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THE ECHO
AUGUST, 1944
The Echo
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY AND FOR EMPLOYEES OF
ECUSTA PAPER CORPORATION, CHAMPAGNE PAPER
CORPORATION AND ENDLESS BELT CORPORATION
AT PISGAH FOREST, NORTH CAROLINA
ECHO STAFF
John D. Eversman ; Editor
Lucile Roberts Associate Editor
Lucille Heffnej* Assistant Editor
Kathleen Ricker Circulation Manager
H. E. Newbury 1 Sports Reporter
DEPARTMENT REPORTERS—Sula Cox, Martha Lee McCall,
Perleen Blankenship, Mitch Taylor, Evelyn Morrow, Eula Grey,
Walter Kay, Lorena O’Kelly, Jimmy Hammond, Vera Allison,
Eileen Nelson, Anne Lou Hamlin, Dot Rogers, Thelma Glazener,
Fred McCall, Fred Wallin, Oscar Harvin, Clinton Green, Kath
erine Perry, Juani|^ Gardner, Pauline Meadows, Nora Dalton,
James M. Rigdon, Van Johnson, Donna Wright, Emmett Clark
and Wesley Rogers.
I PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE—John D. Eversman, F. S. Best,
I Raymond F. Bennett, Walter K. Straus, J. O. Wells, W. M. Shaw,
f H. E. Newbury,
Your Problems And Your Company
OOLSBY
LEANINGS
BY JOHN GOOLSBY
-FROM PAGE ONE-
will be fair with me and be fair in your recommenda
tions and criticisms. I can’t guarantee in advance
that I will always agree with you; but I can guarantee
to each and every man and woman in our organiza
tion that I will respect you and your confidences.
What’s more, you can be one hundred and one per
cent certain that as long as I am President of these
Companies no one will ever suffer for having tried
to help make it fairer, a happier or a more self-re
specting place to earn a living. The main point is
that we will all benefit, because if you support Ecusta
with your loyal but frankly spoken criticism, it will
be better able to support you! i
In closing I want to acknowledge and thank our
employees for the many expressions of confidence
and loyalty which have been received by me in the
past.
HARRY H. STRAUS, President
ECUSTA PAPER CORP.
CHAMPAGNE PAPER CORP.
ENDLESS BELT CORP.
HHS*P
BASEBALL SERIES
FROM PAGE ONE
Members of the Duke’s team are
Shorty Hargis, Bill Erwin, Hank
Newbury, Mitch Taylor, Ed Vas-
sey, Waverly Morris, Swivel Alli
son, Morris Dorn, Jack Freck, Ed
Gilreath,' James Wingate, Bill
Hunter, Robert Gwyn and Westall.
Walter Straus is captain.
Last Friday the Duke’s defeated
Gas House Beaters in the final
regular game of the season to
clinch second place by the score
of 10 to 3, and Machine Room
licked Control 14 to 4.
All Ecustans and the public are
cordially invited to see the game
Sunday, John Eversman, recre
ational direct'^r, states.
Employees Party To
-FROM PAGE ONE-
peting in the Folk Festival in
Asheville the middle of September,
will give an exhibition dance. This
team has been practicing for sev
eral weeks and is worth seeing.
All in all you will have a swell
time if you come to the next big
party in the cafeteria which is
sponsored by the Recreation de-
partm^ntt
Group Of Soldiers
Visited Plant Fri.
If you happened to look up from
your work at an unexpected time
Friday afternoon you might have
seen something to make you think
that the army, had moved in to
take over Ecusta. This was not the
case, however, instead the group
of about thirty soldiers who visited
Ecusta were patients from Moore
General hospital.
Major F. Piazza and Lt. M. L.
Golden were in charge of the
group. They arrived about eleven
o’clock and were taken on a tour
through the mill after which a
picnic lunch was served at White
Pines camp grounds in Pisgah
Forest. It was of particular inter
est to find that one of the visiting
soldiers was Pvt. Carl James Gram
mar, a former employee of Cali
fornia Central Fibre Corporation
at El Centro, California.
The visiting soldiers were most
enthusiastic in their praise for the
plant and in the expressions of
surprise at the many operations
necessary in the manufacture of
cigarette paper. All were agreed
that cigarettes and cigarette paper
were a very necessary part of
the war since one of the most im
portant things to a soldier is a
cigarette,
m
Well, folks, as this column goes
to press, our boys (your sons,
brothers and husbands) are start
ing that long awaited trip to Ber
lin. We know that road has not
been easy. All roads in war are
paved with blood, sweat,' heart
aches and tears. And when this
destination is reached, we have a
little visiting down Tokyo way. We
have to pay back that surprise
visit they paid us December 7,
1941. Oh yes, many many times
we will visit them. Of course there
are two thousand, three hundred
and forty three of the boys who
can’t go along; they went to their
heavenly reward that fatal morn
ing. But thank God we have'eight
million more boys who can go and
want to go and are willing to go
And boys, when you send those
block-busting calling cards scream
ing down in Toyko, send one with
the compliments of Ecusta. Boys,
we miss you, and want you to
hurry back. It will be a happy day
when we can look down the aisle
and see those old familiar faces
once more on duty. May God bless
you, boys, wherever you may be.
Don’t worry if the fellow in
front of you keeps you from see
ing the top of the ladder. If you
are made of the right stuff, he
will have to either move over and
make room for you or get off the
ladder.’’Caxton
You will never be able to ex
press the best that is in you, unless
you really love your job. I worked
for a company once that used this
as their slogan: PULL WITH US,
OR PULL OUT.
If any of you have ever come
in or gone out of the plant around
midnight and looked back at that
big Harvest Moon, you know what
I mean below.
NIGHT TIME AT ECUSTA
In my dreams once more I wander
’Neath Pisgah skies so blue.
Way down South where folks are
fonder,
And your friends are always
true.
High above, the moon comes
peeping
Over the mountains cold and
gray.
Hear the lonely screech owl
weeping
Thru the night ’till break of day.
Book. Comer*
“St. Peter’s cannot have
magical power over us that
red and gold covers of our
picture-book possessed. How
imagination cleaves to the war®
glories of that tinsel even
... The books of the nurs«fy
are new chapters of joy. • • '
Children delight in fairy tales* •'
—^R. W. Emerson.
With you busy parents in
we have been buying books to s®
isfy that thirst for knowledge
is constantly prompting questio^
from that offspring of
Whether your child looks at
ture books, reads fairy tales,
follows “Flash Gordon” in
funnies, you’ll want to always ^
him a book to read when he ^ ^
be entertained, when his acw
mind must be occupied, —
it’s raining outside and you
to keep it peaceable and quiet
side. jjj
Already we have books o® ® g,
library shelves to supply ^
levels. Constantly we are
books which, with their
and imaginative drawings, wiU ^
light your child. These books
those to the fancy of that
girl of yours, school age or P
school age, that we have are:
ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVBI^
Beth Brown. *
s.
BABY JACK AND
JACK RABBIT by Lloyd
mon.
BASHFUL GOLDFISH by
Brice.
Monuments have been erected
To men of valor and of might.
But Harry Straus in his goodness
selected
As the Garden Spot, Ecusta at
night.
Dy
“Happiness is a perfume you
cannot pour on others without
getting a few drops on yourself.”
■Emerson
In my young days I enjoyed
hearing a preacher tell this one:
Sin^ple logic. A young preacher
came to one of the distant settle
ments and started to reform the
natives. Among other things to
which he objected was smoking by
women. He stopped one day at old
Nancy’s cabin and found her en
joying an after dinner smoke on
—Turn To Page Five
BLUE FAIRY BOOK by
Lang.
BOWSER, THE HQUNP
Thornton W. Burgess. ^ A
CHIPS, THE STORY OJ
COCKER SPANIEL, by C. t,y
GLOOMY THE CAMEI^
Grace Pauli.
HITTY, HER FIRST
YEARS, by Rachel Field. - jjy
JENNY’S SECRET ISLA^‘^
Phillis G. Rowley.
JUDY GOES SAILING W ^
lotte Becker.
JUDY’S FARM VISIT by
lotte Becker.
THE KING’S DAY by
Bishop.
LITTLE DOG TOBY by ^
Field.
MR. TOMPKINS IN
LAND by G. Gamow.
MRS. PETER rabbit
Thorntoh W. Burgess. rthO^‘
OLD GRANNY FOX by ^
ton W. Burgess.