PAGE FOUR
THE ECHO
JUNE, 1944
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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. 0. Wells, W. M. Shaw and H. E. Newbury.
DEPARTMENT REPORTERS
(Hope to carry list of department reporters later.)
CIRCULATION MANAGER^Kathleen Ricker.
If You Were A
Safety Director?
If you were the safety director
of your company, how would you
feel when the telephone rang and
the nurse on duty advised that one
of the employees had just been
seriously injured? You knew this
employee personally through your
contacts with him on the job, a&
the Cafeteria, and at the monthly
employee parties where he was
always in a jovial mood and con
tributed much toward making ev
eryone happy.
Your first reaction to the news
would probably be a very peculiar
feeling in the pit of your stomach,
and your first though would be,
“How and why did it happen?”
You would be in a sort of dazed
condition while on your way to
the First Aid Station, and many,
varied thoughts would run through
your mind.
You don’t have any details of
the accident, but you try to picture
just what happened — whether or
not a safety rule was violated,
where the foreman was at the time
of the accident, what the employee
could have been thinking of, to
place himself in a hazardous posi
tion, and, most of all, whether,
somewhere along the line, you had
failed in your efforts to get the
safety idea across to the injured
employee and others in his de
partment.
Your thoughts would wander to
the employee’s family. Should this
injury result in a fatality, who
would be delegated to break the
news to them? Not a very nice
job, to say the least;—^you know,
because you have had the job on
a previous occasion. What was the
employee’s financial status? Will
those two fine youngsters receive
the education they so rightfully
deserve?
Then there is the question of
investigating the accident. The in
formation obtained will be used
in pointing out to the rest of the
employees how to avoid the same
thing happening to them. You
resolve to really get at the bottom
of the trouble and to renew your
efforts to bring about a realization
among all employees that it is
their lives you are trying to pro
tect, that you will help them to
the best of your ability, but in
the final analysis, it is up to them
to help prevent the accidents.
PREVENTS SKIM ON PAINT
Before storing a can of paint
pour melted paraffin over the sur
face to prevent a skin forming
The paraffin is easily lifted off
when the paint is needeclt
29 Departments
Get Safety Awards
For their achievements in oper
ating 12 months or more without a
lost-time accident, the following
departments have been awarded
Certificates of Appreciation:
Months
Endless Belt 53
Printing 59
Job Printing 59
Machine Booklet 55
Hand Booklet 17
Gumming and Repse 35
Shipping 13
Store Room 59
Maintenance 16
Research 59
Finishing 16
Digester 21
Bleach 21
Inspection 12
Landscape 59
Cleaner Crew 19
Cafeteria 17
Refining 12
Pilot Plant 59
Chemical Lab. 56
Physical Lab. , 59
Main Office 36
Turbine Room 59
Filter Plant 50
Boiler Room 38
Control 17
Police and Watchmen 59
Plant Research 36
Electrical 17
These certificates carry the fot
lowing message on safety: SAPETO
has but a single purpose of deliv
ering you, your family and your
neighbor from the bitter bondage
of accidents. You have only to
want it, and it is yours, in abund
ant measure. It is withheld from
none. Without it, you walk alone
in the shadow of disaster. With jt,
you are supported by the promise
of a secure and richer life.
Security Award
FROM PAGE ONE
Mr. Ramsey will explain the
significance of the award and give
credit to the key men and others
whose participation made it pos
sible. He will present Harry H
Straus, Ecusta president, who in
turn will introduce (Jovemor
Broughton. The chief executive
will make a speech and following
his address the award will be pre
sented. Closing remarks will be
made by^ Col. Wm. S. Pritchard,
commanding internal security in
district No. 2, Fort Bragg. The
national anthem will follow.
From 3:30 to 4:00 p. m. the pro
gram will be broadcast by station
WWNC and a portion of the Co
lumbia network.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the presentation ceremon
ies.
Beneath The Pisgah
The Poet’s Comer
Poetry is the breath and finer
spirit of all. knowledge; it is the
impassioned expression which is
the countenance of all science.
—Wordsworth.
WHAT LIPS MY LIPS
HAVE KISSED
What lips my lips have kissed, and
where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms
have lain
Under my head ’till morning; but
the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap
and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet
pain
For unremembered lads that not
again
T^ll turn to me at midnight with
a cry.
Thus in winter stands the lonely
tree.
Nor knows what birds have van
ished one by one,
Yet knows it boughs more silent
than before:
I cannot say what loves have come
and gone,
I only know that summer sang in
me
A little while, that in me it sings
no more.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay.
THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER
I rise in the dawn and I kneel and
blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and
glow;
And then I must scrub and bakfe
and sweep
Till the stars are beginning to
blink and peep;
And the young lie long and dream
in their bed
Of the matching of ribbons for
bosom and head,
And their day goes over in idle
ness.
And they sigh if the wind but lift
a tress:
While I must work because I am
old,
And the seed of the fire gets fee
ble and cold.
—William Butler Yeats.
MY STAR
All that I know
Of a certain star
Is it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
I^ow a dart of red
Now a dart of blue;
Till my friends have said
They would fain see, too,
My star that dartles the red and
the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a
flower, hangs furled:
They must solace themselves with
the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star
is a world?
Mine has opened its soul to me;
therefore I love it.
—Robert Browning.
RAYON HOSIERY
Now that toes and heels are re
inforced with cotton, your pre-war
size probably will be just right al
though, while rayon stretches in
washing, cotton shrinks.
Correct size is your foot length
in inches. Step on ruler to check.
Best bet, when you find hose that
fit exactly, is to march right back
and buy a matching pair or two
That’s not hoarding, it’s good econ
omy.
Book. Comet*
When others fail him,.the wis*
man looks
To the sure companionship
books.—Old Friends.
Out of this war great
pieces of music, art and literatu^J
are destined to emerge. H. E.
a British short story w^ter,
confirmed this in 'his eiciting
rative and fascinating love sto^’
“FAIR STOOD THE WIND
FRANCE”. It deal? witH.a
lington bomber crew, their ^
sions, their escapes, their j
alities. Their plane, broken ^ .
limping like a wounded bird,
ties in France, in occupied
tory. The pilot, severely wouD%
and bleeding, is saved by a ^
girl, who endangering her °
life, hides the crew and
pilot to a doctor. The .plot vivi .
unfolds; the youth, courage
character of the girl are
ly portrayed. It is not pjily a
of escape, but a simple
sentiment, courage, despair
determination.
Ben Ames Williams, author
“The Strange Woman,”
pen into an equally intnS^
novel called, “LEAVE HEB
HEAVEN”. The book ...
was a jealous woman, not 01^?.^^^
a lover is jealous, but in demaO
exclusive possession of jjjef
loved—resenting his every ® j,e
interest. Whatever she wanteo
had—her times, her place,
man—at the expense of
who happened to be
She was even smart (or ^ jl-
enough to escape the usual P jiy
ties of this earth. It is, tedii^ ^
speaking, a pathological stu
jealousy. This book is unusua^
highly entertaining.
. ’ a
We think of Polynesia as, a
sy, beautiful island with
foliage, tropical flowers an^Y
skinned sun-worshipers.
“LOST ISLAND” until an >
can engineer lands there ^ ^ i
blue print in his pocket, aBO .j.
flash transforms the tiny for
dise into an emergency jje
our bombers. Imagine the sc
natives—untouched by war"
giant tractors and bull doZ® ^jjo
root their precious groun^
troops land and complete n*
structures. Don’t fail to
spirit-shaking story —
novel but rather an
sorrowful picture of the des
of a culture.
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PREVENTS RUGS CRUM^
.’t
Stiffened rag rugs wont ^
pie, stay fresh longer. gi#
cent package of cold water
at the paint store. Make
tion of one cup of sizing ^
cups of water. Apply ^
rug with paint brush. Coa
ly, hang up to dry.