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LETTERS HOME:
^ December 12, 1942
^ear Mr. Wells,
Will write you a few lines to say hello. I would have written soon-
but I have been very busy.
I like army life just fine and am taking it as it comes, but as you prob-
know I would rather be back at Ecusta with the boys.
.. I certainly do enjoy the Echo as it is about all I read in my spare
and I really love to read!
I just received my Christmas present and surely do appreciate it.
Tell all the boys hello and would love to be back working with them
Mr. Rhodes.
Sincerely,
JOHN C. SPROUSE
December 14, 1942
Mr. Wells,
. At last I have an address that I will keep long enough to allow me to
and expect an answer before I change again. While at the Lakes in
^linois I received a copy of the Echo. I liked the paper very much as it^ is
’^ell loved by all the employees and former employees of Ecusta. It carries
more news than a letter.
When I was in North Carolina on leave a few weeks ago I had a
^ost enjoyable visit at Ecusta. I will never forget it as everyone seemed
friendly to me.
Sincerely,
TED BRYAN
December 20, 1942
Mr. Straus:
f I wish to express my appreciation for the Christmas gift I received
the company. Just to know that our people are thinking about us gives
a lift to go ahead and finish this job we are here to do. We all hope to
back home soon and resume our normal way of living that rightly be-
to every American.
Thanks for your efforts to keep our morale high.
Sincerely,
HOUSTON KITCHIN
b Fort Benning, Ga.
jjCusta Paper Corporation
v^sgah Forest, N. C.
^ear Sir:
I really don’t know how I should start this letter. First I’ll say I had
Planned on writing and telling you all about my army life. So now I gotta
and thank you for the nice package I received only a few minutes ago.
^as greatly appreciated and that was the nicest gift you could have given
As you know, soldiers just write, write .write and of course, they also
hope, hope for answers as well as for the war to end.
u I am in the Armored Division here and like it very much. I have
out today driving a jeep—you know, these little jitterburg cars, the
the girls go crazy over. Not these Georgia girls, of course, but those
^J'ista and Champagne “beauties.” I want a jeep and a girl from Ecusta
the war is over.
There is a favor I must ask. I’d like to hear from a lot of you swell
^t'^Ple and I also would appreciate the ECHO. I sure have missed it and
j ® good people there. I hope to be home in a month or so and visit you.
r ^Ust stop now. I’ll say thanks again, and write to me anytime.
Sincerely, "*
V MITCHELL TAYLOR
Finishing Touches
C-SHIFT
We all failed to report the behav
ior and condition of the members of
our Department in the December is
sue of the Echo but our intentions
were good. The neglected report was
evidently due to the fact that we
were too busy with Christmas shop
ping. Forgive us for we shall try to
atone in the future . . . From what
Bobbie Brown says “women still
maintain the much loved privilege of
changing their minds.” She was go
ing to join the WAAC’s but that beau
tiful diamond she’s wearing was too
atti active to resist and so was the
man so she is engaged to another man
and it isn’t Uncle Sam . . . We did
suffer the los^ of one of our girls
though. Bessie Kimsey just left to
be a WAAC last week. She was
wearing one of those G. I. haircuts
before she went away . . . Cecil Smith
really goes for things that are loud.
Not long ago it was that sweet smell
ing lotion that caused so much at
traction and this time he came in
with some socks on that were so loud
we couldn’t hear the slitter motors.
He said he got them for Christmas
but someone made a grave mistake
for they should have given him a
carton of chewing gum because he is
still begging for gum . . . Bobbie
Greene has recently adopted as her
theme song “I got the neck of a
chicken” and for what reason we
don’t know ... So glad to have Char
les McGraw working on our shift.
He was formerly with the U. S. Navy.
. . . Ask Dot Sellers what kind of an
animal she killed the other day when
she went hunting . . . We extend to
Charles Colwell our best wishes for
a rapid recovery ... So glad to have
Freda Ray back on our shift. We al
so welcome Estelle Ward from Hen
dersonville.
January 3, 1943
To Ecusta Paper Corporation
Pisgah Forest, N. C.
How to express words of appreciation I don’t know, for the nice box
of stationery. Nothing could be appreciated any more by the men in ser
vice. It would be used more if they had time, light, and a place to write.
When the Charge of Quarters comes through and says “lights out” lights
go off whether you’re done writing or not. But it is a good reminder to
make the men try to snatch a few minutes and write back to Ecusta.
For that is a company for any man to appreciate having his name on
their payroll before entering the service. And here is hoping I can rejoin
Ecusta in the near future.
A true friend to Ecusta and its employees, just plain old
JOHN W. (DRAKE) (Private, 1st Cl.)
December 10, 1942
Dear Mr. Wells,
I am very sorry I haven’t written sooner but I have been so busy. I
have been receiving the Echo and enjoy it very much. The most of all I like
the pictures and clippings of the boys in service. I have a hobby of saving
these for the most of them I know and worked with.
The Christmas present was very nice. If most of the boys are like
myself they will find the stationery is what they need most.
Tell everybody hello for me.
Sincerely yours,
THOMAS F. COOPER
November 18, 1942
Dear Mr. Wells:
I got your letter and was I glad to hear from you!
The Army is not so bad after all. I have been made M. P.
Will write a letter soon.
Tell everyone Hello.
Thanks for the letter, and hoping to hear from you again.
Very truly yours,
“Butch” (Harry W. Clayton—Private)
BE THE BEST
If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a shrub in the valley—but be
The best little shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a brush if you can’t be a tree.
If you can’t be a brush be a bit of the grass.
Some highway to happier make;
If you can’t be a muskie then just be a bass
But the liveliest bass in the lake
We can’t all be captains;—some must be crew,
There’s something for all of us here;
There’s big work to do and there’s lesser too,
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can’t be a highway, then just be a trail.
If you can’t be the sun, be a star;
It isn’t by size that you win or you fail.
Be the best of whatever you are.