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Marys was the first church Inwe in the St. arys wa th firt curchin erDepartment of State had to deal with before sey City to found a hospital. long before the new law became effective was that of any municipal hospitals ever existed. and an American citizen who had married a strangely enough the first 50 patients woman of Asian ancestry and discovered only were orphans of Union soldiers during too late that under our laws then in existthe Civil War. ence he had only the choice between ha Thecountry and his wife since our laws. with The astrs nd lery tat avefew exceptions. then did not permit the iiiserved St. Marys have been wonderful migration of persons of Asian stock. men richly endowed and dedicated for One of the most important changes the Gods service. The heritage that has new law has brought about is the eliminabeen left to those who remain is one of tion of race as a bar to immigration. Alien service and dedication to God. wives and husbands of American citizens and Today the pastor of St. Marys is the alien children of American citizens arenow Reverend John Henry Byrne. a man likeImmigration and entitled to nonReveendJoh Hery Brne a an ikequota status irrespective of their race. While his predecessors. humble and assisting. it Is true that the quotas accorded to Asian always. peoples are minimum quotas. it must be That God may continue to shower His borne in mind that the volume of immigrablessings on St. Marys faithful clergy tion from a given area Is composed of both and parishioners is the wish of all of us quota and nonquota immigrants and the who know of the service His church has latter group of course may exceed without given to the people of Jersey City. limit the numerical limitations placed on quota immigrants. This Is best Illustrated ______________by the fact that during the last fiscal year 1.043 Chinese and 2.489 Japanese came to the United States as immigrants. although New Trends in American Immigration Japan has a quota of only 185 and only 105 quota numbers are available to Chinese perEXTENSIONsons. In evaluating these data it must be EXTENION F REARKS recalled that racial bars to Immigration were OF not lowered until the second half of the 1953 HON. FRANCIS E. WALTER fiscal year.