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Tres,Pies, An Lines seem to. be a part of the life of col lege students, and we learn to dread the thought of standing In these tediously creep ing horrors. But recently we have been faced with the worst of all lines on the campus, this occur ring each day just before meals, especially when the bells ring at 11, 12, and one o'clock to dismiss us for dinner. When we hear these bells we look forward anxiously to our noon-day meal and rush to Russell House only to find that there is a line extending all the way across the cafe teria in which we must wait endlessly for food. When, finally, we reach the front of the line, we can usually rest assured that there will be a shortage of trays and we will either have to wait longer for some to be brought out or empty a tray of glasses when no one is looking and use that instead. It seems that some of the workers have the foresight of Epimetheus. But eventually we are sure to get a tray and we can now pioudly advance through the line with a bright smile as we begin to select from the varied array of dishes. It is, however, improbable that many people are still wearing their smiles when they get beyond the cash register. I The first delicacy to meet our eyes as we begin our selection is a wide choice of juices, salads, and desserts. If nothing else can be said for the juices, we surely can assert that they are different. It is not every school cafeteria that serves mixed drinks, but you can never be sure of what combination of fruit juices you will pay a dime for. The salads are certainly a colorful sight but too often we are faced with making our selection from a score of dishes-all contain ing the same salad. Among the many ingre dients used in the salads we are sure to find wilted lettuce. Third selection-a dessert! Here, too, we always have a choice, but too often the choice Russ Burns . . The Death Pen Conceived In Within these pages during the civilized Africa last few issues there has been main problems launched rather I e n g t h y dis- wvith grubbing o courses on the proper disposition istence from the of legal punishment for crime, mankind, the H The common arguments for and social problems, against capital punishment, the Theft and nmu "eye for an eye" doctrine, and as elsewhere, hi other legal "techniques" were of these social di discussed- a new light - a This evaluation of judicial sys- kind of justice; tems is, of course, quite common sane. among those who find occasion to Deathn Pu dabble in political values. From Yuse nt such expression of ideas can onycideig spring that ghostly phantom, dr ta nt thought.ment for thievel Primitive Idea taking something It is thus in the hope that some as a crust of ba faded thought may b)e nurtured nitely belongs and brought back to life that we guilty person ri put forth this idea conceived in tence of hanginj primitiveness and tested in re- pretty harsh, too ality - the justice of the Hlabbe: meek viewpoint. The Habbe are a primitive, un- What about th H. made a discovery. A Mxed Drlnks is much too limited. It is tather distressing to have to make a choice between chocolate pudding and mixed fruit pie. Another com plaint that we hear voiced about the pies concerns the size of the 13lices. It seems evident that each pie is divided into about 12 slices-more or less. But it is always a comfort to reach the point in this game of chance when we choose the meat for our meal. Of course the menu on the wall never coincides with the choice of food that we find so don't decide from the menu what you want because you may be disappointed. Then of course we must al ways face the possibility of everything being sold out with the exception of a casserole or hash that no one has wanted so it has been left for the latecomers-take it or leave it! Whether or not you are disappointed with the bread will rest on which meal you are eating. Breakfast is sure to be a delight to those who appreciate limp or burned toast. The bread for the other two meals is much better whenever the supply is not exhausted before we get there. With only a drink left to fill out our menu we move on down the line. Milk, tea, coffee, grape juice, and other juices of unknown content are set before us- and sit there, they do. Warm milk is supposed to help bring on sleep, but few of us need warm milk during the day; it's much better cool. Then there is the final confusion of find ing a place to sit in the cafeteria. All the tables are taken, but oddly enough not every one is eating. What do we have here in the middle of the day, a cafeteria or a bridge parlo-. There are many other places where one can play bridge, but it is strictly for bidden for a person to take his tray out into another room and eat. And now that we finally have our food, we hurry so that we won't be late for our next class. And, to think, it wasn't an ex perience to look forward to. alty For Theft Primitiveness n tribe wvhose~ a crime so vicious as murder? As are concerned ridiculous as it sounds at first, ut a meager ex- the fact is this: The man wvho land. As in all commits just the crime of mur abble have their dler is set free upon his demon :00. stration of genuine penance. rder exist there - Never Any G;ood it the treatment To an author - explorer the seases appear in Hlabbe chief explained the reason mad, topsy-turvy ing this way: "A thief is no good, taisifwhe never any good. But any man, the most honest, may have the nishimen,t misfortune to be carried awvay by ie Hlabbe society anger and kill another. My father orant of the law might. Or you and I might get ing. The punish- into a quarrel and one of us kill -y is (death. For the other; yet we are honest men. as unimportant "So wvhen a man has the mis read wvhich defi- fortune to do murder, he is not to another, the exactly punished at all. He has to 3eeives the sen- (10 penance, and is purified." .Yes, it sounds P'remieditated Murder much so for our Perhaps you wonder what would happen in case of premedi a uihetfr tated murder. A murder of this ~ uihetfr type would b)e considered a-theft since this act would be for a rea -son such as stealing another's ~-IO OGflname, honor, higher position. ene glory, or milk cow. 7 An accidental taking of an other's life while in the process of robbery or intended robbery would, of course, be considered as theft and the designated punish ment would follow suite. Primitive, absurd by our stand ards, but effective nevertheless is the Habbe justice. Radical Ideas Let us not then condemn radi cal ideas until we have fully investigated the possibility of . drawing from them some fresh viewpoints with which to arm our society. While we are not advocating a return to the primitive, it might be well to remember that even the idea of the common aspirin -A developed from a witch doctor's medicine bag. Ho, Ellis Boatmon A Cathc In 1960 the Democratic party c will again be faced with the same S touchy problem it encountered in . 1928: "Should a Roman Catholic be president of the United 1 States?" On the eve of the Great Dc-. t pression, the Democrats nomi nated a Catholic, Governor Alfred cl E. Smith of New York, as their " standard-bearer. His defeat was taken as a signal to exclude Catholics from consideration for the presidency. r But In fairness it should be o pointed out that the 1928 cam- n paign was closely connected with . 1r the. controversial prohibition is- 01 sue; the Republican candidate, n Herbert Hoover, enj9yed a world- t wide reputation as compared to a the more locally known governor t] ,)f New York. p ti John F. Kenmedy G The center of the 1960 Demo- t< eratic race will revolve around 0: John F. Kennedy, the swift- si running senator from Massachu- d sctts and a Roman Catholic. In h 1956 the popular vote getting Solon lost his party's vice-presi- IV dential nomination to Senator d Eestes Kefauver by a narrow t margin. n Since then, he has loomed head h anid shoulders above his sena torial colleagues as a possible presidential candidate in 1960. His re-election to the Senate-last, fall by an 869,000-vote margin i( yinched this possibility, a The Republican Party has k never nominated a Catholic for b ur nation's highest post, and it loes not appear they will do so h next year. Protestants Richard ~ MI. Nixon, vice-president, and b Nelson Rockefeller, governor ofv Newv York, are being mentioned t as their party's top contenders a ror the White House.0 Catholic CovernorM 11 On the other hand, the Demo- - yrats have elected eight Catholic governors and twelve Catholic senators. In fact, there are more Roman Catholics in the United States Congress at present than at any other time in our nation's history. In addition to Senator Ken nedy, prominent Catholics include Edmund G. (Pet) Brown, re eently elected governor of Cali fornia. Brown defeated veteran William F. Knowland by 1,000,000 votes. Ohio returned Catholic Senator Frank J. Lausehe to his post, having previously elected him governor of Ohio In five oe easions. In the state of Minnesota, with a heavy Lutheran population, a Catholic, Eugene J. McCarthy, was elected to the Senate; and David L. Lawrence defeated Protestant George M. Leader for the governorship of Pennsylvania by 80,000 votes. ,Two Catholics were elected gov ernors In Montana and Alaska. The first winning by 76 per cent of the total vote; the Alaskan chief executive, winning by 85 per cent of the vote. Religious Prejudice Signposts are pointing all over America that religious prejudice is dying at last in a land where democracy and human dignity are regarded so highly. A ,Jew, Abraham A. Ribicoff, received a 246,000-vote majority for re w do you flunk a girl like thal )Iic For Pr< ut. Two Jews are in the U. S. enate. A Gallup Poll recently inquired ito popular feeling on the mat !r of electing a 'qualified Catho c as president of the United tates, and 68 per cent replied ,iey would, as compared to 62 er cent in 1940. Other polls of Democratic state airmen reveal Senator Kennedy ray out in front of his nearest 3ntender, Senator Stuart Sym igton of Missouri. Effect On Country Protestant leaders have al Lady become gravely concerned n the effect a Catholic president kight have on the country. loubtless a rival theology that icludes 36,000,000 Americans r one-third of the nation's church iembership-is at the heart of ie concern. Topics such as birth control, ppointment of an ambassador to ie Vatican, and public tax sup ort of Catholic schools are des ned to be widely-discussed. Dr. lenn L. Archer, executive direc >r of Protestants and Other .mericans United for Separation f Church and State, has strongly .ated that any Catholic candi ate for the presidency would ave to answer these, and other, ertinent questions. Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, of the [ethodist Council of Bishops, ismissed the prospect by saying iat no Catholic should be per titted to get his "prehensile ands in the public treasury." Americant Public Senator Kennedy realizes the 3sponsibility he has to the Amer an public-Protestant, Catholic, nd Jewish-to make his views nown on these matters, for if he ecomes an active candidate for ie nomination, and more so, if e receives the nomination, he 'ill have a moral compulsion to e frank and candid with the uters, leaving no stone un arned in regards to the relation 2ip between his religion and his rfice. The young Massachusetts law aker has said, "Whatever one's CROWiNG F( UNIVERSITY OF Member of Assocl Founded January 80, 1908, first editor, "Thle Camecock" is u the University of South Carolina y year except on holidays and durinj The opinions expressed by ei necessarily those of "The Came< Letters to th,e Editor, hut all lett not constitute an endorsement. publication any ietter is reserved. EDITOR...... MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER.. ASSISTANT MANAGING EDI COPY EDITOR ADVERTISING MANAGER NEWS EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR CAMPUS EDITOR. CIRCULATION MANAGER .. REPORTERS: David Caldwel Joe Jordan, Bill Dunne, Abb Martha Gaston, Carol William: Emily McCutchen, Charlotte G< BUSINESS STAFF: Tom Ro liams, Peggy Withers, Guy Sor COLUMNISTS: Carl M. Rey Brown, Ellis Boatmon. PHOTOGRAPHERS: Sam Fl Rickenbacker. CARTOONISTS: Bob Waldrel TYPISTS: Martha Shuler, Sal Bahn. .sident? religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to up hold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict sepa ration of church and state. "Without reference to the presidency, I believe as a senator that the separation of church and state is fundamental to our Amer ican concept and heritage and should remain so." Vatican Ambassador Kennedy went on to say, "I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome-and I'm not con vinced of these-they would he more than offset by the divisive effect at home." He firmly an swered some of his critics when he said, ". .. I'm opposed to the Federal Government's extending support to sustain any church or its schools." Whatever direction the Demo cratic convention will go in 1960 remains to be seen. Kennedy is by no means the only Catholic u n d e r consideration, but the Pulitzer Prize winning senator, for his book, Profiles of Courage, is widely acknowledged as a strong vote getter, and his youth would be a nice balance with Nixon or Rockefeller. In fact, some political sages are predicting that if the Repub licans give the nod to the smiling. amiable governor of New York, the Democrats will have no o'ther' choice but to nominate Kennedy', whom many consider' the only man who could heat Pockefeller. No Religious Testi Be that as it may, it does ap pear that the American people are gradually beginning to take seriously the Constitutional de cree that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualifica tion to any office or public trust under the United States." The day may wvell be passed when national 'nominating con ventions hold the sign outside their caucus-doors, "only Prot estants need apply." AR A GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA sted Collegiate Press vlth Robert Elliott Conzales as the uiblished by and for the students of reekly, on Fridays, during the college examinations. lumnists and letter writers are not nck." "The Camecock" encourages re must be signed. Pubishing~ does Ehe right to edit or withhold froms BILLY MISHTOE Gerald Floyd Rion Rutledge TOR . Anne Valley Carol Watson Ed Spears Bill Bates Larry May Glenna Bryant Charles Bradley Charles Behling ....Jimmy Truesdale I, Karen McKibben, Sara Krebs, 7' McKinney, Carlee McClendon, ton, Bill Lumpkin, Jimmy Bellos, wer, Kelli Greer. se, Marilyn Francis, Bobby WiI rell. nolds, Russ Burns, Anthony E. orini, M. Graeber Jordan, Bert , Lisa Lowenstein, Hal Johnson. ly T.wis, Bnnyooper, Harri.t Anthony E. Brown . . . 0. S. Prey Meets The DAR A few months ago we concluded % series of editorials on the life ind works of Oswald Simon Prey, the literary Genius of Glynn and the foremost writer ver to come from South Caro ina. However, we did not end our liligent search for his works and 1is life history. We are p!eased at this time to Further enlighten the literati of 'oday with the immortal words )f a man unheralded by the foggy ninds of his contemporaries. Doom Of South As you may recall, the last weard from 0. S. Prey was in 1860 when he predicted the doom )f the South. We thought that he night have escaped to Cuba or ;hat he died at the Battle of Fort umter in 1861. It is with a feeling of pride of erseverance that we reveal now he life and works of 0. S. Prey ifter 1860. Oswald Prey, in order to main ain his anonymity, used an as imed name in the War of North rn Aggression. Point Of View He naturally defended the southern point of view, and be ame aide-de-camp to General 3eauregard in the latter stages )f the war under the alias of 3revet-Brigadier General T. C. P. ones. Prey distinguished himself in ,he war by working out ingenious md infallible code systems based m the symbols used by Poe in his amous "The Gold Bug." Prey scratched the figures on i scrap of paper with a clear Ahemical which turned d a r k rown when subjected to a cer ain gaseous substance derived rom leguminous plants. While at kntietam, Prey penned this mean ngful paragraph to a friend in Roston: "Light flows our war of mocking words; the bloom is gone, and the sea is indeed calra as coldly, sadly dessends the summer evening. The world is too much with us now, so if I (lie bring me yew to deck my grave." (Camupaigna To Bleautify A few years after the war, 3). S. Prey began a campaign to meautify the areas in which non~umen('Its to the Confederate var dead were erected, but as he d!an ned to planmt flowers and en trave history on the foot-stones if the statues. anO organization iotorious for its interfering, the D A R, raised such a furor that Prey had to fight them through he press and from the soap)-hox. A speech he made in Charles ~on in 1867 wvon the debate for uim without another whisper riomi his antiquarian opponents. lie said, in his best Latin: "Jam te premet fox, fabu laeque manes, Et donmus exhilis Plu ton is." The Only Blot The only blot on 0. S. Prey's ong career occurredl when he was ;red for the murder of one L. S. Voatman, a self-sty-led theaterW -ritic who had wvritten a slander >us review of a play with which ~rey was affiliated. Prey said in his dlefense that le would not have acted as he lid had the criticism been honest 11d( unbiased, hut since the au hor w,as infamous for such pre udlices, he felt that he had (lone oeiety an invaluable ser'vice. So did the jud(ge, who ruled hat the dluel was fought on a )oint of honor and that Prey had, *ommittedi justifiable homicide. ['his ease set a precedent which s still observedi in courts of law hroughout South Carolina today. It is indeed the unwvise reviewer wvho criticizes in ignorance of vhat he is about. Seventieth Dirihdlay 0. S. Prey celebrated his seven ieth birthday in Charleston in 868. These were seventy full rears for Prey, for we have found mly about one-half of the activi ies wvith wvhich be busied himself' ad these that we know are many mad varied. - We also have learnedl howv long te lived and we have (discovered number of his unpublished vorks, excerplts from which you nay he pleased to Peruse in forth oming- olumn.