University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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THE REDWOOD 25 the early part of the war, he was brutally slain at night. No doubt this mar- tyrdom was in answer to his earnest prayer. His name now belongs on the roster of those who live venerated from age to age. It matters not how many years ago they lived, the records of their lives are like lamps shining upon us from the past. Charles de Foueauld may one day be raised high on the altars of the church. To Cordelia By Donald J. Pierr, ' 25. Poor outcast child of vain and fretful Lear, Thy sisters gilded words did mock the heart; Thou hadst the truth. Thou couldst not play a part Of flatt ' ring favor with a tainted tear. Blind Justice, needed at a time so drear When honied phrases reigned, forgot her art. That father cast thy love upon the mart And to thy truthful plea turned not his ear. Yet when the clouds of ill-begotten power Broke over him who ill had done to thee. Thou, loving spirit, from across the sea Didst come to save that feeble, maddened head, And there received thy last and fateful dower. Cordelia ' s love still lives, Cordelia dead!

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24 THE REDWOOD the successors of the first apostles and the first evangelists. The word is much, but example, love and prayer are a thousand times more. Let us give them the example of a perfect life. Let us love them with that love which cannot fail to win love. hi another letter he wrote: ' Holy Communion is my sustenance, my all. My unworthiness is infinite. In February Brother Alberic made his first vows. The other brothers in the monastery regarded him as a saint, so great was his piety. Each night he allowed himself but two hours of sleep. Yet he desired something more severe even than the severe rule of the Trappists. What he really sought was utter abjection. He dreamed of founding an order whose rule would be modelled as closely as possible on the life of Our Lord in Nazareth. What the Trappists could not give him he hoped to find in solitary desert meditation. But here he was persuaded to become a priest because he could then say mass, and that would mean more graces for the world. He went back to France and in two months was ordained to the priest- hood, in June, 1901, at Viviers. He soon set sail for his beloved Africa, and was received by the Bishop of Sahara, who gave him permission to establish himself in the south of the Province of Oran, close to Morocco. The people had never before possessed a priest to minister to them. They Avere among the most abandoned in all the world. Here indeed Charles de Foucauld could find utter abjection. He built a chapel with the help of a !V v natives. Around this Little build- ing a wall Avas constructed, and he began thenceforth to lead an almost clois- tered life. His cloister soon became the stopping place for travellers, for nomads; and with him they could trust their burdens and wealth of worldly goods. His life was not passed in peace, however, for insurrections were constantly occuring in nearby Beni-Abes and farther off in the desert. Wishing to pene- trate into the less civilized country of Hoggar he left with a detail of soldiers, and in September, 1905, celebrated his first mass in Tamarasset, a native village in Haggar. The people were called Taurags and were a white race with most peculiar customs. They were very wild, their slaves did all the work, and Father de Foucauld wrote : I am preparing the way for others, who, I hope Mali come. I am praying to Our Lord to send them. The ignorance of the people is so great that they can scarce distinguish right from wrong, and the family life is so loose and immoral that the children grow up haphazard with- out moral precept or example. Their most serious fault, however, is their pride. Like Arabs and all the people of the desert, they consider themselves superior to all other races on earth. European inventions, automobiles, air- ships, etc., impress them not at all. They consider a camel more interesting and useful than an automobile. Father de Foucauld performed the work of a missionary in this field for a long time, although he insisted that he was but a hermit. In 1916, during

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26 THE REDWOOD Hydro-Electric Development in California By Robert E. Grady, B. S. in E. E. ' 23. HEN we analyze the great development of natural resources that is the basis of present prosperity and the promise of the future Cali- fornia, the factors that contribute to this worthy accomplishment stand out more clearly. California was favored by the Creator with natural advantages which lead us logically to conclude that our Golden State was de- signed to be something out of the ordinary. The mountain ranges to the east with their snow-capped peaks, deep canyons, and rushing torrents, affording an inexhaustible supply of water power; broad, fertile interior valleys with large rivers fed from the melting snows ; and extended seacoast with splendid harbors as an outlet to commerce and an incentive to industry : all form a nat- ural basis for advanced civilization. Our present excellent development is the product of the combined efforts of many men. Pioneers of initiative and courage, having a clear vision of the future, set in motion forces which have built from humble beginnings the great systems of to-day. As a result the history of the hydroelectric industry in California might well be called the history of the industry itself. In California our power does not consist of great waterfalls like Niagara, but is produced from rushing streams in deep mountain gorges. A stream is diverted from its course and conveyed by canal and tunnel to some point where a drop of from several hundred to possibly three or four thousand feet is obtained to the power house below. The water falling from this height through large steel pipes applies its accumulated energy to the waterwheel driving the generator, is released, and may be used several times in a similar manner during its course through the mountains. In the northern part of the state the peculiar geological formation known as the Modoc Lava Beds, which is in reality a great underground reservoir, gives rise to a number of spring fed streams of which the principal ones are the Pit River and its trib- utaries, supplying the Sacramento River to the west, and the Feather River which flows to the south and later also enters the Sacramento. Streams of this type require no large storage reservoirs with costly dams, and the dis- charge is not affected by heavy floods, giving most favorable conditions for the development of a constant supply of power. In the south where the run- off from extensive watersheds is the principal source of supply, reservoirs and dams are required for conservation, but the additional cost is lowered by tho use of water for irrigation after the development of power. The lack of coal that at first appeared to doom California ' s advancement proved ultimately to be the greatest good fortune that our state could have had. In the east an abundant supply of coal developed an extensive system of costly steam plants, and now, in view of a coal shortage and the greater economy of water power, they are facing a serious problem in the transition from steam to hydraulic power that the west has happily avoided. Necessity