Show A FOOLISH SUGGESTION A An n army captain whose name Is not given ghen has offered what he seems to think Is the only rational solution of the negro soldier problem In ing the arguments of some who have Suggested that the negro be barred from service In the army the tho captain says that enlistments of ne negroes negroes groes should be encouraged but that they should be Scattered amon among White regiments Instead of being placed regIments by themselves It Is hard to believe that the propoSition was made seriously It If the captain ha had the army that his rank eaten cates he undoubtedly know th that t It I is most difficult to the right Ight kind ot or enlistments Sn In the armyn Tile recruiting Is going on an all the time but applications are comparative ly te few and desertions are many To mingle negroes and whites In the same ame regiments on an equal tooling footing would beto be beto to the white ut utterly Utterly terly and Not many white me rap t ot of Jq would coto to stand on nil so socially daily negroes It If bc bOth th rac s were In the same regiment they would eat cat together sleep together play to together together gether drill together It is entirely too much to o ask of at white men Tt It will said that bl some are superior to some white h 11 ability to be good god soldiers that so some e negroes are arc superIor to some white men In all u that makes s for tor good citizenship We Ve shall not attempt to gainsay this mont mente They are arc undoubtedly true But the fact remaIns that the Uto equality of the races cannot annot be forced in the arin The first result would be unending dis dissensIon sensIon quarrelIng fighting loss of discIpline next re resUlts would be bethe the fhe laI failure of chIte soldIers to reenlist and a dearth of white applicants for enlIstment Nor do Wo we believe the negroes them themselves selves would care tor or such mch an arrange arrangement mont ment They would be more more ble they would make better botter soldiers in regiments composed exclusively ot of mon men of their own color There are good negro soldiers plenty of them The rhe r rec records c cords made by the negro regiments In IntIle tIle war with SpaIn are arc as good as the made by tha th white l Properly Properly om the negro fights vry ry well ell Indeed but It has been abundant abundantly ant antly ly demonstrated that h he must be oil officered cored by white lI men n Th Initiative e emust must come from the tho white hUe The Is s a much better follower than lea leader er erThe The proposition for tor n a mixture em emphatically will not do Within C e tom corn tomp p rati elY brief period ot time under such a system the regular army would ho bo practically alt black the officers or there would be n ne army a at tall all |