PAGE FOUR
THE ECHO
JULY, 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.
Beneath The Pisgah
The Poet's Comer
“IT ISN’T LOGIC”
President’s Fourth of July Speech
This 4th of July, like so many ahead of it, and innumerable ones
to come, is an important day. You all know the historical background
of this Glorious Day, the anniversary of which is of ever increasing
importance to all of us.
Our thoughts today are turned on Liberty and Freedom for which
our forefathers and fathers have fought and for which our men and
women in the Armed Forces are putting up such a gallant and victorious
fight.
In the Fall of this year, Ecusta will celebrate the 5th Anniver
sary of the starting of our first paper machine. Today all of us, men
and women of Ecusta, can be proud of our accomplishment.
Later in the year we will have an Ecusta celebration. We will
inaugurate the “5 year Club” of which all of you, who have been
“Ecustans” for five years, will be charter members and to which club,
year after year, new recruits will become eligible.
We visualize the “10 year Club,” “15 year Club,” “25 year Club”
and I hope that many of you here today will become, progressively,
members of it.
One of my many responsibilities to Ecusta and to you—and one
which I take most seriously—Day and Night—is to prepare for the
Post-War Period. I am developing plans and policies for this impor
tant period.
Ecusta will welcome back with open arms our men and women,
who have left peaceful occupation to fight for us, but at the same time,
we will continue to give employment to all loyal Ecustans who have
worked for us during the war.
All of you who enter the Gates of “Ecusta” must be aware of our
efforts to develop new kinds of paper, to be sold alongside of the famous
“Ecusta Cigarette Paper.” All of this is done in hopes of keeping our
wheels turning uninterruptedly during Peace as during War.
In our pulp mill we have put at the disposal of the Ordnance
Department of the Army our facilities to produce cotton pulp. This
pulp finds its use in one of the most important “Secret Weapons” used
by the Army, one which is gaining more and more in its importance
for the successful termination of the world struggle.
I am not permitted to mention the “end use” to which Ecusta
cotton pulp is being put.
We have done a splendid job. In spite of great difficulties which
this strange cotton raw material offered to us at first, we have overcome
them all. We have been complimented for the speed and efficiency
with which we have produced the pulp.
As a matter of fact, we have done our share so much faster than
other manufacturers who contribute towards making of the final pro
duct that we have been asked to temporarily suspend the making of
cotton pulp to give the others a chance to catch up with us. Towards
the end of July we will resume our cotton pulp operations on a greater
scale than ever before. For the help and cooperation which you gave
us in this important work—^hard work and long hours—^I thank you.
Independence Day is the Anniversary of Liberty.
Ecusta is one of the outstanding Industrial Democracies.
We—Ecustans—enjoy our Liberty and Freedom. We have de
veloped it all ourselves.
With jealousy and envy outsiders are watching us and are trjdng
to look from the outside IN. They just do not understand what
ECUSTA stands for.
For the sake of continued harmony and based on our mutual
confidence—DO NOT LET ANY OUTSIDE INFLUENCE DISTURB and
interfere with the perfect picture which spells “ECUSTA.”
Let us continue to work together, same as heretofore, in peace
and harmony and I hope and pray that all of us will celebrate together
many 4th of July picnics.
Game Called Off
-FROM PAGE ONE-
games played to eleven games
each team with four to go.
The league standing as follows:
Team
Machine Room
Dukes Mixture
Gas House Beaters
Control
Won Lost
10 1
6 5
5 6
1 10
On next Mondays games. Gas-
house Beaters will play Control
1st game and Machine Room and
Dukes Mixture will play the sec
ond.
Troy Stanley, S 1-c, was in for
a ten-day leave recently and visit
ed the plant on July 21. He was
employed in the Finishing Depart
ment prior to his entering the Navy
in September of 1943. Seaman
Stanley visited last November af
ter the completion of his boot
training in Bainbridge, Md.; since
that visit he has been to Bizerte,
Africa and to Naples. He was
wearing overseas ribbons for ser
vice in the American and European
theatre of war, and expects more
sea duty when he reports to New
York,
By Georgie S. Galbraith
So now, my sweet belligerent.
After all the things we’ve said,
The scorching insults we have
hurled
Against the other's head,
You discover I have grown
Strangely precious for a shrew,
And I confess is some surprise
I’d rather kiss than strangle you.
That love should burgeon from
such strife—
It isn’t logic, but it’s life!
TO HIS WIFE
By Edna Mead
Be certain of my heart’s desire
No matter what my flesh may do
Life has not been a smoky fire
But a bright flame, between us
two.
Those must be dread and futile
ways
The unloved tread, and dark
with harm;
But you are partner to my days
And armor to my arm.
Your voice is at the tempest’s core
Cool and serene and laughter-
filled,
And when the great winds die once
more.
Life can be everything we willed.
A SOLDIER TO ABSENTEES
We spilled our blood in the jun
gle mud.
And we didn’t have much to say;
And we shared our bread at the
side of the dead— ,
Tut where were you that day?
We steamed in the sweat and our
clothes were wet.
But we fought every inch of
the way;
And we wished to hell as our bud
dies fell
That you had worked that day.
Sweat and mud aud tears and
blood
Are part of a soldier’s pay.
We aren’t done yet—^but don’t for
get
We’re coming back some day!
OPEN FORUM
July 5, 1944
Dear Mr. Straus:
Allow me again to tell you how
much I enjoyed being with you
and your people yesterday, how
much I enjoyed meeting Mrs,
Straus and what a fine occasion
you had at Camp Sapphire,
I would also like to tell you on
behalf of the State Office of Civi
lian Defense how much this office
appreciates the cooperative attitude
which you showed throughout the
period of the emergency.
I hope it may be my good for
tune to see you again some time.
I shall certainly keep up with the
great program for employment
which you have in mind for the
people of western North Carolina.
I should also like to say that I
sensed at the picnic yesterday the
highest type of morale among your
employees. I wish that every em
ployer in America could build up
in the mind of its employees what
you are building up there at Ecus
ta, namely a sense of fair play and
give and take.
Very sincerely,
J. H. Rose
Assistant State Director
Office of Civilian Defense
Book^ Comer
“What I like in a good author
is not what he says, but what he
whispers. — From Logan P*
Smith’s AFTERTHOUGHTS.
ANNA AND THE KING OF
SIAM is a true story of an Orien
tal court in all its splendor, evil
and comedy — throne and dun
geon, harem and pageant, concu
bine and Amazon. It is written by
Margaret Landon, who based her
bold story on the Siamese recordSi
private letters, and the writings
Anna Leonowens herself, who
taught a king’s wives and slaves to
struggle for freedom.
Two of our new books find their
setting in the “Old South.”
Louise Mally’s THE MOCKING
BIRD IS SINGING begins in the
old South of New Orleans
moves on to the new South of Texas
in the decade following the Civil
War. (It is predominantly the story
of Therese, the young and passion'
ate beauty of 17—a woman whose
destiny is bent to her essential
belief in love.) And THE
COCK CROWS, in which Frances
Gaither has handled a timeljj
theme, grants a bygone society a**
the glamour and gaiety demanded
by an exacting tradition. As youi^
Adam Fiske (leading character i®
the story), who comes South fro®®
Maine, tells Fannie Dalton, tb®
attractive daughter of a big slave*
owner, “it is heaven”—he almost
believes it, too. No true Southern®^
will want to miss either of these
fast-moving stories.
All of you who like Zane Gray’®
stories (and who doesn’t?) will be
glad to know that we have added
two more to our Z. Grey collectio^
ROPING LIONS IN THE GBANP
CANYON, a true story of capW^
ing lions alive—shunting them wit^
camera and lasso, not with
and WILDERNESS TREK, a nove^
of two American cowboys in AUS'
tralia. Both novels are actio^'
packed.
For a light and frivolous storj
of a light and frivolous girl,
want to check out F, Hugh
bert’s MEET CORLISS ARCHE^;
The author’s 16-year-old dau0^^'
ter’s spontaneous “charm act”
only devastated a young
man whom he had given a
but gave the inspiration for tb®
popular stories which he affects®
ately dedicated to his daugbte^
“Through these pages walk
most wonderful girls in the
my daughters—”
Job Instructor
-FROM PAGE ONE-
he is to do.
Many companies engaged
war effort have adopted this P
gram of training and it has .
ceived the highest praise throve
out all of the industries that
tried it.