35 21 18 16
Clarinet 21 64 25 66
Cornet 98 56 67 132
Flute 21 ... 5 29
Saxaphone 7 13 10 23
Trap drum 217 197 100 46
Trombone 42 69 40 67
Bugler 14 13 12 24
Saddler ... 26 3 12
Crane operator, hoistman 21 39 42 44
Crane operator, pile driver ... 13 12 7
Crane operator, shovel ... 13 5 30
Oxy-acetylene welder ... 21 8 44
Rigger and cordage worker 49 77 57 40
Stevedore, cargo handler 161 34 68 10
Longshoreman 652 664 651 15
---- ---- ---- ----
26,413 27,708 23,544 38,473

Figures are for general service drafts and do not include the
enlarged list of occupations for which both whites and Negroes were
selected.

[Illustration: FIVE SEA TUGS PUSHING TRANSPORT "FRANCE" INTO DOCK. SHIP
LADEN WITH MEMBERS OF NEW YORK'S "FIGHTING 15TH" (369TH INFANTRY) AND
CHICAGO'S "FIGHTING 8TH" (370TH INFANTRY) NEGRO HEROES FROM BATTLEFIELDS
OF EUROPE.]

CHAPTER XXVIII

THE KNOCKOUT BLOW

WOODROW WILSON, AN ESTIMATE--HIS PLACE IN HISTORY--LAST OF GREAT
TRIO--WASHINGTON, LINCOLN, WILSON--UPHOLDS DECENCY, HUMANITY,
LIBERTY--RECAPITULATION OF YEAR 1918--CLOSING INCIDENTS OF WAR.

When sufficient years have elapsed for the forming of a correct
perspective, when the dissolving elements of time have swept away
misunderstandings and the influences engendered by party belief and
politically former opinions, Woodrow Wilson is destined to occupy a
place in the Temple of Fame that all Americans may well be proud of. Let
us analyze this and let us be fair about it, whatever may be our beliefs
or affiliations.

Washington gave us our freedom as a nation a