out of place in the we are convinced that segregation no matter army where there it is practiced is alien to the principles of american democracy for americans of japanese ancestry to accept this segregation without making their stand clear on this point would be to disregard one of the basic rights ve are sure that the japanof american citizenship we ese american soldiers already serving in the armed forces of the united states would also express disapproval of any segregated fighting unit although the opening for volunteers is entirely praiseworthy at the some it deiv war is to be hoped therefore that the new may eventually be modified to remove department plan nay onus of segregation from a group sf of american the citizens ELECTIONS SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY community councilmen is co op assembly ejecthe coop tion on monday night february 68 and the congres- tuesday sional election on Tue night february 9 stated H of the consumco er operative cooperative enterprise 6 ary niara fi 6 19 43 indefinite ED LEAVES ISSUED IN JANUARY forty five indefinite were issued leaves resi- dents who left topaz during January according to a report made aade by prank two tiso heys leave office of the 20 were for those number 30 who left during the month remainder for and the workers who were out on twelve work group leaves were students who departed to continue their educa- tion in colleges and universities versi ties in various parts of the country ten persons left the ton cantor during january on center group work leaves the office also anleave short nounced that term loaves more issued to form persons for various rea- of this total about leaves for salt sons 75 wore lako city lake is the leave office speeding its work to pro30 applicants daily cess 50 or dashington on DC ffor washing BC t 0 Jas hington leave alear indefinite ances eighteen indefinite leave clearances the largest number for any single were reday thus far on washington from ceived 1 feb those who left for student relocation are ben university jersey jack kiuchi western state teachers college kalamazoo lulich mi eh isaac iijima drake university des hoines ioeijima drew madison new wa de masanori hongo chicago Chi cato yutaka kobayashi paul university coop co op As important to the welfare of the residents clection of as the tho recent election saturday 45 sacrifice of life is the ments partments part t es office today the elections elect lect permanent and congressmen representatives from semb lymen two will seop as coop co chi adachi huron college sum sumi huron SD oxford western college fred will attend springfield each building the assembly in each block in turn the block assembly will send 2 delegates as congressmen to the coop co op congress ill alfred university alfred 11 tuya ikuya kurita and NY george goto university of utah salt lake city seiohio hoshiyama masasho ashl yamafield mass Vlas da george washington univer versity sity st louis mo texas uniand alice ota ver versity sity Austin Texas |