This story seems to me to illustrate the case of innumerable subjects important to the South. In the matter of education, for example, what would sound revolutionary in some Southern States would, I believe, be called pioneer work by the majority of American-born Northerners. Again, in the realm of economics, most of us in the South have yet to learn some of the first principles. As to our code of social relations there are some sections, fertile and penetrated by railroads, which are in vital respects half a century behind the advance guard of Anglo-Saxon civilization. As to our courts of justice, although law has been the favorite profession of our ambitious young men, and although we are supposed to have some of America’s ablest practitioners, it seems that almost none of them ever try persistently to contribute anything towards making either our courts or our politics better, and by so doing accomplish that for which courts and politics are supposed to exist. In conclusion, let it be remembered that not only the Northern magazines are not so directly interested in these matters as are we, but also that when one wishes to make a suggestion to his own section he naturally prefers to do so through a publication in that section. Some of our newspapers have done creditable work through their editorial columns, but an editor cannot be a specialist in everything. We need, I think, a publication of the nature of a magazine whose editors know what to solicit and can determine whether or not a contribution meets a need. Such a magazine should be free from imitation. With questions of vital sectional importance bubbling and seething all around it, there is no reason why it should give us stories and treatises in competition with Eastern magazines which can pay larger prices for such. Finally, its purpose should be for general rather than partisan interest. Generally speaking, Southerners seem to me not to be finished writers. While some of our newspaper editors have a plain, unadorned style which is better than the style of most “authors,” nevertheless almost all of us Southerners seem troubled with a limited and inaccurate use of the English vocabulary. But there are plenty of Southerners who know their business and can go to the root of a matter. I believe that most readers who are looking for a Southern magazine would rather hear from these than from the more finished narrators and expounders of nothingness. Finally, a magazine which would put a premium on substance told with clearness and brevity, at the same time emphasizing the fact that a contribution must meet a real need, would have a tendency to develop writers whose work possessed style as well as substance.