I am going "through France".'" "In dealing with the Negroes," the Arkansas board report says, "the southern boards gained a richness of experience that is without parallel.

No other class of citizens was more loyal to the government or more ready to answer the country's call.

The only blot upon their military record was the great number of delinquents among the more ignorant; but in the majority of cases this was traced to an ignorance of the regulations, or to the withholding of mail by the landlord, often himself an aristocratic slacker, in order to retain the man's labor." Many influences were brought to bear upon the Negro to cause him to evade his duty to the government.

Some effort in certain sections of the country was made to induce them not to register.

That the attempt to spread German propaganda among them was a miserable failure may be seen from the statement of the Chief of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, made to the United States Senate committee: "The Negroes didn't take to these stories, however, as they were too loyal.