The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.8, page 206, Feb. 1905, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers so bright a young man enter the government service. Under no consideration would I have a son of mine accept a federal position; it simply means in the long run that all the ambition is taken out of a boy and he becomes a mere machine. Am I right in thinking that your son is a civil engineers Someone told me that he graduated at Harvard from that department; if so, please let me know, and there is a bare possibility I might find something for him. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. 300 BTW Papers DLC. Emmett Jay Scott to Frederick Randolph Moore ''Tuskegee, Ala., cat February 1909] PERSONAL Dear Mr. Moore: Dr. Washington has suggested that I write you rather freely as I am sure you would like to have me do, in regard to the February number of the Colored American Magazine. He does not feel that the treatment of the Du Bois matter, page 67, is dignifiect,~ and in fact thinks there is altogether too much of Tuskegee irt this number, giving vindication to the impression that a great many enemies of the magazine have endeavored to foist on the general public. Tuskegee appreciates most sincerely all that you and your magazine have done toward helping our work, but we would not for one minute have the magazine interfered with by any too general impression that it is a Tuskegee publication. As a whole, I think the magazine for this month is rather satisfactory, and I congratulate you upon the . . . in evidence. Emmett J. Scott TLpS Con. 268 entirety. BTW Papers DLC. Last line too dim to be read in its ~ The Colored American Magazine (Feb. 1905), 67, called for Du Bois to be more specific in his charge, made in the January issue of Foice of the Negro, that $3,ooo had been used to bribe black newspapers and silence criticism of BTW. The magazine ~o6