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THE ECHO
THE ECHO GUESS WHO? Charles “Whitey” Russell
Organ of Employees at Ecusta Paper
Corporation, Champagrne Paper Cor
poration, and Endless Belt Co.
Published Monthly at
PISGAH FOREST, N. C.
Printed by Champagne Job Printing
Department.
FOREMEN ARE ALSO
HUMAN BEINGS
Advice is often given to fore
men, urging them to be wise
and just in handling those un
der them. But their workers
ought to be reminded to re
member certain things.
It ought to be remembered
that foremen also have their
personal problems. They, too,
may have sickness in their
homes. Some of them may have
debts due to no fault of their
own. They may have nagging
wives. Their children may not
be all that children ought to
be. Their home meals may be
poor enough to make a saint
mad. Lots of things can play a
part in robbing them of their
calmness and kindliness.
Also it ought to be remem
bered that foremen, many of
whom had to start work when
more fortunate workers were
at school, are not experts in the
use of language. They may
sometimes say something to a
worker that hurts, whereas
they really intended to pay a
compliment.
We read about a foreman
who offended a girl in his de
partment. She said he insulted
her. She stayed away from
work. When visited by the per
sonnel worker she reported
that he had called her “tough.”
When the two were brought
together and the whole story
told, it turned out that the girl
had made a home run in a noon
day ball game and the fore
man had exclaimed, “My, you
are tough.” What he meant
was, “You are hard to beat.”
Lots of things that cause
trouble are as simple as that,
it IS well to keep in mind that
both the foreman and those he
leads are only fellow human
beings.
•D H/rfOTHEl?
UtTURB F/?OfA
SOLOMN h
EXCUSES
rr, Useful business phrases:
Ihats not in my department
... No one told me to go ahead
mu’ waiting for an okay . . .
Inats the way weVe always
done it. . . How did I know this
was different? ... I didn’t know
you were in a hurry for it . . .
That s his lob, not mine . . .
Wait till the boss comes back
and ask him . . . T forcpt T
didn’t think it was so very ’im
portant . . . Fm so busy 1 just
cant get around to‘it.’...
I thought I told you.—Alcoa
News.
ATTENTION MUSICIANS!
A week or two ago the Rec
reation Dept, held a meet
ing of those few individuals
wno were known to be interest
ed in organizing an orchestra.
Ihe reason that we thought of
such organization was that
Ecusta wants dances this win
ter and since we’ve never heard
of a group of 1500 individuals
m which there are not at least
a dozen potential music mak
ers, completion of our brain
storm called for an appearance
of those musicians so that we
might get things under way. It
was as simple as that until we
were made to realize that mu
sicians are very modest crea
tures. The fact of the matter is
that out of 1500 employees only
four attended the meeting and
two of them had no instru-
|ments of their own.
Well, that’s the situation and
if you’re interested in having
dances this winter with music
by your own band we should
like to know about it. If you
play an instrument or know of
someone at Ecusta who does,
we should like to know about
that. And should you know of
any instruments that are lying
idle at present, we should ap
preciate this information also.
—Recreation Department.
OFFICE BITS
It’s wedding bells for Eleanor
Rotah and Charles Colwell—
no definite date_ has been set,
but we are looking forward to
attending an early spring wed
ding. “Petie’s” aqua-marine is
the envy of all the girls, and we
think Charles is a lucky boy.
The little boy with the ar
row is certainly working over
time ; and the Echo announces
another engagement—Juanita
Freeman of the Engineering
Office to J. L. Cox of the Ma
chine Room. Juanita and J. L.
plan to be married in Green
ville in the late fall.
Dottie Everett says she is de
lighted to be back at her desk
after ten horrible days in Chi
cago. Since Dottie is so afraid
of gangsters we suggest she
take Petie Rotah and Hercules
Alexander as protection on her
next trip.
Lily Burch is spending two
weeks in New York with
mends and relatives—ditto
George Heyman.
Quoting Karl Straus “Had a
nice trip by motor to New
York, but I am glad to be back
in the mountains.”
Had a card from Charles Al
len—he likes Wake Forest fine,
but he notices that girls are de
cidedly lacking on the campus
there.
CLEANING UP a
' A
Things haven’t
around my departmfas
last ten days. 1
First off,' that ne%
helper slipped on a *!
fell and broke his
Then Earl tripp^'a
truck handle and cfti
head on the edge of^o
The pay-off was
fell over a piece of*
in the aisle and scraf i
of skin off his arm
of his face. ^
Then things be#!?
.'.y
Super Arthur t
grabbed Foreman fc
out in front of me
sounded off plenty! \
Leaving out
Arthur told Mac thaja
had been hurt in .
men during the
than in all the rest ol'
and that Mac had befe
his horse and do
about it pronto.
He told Mac whatj>,
Brieflv, Super At
that what this
needed was a gooj,^
house cleaning,—
falls happened beca>^^^
were lying around '!r)j
shouldn’t be, insteaJ^a
piled up, picked
away properly. lii
They both left toht
inspection and it ^^lo
before I caught gli#'al
cleaner crew moppf^^i
spots; turning trufpp
out of the way; dfhe
odds and ends
aisles clear. j'ht
A little later som4^
a new poster right J
which says “If it
on the floor—Pick t q]
This is a problem
one in the departm^ f
something about
cently seen Mac taWtr
of the boys. Fro^ ' a
i;hings are beginniJif d£
i;here aren’t going si w
more injuries from
here. ,
Super Arthur
There should be ® ! jf
everything — and ^'(.4
should be in its nt?
Too bad for
didn’t get wise to ftiy
Arthur had to put 1^’ o
carpet.
■ ’
Eleanor: “Why ! (
break off your w
with that good-looki^ n
doctor?” . n
Dottie: “Oh, it waA^re
writing. Every time 1 Jal
ter from him, I had % ^
to a druggist to find
Was in it”.