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THE ECHO
February, 1945
The Echo
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY AND FOR EMPLOYEES OF
ECUSTA PAPER CORPORATION, CHAMPAGNE PAPER
CORPORATION AND ENDLESS BELT CORPORATION .
AT PISGAH FOREST, NOR^H CAROLINA
ECHO STAFF
John D. Eversman Editor
Lucile Roberts : J Associate Editor
Lucille Heffner Assistant Editor
Kathleen Ricker Circulation Manager
H. E. Newbury i Sports Reporter
DEPARTMENT REPORTERS—Sula Cox, Martha Lee McCall,
Perleen Blankenship, Mitch Taylor, Evelyn Morrow, Eula Grey,
Walter Kay, Lorena O’Kelley, Very Allison, Eileen Nelson, Anne
Lou Hamlin, Thelma Glazenex, Fred McCall, Fred Wallin, Oscar
Harvin, Clinton Green, Katherine Perry, Juanita Gardner, Nora
Dalton, James M. Rigdon, Donna Wright, Emmett Clark, John
Goolsby, Jack Rhodes, Nell Waldrop, Harry S. Kolman and Helen
Kimzey.
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE—John D. Eversman, F. S. Best,
Raymond F. Bennett, Walter K. Straus, J. O. Wells, W. M. Shaw,
H. E. Newbury,
Beneath The Pisgah
Poet s
Comer
Our Freedom
Our Fifth Anniversary
A feeling of genuine pride, appreciation and grati
tude- ran through us as we read many of the hundreds of
fine letters that President Harry Straus has received dur
ing the past month, congratulating him, Ecusta and all em
ployees upon our fifth anniversary.
These letters came from prominent, well known peo
ple all over the nation and included state and national
public officials, bankers, judges, lawyers, manufacturing
executives, librarians, editors, doctors, and people in other
professions and walks of life.
We were so deeply impressed by their felicitations
and tributes that we felt certain you would want to see
. some of the many fine things these outstanding people
were saying about Ecusta and our President. Therefore
we obtained permission to read all of the letters, which
. we could not do because of the huge number and to select
statements from all or as many of them as we wanted to
publish. Consequently, we are publishing in this issue
excerpts from a large number of the letters.
After you have readi them, we believe you will have
a similar feeling of pride, appreciation and gratitude surg
ing through your minds and hearts.
These leading business men, statesmen and manufac
turers express amazement at the progress that has been
made by Ecusta in supplying fine cigarette paper to .the
nation and the world at a most critical time. They salute
us as a new American industry that has saved the cigarette
industry of this country. Tfcey salute Mr. Straus for his
vision, courage, and ability in having acpomplished this
miracle. They salute all workers for the fine jobs they
are doing.
" Local leaders have also been most high in their praise
and expressions of appreciations to the Company and to
what it has meant, means and will mean to this communi
ty. The president of the Brevard chamber of commerce
said and we quote, “At the time we came to Brevard, (and
he explained that was about four years before Ecusta was
established), “it was just as near ‘a dead community’ as
I have ever seen. Today you would have to look far and
wide to find a community that is as prosperous and that
has as bright ,a future as we have now.”
On behalf of the readers of The Echo, we wish to e?c-
press thanks and appreciations to all of these people who
have written such fine letters.
The “Fifth Anniversary Record of a New American
Industry” was certainly a beautifully and wonderfully
done piece of work and told, almost romantically, the story
of the development of Ecusta, its progress and its people. If
you have not had an opportunity to read all of it, we urge
that you do so immediately.
Give To The Red Cross!
The American Red Cross, the greatest humanitarian
organization in the world, is now doing the biggest job, by
far, that it has ever done and during the ensuing year it
faces still greater tasks. Its military services to all of those
in the armed forces, to prisoners of war and to their fam
ilies back home are vast and beyond description. You'll re
spond generously, won't you?
Our Uncle Sam’s men are fighting
today.
How can we help them defend
Our freedom so dear? for this we
are here—
On them we have to depend.
Our mothers who gave, to fight
for the cause,
A husband, or maybe a son,
Shall some day be paid for sac
rifice made
By fighting ’til Vict’ry is won.
So buy your stamps and war bonds
today.
And help us to win this war.
To keep Old Glory waving high—
That’s what we’re _ fighting for.
Dedicated to all true Americans.
Composer, Lucy Cooper, Control.
Without Medals
By Bianca Bradbury
What did you do in the great war,
mother?
Not very much. Just cooking and
cleaning.
I spoiled and scolded you and your
brother.
And tried to say what it was mean
ing,
Our window star that shone to
greet
The other stars along our street.
I wrote the letters, and never a
word,
But oh, such sleek and lovely lies
For a tired and homesick soldier’s
eyes.
Wounds? Yes, maybe, maybe so.
But little ones that didn’t show.
Medals? No, no medals, son.
Now wouldn’t that be quite absurd
For staying home, just listening
for
The sound of a hand upon the
door?
Strange House
By Isabelle Bryans Longfellow
We shall not know this house till
we have kn\wn
Within it how the four full sea
sons fall:
How the cold ivy quickens oA the
stone;
What blades break from the win
ter; what birds call;
How the gold angles of the sun
will change.
Slanting into a room, now here,
now there;
What trees blow full with sum
mer, and what range
Of shadow blurs the blinding
noonday glare.
Here we must stand with autumn
at the sill
To mark which veins run scarlet
and which gold.
And lay the hearth fire when the
first blue chill
Creeps down the valley. We must
face the cold,
And feel how warm the four stout
walls that close
Around us through the bitterness
of snows!
Book^ Corner
“There is not less wit nor less
invention in applying rightly a
thought one finds in a book, than
in being the first author of that
thought.”—BAYLE.
Through this column we’ve been
promising new books. Well, here
they are — mystery stories, love
stories, war stories, and those
ever popular humorous collections
affording you. a number of as
sorted giggles, chuckles and
smiles which we all need so des
perately in times like ours.
Many of the booKs here listed
were ordered from your requests
and the others we’re quite confi
dent would be requests if only you
knew about them.
0. K., here’s the list along with
our prediction that you will have
many hours ’ of pleasant reading
while ‘ye March winds’ blow:
Arno, Peter; THE MAN IN THE
SHOWER.
Bailey, Temple: RED FRUIT.
Bromfield, Louis; THE WORLD
WE LIVE IN.
Caldwell, Erskine; TRAGIC
GROUND.
Cave, Hugh: THE FIGHTEN’-
EST SHIP.
Cerf, Bennett: TRY AND STOP
ME.
Cornwell, Dorothea: THEY
DARE NOT GO-A HUNTING.
Cronin, A. J.; THE GREEN
YEARS.
Eberhart, Mignon: WINGS OF
FEAR.
Gunther, John: D DAY.
Harding Bertita: LOST WALTZ.
Jackson, Charles: THE LOST
WEEK-END.
Josephs, Ray: ARGENTINE DI
ARY. .
Lawrence, Hilda: A TIME TO
DIE.
Lawrence, Hilda: BLOOD UPON
THE SNOW.
Lowell, Juliet: DEAR SIR.
McCormick, Renee de Fontarce:
LITTLE COQUETTE.
Norris, Kathleen: SEA GULL.
Porter, Alyene: PAPA WAS A
PREACHER.
I»yle, Ernie: BRAVE MEN.
Ruck, Bertha: INTRUDER MAR
RIAGE.
Scott, Col. Robert L., Jr.:
DAMNED TO GLORY.
Smith, H. Allen; LIFE IN A
PUTTY KNIFE FACTORY.
Smith, H. Allen: LOST IN THE
HORSE LATITUDES.
Talbot, Hake: RIM OF THE
PIT.
Uhse, B 0 d o: LIEUTENANT
BERTRAM.
Whelton, Paul: DEATH AND
THE DEVIL.
Wilkins, Vaughn: BEING MET
TOGETHER.
Yutang, Lin: THE VIGIL OF A
NATION.
BUY WAR BONDS
AND STAMPS