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PAGE FOXJR THE ECHO April, 1946 The Echo PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY AND FOR EMPLOYEES OF ECUSTA PAPER CORPORATION, CHAMPAGNE PAPER CORPORATION AND ENDLESS BELT CORPORATION AT PISGAH FOREST, NORTH CAROLINA Copyrighted, 1945, By Ecusta Paper Corporation ECHO STAFF John D. Evsrsman Editor LoclUe Heffner Assistant Editor Jack Alexander Sports Reporter “Hank” Newbury Safety Reporter DEPARTMENT REPORTERS—Sula Cox, Eula Grey, Walter Kay, Lorena O’Kelley, Donna Wright, Emmett Clark, John Goolsby, Jack Rhodes, Nell Waldrop, Harry S. Kolman, Helen Kimzey, Edna Allison, Carmel McCrary, Sara Loftis, Maude Stewart, Ber tha Edwards, Annie Lou Hamlin, Thelma Glazener, Eileen Nel son, Nadine Mills, and Ruth Jones. PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE—John D. Eversman, F, S. Best, Raymond F. Bennett, Walter K. Straus, J. O. Wells, W. M. Shaw, II. E. Newbury, Beneath The Pisgah Poet’s Comer Returned Soldier Up the avenue and toward me, i New arrival of the day, j He walked with each step knowing The months he’d been away. I Up the avenue and toward me . The whole street I Seemed to echo with the rhythm of his feet, I Seemed to catch, as I did, j His clear eye As it searched the city’s towers, I Saw tlie sky, And to us who had been standing On war’s rim, I There was a look of God on him. —Catherine Haydon Jacobi. First Rain Just A Little Hunk Of Real Stuff! A Michigan store owner report ed the theft of $75 to police re cently and the figure appeared in the newspaper accounts of the armed robbery. Soon afterward the police chief received the follow ing letter: “That fellow claims he lost $75 Saturday, but I say he lost only $40.20. My boys are asking for a full split, and I can’t give them $20 each because I’ll lose money on the job. Now I want you to see that he puts a retraction in the papers. If he don’t he can’t say he wasn’t warned.” FACTS WORTH KNOWING; Rats three feet long live in Dutch New Guinea . . . Ten million Amer icans suffer from some form of al lergy . . . 1400 different shades of cosmetics are used by American women . . . Jasmine flower petals lose as much as a hundredth of their weight in a day through the evaporation of perfume oils . . . The visible smoke from one cig arette weighs .0031 ounces . . . Girls have n^ore toothache than boys . . . Southern sides of New York skyscrapers receive 350 per cent more sunshine than northern sides. QUOTE AND OVERQUOTE: “When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.”—Mark Twain . . . “If you want to make a dan gerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.”—Lewis E. Lawes . . . “My idea of happiness is four feet on a fireplace fender.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes . . . “Happiness is a delicate balance between what one is and what one has.”—J. H. Denison . . . “Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a much more subtle instinct; what they like is to be a man’s last romance.”—Oscar Wilde . . . “A ship is referred to as ‘she’ be cause it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.”—Chester W. Nimitz . . . “Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”—Bernard Shaw ... ♦‘1 am only an average man, but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.” — Theodore Roosevelt ... “I play a musical instrument some, but only for my own amazement.”—Fred Allen. Remember Mother Goose, who had so many children she didn’t know what to do? It seems that the old gal really lived. It was in 1660 In Boston that a map by tbs name of Isaac Goose married a widow with ten children. The man had ten children of his own, so that gave them a total of twenty, besides many neighbor children who used to come in to hear the This is the first rain these young buds have known: “Let us claw through the earth, still seeds; There is a drumming overhead.” Long fingers pelt the shoots; The weeds are flattened down. ‘I wish the rain would stoop and touch me in this bed!” The new buds strain on tiptoe to ward the sky; “Our seeds are bursting, now. The light cracks through.” A whole world here to cleanse and beautify: “I nudge the earth and tremble with the dew! Book. Comer* “In the spring a young mao's fancy,” etc., can find fulfillmen* in new stories of romance and adventure, now in our library- lies trem- tendrils rhymes and ditties made up by Mother Goose. Long after the death i „ „ • . , . . of Mother Goose, her son-in-law n u " gathered her jingles together and | printed them, never realizing he had a best-seller. If you want to make your heirs happy, find a bank paying 4 per cent interest and deposit five dol lars. In 500 years—or rather your heirs—will be worth $2,084,495,- 605.22 ... A brokerage house re-| cently advertised: Let us place your name on our wailing list . A New York detective agency that specializes in tracing missing per sons has been employed by more than 70,000 wives to find their hus bands, but only 15 husbands to find their wives . . . There’s no malaria in San Antonio, Texas. Over 40 years ago a bill was passed to fine people up to $300 for kill ing bats. It seems that the bats are used to control mosquito popula tions. The darkening earth ulous and bare. In quiet motion thirsty sway: “We shift the soil and prick the living air And will dissolve, rise into the rain. Startle the sun, when there sun again!” —Janet Weinberger. 15 " Gift She brought strawberries in a lit tle square box. All wrapped and tied with a scarlet string, Ruby berries from among the rocks. Tanged with the sweetness that May winds bring. April 14 of every year is com- The box was lined with scallops of memorated by the Ice Patrol of' the Coast Guard in honor of the 1517 who died in the “Titanic” dis- green. To keep the berries dewy and cool, astor. The Patrol anchors off the I Emerald frosted with velvet sheen Grand Banks on this day, and a That grew by the side of ~ memorial service is read, followed! woodland pool, by a three-volley salute . . . The! secret of success in conversation I she brought me berries, she is to be able to disagree without I brought a dream, being disagreeable . . . Pennsyl- Dream of a hill and a starwhite vania forest fire prevention sign; I spring, surmounted by a huge reproduction I ® brought a path and a singing stream All tied up with a scarlet string. Alma Robinson Higbee. of a match: “This is the forest prime evil.” . . . Your kitchen juice won’t be needed much long er if this trend continues: “Melons have been grown with a wine fla vor induced by inserting a cotton wick in a slit in the melon, the other end of which is in a bottle of wine. And tomato, mustard, pi mento, and other flavoTs have been injected into live fowl and rabbits, which, it is said, quickly gives I Let others take the long road Choice I Let others take the high road. The low road or the far— I But I will take the side road Where apple blossoms are. flavor to the whole animal.” Regarding the fight against dirt. The foreman said, “I’d give my shirt If the girls and the boys Would add to my joys By constantly being alert” TJe short road or the straight, [But I will take the winding road Where honeysuckles wait. Let others take the smooth road Or the rough road as they will, But I will take the lonely road Where you tend daffodil. -Lenore Warren. For just such a story, we ommend the April Literary Guil® selection, WAKE OF THE BEP WITCH, by John Beecraft. A raoi' ern pirate in the South Seas, * brown-skinned beauty and a treaS' ure hunt make this one of the be** books in the entertainment fi®^' The author, a dabbler in o**®' paints vivid word pictures in tl’'* colorful adventure. The Grand Coulee and the buil^' ing of the mammoth dam on Columbia River are background for the love story of a young wo'®' an and a promoter of the dam. len loves the wheat country ther®' and trys to stay with her husban^ —but the attraction of the youn^ is far too strong. As the story ceeds, the tale becomes more more interesting! Read STILL THE WEST, by Nard Jones. Remember ESCAPE and PRISAL by Ethel Vance? were excellent reading. Miss VaHC® published a new modem America® love-story, WINTER MEETiN”' A young naval hero and a remaf"' able and lovely writer meet a" become lovers. The girl reveals unhappy childhood, and he, a sire to become a priest It is a erful novel, involving personalj*^ love and religion. Deeply movi"® and heart-warming is this loughly satisfying novel. , As a religious selection, we fer ANTIOCH ACTRESS, a of Pagan against Christian. Cy®' thia, an actress of the Roman sta^®.' was sent to Antioch in the atteffP to overcome the growing power ® the Christians, through ridici** and slander. The story is dra®^' ic and overwhelming. In stormy time, it would be of nite value to read this book. If you like blood and fire, and hate—hurry in to get name on our list for the new torical best-seller, THE FO^^ OF HARROW by Frank Yerby- A pig-boat arrived in New leans in 1825. Aboard was a r® j haired card sharp, one San"*® Fox, who saw his chance to becoi® a king, and took it He built row,” Lousiana’s greatest , house and plantation. Three woi”' en loved him, one married the others less fortunate. This **. story of white-hot passions, mosities and adventures. Vo«* never ever forget THE FOXES ^ HARROW. J Anya Seton weaves a novel historical background in her est book, THE TURQUOISE- heroine, beautiful and g i ^ ^ *.5 daughter of Scotch heritage, her New Mexico home to ^ the gaieties of New York early seventies. Her life is —Turn Tp f
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