Tárogató, 1939-1940 (2. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1939-09-01 / 3. szám
TÁROGATÓ 13 HAPPY DENMARK In Denmark, that happy little country which is flanked on the west by the North Sea and on the east by the Baltic, the government has enacted laws resulting in so much contentment in that land that it is now being referred to as the “kingdom of reason.” Denmark has won the right to be so appraised, because its laws are so reasonable they make for a citizenry which enjoys peace and prosperity. This nation is to the fore in respect to the democracy of its people of every rank. Its king can often be seen riding alone, on his bicycle in the streets of Copenhagen, the principal city. One of the chief secrets of the contentment prevailing in Denmark is bound up in the fact that that country has determined that no Dane shall be in want in his native land. People do not starve there when there is a business depression, because that country has in force employment insurance, old age pensions legislation, as well as universal health and accident insurance. The large output of Denmark’s two chief industries, dairy farming and fishing, is in the hands of co-operative companies, which are owned by the farmers and the fishermen who work on a shareand-share-alike basis. RADIO CAREERS Radio has become one of the major industries in our civilization and as such it employs a great many people. The art of radio has many sides. Some of the world’s greatest engineers are at work solving its technical problems. The artist, the musician, the actor, like the engineer, are all employed in furthering the radio art. Thousand of young men set out each year to make their way in one of the many branches of radio. Just what are the prospects? Let us limit ourselves to the technical side of radio employment. The top places in the world of radio engineering are held by men who have been trained for these posts by a college course in electrical engineering. As a rule the college years, usually four in number, are followed by a long period of apprenticeship in radio work. Radio factories employ thousands of men without college training, but these men usually do routine work in the manufacturing and testing of radio receivers and other radio equipment. Few radio factories operate all year round. In most cases the plant runs at full speed for a few months and then shuts down completely for a time. Many boys and men who have become interested in radio as a hobby take this sort of work, but few are satisfied with it. The real radio amateur, who knows the technical side of radio transmitters and receivers and has a good working knowledge of the code, can often get more interesting radio employment as a commercial radio operator. The first step is to get a government radio license for this work. This license is given after the applicant has passed a number of examinations dealing with special types of radio receivers and transmitters and the dot-and-dash code used for commercial work. The examinations are stiff, but the license opens the way to interesting work on land, afloat and in the air. Many boys in the past have earned their way through college by such work in the vacation months. Information about commercial radio licenses in Canada may be obtained from the Department of Transport—Radio Division, Ottawa. One of the best ways to learn the principles of commercial radio work is to build and operate an amateur transmitting station. Information on amateur apparatus and methods can be obtained from the American Radio Relay League of Hartford, Conn. This is an international organization. Its handbook ($1.25 in Canada) gives all the information required to build and operate an amateur station. Such stations must be licensed, and information on this subject may be obtained from the Department of Transport as noted above. —Canadian Boy. THE KING SPEAKS TO YOUTH ON Victoria Day, 1939, the great-grandson of Queen Victoria, King George VI, broadcast a message to Canada and the United States. Speaking from Winnipeg, he stated that the “tide of inspiration” that long had been Europe’s was “no longer running as it did in times gone by.” He asked if this is not the moment when the Old World in its turn may look for hope and guidance to the achievements of the New. Brave pioneering had been done. Winnipeg was no more than a fort and hamlet upon the open prairie when Queen Victoria began to rule. English and French relationships within Canada had allowed each race to keep the pride and dis-OUR ENGLISH SECTION.
