The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.13, page 315, June 1915, U. of Illinois Press

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JUNE · 1915 One Thousand Dollars ($~,ooo.oo) per month visiting and investigating practically every school in the South of any size. In a few months, their report win be completed and a portion of it wiD be published. It Is the further intention of the Stokes Trustees, after the report has been completed, to set up some kind of headquarters that wiD be the means through which information regarding schools in the South can be obtained. When Mr. Viliard and others asked me to join in this new movement, ~ objected on the ground that here was an organization that had the money already to do this work without saddling on the public another paid official and more office expenses, but Mr. Viliard and Mr. Kelsey did not seem to agree with me and went ahead and formed another organization. This organization may accomplish some good, but ~ doubt it. In the first place, it Is largely a paper organization. Within the last few days, I have spoken to the heads of schools whose names they are using and in each case I was told by the Head that they did not know they were members of this organization. In the matter sent you, they use the name of the Virginia Union University. This Is an old college, founded, supported and controlled by the Baptists and this Association of Negro Industrial and Secondary Schools could not exert the slightest control or influence over this institution. The same Is true of the half dozen other schools named. ~ do not believe that in a single case the Heads of these schools would be willing to turn over the collecting of money to Mr. Burnet and if they do not, the result wiD be that the public wiD have Mr. Burnet's expenses to bear and also wiD have to support his office. ~ do not know who Mr. Burnet is. ~ have never heard of him in connection with Negro education. Certainly he would have to first himself get acquainted with Southern education. Several of the schools mentioned are totally unworthy, as Dr. Jones' report shows. ~ do not see how any elective work in the direction you have had in mind can be done by a mere paper organization of this kind. If you can spare the time, when ~ see you again, ~ will give you more details about this. ~ am returning the correspondence. I am glad to say that we are making some progress in the direction of getting the money to pay for our permanent improvement. When come North again, ~ shall hope to have something encouraging to 3~5