Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-09-17
Need Farm or Factory Help? Thousands Of Workers
In Japanese Relocation Camps WAITING 10 Be Hired

the outside. American Japanese
serve as doctors, dentists, nurses,
optometrists, watchmakers, clerks,
civil engineers, carpenters, masonS,
farmers and in many other trades.
Each one who works receives from
WRA monthly salary from $12 to
$40 depending on his job. Since the
WRA staff at each camp is very
small, huge amount of the admin
istrative work is done by the evacu-
ees who work as stenos, bookkeep-
ers, typists, clerks, interviewers,
translators, switchboard operators,
etc.
Each camp has cooperative food
and clothing stores, canteen, no.
ton counters, magazine racks and
even a post office. Most camps
have large agricultural tracts and
become largely self sustaining.
Acknowledgements and Japanese
aliens sometimes are known as Is
sci, Nisei and Kibei. Issei are JAP
anese born in Japan but who came
here to live. Nisei are second gen.
GRAFTON Japanese, born in the Unit
ed States and citizens of this coun-
try. Kibei are American born Japa-
nese who have gone back to Japan
for education and then returned to
America. WRA investigates Kibeis
very closely, watches them carefully
and is reticent about giving them
freedom.
Mostly 'Nisei.'
The great bulk of the 1875, 1000 Japa-
nese in this country at the outbreak
OF the war, including the 10000
along the West coast, are Nisei.
They are the young boys and girls,
the men and women who have lived
| here all their lives and are just as
American as we are.
They have broken away from JAP
anese customs. Their thought is
American thought. They prefer
| American food and our way of do
ing things. They like to jitterbug,
| 60 to movies, have coke dates and
| parties like any normal American.
| Surveys have proven that the Nisei
have a greater percentage of men,
bers with a college or university
education than any racial group in
the United States.
1t is the belief of the WRA that
the spreading of the American-Jap-
anese throughout the nation instead
of concentrated in groups along the
| coast will be good thing both for
all Americans and for American
Japanese
Approximately 5000 American
Japanese are in the United States
armed forces. After Pearl Harbor
they were given the opportunity to
volunteer and thousands of boys en-
listed from the relocation camps.
Two large units at Camp Savage,
Mimi, and Camp Shelby, Miss, con-
tain most of the Acknowledgements
combat fighters From Hawaii alone
came a specially picked combat
team of $500 Acknowledgements
boys. At Camp Savage many are
training to be interpreters and Ian
guage teachers.
Wherever they have been sta
| toned, Acknowledgements soldiers
have won high praise from their
commanding officers. They are
training with extraordinary zeal
even spending their free time in
military study and voluntary drills.
Instructors have to be keen and alert
to avoid being tripped up by ques-
lions. 1t is saying among these
! Japanese-American soldiers that
eve have year and three minutes
to live" meaning a year of hard
training, and three minutes in the
thickest of the fighting, for they ex-
| pect to go to the front.
WRA officials have found that ade-
quatc jobs can be found for the evac-
uees, but that housing is a serious
problem. This is especially true in
large cities where booming war
plants have caused a heavy influx
of war workers.
In the smaller communities this
condition is less severe. WRA be-
lieves that a large measure of it's
success will depend upon how well
the Observation-Disclosures relocate in
small towns and agricultural areas.
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