-The Daily Reflector, Greenville, N. C.-

Summer Theatre Is Welcomed

It is good news that the East Carolina Summer Theatre is guaranteed for next season.

Producer - Director Edgar R. Loessin reported that the sale of advance tickets and an appropriation by the 1969 State Legislature has assured the Summer Theatre production for this summer. v

He said that ticket sales response is well ahoad of last year.

We are vastly pleased with the many friends we have heard from already this year, he stated. There are still tickets to be sold, but in light of the immediate response, we are most optimistic. The goal is to sell 3,000 season tickets, and quotas have been assigned to towns in the area. Those who purchase season tickets at $18 each are entitled to see all five Summer Theatre productions. The are: Hello Dolly, Pirates of Penzance, George M, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and Man of La Mancha.

The Summer Theatre is now in its seventh year and it has furnished summer entertainment that has won praise from patrons all over Eastern North Carolina. Visiting critics have lauded the produc-

Accident Odds

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NEW YORK (AP) Things a columnist might never know if he didnt open his mail:

You have a. one-in-10 chance of being involved in an auto accident this year. If you are in an accident, the odds are one in five that you will be injured'or killed.

It costs more money and takes more firepower to kill fxople in modern'wars. The nuclear bomb stockpiles of the United Stales and Soviet Union have the stored juivalent of 10 tons of TNT lor every person on earth.

When is the best time for a child to start taking lessons on a musical instrument? Many educators say the age of 8. when the child is mentally ready and physically coordinated.

Airport fog is perhaps the most persistent enemy of commercial air travel. It has probably caused the postponement and reshuffling of more plane schedules than any other factor.

Quotable notables; All fat men are jolly, or if here and there a fat man doesnt find himself so jovial by nature, he is compelled to assume an air of jollity, because it is expected of him, sort of noblesse obese. Frank Case.

Fish dishes are being featured more in American diets. Last year U.S. fishermen had a record catch exceeding $500 million in value.

The children pay: Of the .UK) million or more in the world living on inadequate food, infants and those in early childhood suffer the greatest damage. In adults the effects of lack of nutrition can be reversed; in infancy malnutrition retards brain growth, and the injury is permanent.

Vou can tell the approximate age of a tree, but not its exact age, by counting the rings in its stump. Contrary to popular belief, a tree (fees not necessarily grow a new ring each year. In dry years it may add none, in good growing seasons it may add more than one.

Worth remembering: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and his wife a wealthy widow.

Where the money goes: Questioning our national priorities, the American Cancer Society says the United States is spending 20

times as much on space ixograms as it is on cancer research.

Folklore: If a girl eats a lourleaf clover or puts it in her shoe, she will wed the lirst single man she meets. Nou'll have bad luck if you dont takeoff your hat when a funeral procession passes. Its okay to sneeze before Ixeakfast but not to sing or you'll hear bad news before nightfall. You'll have good luck if you carry a $5 gold piece or keep it at home in a drawer.

It was Hugh Walpole who advised. Dont play for safety. Its the most dangerous thing in ' the world.

Opinions In Brief

I believe that law was made for man that government is the servant of the peopte and iiot their master. John D. Rockefeller.

A 300-year - old cemetery in New Yorks Bowery will be converted into a playground without moving the graves. Now, who would have thought that fun city would ever have a fun cemetery? Knoxville (Tenn.) News - Sentinel.

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Example is the school d mankind, and they will learn at no other. Edmund ; Bui-ke.

Love and business and' family and religitMi and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a mans starving. O. Henry.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. Thomas Jefferson.

.Qur responsibility is not discharged by the announcement of virtuous ends. John F. Kennedy.

Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength. Ralph W. Sockman.

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The East Carolina Summer Theatre has become. an institution of which Greenville and ECU can be proud. It has drawn attention from far and wide and it is giving aspiring young actors and actresses the opportunity to develop their skills.

The Summer Theatre is a real asset and it deserves the support of everyone interested in the performing arts.

Nuclear Treaty Is Too Vital To Be Broken

Treaties between nations are made to be broken, but the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Umon offers the world some reason to feel that the arms

race will be halted.

The treaty went into effect Thursday and leaders of the two nations expressed hope that it would help curb the arms race.

Hopefully both nations will live up to the terms of the treaty and other nations will join them in a nuclear ban. Nuclear weapons are simply too awesome in their destructive power to allow the nuclear race to continue.

Now that the treaty is in effect, perhaps there is some chance to end the race.

Don't Count On

A Single Dime

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERTNOVAK WASHINGTON - The. poverty of the Democratic party,' both nationally and in the big states, that Lawrence F. OBrien now inherits as National Chairman was laid bare this week-in a closed -door political session for Northern Democratic members of the Calif(Mmia State Assembly and their assistants.

The theme, expounded by top party technicians who know both the California and national picture, was grim: dont count on a single dime, a single campaign sticker, a single doorbell ringer from the Democratic party, because you wont get it. This year, Mr. Candidate, you are on your own.

'This frank revelation of the doldrums for the Democratic party in the nations most popatous state Tnlrrors the partys desperate condition 'nationally. Its corollary the healthy and rich condition of the Republican party is also reflected in California.

' The northern state headquarters of the Democrats has exactly two employees. The partys southern wing has one woman and one secretary working full time. But Republican headquarters in Orange County has 40 fulltime employees working on the 1970 state election, with the legislature elected in November having' power to reshape Congressional, districts according to the 1970 census. That redistricting could give the Republicans eight extra Congressional seats in the 1972 election.

In Washington, OBrien faces the same threadbare situation. When a c(^y of a party propaganda sheet was requested the other day, the girl operating the Xerox machine had. to say no. She had run out of Xerox paper, and the National Committee was too brdte to reorder. .

Thats just one sign of what OBrien will find at the committee with its massive debt, now estimated at $9.3 million. Last week the committee simply abolished one of the hopeful experiments of the outgoing chairman. Sen. Fred Harris the Youth Participation Council, headed by freshman Rep. David R. Obey of

Wisconsin. It died quietly.

Nevertheless, Chairman OBrien has impressive-political assets. Most important,,! was drafted by a unanimous vote - of the executive committee ranging from devotees of the New Politics (Channing Phillips, the D. C. national committeeman) to protectors ol the old South (Louisiana national commrtteeman and arch - enemy of Harris Marshall Brown),

Moreover, OBriens selection came without any aid from Hubert H. Humphrey (who, operating as titular leader two weeks ago, couldnt get OBriens consent). That gives OBrien an extraordinary freedom of , action.

Not only was Humphrey unable to swing OBrien by himself, but he has now alienated the contenders he seemed to encourage after OBriens initial rcfusah Joe Crangle, the Buffalo leader backed ^ by , the liberals; Mayor Joe Doorley of Providence, the candidate of the South who wrecked his Florida vacation and drove ' up to Washington after receiving a call from Humphreys aide, William Connell, that Humphrey wanted him to campaign for .the job; former Gov. Matthew Welsh of Indiana, who was" publicly tapped by Humphrey as his personal choice after five years away from politics of any kind.

Thus the already mushy power base around Hum-. -phrey as titular leader has now collapsed, giving OBrien unprecedented freedom of action. But OBriens other major asset is more important: Robert Strauss, ambitious, aggressive national committeeman from Texas who now becomes party treasurer and chairman of a still - to -be - named finance committee.

At dinner in Paul Youngs restaurant Tuesday night, Louisianas Brown and others were ecstatic about the prospects of the OBrient -Strauss team. It was, they burbled, reminiscent of the old Boston - Austin axis of JFK and LBJ in 1960. Outlandish though that optimism is, it reflects a refreshing and unaccustomed state of mind for a party that has hit bottom.

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By ART BUCHWALD

Whom Can You Believe?

WASHINGTON Vice President Spiro Agnew and Atty. Gen. John Mitchell may be on a collision course without even knowing it. As everyone who has a television set knows, the thrust of Agnews fund-raising speeches for the Republican Party is that you cant trust the press or the television qommentators because theyre biased and

unreliable.

At the very moment that Agnew is challenging the credibility of the communications media, Atty. Gen. Mitchell is going ahead with his plans to subpoena the notebooks and films of the very reporters Agnew says lack credibility.

The question that the Eastern liberal establishment press if asking is:

Other Editors Say Not A Party Issue

Does the attorney general of the United States plan to use reporters notebooks and film as evidence, when the Vice President of the United States says they are all a pack of lies?

Its going to be tough for a jury to decide a case when two leaders of the country are on opposite sides of the case.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the government submits in evidence the notebooks of Hiram Spin-

(The Raleigh Times)

The Democratic Party in North Carolina would be wise to turn a deaf ear to any parties who serit to involve it as a participant in the liquor -by - the - drink cwitroversy. There are good Democrats on both sides of this issue, and good Democrats will be incensed regardless of the way the party might jump on this explosive matter.

All this matter of possible Democratic involvement has come to a head in the past few days with publication of a series of letters between Marse Grant, editor of The Biblical Recordeir and staunch foe of by - drink legislation, and Bob Bingham, State Young Democratic president. Bingham had supported the liquor legislation, and had listed it as a major issue for young people. Grant wrote Bingham and, in effect, threatened political action by a million Baptists and half a million Methodists if Democrats went through with support for the by - drink legislation. Grants thesis seems to be that there will be wholesale defections by dry Democrats to Republican ranks.

Grant shouldnt be making threats in the names of Baptists and Methodists. He

has no more right to do this than Bingham would have to make pledges in the names of all the Young Democrats of North Carolina.

But, his advice to the Democratic Party to stay out of the liquor fight is sound. Apparently this will be one of-the rough battles in the next legislature, and its wounds could go deep.

Actually, the liquor - by -the - drii^ matter should be fought out on issues. There are really two issues involved:

North Carolinas liquor legislation since repeal has been based on government control of liquor sales and on government profit from liquor sales. Approval of liquor - by - the - drink legislation would damage those two foundations of state liquor legislation, and the legislature must decide ' whether it wishes to inflict that damage.

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dletroff who interviewed Raff Lubin. In one of these notebooks Lubin told Spin-dletroff, and I quote, If I had a birthday candle, Id set fire to the Washington Monument.

The defense objects, your, honor. Vice President Agnew has said repeatedly you cant believe a word Hiram Spindletroff say/ So how can

the jui^^^^beljeve anything written in his notebooks?

If sales of liquor by the drink are permitted, the state loses control of the final sale to the consumer. And, the profit from that sale goes to a private individual, not to a governmental agency.

These are the issues, not Democratic support or Baptist or Methodist opposition.

Your honor, the government has been assured that everything Spindletroff has written in his notebook is true.

Your honor, the attorney general is calling the Vice President of the United States a liar and the defense will not stand for it.

The attorney general is not calling the Vice President a liar. The attorney general has great respect for the Vice President.

Then how can the attorney general say that Spindletroff has written the truth about Lubin when the Vice President says that Spindletroff cant write the truth about anything?

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By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) There might appear to be something micawberish about the attitude of some industrialists these days as they make plans for higher sales and big profits in the coming months.

Not macabre, which means ghastlyalthough certain economists committed to the forecast of an imminent recession might interpret it that way, for it certainly threatens their plans.

Micawber, instead, in the spirit of Mr. Micawber, a character in David Copperfield whose motto was: Something will turn up An improvident man. he lived in constant expectation of an upturn in his for-Many industrialists are ignoring the gloomy forecasts of the economists and are looking for that upturn. Many others feel that business, at any rate, wont, turn down, at least for their companies.

Acting on their assumptions, these businessmen not only are planning big spending projects, they are anticipating big profits. Reliable surveys show this.

The McGraw-Hill economics department queried businessmen last month and found they expect a 6 per cent rise in corporate earnings in 1970 to a record total of $95.2 billion. In a slowed down economy?

This. said Business Week magazine, is almost the exact opposite of what Washington has said will happen to profits. , In fact, the official forecast from Washington-that profits could be expected to fall 5.6 per cent from last yearhas been criticized as too optimistic by some economists.

Businessmen, however, obviously are not listening to the economists, for disbelief in forecasts is revealed also by their plans for capital spending projects. which surveys show keep rising over last years totals.

Government and private economists now foresee sizeable increases in the amounts of money that industry expects to spend for proving ^anU and equipment. More important, the plans seem to grow rather than shrink. '

Rinfret-Boston Associates completed a survey late last week that indicated business expects to spend 13.2 per cent more in 1970 than last year. F]arly last fall, a similar survey put the percentage at 8. |

If there is to be a down- i; turn. the businessmen seem to be saying, there will be an upturn shortly ihereafter. In effect. they are looking over the present valley, if it is that, to the heights beyond. And they are getting ready to climb those heights.

Pierre Rinfret declines to concede that a valley exists. To accept the existence of a valley in the line chart of economic activity is to admit the presence of a recession, which Rinfret states isnt the case.

Maybe, he says, theyre looking over a saucer. which is a term economists use to indicate a shallow trough, a gentle rather than abrupt dip in an otherwise upward line on the economic chart.

If the plans of business come true, it would indicate that the Nixon administration will not get all the stability it sought when it began efforts 14 months ago to rein in the economy.

Big capital spending plans mean continued upward pressure on interest rates and prices, both of which the administration hopes to lower. And big profits would suggest little further slowdown of business activ

ity.

Strength For Today Fashion And Economy

LAY HOLD ON HOPE

Depression is a mood which everyone experiences at some time or other. There are ups ahd downs in life, and if one is not depressed occasionally by the way world affairs are going or about the way men lunge at one anothers throats without any regard as to right or wrong, then we can wish for such a person a season of depression that will get him.out of the bog of selfishness and put him on the highway of life with a smile on his face.

Wait, you say. Arent you depressed by the horrible things that are taking place right around us every day? Certainly. And we would not be useful members (rf society if we. did not have such depression.

. But depression in itself gets us nowhere. Jt gradually goes

down, down, down until it ends with an introverted life and a hopeless outlook.

The world is going to be made better only if a lot of right minded people get so disgusted and angry that they begin to do something within their own sphere of influence. But depression itself will get us nowhere. Brace up! Cheer up! Pt^l off your coat and roll up your sleeves. Things may have been worse in the past than they are now, but the past is gone and we are in an age that requires more than a melancholy deprq^ion if we are to get out it and press on to a better future.

Depression as a temporary mood can be good. Depression as a set state of mind is an evilin fact, a sin.

And now abideth hope , .

(I Corinthians 13:13), Lay hold on h<^ and enjoy it.

Ty Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER At the bottom of the Depression, about 1933, I bought a Harris tweed coat for $20. A few days ago a New York chain advertised Harris tweed jackets for $19. "The

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same eight-store chain, Alexanders, advertised 10,000 mens suits for $19.

These are not typical New York prices by any means'; the coats and suits were distress merchandise, as they say in the trade. Somebody had overproduced and" the chain had picked up rare bargains. However, the sale underscores the distress that

besets the clothing trade.

Sales of both mens and womens garments are off. One big Seventh Ave. firm has annouftced its closing and several more are reported to be considering it. There appears to be a confluence of reasons.

A Postponable Market

These are the reasons:

- . Many people are uncertain about whether the recession will get worse, whether they will hold their job, whether their dividends will decline. And clothing is usually a postponable purchase.

. Clothing prices have been rising. While the consumers , li-ice index showed a decline of 1.1 per cent from December to January, largely because of clearance sales, January prices were still 4.5 per cent above a year *

ago.

. A vast uncertainty-exists in styles, especially in skirt lengths. A poll at Clevelands largest shopping center showed that women from 13 to 19 favored miniskirts 12 to 1, while women from 20 to 30 were 4 to 1 jn favor. However, this may only prove that Cleveland women over 19 have fatter legs than those under.

wear. While the trend toward flamboyance in colors and cuts is strong, historically men tend to wear more conservative apparel in times of recession.

Fashion authority Florence de Santis, said in a con-fldential report to editors; Certainly,, the hemline picture isnt helping. Many women this spring will wait to see'vhat fall will bring. Wararobe of lengths simply doesnt make sense to the avenage woman, she isnt in. dire of new clothes.

. To a lesser extent, uncertainty exists in mens

Top Lines Hit Hardest Makers of more expensive clothing appear to have been hii harder than others. The wealthier customers are better equipped to wait out changes in fashion and in the economy. An<j those 'in the youth market, having less to spend, seek the newness rather than quality in apparel. Thus quality manufacturers are hit harder than those producing quick, flashy fashions.

Another factor may be developing: a subtle boycott Qf French governments siding with die Arabs against the Israelis..