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BOUT thirty years
ago (or so the story goes) u young chemist put out a saucer of skim milk for the labora- tory cat, and went away for the week-end.
On returning he found the' milk untouched, dried into a Alm. Conducting hard, white some experiment on the bench above he accidentally let drop some formaldehyde into the saucer, picked up saucer some little while later, and discovered that what had been cat's skim was a firm, almost bone-like sub-
stance.
TC-
That's the story. One story, anyway. Though plastic search chemists frown on such picturesque origins, claim rather years of evolutionary experi- ment to result in modern me- thods of turning milk into chess- men or electric power insula-
tors.
Hongkong Telegraph. nobody seems
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930.
Whatever the beginnings, ac- cidental or experimental-and 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 able forms beyond the counting.
Public exasperation at the bureaucratic methods employed! by the Film Censorship Board
to
MADE WITH
MILK
sents only some three per cent. of milk content, is virtually
MAGIC Word-Casein.
without nourishment.
Casein
is
dried,
up
the smug
Plain white buttons worn on
turned
That's one side of the picture only. Experimentors found that casein was the ideal básla for the manufacture of certain arti- fictal jewellery, turned their at- tention to this side of things. Results-rings, banglea, neck- Inces made of milk appeared, sell by the thousand. Milk Jet, ebony, amber and lapis-luzuli are to-day commonplace. Brace- lets of artificial ivory, families of elephants, Buddhas, lucky talismans are made of milk- casein mingled with ivory in powder, or, powdered bone.
ANOTHER
some
Cases,
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 aubstance 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.
By Gordon Glover
It is now a revelation to sur
the commercial fields in men's shirts, underclothes, come vey mostly from a shellfish found at which common or garden cow's the bottom of the Yangtze- milk has been turned to account.
buttons It's about twelve years now kiang. Coloured
on It forms, for example, the basis in Hongkong cannot but fail to
are, in about of most glues and pastes. Near- increase at the revelation that powdered skim, looks like bread- since people began to realise women's clothes the "March of Time" series of crumbs, comes into this country the queer truth about all num- seven cases out of ten, mado out ly every washable distemper on
bers of things they handle in of milk. Millions are
the market has milk in it-out- every year, many trade cinematic recordings of current by the hundred tons from Argen- everyday life. Somebody picked out
a hair-brush which looked names used for the same sub- side of public buildings are cleaned, shone up with milk- history may be withdrawn by tine, France, other countries
basis preparations. the distributors because of un-with surplus cows or dwindling like ivory, tortoiseshell or fine stance. due use of censorial scissors. pigs. Large districts of France enamel, handed it to somebody Since 1931, when the Film Cen-with dwindling pig-population, else and said, with sorship Board was set up in this find skim (being basis of pig- Colony, there has been an in-swill) on their hands, turn it creasing tendency to mutilate over to casein producers. films, especially those of a poli- tical nature, while those which a large section of the La foreign populace take genuine exception are passed in all their The banning suggestiveness. of the "Inside Nazi Germany". sequence of a recent "March of Time" the Hongkong public,
Outeries from time to time. HE wasn't talking non- his designers get hold of it, milk like material is result of com
casein-it incka cel- treated sense. It was made just starts really not to know promise between celluloid and it will be recalled, expressed its
itself.
It's made into household luloid's complete flexibility but opinion of this act in no certain regarding milk-hungry babies terms in the correspondence watching their nourishment be- of milk all right, of casein,
which was found, when trented utility and decorative objects by is practically flame-proof,
And it still goes on, this columns of local newspapers-ing absorbed at a few pence with formaldehyde, to possess the hundred thousand. Into 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 lampatands, cow and chemist to make the a hard, into hairbrushes, pin trays, world a more reasonably com- · and the League" from a more in fact. The skim from which to be casein, became
combs, calendars, fountain-pens live in. be made to look like almost any and an assortment of allegorical recent “March of Time". Apart casein powder is made repre- shining substance which could mirror and picture frames, into fortable and decorative place to from the insult to the intelli-
thing and fulfil all sorts of pur- beasts and birds enough to fill a
dozen volumes of Belloc. poses.
This is produced in rods, tubes,
Beauty creams, pastes and
ferent ways.
One firm has no pomades in many instances have information, inside
"What fewer than 350 colours for its strong casein content. Glossy air of those who have startling sheets, coloured, mottled in dif- 'you think that's made of?" milk-basis material, from Lotus paper used in production of Commonplace guesses followed. Not much of Britain's thou- "No" said the owner, smile than ever, sand million gallon milk pro- getting smugger
its duction finds its way into ash- "Believe it or not-it's made of
shine to surface treatment with "I'm to Satin Maize "Don't talk nonsense." trays or sheets of linoleum. Of milk." "Milk?" "Yes, milk." Bud to Azalea, from Blondeshell high-class journals owes
Hundreds of tons of glossy, casein. Artificial cork-cascin crumbs. Artificial the 60,000 tons of casein used
not talking nonsense. I tell you
Linoleum mottled milk, cuttable, sawable, and cork
matting. in this country each year, per- it's made of milk."
aro turned over from producer coconut haps 6,000 tons in skimmed off
to manufacturer every month. fibres are bound with milk.
A non-inflammable celluloid- home churns,
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on political flms, Hongkong with lethal weapons. The ef GRIN AND 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- censorship of crimes of similar nature is sumably, film
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BEAR IT
By Lichty
"I can't see much diference o in this new 5-ault bridge!"
ANGELL
between
and the Dictators
the
JEEDLESS to say, Sir Norman.
tors? (Hamish Hamilton, 7s. Od.) is distinguished by brilliant nrgu- in ment, superb case and clarity making profound and dificult points and a great deal of moving eloquence, Buch qualities have made the author the incomparable political writer on war and peace and an exhilaration to read.
Ho begins this book with several remarkable chapters In which ho sintes the German and Italian ense with such insight and understanding that probably Germans and' Italians would gratefully say it could not do belter put.
To those who think there is no Ger
mann or Italian case to be made, and. that wo shaii at any rato have a clear conscience in case of war, I sincerely commend a quiet study of these chap- bera
They will And that our charge against the Factats-that they use forca to gain their own ends—ls pre- cisely the charge they make ogniski 125, and that, when we complain that they do not believe in collective security, they retort that neither do we.
War, runs the Angell argument, is not due to economic struggles or to any nation's wickedness, but to the absence of internationat order, of the political organisation necessary to keep pence. And we, no less than others, are res sponsible for failing to create such an order through 'unwillingness to play! our part in IL.
The work as it is to-day has been shaped by tho Allies' use of force for their own enda.
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