Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-04-28

N EW 1Ohh.-NOt all the news
these days has to do with fight
ing and contention among the ma
tons. On weekend run to Wash
Plant Wizard to wIiter found
Brazil to GroU Brazil borrow
Goodwill Fruit ing Walter Ten
Americas 68-year-old plant wizard,
in unique and friendly deal which
probably will ring more cash regis
tiers than would Mussolini il 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 a stable
battle fleet. Brazil, getting on Uncle
Sans cuff for $l20, 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.
Tung oil trees, rubber and
quinine will get Mr.. Swingle's
immediate attention. Brazil
kknk
coaching by MIR. Swingle, she
can bring all these through as
negotiable assets in interest or
amortization day. 1t looks to
this observer like q sunny break
In the blizzard of screwball eco
Monies which has been sweeping
over the world. The above will
be just starter. Mr.. Swim
gle's research will cover virtual
ly the entire range of Brazilian
agriculture and forestry.
A native of Pennsylvania, a bota-
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
fiont' '0' u D. 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 i'm
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.
A hOmespun American, he is
as chubby as suburban garden
er, exchanging garden lore over
the back fence with his neigh
Dor.
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 Vento or O'ef The
Morning Gray; postmaster gen.
A Start On Way era ruled
against him in
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 a 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
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 a take
of from the infra-red zone of
the spectrum. On February 3,
1928, he flashed a 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
lot, and, according to all accounts,
is becoming a magnate. Sunset
red and morning gray start the trav.
eler on his way
Q Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.