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Page Four ^ ^ ^ OF GENERAL INTEREST ^ ^ ^ Mothers and Fathers of America Give to Your Own Sons! It was at a little hospital in France. One of the workers—Youn^ Men’s Chris tian Association, Knights of Columbus— what does it matter, they are all the same—was one day passing by and sud denly thought of a Scotch boy with whom he had been talking before that same afternoon. He entered the tent expect ing to find the boy marked that night for transfer home. But when he ap proached he saw that something had happened, something had intervened be tween all hopes and plans. The wound ed lad’s eyes were bright with fever and he beckoned to the man of mercy. “Come here, mummy,” he said; “put your arm under my head and I think I will sleep tonight.” “And then,” says the worker, “I saw that he had become a child again. ‘Hear me say my prayers now, mummy,’ he said, and beginning ‘Our Father which Hrt in Heaven,’ he felt his way thru it like a blind man in a narrow alley, till he got tangled in forgetfulness and stum bled for a moment into silence. Then, looking up at me, he said, ‘Kiss me, mum my,’ and I kissed him and tucked him in as his mother used to do when he was a boy at home, and by way of sleep that night he found a dawn beyond our day break.” Your son, perhaps, is there—that boy you love so well. He may be wounded. God forbid! But if he is, an arm will pillow his head tonight and fatherly hands will be on his and kindly lips will speak those words that you would speak if you were by his side. It will be the hands and lips of one of that band of con- •iecrated men, one of those big-hearted brothers, who welcomed your boy that homesick day he came to camp, who sailed with him on the transport, who went, perhaps, thru the hell-fire of shot and bursting shell to save him when he was wounded, who brought food and com fort and friendliness and home to him on the very fire-step of the front-line trench. These big brothers are calling to j/oh from France for help. Nay, they are calling to you from every cantonment, from every camp, here and abroad, where our soldier lads are gathered together. “Fathers and Mothers of America!” they say, “your boys are in our hands. We want to send them back to you clean, strong, brave, victorious. God willing, these shall not be wasted months or years. We are working and praying so chat even while he fights your son will grow in stature—body, mind, and soul. Money is needed—a veritable tide of gold—to make this possible. Fathers and Mothers of America, give to your own sons!” Shall we add our poor word to the passionate appeal for $170,500,000 that is being made by these seven societies, these great brotherhoods that stand be hind our armies—the Young Men’s Chris tian Association, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the National Cath olic War Council, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation Army, the Amer ican Library Association, the War Camp Community Service? No, there is no need for us to tell you why you should give. Your own heart is crying out to you noiv to give. Give money? Why, you would give your right hand, you would give your beating heart itself, if It would bring your boy comfort and happiness in his life or peace in ni« death. Little enough do we know what these lads of ours are enduring without com plaint; little enough do we know how they die without bitterness, thinking never of self, but of suffering chums and loved ones at home, humble in their self- sacrifice. Little can we hope to imagine what “Y” or “K. of C.” men and huts mean to them, we who are safe and warm and with friends. “Sometimes,” says a “Y” worker, “I sit all day beside a man, feeling my heart just break listening to him as he speaks words of love and me.iMages of deepest tenderness in his dying fever to those far off across the seas whom he thinks to be right up near his stretcher bed. And then a man who has been blinded wants me to hold one of his hands; another poor lad sobs out hif. life, his head in my arms, crying for hi* mother as you and I criel for ours when we were lonely; and I guide the hands x^f another—a big l>oy, torn and shat tered by a shell, as he writes good-bye to his sweetheart and tells her God will bring them together again.” What do we know of such things m« these—we in America? What do we {Continued on }xige 5) Yadkin Falls Hydro-Elect) Development In the course of a very few lU' electric power from Yadkin Fall* be coming in over the transmissiot swelling the total already in w Badin. Yadkin Falls is so near the rows development that the head from the Yadkin Falls dam will right up to the tailwater of the Ni power house. The Falls develop!® a small one when compared to the at the Narrows. At the Falls development, the ! house is so built that it forms an in* portion of the dam itself. The av* head at Yadkin Falls is fifty fe«‘ for low head developments, that ^ heads from fifteen feet to ninety this type of construction has years become very popular, bec»'>’ its great economy under these coni^ Instead of penstocks, water flows * ly thru short concrete intakes concrete spiral or scroll case, ha'"*'^ treme dimensions of eighteen by six feet. These scroll cases, of there are three, are huge passai* for conducting the water to each ^ wheel. Starting with these dime" it constantly grows smaller. winds around the speed rini; water-wheel it pinches out to not^j a place near the starting point-, water passes from the scroll the speed ring, the wicket gates, water-whe«l down the draft tub' ] is twenty-one by forty feet in n>*', size, to the tailrace. With the ; of a very small percentage, a'l energy of the falling water is * i tracted. i The water-wheels, which are i”* tured by the S. Morgan Smith of York, Pa., are thirteen inches in diameter, and are rateJ*| horsepower each, at full gate ' Three of theae wheels are but only two will be inscall^ ' present time. The power house is of very same sise as that at the by 187 feet, and will be of ' structural steel framework. hou»e crmne will be the \&rg^ abouta. and i* of one hundrcti to”' ity. capable of lifting a water-* rotor at one time.
The Badin Bulletin (Albemarle, N.C.)
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