Show tSI St w l tS tSI I W mJ r JETTER I t K K 1 n 5 Sf I Herbert J Drowne JUST LOOK AT THE TIIE V W lvE K HAD Br BF BT I P STEW T N NEA I A Sen Ice Writer WASHINGTON April Her H-Her- HHerbert K Her Herbert bert Janvrin Browne the tho weather prophet who declared last fall tall that the summers oJ of of 1926 an And 1927 wouldn't bo be summers at M all but that thaC we wo might expect to shoot our Fourth ot or July fireworks In the snow got cot himself pooh for his assertion But Dut just at the spring weve we've had Browne Browno himself la to not a and doesn't pretend to be For Vor or the strictly scientific Information Ito he requires to enable him to peer Into the meteorological future he rifles rilles on specialists ts Originally Brownes Browne's Interest In Inthe Inthe Inthe the weather was purely Incidental to other activities he ho was engaged eJ In He lie began his career carler as a news news- newspaper newspaper paper man man-a man a Washington ton correspondent corre corre- correspondent Now there thera ire are are undercurrents tn In Washington changing undercurrent undercurrents rent which rents rents which It pays pays paya big ble busl- busl business ness fleas throughout the country to know all about Early Marty arly knowledge If IC It possible advance knowledge knowledg or of of the changes the the- chAnges enables s big ble busi busi- bu business business i- i iness ness to avoid avold losses loses and mid mAke more money A good Washington correspond correspondent ent becomes becomes sensitive to these eba changes Browne did So presently he became a purveyor of such In In side Information to a select list of big business clients nt- nt I i Very cO carl early early In In me of o trIng try try- try trying ing to read the future With Ith a view to 10 eJ abling business men tho the bet bet- bett better bel belter t ter to shape shap their policies I dis discovered covered says Browne ne that I few business calculations are ore worth much which tall fall to take the tho wea wea- weather weather I ther Into I turned turned turned-to to tho weather eather burn bureau u What good did that do The bu- bu bureau bureau bu bureau reau Insisted that a few days was Its maximum limit ahead A building contractor has haa to 10 tomake tomake make his hia plans In advance anco or of o II a whole season A grain train dealer must look forward orward a full year car Suppose mustI I a 8 dry Ary goods merchant merchant- youve you've laid In fn your our stock expect expect- expectIng Inc Ing a norm normal normal l winter and Its It's un- un unusually un unusually usually Ily mild throughout are arc you helped by having tho the weather bu bu- bu bureau reau tell you so a day or two at ata ata ata a time lime cant can't ell It cant t be be helped said saidI I the lite weather bureau bureau bureau- went on Browne Browno By ny n no no means known to science can we wo mako make a seasonable forecast I had Iad my doubts and looked Into the matter malter not as a 11 scientist but b t for strictly utilitarian pur- pur purposes purposes pur poses to make snake my business pres pre pre- predictions pre predictions dictions as na good as aa I could how I became a long lon lon distance distance forecaster on my own ac- ac account ac account count Drownes Drowne's theory was th that the tho thoe e earths fth's weather depends on the sun He went to Sols Sol's observers for tor advice The Th suns sun's heat varies they said not said not by very many degrees but perhaps enough to count a grea deal dea deal deal- translated Into terms ot of terr terrestrial temperature with However n a cool sun some some- sometimes sometimes times the tha earth was was warm The scientists had noted noted that And It often happened with lIh tho the sun get get- get tine ling inks best licks that tho the wea wea- weather weather ther bere was Cold cold They'd observed observed observed ed that too S e Browne Brown was a sailor as well usa ns as asa a newspaper newspaper man mon All for for evolved the Idea that the o ocean ean warms warm up liP and tools cools oft off as a as tho the suns sun's nun heat varies and that the the oceans ocean's currents spread the th difference around It takes three years year he estimates knowing the current 13 he be does doe doc Theres There's concentrated essence or of tho lan Browne hypothesis or of earthly weather changes change The wea th ther lher r bureau doesn't think much of It but some scientists ot or very re- re respect re reputation l n do I |