Show topaz times pape 2 taril ril li G Z T ja TOPAZ i VET 1 1 11 on e ph phone 10 ba t published wednesdays and saturdays at J er center the central utah relocation cent editorial office 1944 1 2 7 EF 5 40 D TIR S ISRA VER Y 0 guadalcanal Guadal canal veteran mL A FOR EDITOR THIS hanri ASSOCIATE EDITOR gadt 73 EDITOR ART EDITOR EDITOR 1 yuri Su tosh yamada hank shin 4 cartoonist I1 tama Yoshi nura joan ihara abeta fumi fujiyo matsuzaki tak lucy oishi mamoru hirota jt T joanese Jo AIESE hiro H nr S honry Ti Ii kan-suke kansuke PAESE takahashi urs fumiko tsuda Nobu roku allf 79 fr sil ff r 1 I fl I 1 sop re es have lived atod life that evacuees atad hii in cantera inevitably has exaggeratailiin ssion ed ht japanese americans are a impre 1 on that i bip natural reaction is a perse n parse ie set ld id cu ion on co jcl A ird thi reaction acl rea c jon in turn is an un coial he fhy hs stat 0 acifL consciousness and self pity ih ane ne re S I i f t is is the inevitable manner in ch on aji liin the confers centers is focused on lhh all incidents tn t ei emphasize alp hasimo the special position janakes of ble tio ja atnally the nisei are arc a croup set aside only to he extent t at they set sat themselves aside this truism th t can be traced back to the japa is i so unities on the west coast where they seg sea it reafordd themselves and thus drew attention reat ae trend tread continues in areas like denver and nev concentrations draw the salt lake city where new ablia ic eye and of course the mono racial relocacenters chere there is a great social and tion con gap between co bet been the residence and the caucaG 1 L cn stra sian SOT KUROKI larine private terrell and I1marine mgt kuroki met at a YMCA student faculty hour recently in berkeley they talked and they agreed wrote fl miss sullivan they both feel that victory in the war against the axis will be meaningless unless it accompanied by victory in war against intolerance everywhere and intolerance they are fighting to win both is the y H r nal U J he private terrell recently saluted the courage coura e of japanese american soldiers aid of set den ben kuroki in parcular in an interview ticular ti inter vieu given by betty sullivan of the daily californian arine alfred typists TyISTS 1 takahashi eiko honda personnel only emphasizes tho the es are differ ont boint that the evacuees different rut but if a nisei sets out to rid himself of self ces to be overwhelmed by self con pit and refue refuses ness he can enter almost any community east of the rocky mountain states and make his way as an unrestricted citizen standing on his own merito merits he can make his way without feeling he is a biological oddity without feeling that hostile eyes are following loving his every move without the fol loning added regarded with suspicion everywhere fear that he is reg wars JE ARE DISGUSTED the thing that T folt felt and that a lot of the toys feel when they cone come back from tho the pacific area is bisp st at he 1 attitude of the cpr nr on the street terrell told his intor viewer ter terviewer assumes that he knows ho he assures c elwhat we are thinking and f eeling he tells us that because we vie have been taught to hate the we wo japanese we arc fi fighting atin naturally will hate every japanese DILEMMA that assumption is errone- arg exof course there are but often a feeling dovin arises of having been let down afa come back home and when iwo ous ceptions arc find that the things we are fighting fiEh ting against over there are believed and expounded in our own country and a- pathy should not be our answer however terrell added we must counteract these feelings through education and rational realization of the problems onal emotional rather than through emoni hatred A FINE JOB inside is distorted inevitably It sergeant grotesque a kuroki is doing a like surrealist nightmare there are and the ni- great job he is fighting both eyes and accusing fingers everywhere spotlighted in the the battles in which we are sei feels alone friendless engaged and so are thousands middle of a vast stage surrounded by a hostile el 0of other japanese americans audience on impersonal the outside is aside from the man on the street owes life an infrequent busybody people on arc them a debt a debt that could outside the peole be partially paid by honest too busy with their own affairs too concerned with the issues of a rapid fire world ta to be wor acceptance of them and their continued on page 3 families oe s he rypoes life on the |