The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-12
ALIENS TRY TO EVADE ,
 LAW INEXISTENT

New York, Aug. 12-When we were kids we used to play a game caIIeo Ten Steps," in which whoever was "It'' stood with closed eyes and counted rapidly to ten, the others rushing from a starting point In an effort to be first to the counter. Any, one caught moving after ten ha9 been counted had to go back and start over.
 It is much the same game which would.be immigrants to the Urted States play these days The rules are the new 1-5 of per cent" law, which sounds like beer, but which IS really an attempt to check immigra- tion. Olga and aCrlo and Boris start from the other side and rush for the land of the free, trying to reach El- lis Island before the quota man says ''ten.' If he catches them on the move they have to go back and try all over again the first of next month
 The new law, which has been ef- fective for about two months, has certainly jazzed up the business of immigration. It provides that the number of immigrants from any one country be limited to per cent of that nations 1910 population And it has a joker which says that only Is of that 5 per cent shall come in in any one month.
 Now with a country like Germany, which had about a million popula- ton in 1910 and has sent less than 500 here since the law became enec- C1Ne last June, the neW ISSlIIIl1OIlS don't matter very much. But when it comes to Greece. Poland, Turkey and some of the smaller nations, they are eating up their quota in record time and hollering for more. The United States is still to them the land of freedom, and the report that their coming here is about to be curtailed has raised an awful furor among in tending immigrants.
 U. S. Passengers in Fury.
 If the law merely stipulated that when a nation had sent us per cent of its 1910 population no more difficulty: the overflow could simply be shipped back home, with Uncle Sams regrets. But this Is of 3 per cent. each month business has them all guessing. Or did at first.
 It didn't take the willy foreigner long to catch onto the joker and turn the trick against us Eight little na- tions used up their quotats during When it came araund toward the last of the month, did the liners bringing immigrants to this country put in, learn they weer too late be- cause tIe months quota was full, and put back? They did not.
 Much to the disgust, even to the fury, of some hundreds of American citizens who happened to be passen- l. gers. eight big transatlantic liners due late in July calmly delayed their arrival in New York until the first o1 | the month One, the Megai Hellas a. Greek liner. with 13o Americans aboard, arrived off Fire Island July 29 and, despite the rage and hai1 tearing of the United States citizens dropped anchor any stayed there just outside the three-niFe limit, uu. til August dawned
 | The Joker Has a Brother.
 Several other liners, one big one from Italy among them, followed suit On the stroke of midnight when July became August. there was a grand rush across the line With a footing of whistles the immigrant bearing covalcade swept down upon Ellis Island. Their passengers would have been in excess of the first months quota, but this was August now, and that was another matter. | It Is reasonable to suppose, immi- gartion officials say, that this per ormance will be repeated around September l and again the first o1 each month until at midnight, No vember 30, the last grand rush be.
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