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Show Viewpoint V LBT Loses Race To 'Mr. Va 0 , The (w lief SaVi, wouldn't on. 'Until a . lcans stupid ,ti world that is t? that C; " anyone S want one for I1 ' - 3f of the count winning, 15. A i: In his TV report to the nation nat-ion on his first hundred days in office, Pres. Johnson came up against the rating system. He ran second to Mr. Ed " a talking horse. There is not a word yet from Jim Aubrey Aub-rey of CBS whether Pres. Johnson John-son has been canceled. Or whether the sponsor has dropped dropp-ed him. THE LOW rating Mr. Johnson John-son received should not have come as a shock to network executives, since they consider television audiences a mass of boobs. Of course the viewers didnt start out that way, but after ten or twelve years of exposure to television their tastes have been so downgraded downgrad-ed that when it was announced on all three networks that the President would speak and the Mr. Ed would be pre-empted, it was only natural that, out of resentment for having been deprived of their Sunday evening's even-ing's visit with this horse, they should turn off their sets, sit around sulking in the dark, and wait till next week. Of course there are some Republicans Re-publicans who will argue that the preference for "Mr. Ed" rather than Pres. Johnson does not indicate a downgrading in taste. .Goodman Ace in Saturday .Review Ever hear of a battlefield commission in peacetime? And to a civilian? UNIVERSITY chemistry student, stu-dent, a Negro, was working as a janitor in a local firm which does some research work for the government. The federal government doesn't allow discrimination by those handling work. ONE DAY not too long ago, a federal watchdog dropped by unexpectedly. Someone in the firm ran into the room where the student was sweeping the floor. "YOU A chemistry major? "Yes." "Hide that broom and grab a test tube. You're a chemist." He still is. Dally Texan George Wallace ran third in . Wisconsin, but as the Alabama Governor himself observed, he "won without winning." WALLACE STOOD against nearly everything Wisconson has stood for during the last century the possible exception is Joe McCarthy yet he polled over 250,000 votes in the state's presidential primary. The Governor attributed his triumph to a large number of Americans interested in protecting pro-tecting their rights, but on that point he is wrong. Wallace "won" in Wisconson because a large number of Americans on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line are interested in protecting their privileges. THE VOTE FOR Wallace demonstrated that a great many Americans many more than we care to admit exist either to the world or to ourselvesare our-selvesare bigots. This is the point Wallace attempted to prove and for this the nation owes him a vote of thanks for proving it So much attention is currently curr-ently focused on eradicating discrimination that it has become be-come easy to overlook its cause-prejudice. Discrimination Discrimina-tion can and should be outlawed, out-lawed, but bigotry can't be. It must be combatted in more subtle ways, but it cannot be fought at all until it is identified. ident-ified. WALLACE has made a significant sig-nificant contribution to that fight by emphasizing the extent of 'American bigotry. More important, im-portant, he has focused national nat-ional attention on the less conspicuous con-spicuous "Northern" variety of prejudice, which in the long |