in
position to show some light to one in my condition.

Seeking a Northern Home. If this is true Kindly inform me by next
mail the next best thing to do Being a poor man with a family to
care for, I am not coming to live on flowry Beds of ease for I am
a man who works and wish to make the best I can out of life I do
not wish to come there hoodwinked not knowing where to go or what
to do so I Solicite your help in this matter and thanking you in
advance for what advice you may be pleased to Give I am yours for
success.

P.S. I am presently imployed in the I C RR. Mail Department at
Union Station this city.

PALESTINE, TEX., Mar. 11th, 1917.

_Sirs_: this is somewhat a letter of information I am a colored
Boy aged 15 years old and I am talented for an artist and I am in
search of some one will Cultivate my talent I have studied
Cartooning therefore I am a Cartoonist and I intend to visit
Chicago this summer and I want to keep in touch with your
association and too from you knowledge can a Colored boy be an
artist and make a white man's salary up there I will tell you
more and also send a fiew samples of my work when I rec an answer
from you.

TOPEKA, KANSAS, May 1st, 1917.

_The Editor of The Chicago Defender._

_My Dear Sir_: Being a regular reader of your most valuable paper
(The Defender) I am impressed with the seeming unlimited interest
that paper is taking in the welfare of the army of emigrants
comeing from the south.

This alone without the knowledge of its incomparable service as a
link in the chain that should bind our people together more
closely through out the country, should demand its presence in
every negro home of this country. In keeping in touch with the
doings of our people in the east and northern states through the
Defender. To the Majority of the Middle western race people it
seem quite improbable that opportunities for good wage earning
positions such as factory work and too a chance for advancement
would be given to the workers of our race.

Such conditions in this part of the country to my knowledge is
rare. Noteing in the issue of last weeks paper through the
investigation into certain matter concerning our people some
appea