The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.12, page 193, May 1913, U. of Illinois Press

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MAY . I9I3 work, which in their present isolation they are not able to get. They need this expert advice in the keeping of their accounts, in the conduct of their class room work and in the industrial operations. They are facing everywhere new and difficult problems, more difficult than any one who has not studied them can wed understand. They need, as we need at Tuskegee, text books, that touch the lives and experience of their pupils, and deal with the problems around them. As fast as we succeed in solving any of these problems at Tuskegee ~ fee] that some arrangement should be made for giving these smaller schools the benefit of our experience. The summer school has helped; the visits of our teachers from time to time has been of great value to the smaller schools. In conclusion let me say that ~ have learned much every year that ~ have been at Tuskegee but ~ believe that ~ have learned more in the last four months than ~ have in any previous similar period. ~ am very truly fRobert E. Park] IL Con. 66 BOW Papers DLC. To N. Clark Smith [Tuskegee, Ala.] May Thirtieth, 19~3 Captain Smith: Criticism has come to the school from several centers with regard to the piece, ''] Am Afraid To Go Home In The Dark.'' The Executive Council feels that the impersonation of the man staggering home drunk should be eliminated from the program, although it has no objection to the musics [Booker T. Washington] ILp Con. 638 BTW Papers DLC. Bandmaster N. Clark Smith apparently ignored BTW's order, since further criticism of the drunken act, from a niece of R. C. Ogden, came to BTW's attention in Aug. 19~3. He again ordered Smith to drop the act. (Alice Ida Hannaford to BTW, cat Aug. ~ 9 ~ 3; BTW to Mrs. Foster Hannaford, Aug. ~ 4, ~ 9 ~ 3, Con. 935, BTW Papers, DLC.) For further correspondence on the band question, see BTW to N. Clark Smith, June 5, 19~3, and N. Clark Smith to BTW, June ~3, :9~3, below. I93