Power systems aid many flood towns

The great Mississippi River flood has demonstrated that the modern method of connecting up many cities and towns into systems in the distribution of electric power is one means of meeting emergencies. Throughout Arkansas and the other lower Mississippi states many a half-submerged community has electric light in its occupied houses for the reason that there was no local power plant “down by the river” to be drowned out by high water. Electricity continued available because it came in by way of a pole line that was a part of a wire system connecting several power plants in various parts of the country with many cities and towns.