The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-27


these days has to do with fight
ing and contention among the ma
tions. On a weekend run to Wash
Plant Wizard to writer found
Brazil to Grow Brazil borrow
Coody;U Fru;t ing Walter Ten
nyson Swingle,
Americas 68-year-old plant wizard,
in unique and friendly deal which
probably will ring more cash regis
tiers than would Mussolini if he
swallowed all the Balkans in one
gulp.
Busy all over the world for 40
years or more, Mr.. Swingle has
created enough new wealth with his
plant conjuring to build stable
battle fleet. Brazil, getting on Uncle
Sans cuff for $120, 000, 900, breaks
precedent among debtor nations by
Immediately getting busy in a long
range effort to set up a favorable
trade balance and get square with
the export-import bank. She thinks
Mr.. Swingle can show her how to
grow many things which we urgent
ly need. Furthermore, she intends
to become entirely independent of
aggressor nations, not by ersatz Or
by a strong-arm economy, but by
scientific utilization of her natural
resources in soil and climate. Mr..
Swingle departs for Brazil with the
sanction and cooperation of the
department of agriculture. His ex-
penses are paid by the Brazilian
government.
Tung oil trees, rubber and
quinine will get Mr.. Swingle's
immediate attention. Brazil
thinks that, with some expert
coaching by Mr.. Swingle, she
can bring all these through as
negotiable assets in interest or
amortization day. 1t looks to
this observer like sunny break
in the blizzard of screwban eco
nOmics which has been sweeping
over the world. The above will
be just a starter. Mr.. Swim
gle's research will cover virtual
ly the entire range of Brazilian
agriculture and forestry.
A native of Pennsylvania, bota4
mist, educated at the Kansas State
agricultural college, he became an
agricultural explorer" for the Unit
~, =, ed States gov
In Search of working in near
try in the world.
He brought Egyptian cotton to Ari-
iona and Acala cotton to California,
and helped establish the date indus
try in the latter state. In Florida,
he achieved miracles of hybridiza-
ton in citrus fruits. He added inn
measurably to the knowledge of pol
lenization, hoped up the seeing
power of the microscope, and, in
French, German, and English, wrote
authoritative treatises on plant
pathology, cytology, taxonomic bot
any and citrus propagation. His
fame is widely international and he
is member of every important sci
CllluiC SOS1CIy Ill lliS uSIOs
A homespun American, he is
as chubby as suburban garden
er, exchanging garden lore over
the back fence with his neigh
Dor. His export of ideas and
seeds and cuttings has yielded
vastly more goodwill and tangi-
BILE wealth than our exports of
scrap iron, and his imports have
run up into billions.
TWO years ago, it appeared that
= John Logic Baird, the mop-haired
garnet inventor who took the lead in
British television, was running Sec
Sunset Red and ventors. The
Morning Gray; postmaster gen.
"A Start On Way era rule d
picking the Marconi-Emi system for
the British Broadcasting corpora
ton. But now his system is work.
ing in London motion picture thea
tiers and his representatives are here
to install it in several Broadway
houses.
The son of Scottish country
parsOn, in an old tweed coat and
Stacks, he lived meagerly in a
dark soho attic and worked with
a set of carpenters tools, a vac-
uum tube and a few magnets,
with no results. When he/start-
ed thinking his way through a
problem, he went to bed. He
had been in bed a couple of
weeks, when, almost despairing,
he saw a red sunset through the
window. That suggested take
off from the infra-red zone of
the spectrum. On February 3,
1928, he flashed picture across
the ocean, a ghost face Pickering
on the wall of the dark cellar of
A. M. Hart, of Hartsdale, N. Y.
In the old days, his trousers were
patched, his hair was a brush heap,
and he usually had one sock droop-
ing. Now, as president of Baird
Television, Ltd, he is slicked up a
lot, and, according to all accounts,
is becoming magnate. Sunset
red and morning gray start the trav-
eler on his way"
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