Ellen"s' Diary n, an lannefs win , (Continued from PIN 18)

t; ht skies 1nd show- da" rougarligppart of the week s so much like Autumn, it was

‘ n icult to be eve~that Christmas

was only so ew “shopping days" away, There were afternoons, when the soundi of the engines that Rive power for the furmerg’ threshinﬂ or wood-sawing came clearly. on we quiet air. We were at the po- wo-grading then, at Alderlea and on n morning or two, sizable truck loads left the yard all decked out to hold their own, on world‘ mur- keis There \vas lumber being saw- ed zit the mill, those days, as well as m at least one farm-yard, whore

-ovident folk made ready to het- ier enjoy the cold winter days to roine. One farmer, whose head the snows of many Winters has touch- ed whetted his good axe and was “lay to the wooddot, for his next winter's supply f_ fire-wood. _Pat came to Alderlea in the evenings to lend a willing hand at the grad- ing, and on the closing night, a number of experienced helpers came from the cellar. I overheard Piit say he wished he could have “a swaller av whiskey" to cut the dust from his throat hut he appear- “1 to be well satisfied with a steaming cup‘ of. W's.

We saw the Island dawn: break i, utilully above the dark spruce s ‘cs and the sun climb in all its glory leaving a trail of lovely col- ups-pastel tints, as well as the decpcr shades. One afternoon, I ivent to the corner-store, as I t9"- sidcrcd too hurriedly in the family car. There was no time to see other than that the pond at Kristyn is hard surfaced; the homesteads nestling closer in their groves and trees and to catch a sight of the dark ribbon that is the river; which gives the district its name, down in the valley. On the farm, the baby-beef that required many a desperate feminine tug at feeding- iime to part him from his mother. was sold, to be taken presently and l received sufficient hints to know that instead of pork in thelbarrel’; our fat pig has a parent's ‘career mead of her, “It would be such a pity to part with her-so typey an iiiimal," Jock told me one day when we leaned over the pen_to m kc her the subject of ourfconve a- lion and she snuggled closer to hirn, to receive a gentle caress, and only last night, we lost one of ‘the pro- liis when a shoat of the last lit- ter-, of eleven, and "the best" Jock reckoned. lost the mysterious spark oi iiie. And Jock, whose care this animal-husbandry is was a blt rc- gretful, for often it is puzzling to know the cause of such losses but James liciug older at the farming snd perhaps more accustomed to such seemingly unwarrented nap- penings, was more reconciled to the loss. “If it was the very last nf the species, we couldn't have uved it." he poiritesl out. .

And so our days, on this Island isrm conic and go, filled to the fullest with so much to interest siid to keep hands-and mind busy so that there is small time for rc- piping. Our only regret is that these days go so quickly and the darkncss closes in too soon to end

e ever-shortening days. Only the

y. Isuffered with "s common

ld" I found my chores rather

dious. Then, I was content to ﬁt with folded. hands, needing no

cuse, except ‘a snlffle and a sigh. rest-grandfather to Jamie, came at afternoon driving a spirited ecd, and wlicn my young grand- n went home from visiting me at evening, this man discussed lid-training with me and was ally able to point out the virtue _ training a child when he is .1103. especially in obedience to

15 Parents. He of course spoke

om experience, tho weight of it ‘In! on his side.

And our ‘days have led up to the Sabbath, which in this rainy Wilt is fairly close to the thresh- Ud now. Across the plougeil__ fields Ind hare meadows and wo lands

9 quiet and peace of it comes

grant us a respite from our lily work, to provide time in hich to gain rest and inspiration

l‘ body nd mind and soul-and it soul should come first-to for- ify every last one of us against he cares and trials that will beset

I in our days to come. “min mm .. Isol-

IDrlVC‘ out ACHES

i National Research Council's Radio Branch pub- licly demonstrated actual operation of long-secret radar equipment at a two-week Ottawa exhibition. This naval installation was Canadian-designed, Can-

The young Ottawa stenographer sat before a radar set within a closed room at the National Re- search Council. Between her and the view across the Ottawa River was a solid wall of brick and stccl. The only contact between the radar machine and the world outside was a copper tube through which radio waves were conducted from a re- volving antennae in the adjacent parking lot.

The Research Council scientist, who had helped to design tiic magic set turned a couple of knobs. Suddenly on a screen there flash- ed a million simmering, yellow lines forming a map,

“Why, that's Gatineaii Pointi" exclaimed the girl, “It's right a- cross the river from here, Sec. that's where the Gatincau empties into the Ottawa, and down thi-rc is the sandy point of Kettle Island. I swam there last spmmer."

The stenographer traced with her finger the familiar outlines of the north shore of the Ottawa. She followed the curves, the jutting points, the contours of the two streams; she spotted the surround- ing rocks, the hills and inlets, to a distance of about 4 miles. Then, with the turn of another knob, she watched for 15 miles or more the, ethereal reflections of the Giittncnu hills translated oscillating lines and spots, sing and rc- crosslng the map circles on the screen.

“Now 1 know," she said. "why people say that radar did mnri- in win the war than the atomic bomb. No wonder our Navy boys could spot the subs and keep their cou- voys in line."

The young stcnographcr wa. c- ln! for the first time somethiii of the‘ mystery and ivonder of ail- Canadian radar, Like hundreds of other Ottawa people. she had luk- en time out to visit the first piihiir demonstration of the sets designed by scientists of the National Re- search Council and built by the engineers and workers of tiic Gov- ernment-owned Research Entcr- prises Limited plant at Leaside, Ontario,

The machine she was looking at was one of 1.600 designed and built for the Royal Navy at a total cost of $16,000,000. Already in use on Canadian merchant ships, this set has plotted the St. Lawrence River in a few hours as accurately as did the map makers in centuries of painstaking work, In a recent test, it guided a shl through the tortuous channels o Toronto Bay to a safe docking on a night of pitch-black fog. In the nnt-too-dls- tant future, it probably will rendez- obsolete the world-wide network of coastal lights, bells, foghorns, and other safety devices of the sea. and because of it the ocean-going pass- enger of tomorrow will travel more safely more speedily.

The stone rapher moved across the room to another type of raiiar device. On its screen she saw storm clouds moving across Aru- prlor, 40 miles away, and whilc she watched the clouds: she spotted an airplane darting away from the storm toward a safe landing at Rockcllffe Airport, On still another set she watched a robot mathema- tician calculate how high the ll craft was flying, and on yet anot er, had it been wartime, she would have been able to determine whether the craft was friend or

0e.

What she and the other visitors

saw for the first time were tho highly complex, highly specialized radar machines perfected by Cn- nadisn radio engineers and used with telling results in the latter stages of the war. A far cry from the "daddy" of all radar I ts, the simpler British machine developed n s ret before the war; these new, all-Canadian sets pick out not merely one target but a plan-po- sition picture whcreon all targets surrounding a ship, an aircraft, or a land-based gun post, within the maximum range of the equipment, can be viewed at the same time.

W t the visitors saw were the

results of many a meal

into

Used ‘in Peacetime

less dayi, many a sleepless night. of scientists working '12 hours or more at a stretch with hardly a pause. What they saw was a story written in countless miles of tiny wires, hundreds of weird razzio tubes, and dull, gray-painted sheet steel containers-a story of amaz- ing new manufacturing skills work- ed out under the pressure of war at the plant in Leaside, a story of Canadian ingenuity in translating hand-processing into mass produc- tlon.

From the Radio Division of the National Research Council went forth the designs for 25 new types of radar. With these designs in hand, Research Enterprises Limit- ed turned out 1,600 Surface 0m"; detection sets for the Royal Navy. at a cost. of $10,000 each, and 'i0 somewhat similar sets for the Royal Canadian Navy. They pro- duced a robot wizard capable of spotting enemy airplanes 25 miles away, following the course of the aircraft, finding the firing range to shoot them down. setting the firing position of the guns, and automatically releasing the triti- gers. Of these wizard sets, each

OUR NOBLE DEAD

They're asleep in that lone silent chamber '

In a bed that is narrow and deep-

And their slumber shall not be awakened

Nor tears from

weep.

their eyes ever

Thcii‘ heart throhs are siillcd in

their bosoms Their imlss beats are silent and st - the blood that coursed o.n in their bodies spent on the scene of their kill.

And Was

The mind that was active and

vibrant

And their muscles so flexed and so strong-

Are resting awhile in these chum-

bers Awaiting the Call to Come On.

They were all mighty men and mild mannered

Feared up in the homes of our kin-

Wli ‘e tho code of their morals

, was honor

And their glory was,—goodness to win.

Their souls struck its course in this glory Through lnnd, sea, and air to its goal- Nevcr flinching nor shirking its i! .V On bcachhead-inland-or atoll.

"rm that day in the dusk. noon or dawning

In the air, on the sea, or theland—

The Call to Come Home-came awhlnlng.

To wing on to God's Hinterland.

Now the stars blink their course in the heavens

moon lights its path in the night-

thc sun shines its abundance

these souls overpower them in Light.

For they'll all wax and wane in their orbits And shnll cease to exist in dis-

The

And radiant

la —

Whenpaliy souls are called Home to their glory

With Ood,-—on that lint lull- ment Day,

so sleep valiant heroes at rest for awhile Away from the pains and the cares evermore- To awake in the Dawn of Item- ity's Life ' And dwell in the Light on Gods Own Golden Shore. , -Peter A. Reilly. Boston. Mass. December 8, 1846.

Ways of immortal feeding water ooiirlo (loft) will

THE GHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

‘ Navigation

adllm-bullt at a cost of 88,000. Originally designed to detect approaching enemy surface craft. it now the basis of a set being successfully tested for peace-time ship navigation.

costing about $65,000, they uitiiic 665. Today they are m king 1'10 latest type mobile eazny-warniiig anti-aircraft sets costing $65000 each, And they also designed and made 20 army coastal defence seim, at $60,000 each, plus avaricty of! other devices equally complex. i

But even that is not tiic Wllﬂlt!‘ story revealed to the visitors at the Council's exhibit. Research Em, terprises Limited also built radar, devices from British and American; designs, and thus turned out’ a grand total of 12,245 scts, Yﬂfigllig: from a small airborne device cost- ing about $500 to a set boasting] 60,000 parts and 2'70 radio tuhcs and costing about $100,000. The tn- tal output was valued at about $200,000,000, and of this some $50,000,000 worth went the. United States, some $80,000 .0i worth went to the United Kin i dom, and the balance was uscti by the Canadian forces and by Russia and other allies.

And the end of the story llflS'\‘Ui » to be written. In the Rad Di ion of the National Research Cou cil are 1'75 scientific and clei . employees, completing British o ders, turning out spare parts, and experimenting on peacetime il“‘ In the world's postwar radar 2w.-. Canada will be well up among the winners.

il/HERE E E-vvlihrrans WENT

On the homn front, oi-ucticsllv

every man, woman slid lid plnrccl an indirect role in tiic cess of the program. It was ihc aluminum foil missing from voiii cgarcf packs and candy bars during the war that was used to make the bewildering ant Psadar “chaff? \'I'he Allies dropped more lilliill 20.000000 pounds of foil in Eur one alone. It fairly blanketed fields as l! fell-and thc G-rrinans used it for Christmas tree decor- ations.

Radar countermeasures provided one of the chief reasons, hitherto unrevealed. why the Gcnmans were cauglfi. flat-footed in Normantlv on D-day. On‘tihat. day, streams of invisible electron “bullots" were hurled acroas t nel to jam most of the radar sets that were on watch for the expected

on. Radar countermeasures also did the trick when the succe rogram of daylight < Sch hung in th

o radar-controlled . aircraft fire against necessa iv "tight" daylight. formations. The countermeasures reduced the effeciivenes af German anllalr- craft fire by '75 per cent. Hitler's investment in his vaunted Wur". burs gun-laying radars was vlrt~ uallv nullified.

But radar countermeasures were not sti-‘ctlv an Allied show.

The Nazis iamined Iillird radar badlv at Anzio and it was the ‘ blsckiniz out, of British radar a- long the whole British coast that enabled this German warships Bcharnhorst and Gncisenriu to smisk through the English Chan-

no.

But after those early ex- oloits the Gemmns and the Jan‘- anese never succeeded in iamminiz allied radar seriously. becaus; Al- lied radar went to higher tre- quencies — microwaves - which are hard to lam.

anal are illustrated hen Cleaning out

cat pastures.

s shallow many pump

There should in plenty of bulldozers suitable soon ans ma“ w, b, 0g

amt help in dunk: out lMﬂq-llﬂﬂ-(fﬂllt) (II ovqfqm [mpg 1111“, .0 ' .

i 0.ii.ii. Transport

Lumber for Europe

MONCTON, N.B., Dec. ‘I4- To rebuild the homes and buildings destroyed by German blitz and Irocket bombings and for other es- sentlal purposes, since VE-Day the CNR has transported 7,775 car- loads of lumber for the United Kingdom an official of the car service department said here to- day, From forests and lumber mills across the Dominion as far west as British Columbia, it was shipped from Halifax Saint John, Quebec and Montreal ports.

Building lumber, millions of feet of it, totalled 5,488 carloads. British Columbia mills supplied most, 2,060 of them. From tile Marltimes and Ontario and Que- bec 3323 carloads were shipped. More than fifty percent was load- ed into ships hold at Halifax, In the next three months another 2,700 CNR carloads will go to re- place supplies previousiy procured from the’Baltic States. More tnan 3,000,000 pitprops for United King- dom mines were sent in heavy shipments. Pitprops are essential to keeping United Kingdom coal mines operating and the shipment of these has been going on since early in the war. '

The greatest number of cars, 1,677, went from the port of Qup- bee. From the four ports a total of 2,292 carloads were sent. D r- hi; the next three months near y 3.000 more CNR cars will brings the pitprops to Halifax and Saint John ports.

4.4. ». _sg._.~_.-

Three chaplain heroes, all winners of the Mili- tary Cross, who are stationed at Fort Osborne Bar- racks, Win-nipeg, Msn., look over the helmet which IL-Capt. L. F. Wilmot., M.C. wore during the breach- ing of the Gothic Line in Italy. Captain Wilmot, centre, holds the helmet which was pierced three times by German shrapnel without doing any more damage than taking a little hair off his head and nicking one of as ears. “The angels must have been near me that time," said Captain Wilmot. On the left is H-Major James Porter Browne. who won his M.C. for exemplary service at Dieppe when with‘

total disregard for his own safety and while sub Ject to continuous mortar and machine gun fire, he repeatedly went to exposed positions rendering every possible aid and assistance to the wounded His home is at Dauphin. Man. On the right is R.- Major Russell Oliver Wilkes, who was born at Hamilton, Om... and WllO was aivarded the M. C. for gallantry at Nissorta in Sicily. Under intense enemy fire, Major Wilkes personally evacuated one man to the RAP and returned under tire to assist in the evacuation of two more. - (Canadian Army Photo)._ '

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-Kniiin Jewellery Bushes

_ Owing to the recent death oi Chester A Camp- bell it has been decided to close out his long estab- lished business located on Queen Street.

Everything must ‘go regardless of price.

There is a splendid, up - to - date selection to choose from that will be found in a well-stocked Jewellery Store.

All Watches and Diamond Rings going at

20% Discount

All other Articles at

10% Discount

Sale Now Underway

and will continue until entire stock is cleared out

, No Exchanges . . . . . No Refunds

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