I
rather liked your talk, and so I came in this morning to hear you talk
some more."
I am often asked how it is possible for me to superintend the work
at Tuskegee and at the same time be so much away from the school. In
partial answer to this I would say that I think I have learned, in
some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim which says, "Do not
get others to do that which you can do yourself." My motto, on the
other hand, is, "Do not do that which others can do as well."
One of the most encouraging signs in connection with the Tuskegee
school is found in the fact that the organization is so thorough that
the daily work of the school is not dependent upon the presence of any
one individual. The whole executive force, including instructors and
clerks, now numbers eighty-six. This force is so organized and
subdivided that the machinery of the school goes on day by day like
clockwork. Most of our teachers have been connected with the
institutions for a number of years, and are as much interested in it
as I am. In my absence, Mr. Warren Logan, the treasurer, who has been
at the school seventeen years, is the executive. He is efficiently
supported by Mrs. Washington, and by my faithful secretary, Mr. Emmett
J. Scott, who handles the bulk of my correspondence and keeps me in
daily touch with the life of the school, and who also keeps me
informed of whatever takes place in the South that concerns the race.
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