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LETTER BOX

I am pleased to know that we have such a paper as THE CRISIS. If the whole family of colored newspapers were more like it, how much better it would be for our race. Here in the community we have settled the "Race Problem", and some of our people, in fact most all, are shortsighted enough to think it is settled everywhere. There is some friction here, but it amounts to just the same as if there were all one - in fact, there is more trouble between colored and colored and white and white than between colored and white - a quarrel or fight between the two races being rare. The farmers in each race do not hesitate to exchange work and sit at each others' tables, and they trade as freely as if each were all white or all colored.  I have no complaint at home, but let me travel away, then I find that there is a "Race Problem," and that "Race Problem" will have to be settled in some way.
ESAU HARRIS
Cutler, Ohio.

The January number is splendid. I enjoyed it greatly. I wish those pictures of lynching could be put upon the moving picture roll. That way, and that way only, will they speak to the multiplied thousands their sad truth. We often see upon the canvas the pictures of Indian cruelty to the white man; can't we turn it around and show them the white man's brutishness to the Negro? We suffer almost anything (except lynching) right here in the beautiful land of sunshine. Civil privileges are here unknown. You can't bathe at the beaches, eat in any first-class place, nor will the street car and sight-seeing companies sell us tickets if they can possibly help it. I am speaking from experience. 
MRS. LOUISE McDONALD,
Los Angeles, Cal.


I have read and kept every issue of your most interesting magazine since its first publication, and I am as pleased to get each fresh copy as a child with its Santa Claus. The covers are always pretty, and I adore those like the "Quadroon," with that bit of delicious verse, and February's, displaying the flowers of our race, the most. Its pages fill a long-felt want. This, with the problem books and plays, will do much to lift the "awful burden."
MATTHEW BENNETT,
New York City.

I ought also to tell you of the great satisfaction with which I read THE CRISIS. It is an admirable publication; I don't see how it could be better. It fills the bill exactly, and I think we ought to thank you for it. I do every month.
CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL,
New York City.

(In answer to a request for pictures.)

I am thoroughly in sympathy with what you are doing, but find that I cannot arrange to supply you with all that you wish. I consulted our one colored photographer here, and he does not think it possible, or at least practicable, for him to secure any of the photographs except those of the schools and the churches. You know what conditions are in this section, and can readily understand the position of this photographer takes. He could hardly get some of those pictures without exciting comment or suspicion, or even being the object of violence. If you will let me know whether you would like to have pictures of the churches and schools I shall notify the photographer and he will communicate with you.

I enclose a letter I received from the Canadian Superintendent of Immigration in reply to an inquiry about colored people in Western Canada. I think you will find it interesting.
Ottawa, Canada, March 29, 1912.
Sir: I have referred to me by H. M. Williams, our agent at Toledo, your letter of the 23d inst., and I beg to say in reply that I do not think there are good openings for your people in Western Canada. We have had to send back to the United States quite a number of those who failed to succeed in the West, and on account of this it has been found necessary to make a very careful medical examination of all colored people applying for entry, with the result that a great many have been rejected. I do not think it would be advisable for you to come, as I am quite sure that the opportunities for your people are better in the warmer climate. 
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) W.W. SCOTT
Superintendent of Immigration. 
 
PUBLISHERS' CHAT

The August number of THE CRISIS will be Vacation Number. It will tell where to rest, and what it will cost, with some consideration of the end and meaning of rest. Then there will be a short story and the pictures will usually be striking.

CITIES WITHIN THE VEIL—We shall begin in the September number a series of articles on the various cities of the world which have a large colored population. They will treat of the life of these thousands in an interesting way.

BABIES—The October number of THE CRISIS will be Children's Number. This is the month of school beginnings and family reunions. We want pictures of colored children of eight years of age or less, especially babies. We shall give three prizes to the three most interesting pictures. Pictures must reach us not later than September 10th.

AGENTS—Some of our agents in returning unsold copies forget to put their names and addresses on the package. Please be careful; remember that THE CRISIS has now 315 agents distributed in every State in the Union and in several foreign lands. They are a picked lot, taken only on careful recommendation.