The Seaforth News, 1940-07-04, Page 71
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THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1940.
HOW PAST CAN MAN TRAVEL ?
Continued from page three.
to he knish tryiug to -fly faster than
sound.
Another control, or limit, is the en-
gine, and the rate at ,wthielt it can .can -
,vert energy. At Present, ,using light
alloys of ,ttl'unrinunt and magnesium,
we can get a horsepower for about
3-4 ,of a pound. We will no •douiht bet-
ter this, but not by enough ,to shove
through sound, the necessary increase
in power !being much 'tom ,great for
any predictable impreventen't in eng-
ines to supply.
The only possible solution that '1
:see is in rockets, and (before rockets
will 'become commercially iplowsi(hle we
.must have more energy than we now
have in a pound of ,finer --and Phis .is a
longe order for the ;chemists. Gasoline
bas about 30,000 ,units per pound, pure
hydrogen about 160,000. 1'o ,make 't
rocket that will work ,w'e11, and (carry
avail, will require march more than this
prdbai ly millions of ,units, and meth-
ods for liberating the energy under
better conteel sham .the present nvix-
ture of gasoline and liquid oxygen of-
fers.
The only things that Igo Neter than
sound are (bullets. If a man could he
Irlaced in a projectile, he might be
shot out of a (gun at a higher :speed
than ,,•o•und, ibu't Uhc aocdberetion on
starting. would he higher than scents
possible •for the human .frame to bear.
If he ,could Ibe encased in smelt a way
as to stand acceberaion of Ill0 tithes
,gravity--wiuieh so far as I know.
would kill him—the (barrel .of the gun
would have to be about 75 feet long
40 )give (hint (about twice the velocity
of sound --and even ,with this ,velocity
he would only tsro senntething like
'twenty miles, and at the encs of 'itis
journey still the fared with .site probl-
em of getting down from the sky. In
•port, being shot out of a gun may ,he
all right in circus's, that it's a boor
wvay to get about.
In the meantime, uuan can travel up
to 'something ander the velocity of
sound, say 400 to 700 miles ,per .(recur,
end no more 'by present methods.
This would ,take shim from Toronto .to
Europe—say 3,000 miles in between
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
PAGE SEVEN
WOMEN'S INSTITUTES IN
WARTIME BRITAIN
Hy Kathleen Conyugllmn
Greene, O.B.E,
A Women's Institute—its .friends
r'a'id it "our W.I."—is a oountryw'om-
en's club, The first 'Women's Institute
in England was a Welsh one, rt was
founded in 1915. Now, to May, 19140,
trite tWonten'i Institutes in England
aril Wailes member more ,than five
Statism -el seven Itund+ed,
The insltitute ideatbelgan in Canada.
It was a very simple idea; that eso-
men living in Uhe country elmedel unite
to work ,for ,themselves and for other
people This slower witted island of
Great Britain betted of themovementbefore the 11150 Great W ur, It might
have spnead here in any case. But
war, and the need for ,growing .more
toed at home, move IW.I. a definite
reason 'for existence atter, in early life,
a llovernntent financial lhtecsing,
lit is easy eo forget just how rural
%vete the rural) tillages. of England,
'00011 yefive to thirty years ago. There
were no motor (buses 'to lisle vii,lalge
to .village to 'tow -n. There were .new
cars, Town tradesmen did not dash
wound country districts ,delivering
.,goods The will age housewife diad 'to
Irrnbgl utiles to the market town, or
.buy in the village elrep, It .was the
shop (very often, selling anything and
everything, from (bacon to a ,packet of
,pin.. There was no 'wireless.
Sell the other dtand, old 'country
traits were disappearing, 'with the
traditional country dance, and the
nmmumin,g (play,
1 do not 'know if the !founders of
141'!1, in Britain saw 'themselves as
seeing Che them of she 'old 'cilhile they
started the (hest of the ne,w. This is
what they have done. Institute mem-
bers .want good country housing, (wat-
er enpplies, (proper sanitation and so
on. They can mlaike their ,voices heard
quite loudly an such matters. Bart
they are also keeping alive .knowledge
of - cross stitch, quilting and 'weaving,
1111111 other similar dovoly 'handiwork of
the past They believe in the arts as
vt'oUh I
I have 'keen looking elouwn the
1)iary of Eveuits for 4'he'National Fed-
eration of Women's Institutes in May
and June 'a year ago. "Singing 'Fest-
ival in Berkshire „Handicraft Meltib-
itien in-Caemather..Ttnittinee ,Confer-
enre in Qannbridgeslhire..Dranta Fest-
bvaI in Durham,.,Fo•Ik Dance Festival
in Derlys'hire.,'Picin Sewing School
in Becke...1"
Perhaps the most remarkable dis-
xvery of the movement has been the
iidden acting 'talent of the ordinary
otntry ,woman. It is (less exitraordin-
iry that W.I. titre ers are at their
rest in Shakespeare. Shakespeare was
ratan of the soil. In spite of a lls-
ressing fihn made eruption of 4n,1, -s
red "Says You ;mem the young-'
r ;gelu ration, ht 1aag:uagc i5 still the
uthentie- English tongue,
The deeper pucposc of Institute
cork is hidden in t(he ,words of "J(er
,:alum", rhe paetn Written nearly a
cate
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century and a half ago the tilt wisiotl-
;try, 1'\ ill'iam 'retake, and sting, to Par-
ry's lint.lime, of every Institute meet-
•.
iu;.;, It in easy to laugh at the ekittny
sehtetienistreee and the .farmer's ,fart
wife, cleniandiuig their "chariots of
fire" and their 'ib:aws of Ihnruiulg
gold", They (have no't yet "—built
Jeru's:uiortt In England's green .and
'and pleasant land,"
'11,00 they are making .0 start •twiOh
the jolt I
Now has come another war and
,with it, naturally, the qu,enohi, ,.. of a
,good deal of IW,h activity, There has
been no great Annual General ,Meets-
beg in London this year, to felt ,the
.Allibert Hail with W.I. ,delegates from
every part of the band. Here and, there
Instituite Hags have been taken as
First Aid Posts, or for other Govern-
ment •work, The (black -out regulations
made evening meetings difficult. But
the twee has seen 'W.I., as a ,whole, re-
turning 1' its first sphere of useful-
ness, as producer and ,preservers of
,toad.
Through the Institutes, and their
Produce Guilds, the Government has
asked countrywomen all over the
country not only to grow as much
.food ltS, ,poesilble, Ibult also 00 (can and
(bottle all available fruits .when ,grown.
'Pini and (bottles can be bought at
special ,prices. Travelling sealingsuup
machines are 'to go from 'village to
vid(lage. Above all, .woanen are asked
to ,provide, ,ssihere possible in every
village and hamlet, a suitable central
storerOotu for these cans aux) bottles,
in which !potatoes, ,carrots, onions,
and such like can he kept, free from
dear of cl'aanp and -frost; a communal
squirrels' 'hoard :for (possible future
needs,
1)ecetntralization is a Ihrorri'ble ,word;
But what it means is of very great
importance in "total war".
A year ago the Associated ,Country -
Wont en of the.w'orld heskl a;conference
in London at she invitation of the
iN'attonad Federation of 1Wlanuen's In-
stbbutes in Fngtland and 'Wales,
There ,were .meetings, formal and
informal. 'There were official recelp-
ti'oms et the Foreign 'Office and the
'Mansion H,oitse, Mr. ,Cha,m,berlain,
then Prime,Minister—whose sister,
by rite way, is Treasurer of the whole
'National iWbmen's 'Institute move-
ment—gave ,t re delegates a special
greeting. These delegates were intim
all over the (world. The special ovat-
ion given to ,Uhe Genman contingent
was desoribed at ,the time "a 'typical
instance of the (good manners of
country folk ,who ,wish everyone to
feel ,welcome and at home". After the
formal Conference nearly a thousand
of the overseas visitors were enter-
tained for ,ten days in English country
houses, and farm, -
To -day in the lovely santmer ,wea-
ther, at robe ,peak of the ,fanners' year,
dhe people of mac of those visiting net -
inns are ;ferociously, and with every
Dem of charhariotts modern (wea(p'an,
driving the ,coun't'ry .people of smaller
neighbour nations from their homes.
"England is the country 1511(1 the
country is Eulgllancl." So wrote Lord
Baldwin; a countryman Prince Minist-
er,
Six hundred teats ego, on Lord
Baldesin's none (Malvern Hills an
English (poet 'wndte "The Vision of
Piers Plowman"; a vision of a world
where men and nt'onten could the happy
BRITAIN'S NAVY
By "Taffrail"
Famous British Naval Writer
During the last few weeks brief
British Admiralty communiques have
told that strong naval forces have
eOntinuousiy been employed in the
face of repeated bombing attacks by
German aircraft. Operations on land
have been supported by gunfire Srom
the sea. Parachute troops landing on
beaches and aerodromes have been
shot up. Refugees in their hundreds
have been brought to England from
the Low Countries,
The details of this work are nal:
orally lacking, and the full story may
never be known until the end of tate
war. But one may imagine the
instant readiness for action, and
the intense watchfulness, required of
the ships working off the Dutch and
Belgian Coasts,
There can be no real rest for any
one in ships working in such condi
tions in the face of a sudden, though
not altogether unexpected. emerge
ency, with tremendous things hap-
pening almost every minute, Apart
from German action, there are the
navigational dangers as well. Light-
houses and lightships have probably
been extinguished, and buoys re-
moved. The coasts of Flanders and
South Holland are studded with
shoals and sandbanks. Thick wear
then is not infrequent, and the tides
are Sarong and uncertain.
Though the Navy occasionally
achieves a blaze or publicity with its
more spectacular exploits like the
defeat of the "Admiral Graf Spee,"
the two battles of Narvik on April 10
and 1, and the hair -breadth adven-
tures of certain submarines, its daily
work does not excite the imagination
of the reading or listening public as
do tales o1 personal gallantry 01' Ger,
man ships sunk. The number of
mines swept up or destroyed is not
published, and for very good reasons.
Nor are many accounts published of
U-boats attacked and sank, or the
total number destroyed since tate war
began, Reticence in this respect is
enforced to avoid giving valuable in-
formation to the Germans.
Yet the Navy, every section Of It
and the Mei'ehant Navy as well, has
beeu in action since the war started.
Consider the incessant work of the
Minesweepers and the patrol or craft
off the shores of Britain. They sweep
the channels, and guard and protect
British ports and coastwise ship-
ping. Many of these little vessels
have been taken over from the Mer
chant. Navy and the Fishing Fleets
and ar' manned in great part from
the officers and men of those Serv-
ices. Their names sometimes appear
in the I-Ionours Lists; 00 other times
as casualties, which is inevitable.
But we hear little of their work.
Think also of the convoys and the
and Tree hi serve 'Gad and follow the
way of right. -
Piers Pdosvntan is 'till the basic
Englishman. He, anal his country -
Woman 'wife, have still that w•ision he -
fore theca,
c-otlVoy escorts, wits b 1I111st (itlltitille
to Purl if Britain is to he fed- and
maintained, whatever other active
naval operation may be in progress
in the North Sea and elsewhere.
'Shear work has now beeu arduous
and incessant for nine months, and 1f
proof of their success be needed It is
known that up to May 8, 19,922 Brits
ish, Allied and Neutral ships had
been. escorted in British convoys
with a loss of thirty-one ships. This
works out at a loos of one ship in
every 042,
Take again the magnificent work
of the Britioil Fleet Air Arm, that
comparatively young Service manned
by young men. In its thousands of
miles of flying over the open sea; in
the defence of British troops and
ships in Norway; iu its attacks upon
German bases, warships, transports
and supply ships, the Fleet Air Arno
has taken up into the air the naval
fighting tradIttott of centuries,
The Navy rather shuns publicity.
and so does its sister Service, the
Mercantile Marine, But of a truth
the Grace before meals that some of
us wet'e taught in our childhood may
well be taught again today:—"For
what we are about to receive, thank
God and the British Navies,"
A little lad with a sunny face had
Suet eaten a banana with great relish
and then looked up at his daddy
with the inquiring smile which meant
trouble for his parent. "Daddy," he
said. "supposing I'd been twins?"
"Well, Georgie," said daddy, "sup-
posing?"
"You'd have bought the other boy
a banana too. wouldn't you? Fact, I
don't see how you could have got
out of it,"
"I should certainly have bought
the other boy. as you call hint, a
banana," said daddy austerely.
"Well, daddy, you surely aren't
going to cheat me out of banana
'cos I'm all in one piece, are you?"
As they papered and painted bus-
ily, the two house decorators were
discussing the usual topic --"that
Ivan" and his tricks,
"He's a terrible chap," said the
paperhanger, "with his cruelty to the
poor Jews and now the Poles."
"Yes," replied the painter, "it's
pretty bad, but something else is
bothering me,"
"What that?"
"Just think what a disgt'aee he is
to our profession."
A pal said, "Have you heard about
George Blank? Knocked down by a
bus In the blackout and now he's in
a nursing home,"
"How's he getting ort?"
"Pretty good, but I don't think he'll
be out for some time,"
"'What makes you think than?" 1
asked hint. "Did you see the doctor??"
"No, but I saw the nurse!"
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The 49 year old Willkie, never be'
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suite, crowded with friends.
THE SPIRIT IS BRITISH
Answering a columnist for a daily
newspaper who thinks Dresden
should ehange its name, the Dresden
Times makes this comment:
"We might state that the only part
of this towu that is German is the
name. We don't believe that chang-
ing the name will win the war, and
regardless of what this little town is
called, we have a military record for
a good many larger towns to shoot at.
Some of the best boys in Canada who
called Dresden, Ontario, their home
are now lying in Flanders fields
when they gave up their lives for
their country in 1914-18; and in this
present war nearly thirty of our
splendid youths are overseas or in
training in Canada for whatever ser-
vice Is demanded of them. No, we can
not see that changing the name will
win the war. It is what we are at
heart that counts. Dresden, Ont., is
proud of its record.
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Here are some recent 'views of the
now CB,C •M,dbile Unit INo 3 ,aucl the
personnel of the CBC (Overseas Pro-
gramme (Unit WOW stationed in E 1g -
'land. These .(nen are responsible (for
the .presentation of 'hnaadbcests of par-
ticular interest to ,Camaldians, emit as
the ,weeikly lbroacleests "With- ,the
Troops 'in England" on (Mondays ,at
8.00p.m. EDIS1.' t• "English S1 and '"En,ghs News
Letter to Canada" on Thursdays at
7.'30 ,p.m: 'EDST, I,n addition to these
regular broadcasts, they have tpnes-
ented many other interesting pro-
grams dealing with the activities 'of
'Canada's troops .in Great!Britain.
,Arthttir 111". Holmes, upper lett, is
in !change of technical eq,uilpaoent and'
the new aelconding wan, ,Fiatrkrityg the
C nliceophotte are announcers Ger-
ry Wilmot and Gerard Arthur, R. T.
.Bowman, opper right, is in charge of
she ,CBC (Overseas Programme (Unit,
The centre ,plhdt'ograp,h is an interior
a^(015' of the tndhll'e ,unitshowing re-
cording turntables and con tool equip-
ment. Lower Ilett, shows Rob 13'ov.-
ntan with a group of officers and men
of the C,A.S F, during .a (broadcast
from Beaver Oiulb in London. The
sturdy mobile unit is shown in lower
centre. Lower right, is ,Ailbert E. Al-
therr, mobile dniit engineer.
The ,CBC recording Ivan, ,known .as
OBC MoIbiie 3Idt No. 3, has recently
arrived in England and is equipped to
go into action 'wi'th the ICama,dian Ace
tiee Service Force - ,upon - whatever
front it may be ,required to operate.
This recording ran is the th•itd awhile
unit of the Canadian 11roadlaating
Corporation and the only one •of its
Idled in (broadcasting.
Built primarily for °porn ti 10 under
'warconditions, the unit is the first
constructed (by any "hnoadcasting or-
ganization for ,wartime 'work The
unit 'looks three a dllcce of military
equipment, ,w(((ell- in fact, It is, It
was (built in Canada ,with the co-op-
eration of 'the Department of (Nlationa'l
Defence •and outfitted by •true CBC
Engineering 'Department. A standard
military chassis has been employed,
thr 'h ioobudes '"roar wheel drive" and
t c
special military tires. The construc-
tion throughout is rugged enough to
enable ',continued operation ' its !the
field, inudet' the severe conditions
which a Military zone imposes.
steel truck ,body has Sheen mount' -
ed on the chassis. Inside the anmetur,
however, it is dined ,with sound absonh-
ing and msull:alt•ing material. The calp-
acity Of the .unit 'will ,prcvv^ode trans-
portation for five men as .well as she
technical equipment, Inside are three
recording turn'talbles, all 'battery op-
erated. 'with assdciatecl amplifiers ,and
broadcast tpioleup eq,uipnnent. Power
to
oharge the (batteries, 'which oper-
ate Ithe whole ,out, is supplied by an
independent air-codlecl gasoline voter
driving a '51110 -watt generator. All es-
sential recording equipment •has lbeen
supplied in 'duplicate so , (that spare,
parts will he 'available 'whenever ole-
q'uired.