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THE ECHO
NOVEBIBER, 1944
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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 Heffner _____— Assistant Editor
Kathleen Ricker Circulation Manager
H. E. Newbury 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, Juanita Gardner, Pauline Meadows, Nora Dalton,
James M. Rigdon, Van Johnson, Donna Wright, Emmett Clark,
Wesley Rogers, John Goolsby, Jack Rhodes, Nell Waldrop, Harry
S. Kolman and Helen Kimzey.
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE—John D. Eversman, F. S. Best,
Rapnond F. Bennett, Walter K. Straus, J. O. Wells, W. M. Shaw,
H. E. Newbury,
A CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL
For A Happier Holiday — Avoid Accidents
Human life is never cheap.
Even in wartime, with the world bent on death and destruction, life
and health are the most valuable possessdons. The Christmas season
emphasizes this value, more than any other season. It is good to be alive
at Christmas time!
No realistic person will delude himself that Christmas, 1944, will
be a happy, normal Christmas. The world at war with men in far-flung
places—with death and injury stalking the battlefield, with vacant
places around many Christmas trees—belies any hope of a truly Merry
Christmas.
But an accident to you or a member of your family will take the last
remnant of Christmas spirit from your home. Yet, according to the Na
tional Safety Council, hundreds of homes will be saddened by accidents
during the holiday season.
Don’t let it be your home. Take extra care during the holiday season
to protect yourself and your family by using common sense and cour
tesy. Remember it when you drive an automobile. Remember it in your
work. Remember it in your home.
For a happier holiday—avoid accidents!
And speaking of accidents, The Echo wishes to take this opportunity
to commend every worker and Safety Director H. E. Newbury upon the
fine record that has been made at Ecusta for the past year and more.
As shown by a story in this issue, Ecusta’s frequency and severity rates
are lower than the national average. Let’s resolve to make it an even
better record.-
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I ATTENTION, MILITARY PEOPLE!
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I To all former employees on our Military Honor
I Roll who are still in service we are considering offer-
I ing a subscription to one of the following magazines:
i LIFE
TIME
I NEWSWEEK
READER’S DIGEST
I Under postal regulations, a subscription may be
I sent overseas provided a specific request is received
I from the soldier or sailor. If a subscription is ordered
I for a military person in the United States who goes
I overseas during the period of the subscription, the
I magazine will follow him without further request x>n
i his part.
I If you are really interested, and' you do not have
i good library facilities where you are located, or are
1 not already a subscriber, I will be glad to consider
i your request for one of the above magazines. BE
I SURE TO KEEP US INFORMED OF ANY CHANGE
I IN ADDRESS.
I HARRY H. STRAUS, President.
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Beneath The Pisgah
The Poet’s Comer
American Child: 1
By PAUL ENGLE
Lucky the living child born in a
land
Where noise outside the door is
still a dog
And not the secret gun, the bloody
hand;
Where fear is not around her like
fog,
Dark and cold and desperate for
the throat;
Where books are still merely the
children’s choice
And not a self-glory that a leader
wrote
With a hysteria of hand and voice.
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No child need learn a mouth has
many ways
Of talking—^lies, deceit, intimida
tion; '
Still in this day her cries for
games she plays
Are not the slogans of a state ora
tion,
But the old calls of children in all
days,
The living triumph of the tongue’s
elation.
Subsequences
By SEAN O’KEARNEY
Beat down, rain,
Tamp wind-driven seed
Into the soil;
Swell it with child
To be born without toil,
Without pain,
On fields where fighters bleed.
O wild flowers grown wild,
I’m not a fighter.
I’m a lover!
Beat down, rain.
Since beat you will
Upon my head,
Bending and sick
Of the places it’s lain
With the dead
On fields where fighters kill.
0 mud, detested, thick,
I’m not a fighter,
I’m a lover!
Our Flag
By MARIE WILDE McKINP^EY
Tonight as I stand beneath this
flag,
A banner of the country I love,
I’ll breathe a simple little prayer
To God in Heaven above.
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Dear God, may our flag always be
the same
Down through the ceaseless years,
May it always wave its colors high
And its country be a cure for
heartaches and fears.
May we think of the red as the
blood that was shed
On the shores of foreign lands,
And may the white be a guiding
light
To each and every man.
And then there’s the blue,
The color of the skies,
May it stand for the boys so true
The ones who have fought and
died.
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So dear God, help America to
wake up
And never let these colors down.
May you help them to wave for
ever
Over America’s ground.
Oup
Book. Corner*
“The true University of these
days is a collection of books.
—Carlyle-
Buy U. S. Govemmem Bonds
and Stamps resnlarly.
The arrival of new books is ^}'
ways good news. So read this
month’s “Book Corner”, taking
mental notes, all the while; for
will surely find one or more booKS
here to help you relax on soio®
of these busy days between
Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The additions are:
Faith Baldwin’s ALIMONY*
Herbert Best’s YOUNG ’UN, B-
Blackmore’s LORNA DOONE, J-
W. Brogan’s AMERICAN CHAl*'
ACTER, Mignon G. EberharJ^
THE DARK GARDEN and HASTJ
WEDDING, Ruth Fedder’s f
GIRL GROWS UP, Maysie Grei« ®
HEART APPEAL, P A S S10 ^
FLOWER by Kathleen Norris,
nee Shann’s WAR WIFE, and
gar Snow’s PEOPLE ON
SIDE.
ALIMONY is a tale of
warm-hearted young people’s
lant fight against a world of ey
icism, greed and lust.
YOUNG ’UN, a Book-of’t^
Month selection, is a novel of ^
ality and enchantment; a tale
upstate New York in the
land grants, of frontier hardsD
and robust love-making.
Blackmore’s story,
DOONE, may already be
your favorites. It is a
the incidents, characters,
scenery are alike romantic-^^ ^
ing of the savage deeds of
law Doones in the depth ijje
worthy Forest, the beauty of
hapless maid brought up
midst of them,^ etc.
You’ve probably guessed ^
THE DARK GARDEN and
WEDDING were mysteries
Mignon Eberhart has thrilled y^.
before with his chilling naw
stories. These two offer love
well as mystery. ^jt-
A GIRL GROWS UP was
ten for all ’teen-age girls. ^
amines and interprets some
commonest difficulties 9
have to face, and describes y
lively style the adjustments
must make. dCtOl^
HEART APPEAL, gU
FLOWER, and WAR WIFE .j,-
light reading but they
triguing love stories. Many
ers of the Echo, war wives. ^
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be interested in the novel
WIFE—the story of an
lot husband who lost his n}® jj^d
in a bombing raid and his wit
to win him all over again. , 3JI
PEOPLE ON OUR SID®
engrossing story of the fore®
are shaping the future
Russia, China and India,
by one of the outstanding
spondents of our time; his
of historical perspective, bi^^pjiT'
observer's eye and his inc° ^4'
ably forceful writing are
dent in PEOPLE ON OUR