A Pennsylvania board, remarking upon the eagerness of its Negro registrants to be inducted, illustrated it by the action of one registrant, who, upon learning that his employer had had him placed upon the Emergency Fleet list, quit his job.

Another registrant who was believed by the board to be above draft age insisted that he was not, and in stating that he was not married, explained that he "wanted only one war at a time." The following descriptions from Oklahoma and Arkansas boards are typical, the first serving to perpetuate one of the best epigrams of the war: "We tried to treat the Negroes with exactly the same consideration shown the whites.

We had the same speakers to address them.

The Rotary Club presented them with small silk flags, as they did the whites.

The band turned out to escort them to the train; and the Negroes went to camp with as cheerful a spirit as did the whites.
One of them when asked if he were going to France, replied: 'No, sir; I'm not going "to France".