(All letters should be addressed to the Editor and submitted by Wednesday noon. Limit letters to 150 words.)

An open letter to the readers of The Reflector

Dear Readers:

A few weeks ago The Daily Progress threw a surprise on quite a few of our citizens by printing two papers, one with white society news and one with colored. In some sections of the city, a protest has been made by some who declare that they will not subscribe to a segregated paper. Co-incidentally, The Reflector, Charlottesville's only negro weekly, made its debut at the same time. Now is the time for the people of my race to cease their protestations and help to put over the programs of The Reflector and help it to grow into a periodical that is second to none. So, unless those protestors cooperate with this, their own weekly paper, I shall be forced to believe that they are only jokers.

By the way, I chanced to be in a meeting sponsored by the "Scottsboro Defense League" and heard one of Charlottesville's leading business men make a strong protest against The Daily Progress, as a segregated paper, yet I failed to see his advertisement in The Reflector. His protest must have been a joke, since he made no move towards aiding a paper representative of him and his race.

I want to compliment Mr. J. F. Bell, as I noticed that in The Reflector the week of August 5th, he was the only negro business enterprise that aided in giving the paper its start.

I wish to say to the negro business enterprises of Charlottesville that The Reflector deserves your support; it is your paper, but no one would have thought so, who read the advertisement sheet on August 5th.

Daniel F. Childress