1932-04-18 — Page 7

MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1932.

IF BRIAND HAD GONE TO SEA

By Leslie R. Aldous.

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All the obituary articles the house. "I can see him now," lumenting the tragic death of M. Briand afterwards wrote, that "great European," Aristide "with his big boots, which had Briand, who was cleven times dragged him to the bottom, filled Prime Minister of France, have with water." pal tribute to his remarkable gifts of statesmanship, his dazzling eloquence on the public platform, and his work for world peace. But for an accident, Briand as a young man might never have gone in, for politics at al. The world is full of people who have made their mark in a particular-sphere of activity, but whose secret ambitions fly in widely different directions. Many a successful business man envies Bobby Jones his handicap at golf. We have Members of Parliament who, if thrown over hy unsympathetic' electorates, might make a respectable living a bricklayers or professional magicians in occupations which are at present pushed into the their leisure background of ho.23.

Amidst all the vicissitudes of haif a century of public life, Briand's first love remained for the wea.

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So Briand yielded to the wishes of his parents and stood the French Parliament. for Potentially, a great admiral may have been lost to France, but the post-War World. gained one of a small band of outstanding tig- If ures in international affairs. the League of Nations owed its to the dogmatic zeal of birth Woodrow Wilson, Briand no less was one of its main pillars dur- ing some of the most, critical years of its existence. By a stroke of good fortune, it was his turn to preside over the League Council when it was called upon handle the Greco- to

frontier dispute Bulgarian

1925 and the. threat war between Bolivia and Paraguay in 1928. Last Septem- ber, when the Manchurian crisis burst upon the world, he was also president.

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"The glory of Locarno, and of This vs due largely the Peace Pact is the crown of This was the of the famous, his grey head." to the influence author, Jules Verna, who struck verdict of a well-known French It may be that the friendship with young writer. up (A Aristide when the latter was at Locarno Treaties and the Kel- school in Naates. That the at-logg Pact (of which Briand de- co-author) traction was mutual is evidenced serves to rank as

by the fact that Jules Verne have not yet entirely fulfilled wrote a story called "Two Year's early expectations. Holiday." The hero, a French boy immed "Brit" who be

cant leader of a bad of Austra Han schoolboys shipwrecked on a deserted coast, wies obviously in- spired by the remarkable charac- teristics of your land.

The future Prin Minister had firmly made up his mind to go to sea, but his parents tried their hardest to dissuade him. Whe ther they could have succeeded is a moot point, if the tragic ac- cident to his uncle, who was

pilot, had not occurred at 500 this time. The body of the druwned man was brought into

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If people cannot be made good by Act of Parliament, na tions cannot be made good by

Briand was

That is treaties and covenants. not to say that laws and inter- national agreements are useless. one of those who helped to set up a new standard of international morality. Until it is firmly entrenched in the minds of men, nations in their acts may sometimes fall short of But eventually

that standard.

it will be found (in the words of Victor Hugo) that "there is one thing greater than all armies →→→ an idea whose day has arrived."

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Scientists have recently an- 1. shown a row of test tubes being The official summary

issued by nounced a discovery which will bathed in these penetrating rays. enable British chocolates to keep | They are used to find out whether the

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their pristine freshness while certain substances in manufactur- stated:-

With very few exceptions, the foreign chocolates look stale and ed food are quite genuine or whe- ther they are no better than they musty. market throughout the entire list

Few people know that choco- should be. Genuine fats, for lates are

an object of serious example, give a pale golden was a selling market at this morn- ing's session, but there was No

scientific study. There is, in fluorescence: but their subati- material change in quotations.

fact, an important Research As-tutes may give a pale blue or! ++ Sales.

sociation with laboratories and a opal-like flourescence under the Hong Kong Banks, $1,560.

miniature factory at Camden violet rays. Union Insurances. 3473/475.

Town (almost under the shadow! Benguet Explorations, 29 cents.

of Holloway Jail) devoted whol- Ewo Cottons. Tls. 15.30.

ly to the study of chocolates, Hong Kong Trams, $214.

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Special Correspondent to the Amusement, $234;

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When I visited the laboratories to hear the story of this new discovery, I found white-coated scientists probing the interiors of chocolate biscults. Others were measuring, with the aid of com- plicated electrical devices, the Another acidity of fruit juice. was carefully boiling sweets in a small copper vessel over a Bunsen burner.

Help for Empire Producers. These chocolate scientists of Camden Town are helping Em- pire producers as well as British Over half the manufacturers. world's supply of cacao (the cor- rect name for raw cocoa) come from the Gold, Coast and large quantities are grown in Trini- dad, Nigeria and other countries. One of the present tasks of science is to improve the quality

which often suffers: of cacao, severely from mould and insect attacks. Chemists and mycolu- gists are at work in West Africa trying to reduce moulds by im- Chocolates That "Bloom." proving conditions of drying and The director of the body re-storage. Entomologists, armed joicing in the name of the Bri- with fumigating apparatus, meet Lish Association of Research for the cargoes as they arrive at the the Cocoa, Chocolate, Sugar, London and Liverpool docks to moth, Confectionery and Jam Trades wage war on the cocoa (which is supported by the manu- "Ephestia," which attacks the facturers themselves, and re- raw beans in warehouses and fac- ceives help from the British Gov- tories.

The importance of this work is ernment's Department of Scien- tific and Industrial Research) ex- such that the Empire Marketing plained to me the problem of Board has established at Slough "bloom." Chocolates, he said, a Stored Products Research La- and sometimes look stale within aboratory to study these few days of their birth. A other stowaways who sneak free "scene" in the greyish coating settles over the board and lodging in raw food- Strangers Gallery of the House of surface and the beauty of the stuffs. New methods of fumiga- Commons recently, when a young chocolate is seriously blemished. tion for cacao were recently tried Scientists got to work and out in barges in the Thames with man was escorted out of the gallery for interrupting the proceedings of found that "bloom" was due to considerable success.

a film of minute fat crystals, The quality of the House.

cacao has el- Mr. D. M. Mason, the Liberal They also found why this film ready improved noticeably since! If scien- member for East Edinburgh, was was formed and laid down a set science was at work.

methods of controlling speaking when a mun rose in the of conditions during manufacture

raw products are gallery and shouted: "Are we here which prevented its appearance. faults in the to listen to you or to look at all These instructions are now be successful, they will utimately you members? Speak up. We can't ing followed by all the leading mean that a better price can be British manufacturers, and cho- paid to producers for their goods.

Candied Peel Problems. hear you up here"

colates no longer bloom in their

In the little experimental fac-! boxes always provided that they avoid very high temperatory attached to the laboratories, tures during storage or trans- all sorts of improvements are port.

being tested. Citron peels, for instance, are at present imported. chiefly from foreign countries. Barrels of peel give testimony to the studies which have been un- dertaken to find the best and cheapest methods of preserving peel which Empire countries might supply.

SPEAK UP.

There was

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One of the attendants hurried to him, grasped him by the arm, and

took him out of the gallery.

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"We were gratified to see a letter in a foreign paper recent- ly," Mr. Macara told me, "saying that the British evidently had some trade secret which avoided "bloom." The writer had noticed that British chocolates exported to the Argentine were free from | this defect, and that our manu- facturers were finding this a con- siderable trade advantage."

Chocolates with soft centres- known to the trade as "fondants" -have a little weakness. They sometimes burst. 'This is an- other serious scientific problem. Like the bloom bother, it has now been solved, and the bang of the "fondanta" is no longer heard in the factory.

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But the Camden Town staff is not only concerned with why sweets go to the bad. Jam mak- ing is another study. Jam some- times ferments as a result of the Ways and growth of yeasts. means of nipping yeasts in the bud have been worked out. Chemists are at work in another section on a study of pectin, a by-product of fruit used to make jams and jellies set firmly. An- other question which scientists looked into, at the manufactur- was whether any ers' request, use could be made of unwanted fruit stones.

Why Do Soft Centres Burst?

Fondants are crystallised in syrup, which tends to get dis- coloured after it has been used once or twice. The Camden

and Sausage rolls

bottled Town experts have found a way of preventing this so that the tongues also come under the engle syrup can be used repeatedly eye of Mr. Macara's staff. Better! without discolouration. This methods of preserving mince-1 saves the industry a very im- meat and helping sausages to portant one in Britain large keep their youth are already to the credit of the Association. Ultra-violet rays are used in a But I could find no one looking. modern laboratory, to probe the into the composition of hot dogs inner mysteries of the bull's eye-or even taking the gilt off the and the marron glace. 1 was gingerbread.

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"JURY" TO TRY THE AKRON.

The airworthiness of the world's biggest airship. the U.S. Navy dirigible Akron, will be challenged before a Congress Committee at Washington.

ship ZRS-5 is now under, way, says the British United Press.

The evidence regarding the Akron's safety is expected to be the test on which future appro- priations for airship construction will depend.

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The Navy Department issued several denisis of these reports, but admitted that the Akron was overweight and incapable of her planned speed of 84 miles an hour.

This was stated to be due to in-. creased structural safety and add- ed armament, both of which were considered desirable..

The Naval Affairs Committes la anxious to dispose of the charges soon, because work on the sister

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