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PAGE FOUR THE ECHO September, 19^ th ver sue vay, I , s. hot eni nti .Id t at tv I i 1% Tiie 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. Eversman Editor Lucille 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, Sara Loftis, Maude Stewart, Bertha Edwards, Annie Lou Ham lin, Thelma Glazener, Eileen Nelson. PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE—John D. Eversman, F. S, Best, Raymond F. Bennett, Walter K. Straus, J. 0. Wells, W. M. Shaw, H. E. Newbury, ECUSTA HAS BIG (Continued From Page One) basement of the main office build ing. It contains nearly 2,500 vol umes of fiction and non-fiction, which are available to the employ ees without charge. Ecusta is proud of its 40-piece band which is composed of talented children of Ecusta employees. The band performs for numerous ac tivities and social functions throughout the county as well as at regular company events. The department maintains a band in strument training school with a faculty to give private lessons. Mu sical instruments are furnished by the company. In addition to the Dand, Ecusta has a “string band” to provide mu sic for the square dances. New full-length movies, released by Hollywood, are shown weekly in the cafeteria and employees and families are invited. Feature pic tures, cartoons and sports are also shown. Employee parties are given at intervals and feature bingo, square dances, special movies, minstrel shows, and stunt nights are held as added attractions of the recrea tion department. Each year the Fourth of July picnic for all em ployees and families is held at Camp Sapphire and last year more than 5,000 people attended this outing. Christmas parties are given for the various departments during the Yuletide season and parties a^e also held for employees children. To carry out an intensive pro gram of athletics here, a full-time athletic director is employed. Dur ing the summer months baseball and softball leagues are promoted as well as a baseball team in the Western North Carolina Industrial league. Bowling leagues for both men and women are held during the winter months and ping-pong is played the year round by the employees on the porch of the Cafeteria. Ecusta also sponsors tennis, golf and basketball teams which compete in outside leagues. Recently, in an effort to make Ecusta a happier place in which to work, the recreation department set up a “Music in Industry” sys tem in several departments which provides special programs of re corded music over the loudspeaker system each day. The Echo, the official house or* gan of Ecusta, is published month ly by the staff of the recreation department and has a circulation The Month Of September In far-off russet cornfields, where the dry Grey shocks stand peaked and withering, half concealed In the rough earth, the orange pumpkins lie. Full-ribbed; and in the windless pasture-field The sleek red horses o’er the sun-warmed ground Stand pensively about in com panies, While all around them from the motionless trees. The long clean shadows sleep without a sound. —Lampman. Sepiember ... a month of gold en, hazy days and cool, clear nights . . . the month the seasons change, when each day seems to carry in it a little of the summer’s heat and a promise of the cool of fall. September is a busy month when the “tanned farmers labor without slack”, children start their schooling again and the working world, shaking off its August dol drums, once more shoulders the duties of its trade. Labor Day, September’s only holiday, is this year, 64 Septembers old. The celebration of Labor Day on the first Monday in September was inaugurated in 1882 by the Knights of Labor. Today it is a holiday in every state in the un ion and all the Canadian prov inces. September got its name from the Latin word “septem” mean ing seven, because it used to be the seventh month until the Ro mans, according to their fancy, made it ninth. Blue is the color of September, its gem, the sap phire, its flower, the morning glory. of over 3,000. John Eversman heads the de partment of recreation. A staff of five persons assists him in carry ing out the extensive program. Jack Alexander is head of the ath letic department. The policy of Ecusta is to make it an ideal place in which to work and to play. PROPORTION? A certain jeweler carries a large assortment of engagement rings and only a dozen or so wed ding rings. “It will take a whole trayful of engagement rings,” he points out, “to work off a dozen wedding ringi." The Poet’s Comer Beneath The Pisgah “The poet gives us the em inent experiences only—a god stepping from peak to peak, nor planting his foot but on a moun tain.” —Emerson. Down The Hill Together Let’s run down the hill together, Fly like flags in windy weather! There’s a spring will quench our thirst— Race, to see who gets there first! Breathless, down the sun-swept hill, Breathing deep, we’ll drink our fill Kneeling in a shady place, Dripping, laughing, face to face. Lovely weather, lovely wind! Coats unbuttoned, hair unpinned! Downhill to thQ spring we fly. Heart to heart, my love and I. —Kingsley Tufts. Old House In The Country Silence reigns here: all things wait A hand to lift the long-latched gate. There is a whisper on the air; In the grass eyes are aware Hidden, furtive, of the stranger Who wears a face of nearing dan ger. Cobwebs s^al the windows fast And the chipmunk hurries past Wearing autumn’s color laid On his back like copper shade. His is the only shadow here, And he wears the shield of fear. Something stirs that is not sound; Something moves across this ground Too light for step, too fleet for sight. In the gathering dusk of night. —Eleanor Aletta Chaffee. The Unblessed They are not blessed who must in darkness sing Swift mystic melodies that clog the throat. Who seize the lyre—and play a silent note, A vajiished prelude on a broken string. They are not fortunate who try to write With dry and dusty pen to tell themselves Of things they cannot know; who fill the shelves With volumes—and the page still virgin white. How lucky is the scholar who can tell With sure pedantic wisdom, that the well Is only water, how the- sky is made, And why the colors in the sun set fade— Who never hears the echoing of sweet. Clear childish laughter in an empty street. —Margaret Hatchet Flook. STARK FEAR It was a little boy’s first time at the opera. He watched the con ductor in the pit waving his ba ton and when the famous soprano started to sing he asked his moth er, “What is the man shaking his stick at the lady for?” “Ssh,” his mother whispered, “he isn’t shaking his stick at the lady.” “Then what’* she hollering for!” he demanded. BooK^Comep “Books are a languid The mere phrase “LOVE LONDON” spot in many hearts, since ^ Americans have recently . so 1 should strike a pent ■ the tit'® several years there. It is of Gilbert W. Gabriel’s "J novel, concerning three Gi a girl. Trigger, one-tiin®^^ d sill. j.iigsci, uiic pan driver in Minneapolis; ’jpjui, Mexican, from Texas, Bostonian. 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