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THE ECHO
April,
THE ECHO
Organ of Employees at
Ecusta Paper Corporation
Champagne Paper Corporation
and ^Endless Belt Company
Editor Miss Justine Williams
Published Monthly at
PISGAH FOREST, N. C.
Printed by Champagne Job Printing
Department.
BooKs Comer*
Among new additions to the li
brary are William Saroyan’s The
Human Comedy and The Robe by
Lloyd C. Douglas. Both books are
worthy of special comment.
Saroyan’s book was a Book of the
Month selection having the distinc
tion of the largest advance printing
of any book in the history of the or
ganization. 342,000 copies of this
book were sent out as the month’s
selection. The American Library As
sociation Booklist comments on the
book as follows:“The author express
es his belief in the essential good
ness of ordinary people in the story
of a family in a California town in
wartime. The Macauley family con
sists of the mother, a teen-age daugh
ter, and three sons,, the oldest in
the army, the second a telegraph
messenger in his hours off from
school, and the youngest, a four-year-
old, who likes to watch people.
Other townspeople are encountered
and portrayed in a kindly light — a
high school history teacher, the night
operator and manager of the tele
graph office, a librarian, and a friend
of the soldier. There are touches of
humor, philosophizing on the mean
ing of home and family and a per
vading sentimentality that does not
detract, however, from the story.”
The Robe by Douglas has headed
the best seller list since last Novem
ber and was published in October.
It is written so interestingly through
out its 695 pages that in spite of its
length, you won’t want to miss a
word of it. It is the story of Mar-
cellus, Roman tribune, who cast lots
for and won the garment of Christ at
the time of the Crucifixion. The
story centers around Marcellus and
the effect that the robe had on his
life.
Other new additions are: Practi
cal Encyclopedia of Gardening. Ed
ited by Norman Taylor. Borth’s book.
Modern Chemists and Their Work
(in which Mr. Harry H, Straus fig
ures prominently). Experiment Per
ilous, by Carpenter. This Fortress,
by Manning Coles. Colonel Effing
ham’s Raid, by Fleming. Man From
Texas, by Gregory. Plume Rouge, by
Terrell, and Chicken Every Sunday,
by Rosemary Taylor, the new Liter
ary Guild monthly selection.
Mentioned elsewhere in this issue
are the newly prepared Technical
Book and Periodical Lists which are
available to all employees who are
interested in procuring them. These
lists may be had by contacting the
Recreation Library in the Main Of
fice Building.
Indian Relics Found In This Vicinity
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From top to bottom left row:
1. Red stone pipe,
2. Base of grooved stone axe
3. Cutting edge of grooved stone axe
Top to bottom, right:
1. Fragment of shallow stone dish with holes pierced in comers.
2. Three stones used for rubbing hides or pigments.
Arrowheads. Bottom item is fragment of an earthenware bowl. All
items in both photos were found recently in Dunn’s Rock Township.
Just An Ordinary
Family
What is conscience? It is the
Guardian of the very best within us.
(Editor’s note: The following arti
cle was submitted by Auxiliary l|c
Mary Rickman, former employee in
the Handbooklet Department of
Champagne, and now stationed at
Denton, Texas.)
We were just an ordinary American
family, Mom, Pop, my brother and I.
We lived in an ordinary house with
conveniences but not luxuries. We
had our ups and downs as any other
place where two or more reside un
der one roof. On Saturday we went
to the show. On Sunday we sat
around and visited or went for a
stroll or sat on a lake bank and
dreamed while we fished. On Mon
day mornings Dad, Bud and I went
back to work while Mom flew into
the many chores of housekeeping.
Yes, we were an ordinary family.
Then came the war. Prices went up,
pleasures were fewer, lights became
dimmer. Then at last we fully real
ized that America was at war, in a
fight for her life and the life of the
civilization of decency. We knew
there would be fewer pleasure
trips, that gasoline was needed to fly
bombers for Britain, that rubber was
needed to make tires for Uncle Sam’s
growing fleet of “battle buggies.”
The lassies of the nation cut down
on their glamour by giving their ny
lons for parachutes to save lives.
We were still an ordinary family.
We each had a ration book, we eafch
stayed home a little more, we each
did without things we had always
looked upon as necessities but really
were nothing at all. Then came the
day Mom hung a flag in the window
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OPEN FORUM
March 30, 1943
Points Of Historical Significance
The points referred to in the above
title are the arrowpoints which are
turned up by the thousands every
spring when the land is ploughed.
A person who has spent most of his
life in the country is usually not
amazed when he picks up an arrow-
point, but he should be; not because
the point was made by an Indian but
because he holds in his hand an
artifact which may have been made
hundreds of years before white
men ever came to this continent. In
fact he holds a relic from a Stone
Age, since the Indians in this part
of the country were essentially still
in the stone age of their develop
ment when Americus Vespucius and
Columbus came to these shores.
The art of making objects of
metal for utilitarian purposes was
unknown to the Indians in this part
of the country although there were
civilizations in Mexico and Central
America which had developed the
art of silver and gold-smithing to a
high degree. The points you can
find in the fields around us were
made by a race of huntsmen and
agriculturists who used the primitive
tools which they found at hand.
Pieces of bone were used as you
would use the notches in the side
of a glass cutter to apply pressure
to the side of a likely looking piece
of stone and thus chip off flakes un
til the desired shape was attained.
Sometimes, and rarely, you will
find an unusual arrowpoint, or even
a stone axe-head, and still more in
frequently, a stone pipe or a piece
of pottery. The most likely places
“ACCIDENTS ARE RATIONED"
SAVE MANPOWER FOR WARPOWER
YDUOOfiV^i^
TO BE CRAZY-
CHANCED...
KAnONAl COUNOl
Having spent the better part
the past four years in keeping watc
over all activities here in the j
there is one outstanding feature
wish to call to your attention.
Never have the employees of E* jj
ta. Champagne and Endless
failed to go over the top in any
sponsored by the respective
panies. First it was for the Trany'
vania Community Hospital. Theni®
War Bonds, Red Cross and last bu
not least. Victory Gardens. Triw
every one of you are to be
ed for your wonderful spirit of
operation.
Another Company sponsored
is now on and if your same spirit f
cooperation is manifested, it too
go over the top. ,,
This drive is for reducing
throughout the mill and the
to cut accidents in half. This
done and your being careful in
cussing safety with your
workers will play an all-import^^
part in the drive. .
Remember, when all empM^ .
make up their minds to stop ac
dent—they will stop.
Thank You
(Editor’s note: The following
was written to Mr. Harry H. Stra*^^
by Caroline Fuller, in appreciatj^i
for a flag which Mr. Straus donat
to the new Pisgah Forest
Caroline is 12 years old and a
in the 6th grade at Pisgah Forest->
The flag you gave to us appeals
The way we all agree.
It stands for all our freedom
And all our liberty.
It stands for homes and countries^
And our boys across the sea;
It stands for the present citizens
And citizens to be.
We thank you for it very much,
And all of us will try
To keep the colors meaningful,
And “Old Glory” waving higO'
to look for such things are in
near streams. Whenever you
an abundance of points and fj;
ments, it is logical to assume ^ i
there was once a camping
and the presence of numerous ^ {
finished points would indicate^^^
the points were made there ^ , jg,
imperfect ones tossed to one sJO
A good time to look for
is in the early spring when -t'
is being ploughed, and the best ^
ing is to be had after a rainy
when the soil has been beaten ®
around hard objects, leaving q{
points on top of little pinnacled
earth, like a golfball on a tee. ^
Since coming here in
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