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PAGE FOUR THE ECHO September, 1946 ^ The £eiio PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY AND FOR EMPLOYEES OF ECUSTA PAPER CORPORATION, CHAMPAGNE PAPER CORPORATION AND ENDLESS BELT CORPORATION AT PISGAH FOREST, NORTH CAROLINA Copyrighted, 1945, By Ecusta Paper Corporation ECHO STAFF John D. Eversman Editor Lucille Heffnco: Assistant Editor Jack Alexander Sports Reporter “Hank” Newbury Safety Reporter DEPARTMENT REPORTERS—Dot Banning, Buvee Capps, Jes sie Mae Clampitt, Eula Grey, Walter Kay, Donna Wright, Em mett Clark, Felicia Edwards, John Goolsby, Jack Rhode3, Harry S. Kolman, Helen Kimzey, Sara Loftis, Maude Stewart, Bertha Edwards, Annie Lou Hamlin, Thelma Glazciner, Eileen Nelson. PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE—John D. Eversman, F. S. Best, Raymond F. Bennett, Walter K. Straus, J. O. Wells, W. M. Shaw, H. E. Newbury, Fire Prevention Week The period October 6-12 has been designated as Na tional Fire Prevention week. It has been revealed by au thoritative sources that fire losses have been rising for a decade. The loss for the tvi^elve months ending July 31, 1946, was $526,188,000. This was an increase of 10.7 per cent over 1944 and is the highest in this country since 1930. Fires in 1944 were 17 per cent more destructive than they were in 1943. These figures should stress the importance of every, one’s doing his utmost to reduce fire losses. Every possible fire hazard around the home should be removed. There is another reason aside from the monetary value involved and the peril to life involved in fires and that is the criti cal shortage of labor and building materials. Structures burned today can be replaced only with extreme difficulty and then at greatly increased prices. The Pisgah Forest watershed is essential to the smooth operation of our plant. Fires in this area could, if numer ous or severe enough, seriously interfere with our water supply. For this reason we urge all employees who visit to use every precaution against fire. ' Ecusta maintains an efficient fire department, but this does not absolve our employees from the obligation to be ever aware of the fire hazard. Do not do t h o s e things which might start a fire and report anything you observe which might cause a blaze. 000 A New Era—And The Old Those who keep abreast of the news in the daily press are fully aware that the war era . . . the days when any thing went ... is rapidly drawing to a close. Today the need for increased production is almost as great as it was during the war but industry no longer is in a position to demand production regardless of cost. Manufacturers once again have entered the competitive field. The era of the wartime cost-plus contract has come to an end. Resulting from the war era is the popular misconcep tion that money is wealth and that higher wages for less work will provide the answer to our economic ills. Actu ally, wealth consists of the production of durable goods, not wages in the pay envelope. If each one of us were to work one day a week and re ceive $75 for that day’s work we could live quite comfort ably for a comparatively short period but as productive capacity lessened, the cost of food and other necessities would rise so sharply that even a $75 check for a day’s work would prove insufficient. If current wages were dou bled and production did not show a proportionate increase the net result would simply mean increased prices. There may be a few isolated instances in industry where the individual or a group of individuals were not properly rewarded for their contribution to increased pro ductive wealth but as a general rule management has rec ognized those who have conceived or participated in any program that would result in a higher output of their prod ucts. This action on the part of industry is based on the old truism that the people of a nation get only what they, themselves, create. As three million veterans still seek homes, as millions desire household appliances, and as we face a troubled situation in E^urope, production now be comes not only a national necessity but a downright pa- The Poet’s Comer Beneath The Pisgah Autumn Goldenrod How wise these fields who saved the best Of all their gold until Each dusty road had need of it And every shabby hill. How very wise these fields and kind To give another chance At beauty to a world bankrupt By June’s extravagance. —Elizabeth-Ellen Long, Do Not Say You Have Forgotten Do not say you have forgotten, Do not let it pass your lips, Do not tell me memory’s lying Withered, with the roses dying- Do not voice it . . . ‘.‘I’ve forgot ten ...” Stop it with these finger tips! Do not tell me days are passing, Do not ever let me know That the years are petals falling When a colder breath is calling All the fragrance there amassing To a quiet in the snow. Tell me only life was sweeter Than a laughing, merry child, Sterner stuff than blast of winter. Keener than the prick of splinter. Though its pace is fleeter, Than a deerling of the wild. —Jenny Lind Porter. Woman Canning I would far rather lean above my kettle Than be a witch with magic at my hand! The taste of fruit, the sheen of polished metal, The bubbling pulp and liquid being canned, The knowledge that this plum was scented petal And dewy leaf when spring was on the land Has frothed my heart till it will scarcely settle, Is all the miracle that I can stand! —Geraldine Ross. A Pretty Penny Oh, love a pretty penny was, And very gay was I Who found the coin and went to fair To see what it would buy. I could have had a ruff of lace, Or buckles for my shoes, Or satin ribbons for my cap. I only had to choose. might have bought a wooly shawl To wrap me from the cold, Or yet a girdle bossed with pearls, Or ring of honest gold. For love a pretty penny was, And gay I went to fair— And spent it for a crimson rose That faded in my hair. —Georgie Starbuck Galbraith. Then there’s the one about the traveling man who came home af ter a month on the road. The next morning, which was Sunday, he heard the doorbell ring; going down to open the door, he put on his wife’s robe. As he opened the door, the milkman gave him a re sounding kiss. After due consid eration, the traveling man came to the conclusion that the milkman’s wife must have a robe identical to Book. Comer* You are invited to meet a lovely, young and excitins .jy from an old New England tree. It is a compliment to vited to meet Dorothea, as, ® gjt' rounds herself only with j,pie. ing, amusing and wealthy P She is humbly grateful tna family into which she is the Harvard faculty circle *”^’5 she moves, comprise the " most cultivated people. also invited to witness the ing of Dorothea. For, jj a princess in the fairy tale, sn sleeping beauty. 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