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Page 2 THE ECHO THE ECHO Org-an of Employees at Ecusta Paper Corporation, Champagne Paper Cor poration, and Endless Belt Co. Published Monthly at PISGAH FOREST, N. C. Printed by Champagne Job Printing Department. There have been various and sundry echoes reverberating- here and there since the issues of The Echo have been making their appearance. Some of these echoes have been complimentary, but I have heard many expressions of disappointment about the paper in gen eral. Some have observed that the paper is too small, while others re marked that it lacked variety. When the persons responsi/ble for get ting out the paper hear such remarks, I am sure they feel very much the same way I used to feel as a teacher, when the little boys and girls returned •their monthly report cards piping, “Mama didn’t like my report.” I usually replied, “Tell Mama, I didn’t like it either.” In the case of the paper I think a very appropriate reply to any criticism would be, “Did you offer a contribution?” Whose paper is The Echo? Upon whom does the responsibility for its success or failure rest? Who furnishes the material and writes the articles for the paper? It is the employees’ paper and its success or failure depends en tirely upon us. The employee must furnish the material. Editing or publishing the paper is not a part of any person’s regular jab. It means extra time, most likely night work, for those who do it. I am sure those persons are doing the very best they can with the material they have and considering the very few who seem to be taking an active interest in the paper they are doing a, commendable piece of work with every issue. If each employee would realize that The Echo is as much his responsibility, or privilege rather, as any one else’s and co-operate with the few who are taking the initiative by jotting down the bits of news concerning the em ployees of the plant and the amusing incidents that occur daily in the var ious departments and turning them in, there would be more than enough ma terial for a nice paper every two weeks. If you feel that you cannot write up your story or news item yourself, just give it to one of those people who can write, but never know anything to write, your story will be written up and The Echo can go out as a paper of which we can be justly proud. Let us make our house organ reverberaite throughout every home it enters so that we may look forward again and again to its resounding Echoes. M.S.T. Department Teams To Be Organized Continued from Page I would, therefore, prohibit some shift teams from playing on proper schedule. Girls’ soft ball teams should be or ganized in the Ecusta Finishing Room, Champagne Hand and Machine Book let Departments, and in the Endless Belt Department. A team composed of the office girls would also be wel come in the League. All those interested in the different departments are asked to meet and se lect captains for their respective teams and consult with Mr. Wells or Coach Clayton in the Personnel Department. The Beauties Of Mother Nature Mary Sue Thorne Open mine eyes that I might see The glories of nature that surround me. We have received quite a few contri butions from people who either did not sign their articles at all or signed with a pen name. Although we would have liked very much to publish one or the other of these contributions, wo can not do so unless the anonymous writers submit their names. This will be for the confidential in formation of the Staff only; at no time will a name be published without the consent of the author. We are still in the process of organiz ing the Staff for “The l^cho”. This is a tremendous task, realizing how many Now that spring has made its belated arrival our beautiful mountains have discarded their ^wintry robe of silent grandeur and are bursting forth in all their glory. You who have seen them know what Ijnean; those of you who haven’t noticed them look around you. There is beauty on every hill-side and in every dale. With the rare purple rhododendron, laurel, wild azealea, sweet honey suckle, lemon lilies, rambling roses, peeping violets, varieties of daisies and numerous other flowers which bloom in profusion, this particular section of the mountains is unsurpassed in beauty. The beauty of the mountains is en hanced by many sparkling waterfalls, murmuring brooks, winding trails, mag nificent shadows and gorgeous skies. This section is especially noted for its animal life. There are many of na tures four-footed pets, such as the buck and the doe, the squirrels, bunnies, and other fleecy coated creatures roaming the woods at large. And we must not forget our fine feathered friends, the birds, that contribute so much to our daily happiness with their brightly col ored plumage and their music. The writer is a great lover of the little ani mals which play in smyphony only after nightfall, namely the crickets, katydids, tree frogs and river frog choristers. What is more bewitching on a summer night than the thousands of tiny lights flitting to and fro made by the fireflies running their nightly errands? Prom time immemorial people with tired bodies, heavy minds and exhaust ed nerves have gone into the recesses of nature for solace and peace. To day, more than ever before, people need rest rest from routine work and hard play, and rest from horrible thoughts of kindred souls at war across the sea. The closer one grows to nature the more distant grim realities of every-day life become. Why not spend a day or week-end out in the forest and rest quietly and absorb some of the beauty? Mother Nature has indeed richly en dowed everyone within sight of these majestic peaks. Is there one with soul so immune to loveliness who can look albout without breathing almost rev erently, “America, The Beautiful!” different departments and shifts have to be considered. However, we hope to announce a complete list of all sta^’f members in the next issue, which will be distributed in the early part of July. We again appeal to all departments who have not as yet contributed. Tret’s make The Echo” a real echo of all Ecusta activities. ^^ob Clayton, Karl H. Straus Co-Editors A True Fish Story Doris Thorne Today I am very, very sad. I am low of spirit and much depressed be cause of the sad fate which befell my much beloved goldfish, Percy, at 6:00 o’clock Friday afternoon, May 31, 1940. Percy leaves no survivors. He is the playmate of the late Goldie Piscesm who passed away last fall. Had Percy died a natural death, I would have tossed him down in the edge of the garden and jotted it down as an ordinary experience during the course of a day; but his life was taken away savagely and ruthlessly. My goldfish undoubtedly met the most hideous death a fish could meet; it was washed down the drain pipe. Since an overwhelming sense of cur- iousity compelled me to step off a root in the edge of a pond once just to see how deep the water was, I have imagin ed the most horrible death to be drown ing. Now picture yourself, a land in habitant, out in water, helplessly bob bing up and down, frantically fighting the water with your arms and legs. With your ears, eyes, nose, lungs, and stomach full of nothing but water. Just for a minute belittle your ego to put yourself in the place of a fish, a water inhabitant, and think of yourself as madly swishing your fins and arch ing your body and leaping around in niid-air with nothing in your gills but air. If you were drowning, a man by properly propelling his appendages could swim out to get you, but it’s no good to send a fiSh after a fish. Next to dying by drowning, I think the most awful thing to happen to a person would be to suffer from hung er. Percy died because of being dis turbed and upset about a temporary absence from the water, and at the same time he was hungry, therefore, my sorrow is doubled. In spite of the fact some fish go without eating foi days I think it is a shame, because only a dime every six months will buy absolutely the most wholesome fish food available, containing vitamins and all other ingredients lending to a well rounded fish diet. Immediately after the accident, rather as soon as we completed a search for the pliers, my brother and I attempter’ a rescue. We swiftly and deftly un screwed the pipe at the elbow fervent ly hoping to find Percy there, but at the end of the investigation we pro nounced him washed away. Percy led a happy life, although a trying one at death. Last winter dur ing the sub-zero weather, I found him one morning in a solid cake of ice. Observing from the side view I could tell by the curve of his tail that he had not given up easily when he saw what was coming—no indeed. To my pleas ant surprise, however, I came home ir the afternoon to find him out and around with no apparent ill effects ex cept his anal fin looking a bit frost bitten. For three conseci^ive nights he endured these freezes, only to die a few weeks later. My only faint hope left is that, a? someone suggested to me, Percy might have washed on through the pipes out in the French Broad. Being smart as he was, perliaps his r.ear relatives Perch and Trout, will help him and he will be able to contact the big time fish and make something of himself. In the hope that Percy is still alive, I appeal to all fishermen—please don’t catch my goldfish, and if you do, put him back, because he is nothing but small fry. OPEN FOf Let’s Organize A What American is not hearing our National Antth this critical time, “The C£ Stripes Forever.” There isj,ri about the ring'ing forth of. blie ments that sends down Ut' tingling sensation. s No home is complete wit-ai The radio has its place ii>h1 but it has become as coffli’s affair in most homes as tut electric switch. A person in pride and enjoyment in be play some instrument himsf>ti ing this pleasure with oth*s large a group of people as *. ed at Ecusta, there could ^ si joyment and mutual unders'ait rived from some sort of a 'T( ganization. i^a Wouldn’t a well organiz*oa Ecusta be a worthwhile ' Emma ^’*'•1- Progress In Prii>*°^ w Roy Whittaker pitched and batted Ecusta to a 6:5 victory over Canton on Saturday, June 22, while the Champagne Softball team took over undisputed possession of first place m the Town Softball League. Department Big improvements have taj^® the Printing Department of The latest is a new Slittifl'^® recently perfected by Mr. well and his able assistant, ber. i!'’ 'Oh Several months of reseat , number of blue prints-'^j^ the building of the machine.^ The vast improvement ca ^ appreciated by those who old style of slitting. Thi® chine represents a very gressive piece of craftsman-' ° will go a long way to finished product. More and Frank for future impro'\, Ilarrl' 3tc the it Saturday Aftef Conference' Mary Sue Thorne The aged bell in the rustilos the little grey church amoi^^on of trees on the hill, toIledSh( sonorously at two-thirty. ‘ sexton’s call to the members ' gregation to come to Fourth Saturday monthly There was some special bu^*^' very serious nature to be tal^ou afternoon; and all the brethren had been heartily present for the opening oty ^ ing promptly at three. Sa The special business to ^ the church was the public the case of old Uncle Jacf°^- He had been seen for sevei^®'"* tive days too much under tl’* ® of whiskey. This devout lieved temperance to be a vi' ™ the church should demand o*® bers. Uncle Jackie had been ‘‘i?'"’'' concerning the matter on ent occasions, thje first tiS' Church Disciiplin^ Comrnitte' ing of three deacons. found the good brother very ’ upon the subject" of his tr3^''® Uncle Jackie told them quite' ly, that he did not wish » to them or to the church, a'' would be very grateful if ^ refrain from discussing the ther. t ^ Naturally, the committee^® that Brother Griffin was Pentant. The good pastof felt it his Christian duty to sonal effort to return tli>^ Continued on Page 4
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