THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10,
1937.
GERMAN CHEMIST WHO TURNS WOOD
TO FOOD
"It Makes Good Sweets"
By MARGARET LANE
London, March 1.
DR. FRIEDRICH BERGIUS, Germany's major chemist, is a man with a philosophy. He believes that if there's something you haven't got, and you want badly enough, you can invent a substitute so like it that you won't know the difference.
He has put his philosophy into practice chemically, to Germany's great advantage, but it is a philosophy you could apply pretty nearly to life itself.
Yesterday evening, meditating over Scotch whisky and a German cigar, he was surprised to find that anyone knew he was in London.
"I como and go so quietly," he said, "how did you know I was bero?” He accepted the explanation of a network of spies with a grin, and went on to talk about the development of his two greatest inventions-processes for making oil out of coal and nourishing food from waste wood.
That is where his philosophy comes in, for he waves aside the suggestion that they were great discoveries. A WAY OF SAYING "H'M?"
"They were inventions to order." he says, "simply inventions to order. And you must not say they were my inventions, either -h'm?--because scientific discoveries are never made by one lonely scientist, but by a boly of men working patiently together for a long time."
He has a way of saying "h'm?" interrogatively in the middle of every other sentence and smiling fleetingly as he does so, his face relaxing immediately after into its habitual expression, which is thoughtful and rather melancholy. He does this partly, I think, to make sure you are paying attention to what he is say ing and partly to give himself time with the next word. for he takes a modest view of his rather remarkable English.
Well, about inventions to order-h'm7-this is how it was with oil from coal...
Since it is impossible to do justice to the Herr Doctor's deliberate speech. I may as well tell you in my own words. BY CHEMICAL PROCESSES
Before the war Dr. Bergius. ! thinking about the world in general and Germany in parti-! cular, decided that the day would come when the non-oil- producing countries (which means most of us in Europe) might find imported oil difficult to get.
So, coming to the next step in his philosophy, the thing to do was to invent' something which did just as well. He worked on this for three years, and invented a system for getting oil from coal.
"Then came the war, I'm? And In Germany was very little food by the end......... I am told invent sómir- thing which will de instead of food! Go-h'm?--I look about, and -see a lot of waste wood. For
I
every tree that is cut down in the forest, fifty per cent. is wasted. I'm
So, of course, Dr. Bergius invented: a method of turning that waste. 50 per cent. Into food. By verlous chemical processes the waste wood that cannot be used in building, in
various kinds of
onure or as pulp for paper, is
Inlo sugar; some of which are valuable as cattle food, and some of which, refined still further, are excellent for human consumption, und in pur- ticular make good sweetmeats.
GOOD FOR INDUSTRY
which
Dr.
So the difference Berglus he made to the world is just that: that any country which has plenty of coal and plenty
wood, and is willing to bulld the necessary chemical plant, need never want for either oil or foodstuff; and Instead of relying on imports for these commodities can enlarge its own Industrial production,
The all-from-coal question is well; launched, both in this country and
Germany, and is looking after!
Jiselt.
The food-from-wood business is at an earlier stage of development, and it is to coufer with various commercial bodica and give advice) that Dr. Bergius slips in and out of London so quicily.
He works so hard that he has had no leisure, he says, for the past four years "but then, everybody in Ger- miany-h'm?—is working hard.”
He thinks the Germans work harder than we do, and puts that down to two things-our older sys- tem of national economics, which according to him has got to the point where we can relax a bit, whereasį Germany can't; and the time- honoured system of the sacred Bri- tish week-end.
One day, he hopes, Germans will regard Saturday as well as Sunday. as sacred to leisure, but meanwhile they must Invent a substitute for 11, and the best substitute they have found so far is-h'm?-work.
It is a nice philosophy, and seems to make Dr. Bergius equal to any thing. I really think that if you sought him out in his quiet corner of the Bavoy bar, meditating over hia cigar and his glass, and con- vinced him you had no money, and wanted some very badly, he would give his scientific mind to it and Invent an efficient" substitute” in" no time at all. H'm?
Peer
and His Dead-Son
the Lord Daryngton, at Church Assembly said that no one hated war more than he did, and he would' much rather the world came to an
WHEN KILLING IS "CHRISTIAN DUTY"
end than have another out- ARCHBISHOP ON THE "DANGER”
break,
"I had a son in the Guards who was killed in the war," he went on.
"If he had been a conscien- tious objector, I should have understood his feelings.
"At the same time, I say frankly, that would much rather he had died in the war than been a conscientious objector."
He Nearly Ate £100
New York, Mar. 1.
"I DON'T think I'll like them,"
sald Mr. Harry B. Paul, of
OF PACIFISM
IT can be a Christian duty to kill," declared the Arch- bishop of York (Dr. Temple) at the Church Assembly' recently.
He maintained that Christians were not bound to the condition that in no circumstances whatsoever might they take the life of a brother.
At the same time the conditions | bombs dropping on the children and must be watched with the utmost burning their flesh while we stand vigilance.
by doing nothing.
"Pacifist agitation Is Increasing the danger of war. Dr. Temple went on. "We have not yet in the international sphere reached the stage of the establishment of law and order.
"If the Bishop of Birmingham saw a little child being ill-treated he would be the first to go and hit out and defend the child,
"I always think 'myself of what would have happened If the Good Samaritan had turned up two hours
and laid about him. He.
"Our first duty is to establish law, and only where it is established earlier will it be possible to go forward to would have stopped the ill-trent- the still higher claims of the Gospel.ment."
TRUNCHEON ARGUMENT'
"In a Christian world war would
position."
.
Boston, Massachusetts, as he ordered not occur, but we are not in that moving appeal for pacifism. joysters for the first time,
Five minutes later his teeth closed jon something hard. It was, a pearl, which is estimated to be worth more than £100-Reuter,
Mary Pickford's- Plans
Los Angeles, Mar. 1. Miss Mary Pickford, one-time that her marriage plans have not been "World's Sweetheart," sald la-day affected by her recent operation.
The Bishop of London (Dr, Win- nington Ingram) described pacifists na "the real danger to the pence of
the world to-day."
"There is no great danger of war," he said, "if we are strong enough policemen with a truncheon to keep order, but the policeman must have his truncheon otherwise he is no good.
"If we had taken the view of the pacifists in 1914, either the German Emperor or Ititler would now be in Whitehall. This little island in the silver sea would be a German province." Abyssinia, he thought, would have cured every pacifist in the world.
Mary an March 7, and to join her She expects to sail in the Queen
Hance, Mr. Charles ("Buttdy") Rogers, in London, where the wedding cere-
will mony
take place quietly. world. Reuter.
"It was no good getting angry with my customers"
NO, I'M NOT AT ALL LATISFIED TO-DAY PHYLLIT, ISKALL ASK FOR ANOTHER ASSISTANT NEXT TIME YOU HAVEN'T TAKER
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.. AND ! IVEN WAKE
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... Y A CASE OF
RIGHT-STARVATION"
PROBABLY YOU DONT REAUZE THAT YOU USE UP ENERGY EVEN WHILE YOU SIRED IT TAKES 20000 MUSCULAR EFFORTS JUST TO BREATHE!
ER THIR ENERGY IS NOT REPLACED, OF COURSE
YOU WAKE PERUNG TIRED. NOW WANT
YOU TO
SHE HASHY GIVEN
ME PROPER
ATTENTION
IN EXTREMELY SOKAY,
LADY CRAYLE.
IT WONT HAPPE
LAGAN
HOW M
IN FOR TI ONDEAR
STE NO 6000 SENG JED UP WITH THE OLD LADY-IVE
WEST!
"If we have no force at our dis- posal, the dictators of the world will triumph over the democracies of the
"I would rather
OK HEAVENS!
I'M SO TIRED
WISH
die than
BUY SHEŽA KANT.
A MUD PACK
SHE DIDN'T WANT SO MUCH)
DONE THIS
METER ALL, PHIS
MORNING MUSTAT LOSE"
WE NEVER USED NO HAVE COMPLAINTS ABOUT YOUX WORK, PHYLLIS, BUT YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO BE SO TIKED THESE DAY. DON'T
YOU THINK YEKI (OUGHT ID SEE. A DOCTOR?
THAT EVENING DRE ·SOME MONTHS LATER!
ISHITELY DO YOU MIND
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see
ST. GEORGE IN GAS MASK
Canon "Dick" Sheppard made a
"War is the ultimate expression of man's futility and wickedness," he said.
tabel on it, 'With love from Geneva, "We believe that a bomb with a
is no less devastating and no more Christian than one that is dropped by this or that dictator.
mance that in a modern gas attack "War is now to strippell of ro-
St. George himself would not see a dragon.
Mr. Herbert Upward, of St. Albons, Sald he was sure that the vast majority of the younger educated people to-day were opposed to war tooth and nall. "They are prepared to go to a concentration camp it war
is declared aguin."
"RIGHT TO CRITICISE"
The folowing resolution was car- ried:
"This Assembly recognises the right of the Government to main- tain such forces as the Imperial Parliament deems necessary for the pursuance of this policy, and believes that go long as this policy is maintained Christian citizens may bear arms in the service of their country."
It was also decided by u large majority to adopt the Bishop of Southwark's addendum:
"The Assembly offirms the res- ponsibility of Christian people to support, criticise, or oppose all defence programmes in the light of Christian principles and in re- lation to ther advancement of the Kingdom of God."
The Assembly then concluded.
RADIO YES TO CHAINED WOOER
New York, Mar. 1.
HAROLD HULEN, of
Excelsior Springs, Mis- souri, unchained himself to-day from the radiator in the home of twenty-year- old Florence Hurlbut, who had refused to marry him, when he heard she had eluded him and flown to New York.
A radio director had asked Florence to give her answer to Harold over the air, and when she landed the director's agents told her to say that she hadn't made up her mind and just had to got away.
Remorseful, Florence took 130 notice. Harold's in dead earnest," she said. "He told me I had given him the run-around too long, and wouldn't say yes or no,
WENT ON THE AIR”.
"Well, I did. Flarold's a swell per- son, and I'm going to marry him, but I got a lot of publicity out of this, and I don't see why I shouldn't take advantage of this break."
So Miss Hurlbut went on the air and spoke to her alt-down lover. "It's yes, Harold," she said.
Harold hugged himself with Joy and said, "Didn't I tell you I knew how to handle women? Perhaps I'll be able to broadcast, too, with the radiator company as sponsor."
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BUT-
He cannot guarantee that tho woman who eats sweets can keep a figure to match her, brilliant eyes,
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