Tárogató, 1948-1949 (11. évfolyam, 1-8. szám)
1948-11-01 / 5. szám
TÁROGATÓ 15 anywhere nearly the same concept of our Christian land. NO ADVANTAGE TO GIANTS The six-footer seems to have little advantage over the man of smaller stature save in the one feature of a few inches in height. Giants are not usually long-lived, and it is well to remember that, while the huge dinosaur long since faded from the earth the minute ant still carries on his work as usual. There is more in the size of the brain than in the development of the muscles. The civilization which we enjoy is due more to the few ounces of brain that we possess than to the huge bulk of our muscles. RADIO IN THE NORTHLAND At Edmonton, Alberta, is the nerve centre of the one of the busiest and most interesting of radio networks. It links to the outside world all of Canada’s farflung hinterlands from Hudson Bay to the Alaska border. Another army signals headquarters at Ottawa does for the eastern Arctic what the Edmonton centre accomplishes in the western northland. Among the hundreds of messages handled daily may be an SOS call from someone ill or injured in a remote police or trading-post. Meanwhile a trapper, in a lonely cabin beside an unnamed lake, is advised by means of a powerful transmitter that he has just become a father. “Yes,” grinned one Canadian Corps of Signals radio operator, “we handle everything on this system, from the cradle to the grave.” Soldier technicians of the Signal Corps are stationed in a score of strategic points throughout the Yukon and Northwest Territories. These key stations relay messages to and from still more isolated posts, as well as handling private and commercial messages. Other far-flung stations make up the eastern network centring at Ottawa. Stories of adventure and unusual human interest are far outnumbered, of course, by such routine messages as progress reports from field parties working for oil and mining companies; or the scores of weather reports which pour into Edmonton and Ottawa hourly from meteorological stations. This Arctic weather data is of the utmost importance to weathermen all over the continent. Until C.B.C. recently broadcast this story of Northland Signals—as the Yukon and Northwest Territories sysem is popularly called—most Canadians hardly had realized the existence of so busy a network of radio stations in the Northland as those communicating with Edmonton and Ottawa. Yet army personnel, operating the posts which bring the blessings of quick communication to the Far North, often face real Arctic^ hardship and adventure. UNLIKE By Ada M. Strachan The All-Maker must have loved variety He made so much for us to hear and see! The heavens he starred in intricate design To fascinate your eager eyes and mine. And round about... the wonder grows and grows: Pines on the hilltop, dewdrops on the rose; High sunlit cliffs, dark canyons far below; The red of autumn leaves, the white of snow; Harsh thunder’s peal, a bluebird’s liquid call; A babe’s frail grasp, the might of waterfall ... Beneath our range: drab coal and shining gold; And myriad sea-things veiled in ocean’s hold. Unlike he made them, for he understood ... ' So much unlike ... and he pronounced them good! Man, too, he made of differing hue and race — Why cavil at the colour of his face?
