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Page Five YADKIN FALLS DEVELOPMENT View in Substructure of Powerhouse, Showing Forms for Scroll Cases badin bulletin Two 6600 kilowatts, ninety revolutions “r minute, General Electric generators, 5,200 volts, will be installed now, with le usual auxiliary apparatus; while a lird will be installed later. The water- heels are, of course, of the vertical 'pe, and the generator and water-wheel ill be on the same shaft. Current will i transmitted to Badin without the use transformers, to the rotary converters Building 35, where it will be con- irted to direct current for use in the )trooms. At the present t!me, there have been aced about seventy-five thousand cubic irds of concrete in the dam and power- >use, leaving about seven thousand ibic yards still to be placed. The closures in the gate openings are )w being made, and will be completed December. Steelwork on the power- >use has been started, and is progresa- g nicely. Brickwork and the setting of machin- y will soon be started, and it is ex- 'Cted that the plant will be in operation irly next spring. One point worth men- 3nmg in connection with this plant is, at, owing to the existence of the Nar- 'ws plant just above, the Yadkin Falls >nd can always be kept full, and the ant operated at a constant maximum ad a most unusual and desirable con- tion with a hydro-electric plant. J. A. Justin Mothers and Fathers {Continued from page 4) low of the horror of the rain-soaked ench at night, with the shells flying erhead like bats out of hel'.? What do ' know of the gnawing cramp of hun- or the hideous wrench of agonizing Junds? Our eyes have not seen the inian wreckage of the battlefield, our rs have not heard its awful cries. Our Js have not yet touched the cup. Our eatless days, our wheatless meals, our 'od ladies knitting—would we dare look one poor crumpled form in Flander.s -Id and call these things “giving?” t>t if we are men. If our fields had been owed by murderous guns, if our cities 'd been looted, razed, and ruined, if men had been crucified and shot, our mothers, wives, and daughters had en dragged like the women of Lille by ay-clad demons to slavery, then we d be able to speak a language of cri ice we do not yet know or even y understand. Then would we have irned something of the courage of irist when he refused the stupefying *•1 upon the cross, and faced suffer ing—yes, welcomed and greeted it, as a very end and aim of life. It is a splendid thing to give billions to war that war may cease. It is thrice blessed to give to these magnificent and merciful organizations that have been formed not to take life, but to save it. not to give wounds, but to bind them up. not to spread disaster and blasting death, but to dispense good cheer and kindliness and knowledge and comfort and brother ly love among our own boys. It is a privilege to give to this grea‘ cause when for the first time in histoiy Jew, Protestant, and Catholic are sink ing the bitter differences of centuries, when prejudices are sweeping out likf- commingling in the final gold of truth, ash in furnace-winds, and creeds an' This cause is, indeed, His cause, and each dollar we give is given into the very treasury of heaven. We regard the work of these humane fraternities of such supreme importance, that, altho, like others, we have given, and given generously, we hope, to every worthy war-time cause, we have deter mined to contribute our check for ten thousand dollars on the very first day of the drive. If for a moment, far from the peril and sudden death of the trenches, we are tempted to shrink from new sacrifice.-!, we have but to look around about us to
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