BADIN BULLETIN
VOL. Ill NOVEMBER, 1920 No. 2
-ti"' i!** OF GENERAL INTEREST ii# a**
be
the
POT ROOMS PAST AND PRESENT
By R. E. Parks, Operating Superintendent
Pot Room history would
corvoct without some reference to
^0 Badin
wiuiiuut some reiereiice
^ 6 plans of the French Company. The
^ench people planned to put their pot
I’oonifj - ■ - -- - «
on top o'"
®ibly they were
Mount Ararat,
anxious to get
Po:,-
well
it would be several weeks before potroom
22 could be started. However, after
se"veral weeks of land clearing and
material handling and various other
miscellaneous jobs, they found thmgs
ready to start, and Room 22 was cut in
with the usual “fireworks” by way of
celebration. Tom Hutton, as foreman,
had his hands full, but with the able
^ VY'-'AC
^bove the flood waters of the Yadkin
^ver, as the name of the “mountain”
^ould suggest. However that may be, had his hands tuii, out wxui
spent considerable time and money and willing assistance o ®
leveling off the top of this so-called with him Potroom No. 22 at Ba-
^ountain,” and had already proceed-
® quite a wav with t.lip erection of
ling off the top of this so-called dated with him Potroom No. 22 at Ba-
■ din was soon making a record which
has never been surpassed by the Badin
Works since that first winter. Good
grades? Yes, Sir! It was nothing
unusual to see a whole section pro
erection
were
4uiie a way with the erecti
® potroom buildings when they
orced to suspend operations in the
^11 of 1914. They were going to oper
ate '—
those days too, and some of the oiJ
analyses show a whole day’s run with
nothing but a trace of copper in any of
the metal. They got good outputs, too.
Hawkins, whose headquarters were,
one end of the other potroom close
still loves to look back at the old
Mr
in
by
records, and often remarks about like
this;
“Now when Potroom 22 was run-
ning back in 1916 I don’t blame
you, Mr. Hawkins; them was glorious
^ ail of 1914. They were going to oper- unusual to see a wnoie ^
“‘e -me real pots! rnsiderably la^er duce “B” grade metal. k""
than the variety seen in our present pot to keep their copper content low
^ooms, and using the “chic Usine”
® ectrodes previously mentioned in the
pages of this Bulletin.
After the Aluminum Company of
ttierica had taken over the French
oldings, plans were changed. Although
Was some talk at one time of
operating some of these huge pots- thp
eme was finally abandoned, and the
PJ'esent potrooms started. Mr. F. R.
Kemmer was sent down early in 1916, you, Mr.
nd arrangements were made whereby days; but i was ,, ^
\^ough power could be purchased from work that produced results and one of
the Southern Power Company to oper- these bright days
ate one potroom, in order to break in a ^^-e eroing to sho y
^J^ew of men so that when the Narrows
ani Was completed and plenty of power
available there would be a good oper-
crew ready to take hold. One of
Kemmer’s first acts when he found
®^^t that one potroom was to be ope
rated Was to board the train for Mary-
le and request the gift of a potroom
oreman with a full crew of head pot-
helpers, tappers, etc. Most of the
°ld timers in the Badin Pot Rooms now
^ame over with this crew, and it was a
isappointed bunch that arrived in
Whitney in May, 1916, and found that
these bright days in the near future
we are going to show you that it can be
done again.
In July, 1917, the dam was completed.
“Jersey” had been ousted from the Car
bon Plant, and had taken up quartos
in the East end of Building 30 The
lake was filling up rapidly, and finally
everything was ready for the grand
start. As the writer happened to be
over in Badin at the time, he can testify
that the weather was “slightly” warm.
Someone had failed to send the weather
man his monthly box of cigars, and
he was taking it out on the Potrooms.
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The Real Cause of Disease
By Thos. J. Fenton, M. D.
“All the ills to which human flesh is
heir, are due to auto-intoxication.’*
“If it were not for auto-intoxication,
there would be no need of doctors”
These startling statements, uttered by
some obscure individual, might not at
tract much attention, but coming, as
they did, from the lips of one of the
greatest surgeons of all times, produced
a profound sensation. Some of the
world’s leading medical men were pres
ent at the clinic in Guy’s hospital, Lon
don, in the year of 1910, when the cele
brated Sir Arbuthnot Lane gave expres
sion to the above quoted dicta.
Lane was then called an extremist,
but shortly his hearers, and others, work
ing in the same field, began to appre
ciate that the Englishman’s opinions
were well grounded, and to accept his
theory, and today Lane has few oppo
nents among leaders of the medical pro
fession.
Bright’s disease, diseases of the heart,
liver, stomach, and nervous system, as
well as rheumatism, diabetes, and the
anemias, are all due to auto-intoxication,
according to this eminent authority.
And what is auto-intoxication! It is
self poisoning—that is, poisoning by sub
stances, called toxins, which are formed
in one’s own body, usually in the intes
tines.
Affording to Lane, the modus oper-
anai is as follows: The normal, onward
progress of the by-products of digestion,
is retarded by one or more of a number
of conditions or unwholesome practices.
Among the more common of these are—
obstructions within the abdomen, for ex
ample, tumors, bands of adhesions, and
the like, which press upon and partially
close the bowel, much as stepping upon a
garden hose interferes with the flow of
water; the drinking of too little liquids;
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