Nappanee High School - Napanet Yearbook (Nappanee, IN)

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CLASS ROLL Mae Thomas Joy Walters Blanche Campbell Marion Brevier Ethel Silberg Nellie Ipe Neva Hochstetler Madge Ulery Blanche Geyer Celeste Bleile Cora Weaver Nora Harder Wilma Yoder Emma De Freese Grace Mattern Beulah Shaum Joy Myers Daisy Wyman Hilda Evans Esther Slabaugh Edna Smith Josephine Lehman Ercell Cole Charley Goss Hay Troyer Clyde Kronk Emory Naylor Russel Hartman John NetT Marvin Huff Francis Parks Glen Roose William Yoder James Wehrly Forrest Postma Otis Wagner Howard Rosenberger Walter Miller Wilbur Welty Leslie Wilson Florence Volk man Zoe Lehman Olive Feldman Eva Strauss Anna Kurtz Charlie Holderman “Ooh Pse Afraid”

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a hr arausfnrmattmt nf JJmurr MARK) N. The wonderful progress of the twentieth century, the winged feet of industry, the remarkable changes in life, owe tlieir brilliancy to the invisible energy transmitted by electricity. For the past twenty years, that power has been the motive force of civilization. By its use, cities have been furnished light, heat and domestic conveniences, factories have been increased and better fitted up, transportation has been made cleaner and easier, and innumerable devices for its practical use have been invented. In large and small plants from coast to coast the newer, cleaner, safer electrical methods are transforming the production problem, by furnishing light, by eliminating cumbersome machinery, and by increasing the efficiency of each machine unit. What is the secret of this subtle power? What is electricity? Thomas A. Edison, the pride of our nation because of his electrical inventions, has said, “Electricity is a method for transporting power.” Ernst Haeckel believes that, “There is only one thing in the world, and that is energy. Energy takes a myriad of forms and the method of transmission from one to another, when we finally understand it will be discovered to he electricity.” “Electricity occupies the twilight zone between the spiritual and the material,” says Lord Kelvin. “God is the Great Electrician ; we are born, cry, dance, live play, toil, enjoy, suffer, love, die, as he touches the electric keys.” Where is the source of this wonderful power? How is man able to harness this terrific force? It’s source is everywhere but the method of transforming it is varied. Our rivers and streams constitute one source of power for developing electricial energy. Every stream from the mighty Mississippi down to the most insignificant brook is capable of producing its share of KKKGKR the world’s energy. Every ounce of water pouring into the ocean has it’s hidden power. The mighty cataracts, Niagara, Yose-mite, and the like, whose waters, falling for hundreds of feet, are wasting their power, shall yet be harnessed and used for the advancement of man. It is held by some that it is a crime against Nature to deface her works by installations of man. Shall busy, humming turbines and dynamos replace the roaring, Assing waters? 1 say, “Yes, they shall.” What could be more awe-inspiring, more indicative of the divine Nature imparted to man than the sight of vast, almost human machines, built by man for the utilization of the power at his command? Where now the sparkling, darting column of water wastes its energy in falling hundreds of feet down some rocky precipice, we shall find concrete dams, whirring engines and invisible transformed power being sent out for the use of man. There are already many instances of this work. The greatest single power development of the world is the one at Keokuk, Iowa. Here a Master Mind saw the opportunity offered by Nature and carried out the work of construction. A monster, concrete dam stretches out across the mighty Mississippi like a great harvester of power. It is nearly a mile long, is forty-two feet wide at the base and thirty-two feet above the river bed. It was made in sections by surrounding each succeeding section with temporary cofferdams. A water head of thirty-two feet can be maintained. The power house alone is over seventeen hundred feet long and one hundred and seventy feet high. The part under water is composed of solid concrete, and that part above is made of re-enforced concrete. The building is made in arches. There are eighteen vast arches on a side.