Bourne High School - Canal Currents Yearbook (Bourne, MA)

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16 CANAL CURRENTS IN AN OLD FASHIONED GARDEN On a night all still and starry In a garden of the past There the flowers nodding gently Are the very, very last Of that throng that years before them Danced and shook their heads in glee, Merry, careless and light-hearted Yet, these seem as fair to me. Long ago I saw this garden When it was the joy and pride Of a tiny, fair-haired maiden In the cottage by its side. In the summer months tney blossomed. Tended by her loving care. In the winter months she waited Knowing they were sleeping there. In the summer they were brightest. As they were — so was she too. Bright and cheerful, gay and loving. Golden hair and eyes of blue. In the winter they had faded One by one to fall and die. And the maiden too lay near them Underneath the winter sky. For as Death, the Reaper, gathered them He took the maiden too. She, the fairest flower among them Lily-white and Violet-blue. Dorothy Ryan, ’38. TELEVISION Television, I believe, is the most promising and useful experiment of the age. The American people are apt to think Television is a thing not in use as yet and only in the experimental stage. However, although television is not yet perfected (nothing else is for that matter!) this assumption is entirely wrong. Television is today used in more than ten different depart- ments including the War Department. It possesses more than twenty-five regular broadcasting and experimental transmitting stations and has thousands of regular receivers. The mechanism of a television transmitter has three separate divisions: — first, the scanning disk which is the old-

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CANAL CURRENTS 15 THE LOG DRIVE I shall never forget my experience at a “log drive” sev- eral years ago in Maine. The preceding Fall the trees had been cut down, piled up, and taken to the river-side, to be carried down to the mill in the spring. It is a most thrilling adventure to be awakened very early on a spring morning and hear the bustle and noise of camp. The ice had melted but there was still a little snow on the ground. Men were busy everywhere, — some getting break- fast, others collecting what looked like long poles with big spikes in them. These I later learned were called “peebey- poles.” I noticed, too, that the men wore spiked shoes. This was to prevent them from slipping off the logs. It was a perfect day and as we walked through the woods I felt sorry that those fine, big trees had to be cut down. I was consoled by the thought, however, that new ones were growing all the time. Upon reaching the river, I was completely overwhelmed at the sight of the great number of logs bobbing in the river. There were so many logs one could hardly see the water. Men were running over the logs, shouting and keeping the logs from jamming by means of their peebey poles. They had to use dynamite when there was a jam. I was standing near the bank and the logs were packed to the shore. Now, there is nothing I like better than spruce gum and these happened to be spruce logs. I saw a lovely big log close to the shore and I thought I would see if there was any gum on it. I stepped on it and knelt down to get the gum. I was so busy that I didn’t notice the log was slow- ly moving away from the shore. Suddenly it rolled over and I rolled with it! I realized if I didn’t get out of that icy water soon I would be jammed as well as frozen. Holding tigh t to my log I called for help. One of the men near me heard me and came running. He got me safely out and put me on shore. It was a wonderful experience, watching the log drive, but for the remainder of my stay at camp I was content to stay on shore! Louise Barlow, ’37.

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CANAL CURRENTS 17 est type of input, and corresponds to a microphone in sound. The scanning disk merely separates the picture into strips, one being transmitted after the other. Behind the scanning disk is a large bulb, either a photo-electric cell or a cathode- ray tube whose duty it is to turn the light pulsations seen through the scanning disk upon the image into electro-mag- netic current. This current in turn passes through an audio- frequency amplifier, usually stepping it up about fifty times. Then this low frequency current passes into the third and last stage, a radio frequency amplifier, an exciter, and then into an oscillator, and out to the antenna. The first stage composed of the scanning disk which is continually rotating and the photo-electric cell must be built with utmost precision or else the image will be received dis- torted due to the deflection of light rays. Of course there is also another transmitter on a slightly different wave length which accompanies the television with sound or voice trans- mission. As for the television receiver, first and mainly there is a two-channel short-wave receiver, — one channel receiving voice and connected to the loudspeaker while the other chan- nel is connected to a cathode ray bulb and a lens to magnify the image. There is nothing really complicated in the oper- ation of the receiver; in fact, it operates precisely the same as your home broadcast set except there are two tuning con- trols instead of one. Within ten years’ time television receivers will be as com- mon as broadcast receivers are now, if not more so. It’s a big field of science and here there is opportunity for thous- ands of research workers and experimenters. Lloyd Hendrick, ’37. IF Just think how much the small word ‘flf” Can mean to us each day — We use it — oh! so many times In things we think and say. It’s “If I could,” and “If I might,” We sometimes even boast! If all your “ifs” could come quite true Which one would you like most? Priscilla Davis, ’38.