Champion Fibre Company

Description

Between 1914 and the late 1960s, the Champion Fibre Company published an internal newsletter, called The Log, to share news about the Canton mill, the community, and its employees. After 1940, news from the entire “Champion Family,” which included mills in Hamilton, Ohio; Houston, Texas and Sandersville, Georgia, was featured in each issue.HE OG VOL. IX CANTON, N. C., MAY, 1926 Our Motto: ''Safety---C lea1tliness ---Efficiency" ''T HE world is looking for the man who can do something. not for the man who can ·explain' why he didn't do it.'' NO. 3 +++++++++++•++++++++••••••••:•••:••++++++++++:•••••:•+:::•++ ++++ ... +++++++++++++++++++++ ... ++++++++++++ +++++ ++ ... Good Trmber T HE tree that never had to fight For sun and sky and air and light, That stood out in the open plain, And always got its share of rain, Never became a forest king But lived and died a scruby thing. The man who never had to toil, Who never had to win his share, Of sun and sky and light and air, Never became a manly man But lived and died as he began. Good timber does not grow in ease; The stronger wind, the tougher trees; The more the storm, the more the strength; By sun and cold, by rain and snows, In tree or man good timber grows. Where thickest stands the forest growth We find the patriarchs of both, And they hold converse with the stars Whose broken branches show the scars Of many winds and much of strife­This is the common...

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Western Carolina University

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North Carolina Digital Heritage Center