It is true that enlistments which were permitted white men but denied Negroes, depleted the whites eligible to Class I to some extent.

Probably there were more Negro delinquents in proportion to their numbers in the south than white delinquents.

The conditions under which they lived would account for that.

Delinquents, under the regulations, were placed in Class 1.

Then there is the undoubted fact that the Negro sought and was granted fewer exemptions on the ground of dependency.