You have probably heard of The Progressive Farmer's campaign for the segregation of the races in our country districts--at least to the extent of allowing any white community that wishes to do so to make provision to insure its remaining white.

As it is now, the increasing number of negroes in many communities is driving thousands and thousands of white farm families to the town for social reasons. When the white population in a community becomes to small or too scattered, when the white farmer's wife and children find more negro neighbors that white neighbors around them, a tremendous motive is given for moving away; and if the farmer moves, some negro will probably buy his land at a sacrifice, because other white farmers have the same feeling he has and do not care to buy land in a predominantly negro community.

Such is the negro's flagrantly unfair advantage for taking the rural South for himself. If we are to save the rural South to the white race, something must be done and done quickly--not in a spirit of injustice and persecution to the negro, but in a spirit of justice and protection to the white man.

After long study and correspondence with hundreds of people in all parts of the South, I have decided that a safe and constitutional way out is the one I am proposing in the attached article; and I am writing to ask your opinion of such a law--not for publication, unless you wish it, but because our North Carolina farmers are thoroughly aroused about this matter, as I am, and I want to get the views of such leaders of thought as yourself.

Hoping to have your frank opinion in the enclosed stamped reply envelope, I am,