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[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
NOV 4 1914
RECEIVED]

To the President
The White House,
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

I have long wanted to write to you and espress the
gratitude that many of us feel for the admirable work you
have accomplished in saving this country from war with Mexico,
and bringing the representatives from South Anerica into co-
operation with yourself in this great movement. I beleive
that what you have done will be of tremendous importance in
working out the race problem throughout the world.

Heretofore I have felt that important as the race prob-
lem in this country is, your time and thought are so engrossed
with other questions of most serious consequence, that you ought
not to be disturbed even with so vital a subject as bringing
into cooperation for mutual improvement, the white and black
races of the country. Mr. John R. Mott said not long ago at
Atlanta, that the race problems of the world were to be solved
here where there are more Christian blacks and whites than in
any other country. After a trip around the world I an con-
vinced that he is right, and that you are to have an important
part in working out the solution.

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