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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1937.

GERMAN CHEMIST WHO TURNS WOOD

ΤΟ 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 come and go so quietly," he said, “how did you know I was bere?" 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?""

Peer

and His Dead Son

Lord Daryngton, at the 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 werit on.

"If he had been a conscien- tious objector, should have understood his feelings.

"At the same time, I say. frankly, that I would much rather he had died in the war than been a conscientious objector.'

He Nearly Ate £100

New York, Mor. 1.

Paul, of

"I DON'T think I'll like them,"

said Mr. Harry B. Boston, Massachusetts, as he ordered oysters for the first time.

Five minutes later his teeth closed on something hard. It was a pearl, which is estimated to be worth more than £100-Reuter.

"They were inventions to ord er," he says, "simply inventions to order. And you must not say they were my inventions, either -h'm7-because scientific discoveries are never made by one lonely scientist, but by a body of men working patiently together|- · for a long time.”

Mary Pickford's

Plans

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,orld's Sweetheart,"

Misa I think, to make sure you are paying attention to what he is say that her marriage plans have not been ing and partly to give himself time with the next word, for he affected by her recent operation. takes a modest view of his rather remarkable English.

Los Angeles, Mar. 1. Mary Pickford, one-me said to-day

Well, about inventions to order-h'm?-this is how it was with oil from coal

Since it is impossible to do justice to the Herr Doctor's in London, where the wedding cere- 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 some- "thing"which" "will" "do"instead ̈ ̈of food! So-l'm?--I look about, and I see a lot of waste wood. For every tree that is cut down in the forest, fifty per cent. is wasted.Į I'm?"

Into

So, of course, Dr. Bergius invented a method of turning that waste 50 per cent into food. By various chemical processes the waste, wood that cannot be used in building, in furniture, or as pulp for paper, is converted

various kinds of sugar; some of which are valuable as cattle food, and some of which, refined still further, are excellent for human consumption, and in par- tleular make good sweetments. GOOD FOR INDUSTRY

So

difference the

which Dr. Bergius has made to the world is just that: that any country which has plenty of coal and plenty of wood, and is willing to build the necessary chemical plant, need never want for either oil or foodstuff; and instead of relying on imports for these commodities can cnlarge its own industrial production.

The oil-from-coal question is well launched, both in this country and in Germany, and is foolding” after Itself.

The food-from-wood business is at an earlier stage of development, and it is to confer with various commercial bedles and give advice that Dr. Bergius slips in and out of London so quietly.

He works so hard that he lias had

no lelsure, he says, for the past four years"but then, everybody in Ger- many-h'mis 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, whereus Germany can't; and the time- honoured system of the sacred Bri- tish week-end.

One day, he hopes, Germans wil

as sacred to leisure, but meanwhile

“IT

OF PACIFISM:

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.

"If the Bishop of Birmingham saw a little child being 11-treated he would be the first to go and hit out and defend the child.

"Paclist 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 always think myself of what and order.

would have happened if the Good Samaritan had turned up two hours cartier and laid about him. He would have stopped the ill-treat- ment."

"Our first duly is to catablish law, and only where it is established will it be possible to go forward to the still higher claims of the Gospel. TRUNCHEON ARGUMENT

"In a Christian world war would not occur, but we are not in that

position."

The Bishop of London (Dr. Win- nington Ingram) described pacifists os "the real danger to the peace 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 lie is no good,

"If we had taken the view of -the pacifists in 1914, cliher tho German Emperor or Hitler would now be in Whitehall. This illite Island in the silver sex would be a German province." Abyssinin, he thought, would have cured every pacifist in the world.

Mary on March 7, and to join her She expects to sail in the Queen

"It we have no force at our dis- Dance, Mr. Charles ("Buddy") Rogers, posal, the dictators of the world will triumph over the democracies of the mony will take

place quietly world. Reuter.

"It was no good getting

angry with my customers

HOLIM HOT AT ALL

SABERED TO-DAY PHYLLIE.

I SHALL ASK FOR ANOTHER ALTISTANT NEXT TIME- YOU HAVEN'T TAKEN

AMY TROUBLE!

4 AND 1 EVEN WAKE

UP TIREO

1386! ITS A CASE OF HIGHT STARVATION PROBABLY YOU DONT REALUE THAT YOU USE

UP ENERGY EVEN WHILE YOU SLEP IT TAKES 20.000 MUICULAR EFFORTS JUST TO BREATHE

IF THIS ENERGY 18 HOT

REPLACED, OF COURSE

W I WANT YOU WAKE FERUNG

TIRED, NOMU, TO.../

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ME PROPER

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EVERY SIGHT GROW

Do YOU find your job a strain

on your patience?

regard Saturday as well as Sunday! If you find your job a strain on your nerves — this probably they must invent a substitute for means you are suffering from "Night-Starvation.”:

it, and the best, substitute, they

Horlick's taken regularly at bed-time, guarda

have found so far is-h'm?-work against "Night-Starvation"t replaces the It is a nice philosophy, and seems burnt-up energy while you sleep. You wake up with

to make Dr. Berglus equal to any

thing. I really think that if you new reserves of vitality and power Horlick's has a sought him out in his quiet corner!

most agreeable flavour, and it is very economical

of the Savoy bar, meditating over

* hia: "éigar and, his glass," and CON- vinced him you had no money, and wahltd some very badly, he would give his scientific, mind to it and invent an efficient substitute-in-no time at all. ·· H'm?\};

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MORNING MUSINT LOSE

WE NEVER USED TO HAVE COMPLAINTS ABOUT YOUR WORK, PHYLLIS, BUT YOU ALWAYS STEM TO BE SO TIRED THESE DAYS, DONT.

YOU THINK YOU

OUGHT IN SER

A DOCTOR?

-SOME, MONTHS LATER

MY PATIENCE,

OR FLL GET

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NIGHT - STARVATION

THIS MEANS YOU SLEEP SOUNDLY WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY

ST. GEORGE IN GAS MASK

Canon "Dick" Sheppard made a moving appeal for pacifism.

"War is the ultimate expression of man's futility and wickedness,” he said.

"We believe that a bomb with a lobel on it, With love from Geneva,' is no less devastating and no more Christian than one that is dropped by this or that dictator.

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"War le now so stripped of ro- mance that in a modern gas attack; St. George himself would not see a dragon.

Mr. Herbert Upward, of St. Albans, said he was

the vast sure that majority of the younger educated people to-day were opposed to war tonth and nail. "They are prepared to go to a concentration camp it war is declared again."

"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 belleves that so long as this policy is maintained Christian citizens may bear arms in the service of their country,"

It was also decided by a large majority to adopt the Bishop of Southwark's addendum:

"The Assembly affirms the res ponsibility of Christian people to support, criticise, or oppose all defence programines 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

souri,

"

New York, Mar, 1. HA

[AROLD HÜLEN, of Excelsior Springs, Mis- 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 get away.

Remorseful, Florence took до notice. "IIarold's in dead carnest," she, zaid. "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. Harold'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

80 Misa Hurlbat went on the sir and spoke to her sit-down lover, "It's yes, Isroid," 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 na sponsor."

BRIGHT EYES, BUT- IF you want brilliant, star-like

eyes-cat plenty of sweets, This is the discovery which a Dutch doctor has minde.

BUT

He cannot guarantee that the woman who eats sweets can keep a Agure to match her brilliant eyes.

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