Evening star., 1941-04-05
BY MILTON SILvERMAN.

BY MILTON SILvERMAN.
LIMA, Peru, March 20 (By Air
Mail to NANA).-One night in
New York in 1918, Ignace Paderew-
ski lit the fuse for an industrial
explosion. The famed pianist intro
duced a fellow Pole to a young
Peruvian engineer.
Today, these two men who met so
casually are starting a new revo-
luton In South America scientific
revolution that may wreck the
future schemes of European and
Asiatic dictators.
They are ready to transform agri-
cultural Peru into industrial Peru.
They are ready to supply the Amer
icas with drugs, chemicals, textiles
and a dozen other materials that
now must be imported from Europe
or Asia.
One of these men in Benno Borzy-
kowski, Polish-born chemical engi-
neer whose inventive genius has
touched the textile, Photographic,
dying and paper industries through
out the world He has organized
great factories in France, Switzer-
land. Germany and the United
States.
The other is DR.. Herman Morales
Macedo. who today is holding in
his hands the industrial future of
Peru.
Worked As Day Laborer.
Before the first World War had
spread to the Americas, DR.. Morales
Macedo had gone to the United
States to complete his training as
a mining engineer. He worked
in a Colorado copper mine as a
timberman, and even as day
laborer in a Staten Island shipyard.
When the war was over. he stayed
in New York and there met Pader-
ewski. The great pianist introduced
him to Mr.. Borzykowski.
BY this time, Mr.. Borzykowski had
an international reputation for his
discoveries in industrial science. He
nad developed new processes to make
inexpensive Photographic paper, to
speed the manufacture of rayon,
to improve the dying of fabrics,
to turn wood into cloth.
In 1915 he came to America to
start a factory in Cleveland, was
trapped by the war. and became a
dollar-a-year adviser to the Ameri-
can Government.
For the next two decades, Mr.
Borzykowski and DR.. Morales Macedo
watched each others progress at a
distance. Mr.. Borzykowski contin-
ued his work and established new in
dustries in Europe. DR.. Morales
Macedo returned to Peru and started
his practice as a mining engineer.
Borzykowski Loses Fortune.
In 1910, Mr.. Borzykowski was
caught in the catastrophe that shook
all Europe. Poland, his native land,
was conquered. His great holdings
in Germany and France disappeared.
He escaped to the United States with
his great fortune virtually wiped out.
Last summer, DR.. Morales-Macedo
again came to the United States,
but this time as a successful en-
gineer, professor in Peru's mining
school, man whose brilliant career
was being closely watched by the
Peruvian government. Once again
he bumped into his Polish friend.
What are you doing in the
States?" DR.. Morales Macedo asked.
Trying to get started again." re-
piled Mr.. Borzykowski. I'm looking
for a place where I can build my
life all over"
you must come to Peru" DR..
Morales-Macedo exclaimed. There
we have the greatest opportunities in
the world"
Team Set Up.
In few weeks, DR.. Morales
Macedo came back to Lima with
the assurance that Mr.. Borzykow-
ski would follow soon after, provid-
Ing governmental support could be
assured. DR.. Morales-Macedo talked
to Peru's brilliant, hard-boiled
minister of finance, David Dasso.
Trained as an engineer at the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology
Senor Dasso knew what science
might do for his country. He agreed
to pay the small salary which Mr..
Borzykowsh needed. Then the gov
ernment literally grabbed DR.. Mo-
rales-Macedo and made him ma
tional director Of industry, intrusted
with the job Of bringing Peru up to
date-of strengthening her indus
trial backbone.