The first issue of Time magazine hit the stands and bore the date of this Saturday, the traditional day for magazines to so appear. It actually hit the stands on February 24.
The contents of the first issue were impressive, but many of the articles were very short.
NATION
PRESIDENCY: Mr. Harding's Defeat (National Affairs / PRESIDENCY)
Seeking only the nation's welfare, Mr. Harding has suffered defeat at the hands of Congress. Not only that, but the man who was elected President by the largest plurality in history has been reproved by a Congress controlled by his own party.
The Ship Subsidy Bill, never popular, and never made so by the President, was politely strangled to death.
The wisdom of some of the most important of the President's appointments has been questioned. For example, Daugherty, Butler, Reily.
The Bonus ghost is not laid.
Nothing which has recently emanated from the White House which could be called a foreign policy has secured the united support of the President's party.
Today Mr. Harding is prepared to draw a deep breath, for Congressional politics will soon drop over the horizon. After a short holiday in Florida he will gather about him the business men of his cabinet and continue to manage the affairs of the nation, untrammeled until a new Congress rises—from the West.
National Affairs: In 1924 (National Affairs)
National Affairs: A New World Court (National Affairs)
THE CABINET: Postmaster-General New (National Affairs / THE CABINET)
National Affairs: Work of the 67th (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Unfinished Business (National Affairs)
The 67th will receive both praise and blame for what it left undone. Among a mass of interesting business which it will probably hand down to Number 68, there are seventy-seven proposed amendments to the Constitution, including:
An amendment that would prevent issuance of tax-exempt securities.
An amendment to inaugurate the President and seat Congress in January instead of March, following election.
An amendment to provide a minimum wage law.
An amendment that would permit Congress to regulate the employment of women and of children under 18 years of age.
And also bills proposing:
A ship subsidy.
A soldier bonus.
Revised immigration regulations.
National Affairs: Uncle Joe (National Affairs)
National Affairs: New Leaders (National Affairs)
National Affairs: No Extra Session Predicted (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Republican Leadership (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Again, the Bonus (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Death by Filibuster (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Liquidation, Humiliation (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Farm Credits (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Immigration (National Affairs)
National Affairs: The Norris Bill (National Affairs)
SUPREME COURT: Important Cases (National Affairs / SUPREME COURT)
National Affairs: A New Formality (National Affairs)
ARMY & NAVY: General Allen's Return (National Affairs / ARMY & NAVY)
National Affairs: Armament Limitation (National Affairs)
National Affairs: The Cronkhite Case (National Affairs)
WOMEN: Mrs. Pinchot Plans (National Affairs / WOMEN)
National Affairs: Black Mammy (National Affairs)
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 sentimentalists 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 snuffed out the impulse by showing that they are ashamed of her.
National Affairs: Mrs. Willebrandt (National Affairs)
National Affairs: New York Protests (National Affairs)
National Affairs: The Mexican Border (National Affairs)
Two plans for drying up the Mexican border have found their way to Washington. One is a request by the Federated Clubwomen of the Imperial Valley, Cal., that Secretary Hughes " close" the border at sundown to persons under 21 years of age, in order to protect their children. The other is a rumor from Mexico City, to the effect that the government is considering establishment of a dry belt 50 miles wide, along the border. So far it is only a rumor.National Affairs: The Marriage at Cana (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Light Wines and Beer (National Affairs)
LABOR: A School for Strikers (National Affairs / LABOR)
COAL: Profiteering? (National Affairs / COAL)
National Affairs: THE STATES (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Political Notes: Mar. 3, 1923 (National Affairs)
WORLD
Foreign News: No Weakening (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Economic Factors (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Violence (Foreign News)
Foreign News: France Will Stay (Foreign News)
Foreign News: German Resistance (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Intervention Proposed (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Lithuania vs. Poland (Foreign News)
BRITISH EMPIRE: The Week in Parliament Mar. 3, 1923 (Foreign News / BRITISH EMPIRE)
Foreign News: The Ruhr from London (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Lord Robert Coming (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Taxes (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Irish Pot-Pourri (Foreign News)
FRANCE: Delcassé (Foreign News / FRANCE)
Foreign News: General Lyautey (Foreign News)
GERMANY: Arithmetic (Foreign News / GERMANY)
ITALY: Fascismo and the Masons (Foreign News / ITALY)
Foreign News: HOLLAND (Foreign News)
Foreign News: DANZIG (Foreign News)
Foreign News: AUSTRIA (Foreign News)
RUSSIA: Famine (Foreign News / RUSSIA)
Foreign News: Soviet Justification (Foreign News)
Foreign News: CZECHO-SLOVAKIA (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Turkey: Mar. 3, 1923 (Foreign News)
Foreign News: KOREA (Foreign News)
JAPAN: Kato Against the Peers (Foreign News / JAPAN)
Foreign News: Age, Wealth, and Votes (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Witty Hanihara (Foreign News)
CHINA: Dr. Schurman Speaks (Foreign News / CHINA)
Foreign News: Dr. Sun and the British (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Bolivia (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Chile (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Mexico (Foreign News)
SCIENCE
Science: Digging Up History
Science: Old Age for New Wine
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Medicine: A Baby's Heart (Medicine)
Medicine: Sight Without Eyes (Medicine)
Medicine: Publicity (Medicine)
SOCIETY
Crime: Counterfeiters (Crime)
Crime: Miscellaneous (Crime)
Crime: Less Crime (Crime)
PRESS
The Press: Public Service (The Press)
The Press: It Pays to Be Decent (The Press)
The Press: The Kept Press (The Press)
RELIGION
Religion: Methodists in Russia
The Russian Soviet government has requested that a committee be appointed from the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church to help reorganize the churches of Russia. The Soviet government has found in the social creed of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America the following principles: Protection of the worker from forced unemployment, old age pensions, minimum wage, reduction of hours of labor to the lowest practicable point, and the most equitable division of the product of industry which can be devised. (This creed was adopted by the Methodists in 1912).
Bishop Nuelsen of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who recently returned from Russia, reports that the Soviet no longer interferes with the worship of any sect that does not oppose the government. Three Methodist Episcopal bishops will go to Moscow in April to present the social creed to the government for approval and to cooperate in working out the destinies of the badly disorganized Russian Church.
Religion: Coincidence?
The Catholic churches of Canada are proving suspiciously inflammable. In the last nine months the three oldest shrines in the ancient province of Quebec have been destroyed by fire—St. Anne de Beaupré noted for its miraculous cures; the Trappist monastery at Oka, and the Basilica at Quebec. The Basilica was built in 1647 and contained magnificent windows and irreplaceable historical documents. The loss was $1,000,000.
Sixteen large churches have burned, and smaller fires have been numerous. At first the blame was laid upon overheated furnaces or defective wiring. But, as fire after fire occurred and only Roman Catholic churches were destroyed, incendiarism was suspected. Staid insurance journals, never influenced by casual rumor, regard human agency as probable; fire insurance underwriters will insure Catholic churches only to a limited extent and at high rates.
If the object of the incendiaries is an attack upon the Church their methods are ingeniously calculated to defeat their own ends. Popular feeling both in America and in Canada is strongly in sympathy with the churchless Catholics.
Religion: A New Church
Under their Bishop-elect, Adrot, several thousand Roman Catholic priests have founded in France a new Church. The tradition of celibacy of the clergy is 1,000 years old, but they have decided to break with this tradition. Bishops of similar churches in Holland, Switzerland, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Hungary will be present at Adrot's consecration, which is scheduled for late in April. Two of these had been duly consecrated as bishops before their break with Rome. The new church therefore claims apostolic succession, and the same authoritative basis as the Church of England.
Catholic and Lutheran organizations appeared before the United States Supreme Court to contest the Nebraska school law. The law prohibits religious instruction for pupils below the eighth grade in public, private, and parochial schools, except after dark and on Sundays. Both churches protest that the statute is an invasion of their constitutional rights.
The Reverend Doctor R. S. MacArthur, 81, died on February 25 at Daytona Beach, Fla. He was President of the Baptist World Alliance, and pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York, for 41 years. He retired in 1911, and resigned as pastor emeritus of the church in 1922 when his successor, Dr. John Roach Stratton, held a debate with William A. Brady on stage and pulpit morals.
SPORT
Sport: Greb vs. Tunney
Sport: New World's Records: Mar. 3, 1923
Sport: Firpo
BUSINESS
Finance: Hopefully Complex (Finance)
Finance: Rising Cycle of Business (Finance)
Finance: Reserve Bank's Foresight (Finance)
Finance: Effect on Money Market (Finance)
Finance: Test of the System (Finance)
AERONAUTICS: Chicago to New York (Aeronautics)
AERONAUTICS: A Successful Helicopter (Aeronautics)
AERONAUTICS: A Dreadnaught (Aeronautics)
EDUCATION
Education: Athens and Rome Revive
Education: A View of All the World
Education: Boys Who Are Mad
Education: Federal Control
LAW
Law: Abolishing Reno
Law: International Divorce
Law: A Simple Code
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Books: Black Oxen* (Books)
Art: A Brightness from the Past (Art)
The Theatre: First Nights (The Theatre)
Mr. Zukor's Story (Cinema)
Music: Boston (Music)
Books: The Best Books (Books)
The Theatre: Expressionism (The Theatre)
The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 3, 1923 (The Theatre)
Theatre Notes, Mar. 3, 1923 (Theatre)
New Pictures: Mar. 3, 1923 (Cinema)
Music: Detroit (Music)
Music: New York (Music)
Music: Philadelphia (Music)
Books: Sophisticates (Books)
Books: Shantih, Shantih, Shantih (Books)
Art: Cubism on the Wane (Art)
MISCELLANY
Miscellany: Mar. 3, 1923
TIME brings all things.
Imaginary Interviews
MILESTONES
Milestones: Mar. 3, 1923
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All of the above is from Time magazine's website.
Time was and is a major news magazine. At one time, it dominated a certain category of news. My father subscribed to it, and to Newsweek, and reading them was something I routinely did, and enjoyed doing, from some point in my childhood up until I moved away for university.
Because of his occupation, he also subscribed to Life, at one time Look, and People. Today, only Time and People survive as weekly print magazines.
The Saturday Evening Post went with the tried and true pretty lady cover.
The 67th Congress adjourned. On this, its last day, it rejected Harding's proposal to join the World Court.
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