It is impossible to feel anything but respect for the honorary doctorates of Ross R. Barnett, Governor of Mississippi. Still, we feel constrained to differ with him on a small point of historical accuracy.

Dr. Barnett's presentation last Friday before the Senate Commerce Committee, in which he unmasked the civil rights movement as a Communist Front, was for the most part unexceptionable. But when asked by Sen. Philip Hart whether a Communist Conspiracy was behind the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, he hedged. "I wouldn't say that," he demurred.

Now, it is a matter of record that Abraham Lincoln, granddaddy of the 1875 statute, was an habitual reader of the New York Tribune. And the Berlin correspondent of that paper was one Karl Marx. You can draw your own conclusions.