The Log Vol. 20 No. 11

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. ; • • TI>ECEMBER 1938 - - - - VOLUME XX Nu·mber 11 Established 1914 . - . . - . - • TwenJy . ·Fourtb. Year ol Publication Published by "The Cham.pion Falllily" C ANTON, I'IORTH .CAROLIN A: • • : HOUSTON, TEXAS UTOIL IS THE LAW" If you want knowledge, you must t.oil for it; if fo·ocL you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toll is the law. Pleasure comes through toil and not through self ,. indulgence and indolence. When one get's to lo;ve work, his life. is a happy .one.-Joim Ruskin. The pape1; for tbe cover of this D)agazine is Chall)pion Cordw:ain EmboQsed~ and is made in our Canton Division plant out of wood from the forests of North Gatolina~ The pape1' for 'the inside pages is Cham~ pion White Hinqefoldi ,made in our Hamilton plant. We manufacture maay qra ui It up i l is practically a serj,_ c,f rn;u ufac:turing t.owu , joi n<:J togc1 her. J l~ watcr-powt.r i.~ rni• 0 nificcnt dTld supph•- power tf.l the: thunsand$ of lactories t hrou2'h(Jhl the s a• c . '"' Settled in 1636 R.hode I sla n d is one of the thirf~en orig1nal s .are; and was settl ed by the Eng li h in 1636. The f1rst colony was founded by Ro~er V'"!iiia~s at Providence and g iven the nan1e P nH·idcncc Pl~ntattfla. It received its charter from Cha rles II in 1663, vhich remained the fundamental law of the state till 1842. In 1841 a lega lly authorized peoples con rention met a nd f r~lJncd the nCV\ ' Cons tit uti on. which. ·• e are t,nkL caused the D orr R ebellion and the adoption of the new charter in 1842. It is believed that the Korsemen visited the Rhode I s­land <::oast in the tenth century. T he two settlements~ Providence (in 1636) . and :\e\\'pon (in J63Q). ·.\ere ·o ...