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Negroes can see at night far better than white men. This "startling find" has been reported by two scientists at Fort Bragg, N.C.

In the past month, Drs. Harry Reginald DeSilva of Yale and Walter Richard Miles of the National Research Council have tested over 4,000 men for Army truck-driving jobs. After noticing that the Negroes seemed to have a keener night vision, Dr. Miles picked at random seven white and eight Negro soldiers, lined them up in a field on a dark night. Then he walked to a point 100 feet away, held up a stick with a square of white cardboard on each end. The soldiers were asked whether the stick was horizontal or vertical.

Every Negro could tell; but nary a one of the whites--most of them had to get within 50 feet of the stick before they could make it out. Said Dr. DeSilva: "We never even suspected this phenomenon before. . . This may lead us to conclusions never before dreamed of. It may result in changes in our military setup on land, sea, and in the air."*

If Dr. Miles's findings are confirmed, it may well be that George VI had better recruit some of his Negro subjects to operate his night fighters over Britain.

* At present Negro recruits are segregated; they are completely barred from the Marine Corps, and from the Navy except as servants. There is to be one Negro air squadron.

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