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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 1938.

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Aago (or so the story

goes) a young chemist put out a saucer of skim milk for the labor- tory cat, and went away for the week-end.

On returning he found the milk untouched, dried into a hard, white film. Conducting, some experiment on the bench above he accidentally let drop to Home formaldehyde into the

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little while later, and discovered that what had been cat's skim was a firm, almost bone-like sub-

stance.

That's the story. One story, anyway. Though plastic re- search chemists frown on such picturesque origins, claim rather years of evolutionary experi- ment to result in modern me- thods of turning milk into chegs- men or electric power insula-

tors.

Whatever the beginnings, ac- cidental or experimental-and nobody seems thoroughly cer- tain-about 50,000 tons of skim milk a year are dried, treated, rolled, stamped, moulded, dyed, pressed and shaped into improb-

CENSORS-AND-SENSE-Lable-forms-beyond-the counting.

Public exasperation at the bureaucratic methods employed

*

by the Film Censorship Board! MAGIC word-Casein,

in Hongkong cannot but fail to

MILK

OLK

sents only some three per cent,

of milk content, is virtually

without nourishment.

That's one side of the picture only. Experimenters found that casein was the ideal basis for the manufacture of, certain arti- ficial jewellery, turned their at- tention to this alde of things. Results-rings, bangles, neck- laces made of milk appeared, sell by the thousand. Milk jet, ebony, amber and, lapis lazuli are to-day commonplace. Brace- lets of artificial Ivory, families of elephants, Buddhas, lucky talismans are made of milk- casein mingled with ivory cases, powder, or, in powdered bone.

ANOTHER

some

discovery

was made. The com- posite properties of milk were found to have high insulating quality. Casein, being milk and hard milk at that, seemed the answer to all manner

of pro- blems.

Experiments were carried out to prove the following remark- able fact-one-twelfth of an inch of this substance was cap- able of resisting a charge of 16,000 volts. So milk began to appear on switchboards, in tele- phone exchanges, on wireless sets in the form of plugs, switches, panels and insulating cups. It was found useless for external telegraph wire in- sulating, since it is soluble, can- -not-withstand years of weather.

Plain white buttons worn on It is now a revelation to sur- men's shirts, underclothes, come vey the commercial fields in mostly from a shellfish found at which common or garden cow's the bottom of the Yangize- milk has been turned to account. Casein is dried, It's about twelve years now kiang. Coloured buttons on It forms, for example, the basis increase at the revelation that powdered skim, looks like bread- since people began to realise women's clothes the "Murch of Time" series of crumbs, comes into this country the queer truth about all num- seven cases out of ten, made out ly every washable distemper on are, in about of most glues and pastes, Near- bern of things they handle in of milk. Millions are cinematic recordings of current by the hundred tons from Argen- everyday life. Somebody picked out every year, many trade side of public buildings are turned the market has milk in it-out- history may be withdrawn by tine, France, other countries up a hair-brush which looked names used for the same sub- the distributors because of un- with surplus cows or dwindling like ivory, tortoiseshell or fine stance.

cleaned, shone up with milk- basis preparations. dute use of censorial scissors. pigs. Large districts of France enamel, handed it to somebody

This is produced in rods, tubes, Since 1931, when the Film Cen- with dwindling pig-population, else and said, with the smug

Beauty creams, pastes and sorship Board was set up in this find skim (being basis of pig. air of those who have starting sheets, coloured, mottled in dif-

ferent ways. One firm has no pomales in many instances have fewer than 350 colours for its strong casein content. Glossy milk-basis material, from Lotus paper used in production of

Colony, there has been an in- creasing tendency to mutilate films, especially those of a poli- tical nature, while those to

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swill) on their hands, turn it over to ensein producers.

Not much of Britain's thou-

inside information, "What

d'you think that's made of?" Commonplace guesses followed.

"No" said the owner, smile than ever,

By Gordon Glover

a large section of the sand million gallon milk pro- getting smugger foreign populace. take genuine

duction finds its way into ash- "Believe it or not-it's made of exception are passed in all their trays or sheets of linoleum. Of milk." "Milk?" "Yes, milk." Bud to Azalea, from Blondeshell high-class journals suggestiveness,

The banning

the 50,000 tons of casein used

"I'm to Satin Maize.

talk nonsense." "Don't not talking nonsense, I tell you

in this country cach year, per- it's made of milk." haps 5,000 tons is skimmed off

home churns.

Owes its shine to surface treatment with Artificial cork-casein Hundreds of tons of glossy, casein.

crumbs. Artificial mottled milk, cuttable, sawable, and cork

matting. Linoleum are turned over from producer coconut

of the "Inside Nazi Germany" sequence of a recent "March of

to manufacturer every month. fibres are bound with milk. Time" the Hongkong public,

And once the manufacturer and A non-inflammable celluloid- it will be recalled, expressed its

Outeries from time to time HE wasn't talking non his designers get hold of it, milk like material is result of com- opinion of this act in no certain regarding milk-hungry babies

sense. It was made just starts really not to know promise between celluloid and

itself.

treated casein-it lacks cel- terms in the correspondence watching their nourishment be- of milk all right, of casein,

It's mada into household Juloid's complete flexibility but columns of local newspapers-ing absorbed at a few pence a with formaldehyde, to possess the

which was found, when treated utility and decorative objects by is practically flame-proof.

hundred thousand. Into And it still goes on, this between has been followed by the entire gallon into commerical pretty high malleability, strength and ash-trays and menu-holders, in- strange collaboration excision of a sequence on "Arms pretties have little foundation ductility. It ceased to be milk, to lampshades and lampstands, cow and chemist to make the and the League" from a more in fact. The skim from which to be casein, became n hard, into hairbrushes, pin trays, world a more reasonably com- recent "March of Time". Apart casein powder is made repre- shining substance which could mirror and picture frames, into fortable and decorative place to

be made to look like almost any and an assortment of allegorical

combs, calendars, fountain-pens live in. thing and fulfil all sorts of pur- beasts and birds enough to fill a

dozen volumes of Belloc.

from the insult to the intelli-

gence of the averago cinema-

poses.

goer conveyed by this over- censors' scissors, or have died exuberance in wielding scissors by any means than in a fight on political films, Hongkong with lethal weapons. The ef- GRIN AND BEAR IT cinema-goers have real cause forts of Hongkong censors to for grievance at the mutilation blind audiences to the fact that' of films which portray gunfire a lethal weapon can be employed or shooting. The excuse that as an instrument of death would exhibition of shooting sequences be humorous were they not so led to an increase of serious irritating and senseless. Pre- crimes of similar nature is sumably, film censorship of somewhat weakened by the fact some form is necessary, but the that, far from there being n enthusiasm displayed by the diminution, serious crime has Hongkong Censorship Board increased to record heights in would appear to be misplaced. the past two years. It is hard- Extreme vulgarity and sugges ly possible that the censors can tiveness that at times border on credit cinema audiences in the indecent are passed un- Hongkong with so little intelli- touched and give offence gence when, as has so often many people, while many films happened, they are asked to are ruined beyond enter: believe that, nothing has hap-tainment value by the elimina-) pened when a film is cut abrupt- tion of innocuous and vital ly from the scene of browing sequences. The present censor» violence to a later and uncon- ship system in Hongkong is so

to

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math. Presumably, we are with it is so widespread, that asked to believe that, in the the question of film censorship| intervening time, the victims is ono that should bo re- liavé ́ been struck by Jove, or considered 'in' all its ́áspects by AZURARÁDABANCALIDADÁBA stabbed in the back with the Government.

By Lichty

Degn, 1838 by Chaled Profort Bradisch, Dia

"I can't ses much differenc® e in this new 5-zult_bridge!"

ANGELL

and the Dictators

TEEDLESS to say. Bir Norman

Nana Peace With the leis tors? (Hamish Hamilton, 78. Od.) is distinguished by brilliant argu- ment, superb case and clarity in making profound and dificult points and a great deal of moving eloquence. Such qualities Have made the author the incomparable political writer on war and peace and an exhilaration to rend.

He begins the book with, soveral remarkable chapters in which he states the German and Kalian case with such insight and understanding that probably Germans and Italians would gratefully say It could not be belter put.

To those who think there is no Ger- nun or Italian caso to be made, and think we shall at any ralo kavo a clear, conscience in case of war, I sincerely commend a quiet study of these chap- tera.

They will and that our chargo against the Faciala-that they use force to gain their own ends-is pre=" clsely the charge they make against us, and that, when we complain that they do not believe in collective 'zecurity. they retort.at neither, do we.

War, runs the Angeli argument, is not due to economic struggles or to any nation's wickedness, but to the absence of international order; of the political organimation necessary to keep peace. And we, no less than others, are re sponsible for failing to create such an order through unwillingness to play our part in it

The world as it is to-day has been shaped by the Allies' use of force for their own ends.