THE ECHO
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i e> Mill Holds Lead
Pin League
irtP ten pin league continues
orpve along at a fast pace
^0 change in the league
lasng except that the 01‘iice
gel undisputed claim on 4th
ir.and that the Maintenance
bei up with the Machine
col in a tie for fifth place,
rjinfeiiner Room boys kept on
odcjhey won a game,
n^eapetition ^ is still very
iridividual scores,
a Morris moved up into
in lace with Bruce Reynolds
r g on and going into sec-
Place, crowding Wade
rs down to third. Cicero
reflig is still holding tight to
we place while Pete Eberle
nbead from sixth to fifth with
Roller _ Macfie close behind
avi'>rcing Israel down to sev-
re f -K e 1 0 w is the league
lep^ng and the ten high in-
pofal averages.
as L.
retail! .... 24 0 ]
^nd^agneB.. 17 7
A 16 8
# • ' 13 11
ine Room 10 14
j"|3nance ..10 14
i#tory.... 8 16
^0^ 1 23
^'dividiua.l Avicrages
1 a' Team Average
^eK Pulp Mill .... 180.17
enSilds, Maintenance 177 13
Pulp Mill i73‘9
^y/^’P'^.lpMill .... I7i;i6
leP, Uttice 166.12
Machine Room 166.5
Champagne B .. 161.2
16o’.19
a’’, ’ Pulp Mill . . 160 4
3 Laboratory .. 159^10
fleams Head List In
"S.5 Duck Pin League
are showing a great
at *f interest in the duck pin
^7 which was recently or-
eirk department
tch ^ore.
iqIo are played on
aei Y Thursday nights
■e ^^usu Bowling Alleys.
teams that compose the
eiii^s with the standings as
.raeember 5th, are listed be-
s W. L. Pet.
e ^'Booklet B. 3 n 1 000
2 0 liooo
1 1 .500
I 1 .500
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SHIVES
(Any similarity or resemblance of this column to the
magazine from which it was stolen is purely coincidental.)
Editor’s Note: Due to the thousands of requests I have
received during the past week for a series of articles by the
noted journalists, Thompson & Watson, I have set aside a
special fund enabling me to PERSUADE them to join the
“Echo” staff. I feel that NOTHING is too good for our
readers; nevertheless
POEM OF THE MONTH
’Twas the night before Christmas
And all thru the house
Not a creature was stirring—
Not even Harry Straus—(he was out of town).
I jumped out of bed
Around three o’clock
Rushed to the mantel
To look in my sock.
With sleigh bells and eggnog
Awhirl in my head
I fell with a flop
As though I were dead.
As I picked myself up
From the icy cold floor,
I suddenly heard
A knock at my door.
With hope in my heart
Towards it I ran.
And there he stood—
The Fuller Brush Man.
If this poem makes no sense,
It just serves you right,
You shouldn’t have read it—
You must have been tight.
Joe Jerke
REMARK of the MONTH: (At Commissary) “Charge it!”
JOKE of the MONTH: And there was the fellow who walk
ed into Mr. Bennett’s office and innocently said, “I’m new here.
Whom do I ask for a raise?” (Upsetting, ain’t it?)
INTERVIEW of the MONTH: Dr. Joseph J. Jerke, promi
nent Ecusta Laboratory Technician, at his annual visit to Keely
Institute, Greensboro, N. C., predicted that there would be an
overwhelming epidemic of Influenza this winter due to the fact
that a greater num'ber of people have been caught in the draft.
FALSE RUMOR of the MONTH: It is NOT true that Pilot
Plant men have alarm clocks to wake them up in time to bleach
—they wake up of their own accord.
LIE of the MONTH: Enno Camenzind, Foreman Beater
Room, did so tell his men not to spit on the floor cause it leaks
very badly—so there!
BOOK of the MONTH: “GONE WITH THE DRAFT”—A
soul-stirring novel of American manhood and the jobs they leave
behind. Author—-Miss Ima Gauner.
CRUSADE of the Month: If the readers of this column wish
to have us continue as a permanent fixture of the Echo, please
send two dollars ($2.00) in care of office to cover a few ex
penses we want to run up—at the Grill.
THOUGHT of the MONTH: We wish you all a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year.
~Thom,u,m ,md Comm-Uor, at Ah:c.
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PLANT CLOSES
fContinued From Pape One)
will close several days earlier,
but most of the employees will
be used in the hand booklet de
partment.
The gumming department
will close and start up at the
same time as the hand booklet
department. The printing de
partment will perhaps be closed
for a week or more. These de
partments in Champagne will
also observe a holiday on New
Year’s.
The girls in Endless Belt will
temporarily end their belt mak
ing on December 24 and on Jan
uary 2 will start again where
they left off.
WHITE PAPER
fContinued From Front Paae)
cigarette wrapper is about the
hardest to make. It must be
thinner than the diameter of a
human hair, yet it must be elas
tic and strong to withstand the
pull of the cigarette machines.
A strip the width of your un
rolled cigarette will support
a weight of eight pounds. It
must fold without tearing; it
must not stick to the lips; it
must burn at the same rate as
tobacco (this is regulated by
the amount of chalk included);
it must be opaque, pure white
and, above all, tasteless.
French mills make it from
old linen rags. New linen
cloth won’t do; by the time it
is rags, it has been washed and
dried a thousand times at no
cost to the papermaker. For
old linen, the industry was de
pendent on the rag pickers of
Poland, Russia and the Balk
ans. Thus the huge American
cigarette industry, the Ameri
can farmer, whose tobacco
crop is second only to his cot
ton crop in value, and the U.
S. Government which collects
$500,000,000 in taxes a year on
cigarettes, were at the mercy
of French mills, which were at
the mercy of rag pickers, who,
as events proved, were at the
mercy of Hitler.
When Harry Sttaus decided,
very soon after his arrival in
1902, that America was where
he belonged, he found work
with a company that supplied
cork tips for cigarettes. Later
he became a salesman for cig
arette paper. After a while,
he controlled a French mil!.
He was doing well, but he
didn’t like being dependent on
the rag pickers of Europe.
Why, he wondered, couldn’t
cigarette paper be made from
domestic raw materials?
America’s supply of linen
rags, it developed, was wholly
inadequate. And anyway, our
linen cloth is imported. Why
not skip the spinning and weav
ing and make paper direct from
flax fiber.
The flax plant yields straw
which consists of long, strong
fibers sheathing a woody core.
Linen manufacture has remain
ed in Europe because separat
ing the fibers from the core ha.v
been a tedious hand process,
done on peasant farms and un
economic when wages have to
be paid. The problem, then,
was to devise a chemical or me
chanical process to produce
clean flax fiber cheaply. Hun
dreds of highly trained techni
cians had made thousands of
experiments and spent hun-
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vviuiams,
f J?i^ector. will act in the
S J hbrarian and will be on
hand from 8:45 A. M., until 5:00
will 1 books. The books
wppk ^ period of one
i However, if the reader re-
i quires more time, books may be re-
■ V, additional week,
j we have In our files a request
list so m the event that you do not
u 1 reading interests on our
shelves We shouid appreciate your
suggestions for iuture book orders.
Among the mariy famous authors
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Mr. A. J. Loeb, better known to
Ecustans as “Art” Loeb, recently
returned to Brevard. Mr. Loeb is
Vice Pres, of the California Central
Fibre Corporation and has been lo
cated at El Centro, Calif., for the
past year. On Nov. 12, Mr. Loeb
was married to the former Miss
Kathleen Vachreau of Wausau,
Wis. The ceremony took place in
Chicago and their honeymoon was
spent in Florida. We extend our
very best wishes to the bride an-
groom and hope that their str-i-
here will be an extended one. je.
.ole