A Selection of Stories from Time Magazine March 3, 1923

Volume 1 Issue 1

Immigration

No action on current immigration bill will be taken by the 67th Congress.

The bill would admit annually 2% of the number of naturalized aliens here in 1890, instead of the present quota of 3%, based on the 1910 census. It would exclude Japanese and low-caste Hindus.

Labor wants immigration cut to a minimum. So-called "Big Business" wants immigration increased. Both agree, however, that it is well to incorporate in the bill the "year 1890" proviso that would increase the influx of hardy, industrious northern Europeans and would diminish the number of southern Europeans.

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"Black Mammy"

In dignified and quiet language, two thousand Negro women of the Phyllis Wheatley Y.W.C.A. protested against a proposal to erect at the Capitol a statue to "The Black Mammy of the South." A spokesman carried the resolution to Vice President Coolidge and Speaker Gillette and begged them to use their influence against "the reminder that we come from a race of slaves."

This, of course, will rebuke forever the sentimentalist who thought they were doing honor to a character whom they loved. They desired to immortalize a person famous in song and legend. But that person's educated granddaughters snuffs out the impulse by showing that they are ashamed of her.

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Korea

Gandhism is rife in Korea, province of Japan. Koreans are being urged by their leaders to use only articles of Korean manufacture. Although civil disobedience has not been advised, the movement is an attempt to copy the Gandhi methods in India. Governor-General Saito says that the people are as a whole satisfied with the Japanese regime and that the state of unrest should not be taken too seriously.