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education rather than differences in native ability, troops should be integrated as they come up to the required standards.

c. The figures given previously show that the segregated outfits do not result in officer personnel being created in the proportion the Negroes bear to the whites in the armed services.

d. Often an attempt is made to show equality of treatment and opportunity by showing that the Negro non-commissioned personnel in the first four grades is in the same ratio as that of Negro personnel to total personnel in the Armed Services. But such a figure is misleading as an index to equality of opportunity in the armed service. Of course if you have Negro troops you must have non-commissioned officers. These officers necessarily live with the troops. In order to maintain segregation, therefore, they must be Negroes. Unless the organization is out of joint, for every so many men there have to be non-coms. Thus, to say that the percentage of Negro non-coms is about the same as whites only recognizes that it must be so as long as there is segregation. These figures, therefore, are not evidence of equality of treatment to any person that knows anything about an Army Table of Organization or the Manning Tables.