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THE ECHO
MAY, 1944
The Echo
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY AND FOR EMPLOYEES OF
ECUSTA PAPER CORPORATION, CHAMPAGNE PAPER COR
PORATION AND ENDLESS BELT CORPORATION AT
PISGAH FOREST, NORTH CAROLINA.
EDITORIAL STAFF
John D. Eversman Editor
Lucille Roberts Assistant Editor
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE
John D. Eversman, F. S. Best, Raymond F. Bennett, Walter K.
Straus, J. O. Wells, W. M. Shaw and H. E. Newbury.
DEPARTMENT REPORTERS
(Hope to carry list of department reporters later.)
CIRCULATION MANAGEIU-Kathleen Ricker.
Happy Birthday!
The Echo wishes to congratulate Brevard college
upon its tenth anniversary, which will be celebrated on
June 3-6 with an elaborate four-day program, featuring
many outstanding speakers. Brevard college is a fine edu
cational institution and it is a great asset to this section.
We are proud of its record of successful operation during
the past ten years and wish for the college continued
growth and expansion during the months and years that
are to come. Again we salute its board of trustees, faculty
and students. Happy birthday to you!
Buy More Than Before!
With a slogan of “Back the Attack—^Buy More than
Before,” the Fifth War Loan drive will be started on
June 12.
During the four drives in the past, our forces have
been attacking on many battlefronts. It is quite possible,
however, that while this fifth drive is underway the great
est “attack” of all may be in progress.
From all indications, our military might seems to be
about ready to open a huge second front invasion of Hit
ler’s occupied Europe. Who knows, D-day might be June
12, or it might be July 4.
Of course no one knows the day or hour of the great
attack that is expected to crush Germany’s hold on lEJtirope
and to destroy Hitler’s armies, but it is a certainty that
this will be a tremendous undertaking for our boys. Many
of them will probably give their lives and others will be
injured for life.
To launch this great attack, as well as to continue to
carry the fight to the Japs in the Pacific, requires the ex
penditure of a vast quantity of money which our govern
ment does not have coming in from taxation and which it
must borrow from the people.
Surely every one of us will want to have a personal
stake in this gigantic attack on Europe and the best way
we can do it is by “Buying More Bonds Than Ever Before.”
“Time” Is Precious
As we consider all of the natural gifts of life we are
united in our belief that time is the most precious of all.
Yet everyday, every hour we let some of those^ precious
moments slip unused away from us. Each morning when
we awake before us is a brand new day to use as we see
fit. We have our choice to enrich our life by the day’s
happenings and findings, by living each moment to the
fullest or to remain obsecure, dormant a watcher of life
from the side line, giving nothing to others and securing
nothing for ourselves—a human parasite feeding upon the
experiences of others.
There is no one who controls the using of our time but
we ourselves. We can scatter our moments over the per
iod of a lifetime, as the careless sower of seed upon the
earth to fall at random, unnourished to decay and die. Or
we can use our time as one possessing wisdom gleaned
from the experiences of the ages—as a careful sower of
seed who has prepared a particular spot with infinite care
and places these seed in the ground to grow and flourish.
Take a lesson from the careful sower of the seed to
justify our own existence and to leave something behind
us immortal we must grasp tightly these fleeting moments,
and use them with a concrete purpose, an unyielding de
termination to put them to the greatest use possible.
Moments are brief and fleeting but to assemble them
together they compromise a year, a decade, a lifetime-—
grasp them, use them, and remember time is a thing life
is made of,
New Yorker Reads
Echo In S. Pacific
And Writes Letter
Miss Kathleen Ricker, circula
tion manager of The Echo, recently
received an unusual letter from
somewhere in the South Pacific,
written by a New Yorker who is
in service and who happened to
pick up a copy of an Echo “way
out there.”
The letter .highly praises Miss
Ricker for her ability as a circu
lation manager and you will see
why when you read the letter.
She says, however, the praise may
not be deserved because she has
no idea how a copy of the Echo
got into the “case containing some
American product.”
'“We are a little curious about
which issue of the paper this might,
have been and in any case, we
intend to include SC 1-C Ray Sheri
dan of the mailing list,” Editor
Eversman states.
The letter is as follows:
“Pardon my taking this liberty
of writing you. I must congratulate
you as a first class circulation
manager. My reason for saying
that comes from an unusual ex
perience.
“I am on a Navy troop transport
and we had safely delivered our
load of troops to a South Pacific
location. While the ship was being
unloaded of the troops’ equipment
we had liberty. Naturally, sailors
get around as near the front lines
as possible. We stopped a sergeant
driving a jeep and asked him how
far he was going. He said, “About
80 miles up towards the front.”
“Let’s go,” and we were with him.
We arrived at a camp just in time
for chow. After chow we gave the
camp a look-over. Some Aussies
had one tent where they could sit
and read in their spare time. We
went in and that’s why I’m writing
you. There on a makeshift table
was a copy of the ECHO. I picked
it up and started reading it. When
I saw it was from the States,
asked them where they got it
They told me they had received
some American product and it was
in the box. They all had read it
and liked very much the way the
Yanks do things—so much differ
ent from their way. I tried to get
the paper to take back to the ship
No business. They wanted it. So,
Miss Ricker, you really circulate
your paper!
“Some day after this war is over,
and it will be soon, I hope to visit
Ecusta Corporation on my way to
Florida. I live in New York and
every year I usually drive through
North Carolina. That corporation
is sure of the ball and, with all
those beautiful girls, why shouldn’t
it be?
‘Keep up the good work, the
boys are depending on it and
getting the goods.
Sincerely yours,
Ray Sheridan (SC 1-c)
(Not an Ecusta employee)”
Book. Comer*
Nature and books belong to tb®
eyes that see them.—^Ralph Wald®
Emerson.
IS STILL COOKING
Pfc. John F. Drake writes from
Ft. Worden, Washington: . . I’m
still cooking and like it fine. It
isn’t such very hard work and that
kind of work just suits me ... I
have to help put out chow now
KEEPS UP WITH BUDDIES
Pfc. Buddy Neill writes from
somewhere overseas: . I like
the way the Echo tells a little
about each man in the service, for
it gives us a chance to know where
our other buddies are ... I still
see Bob Anders every few days.
We both agree that Ecusta is
where we should be mow . , .”
W. Somerset Maugham, the a**'
thor of “Strictly Personal” a®®
“The; Hour Before Dawn,” turns to
a religious theme and tells
story of a young American’s quest
for faith. In Larry Darnell he
created one of his most radiant
and appealing characters. Darnel’'
impelled by what he has seen
death in the war, renounces bi®
fiancee, Isabel Bradley, and
opportunity for wealth and posj"
tion, to seek knowledge and
above and human mortality. Thi®
is a story of many diverse chara^^'
ters, against the background ^
Paris, the Riviera and the
which have been the scenes
many of Maugham’s great nai^'
tives.
“Three Wives” by the Ragnar a
Geijerstam, a Swedish writer,
tremendous best seller in Swedei^'
It deals not with the customs
history of the Swedish people,
of the lives and loves of the
class. The story concerns mai
and the sins that seem to be
erally committed against this^*^'
stitution by attractive and
ticated people regardless of ^
geographic scene. Women will ^
ognize, in the male character, trai
that they have loved their b'J.
band for, without understan^
how their self respect permitt
it. Men will find in the
portrayal of women such
trating frankness most usually
served for dreams.
In the judgment of a
ability we habitually dig into ^
ily background. This is exactly ^
course Cathrine Drinker
follows in the striking book \
kee from Olympus.” This ^ jg
technically speaking, is a
biography of three generations
the Holmes family. It is
know the lives of great
such as these. We create a
ship with the grandfather,
Holmes, historian and
Puritan, the great - grandfatP,j{
Judge Wendell, the poet, sci®^ jj;
and story-teller Oliver
Jti®'
In our generation Justice
Wendell Holmes was a map
loved life and believed in it-
tice Holmes, disillusioned pd
experience of the Civil War >
long hours of legal study,
to some to have lost his
feelings, but on taking the ^ M
in the Supreme Court
forth all his lessons of exper^^^^e
history, and philosophy. jll
Holmes stood as a prophet to
forward-looking men. Today
recognize him as one of the ^
champions of freedom, liberty
the rights of the common niao*