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Secretary Lane Appeals to Legislators to Stop Precious Deposits
of Carnotite Ore From Being Shipped Abroad for Foreign
Use Commodity Will Cure Cancer Many Deposits
Still Property of the United States.
Washington. Like tho wavo of hot
Indignation which sometimes sweeps
over a nation and lends Irresistibly to
war tho realization that tho United
States is in danger of losing one of Its
choicest possessions has been sudden-
by!y ys&yy
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Dr. Howard A. Kelly.
ly borno to the minds of the public
in tho last few weeks.
Radium will cure cancer. And the
American people aro on the verge of
allowing its precious deposits of
carnotite ore, now the principal source
ot the stiangest of metals, to be ,
chipped abroad for tho beneiU of for-
clgu Institutions. If ever protection
is needed, it Is here.
Ftanklin K. Lane, secretary of tho
inteilor, has Informed congress that
It should act and act quickly The
treatment of Representative Brcmne
of New Jersey, who is suffering from
ii great diseased mass that surrounds
ono shoulder, has enforced the warn
Jag.
Fortunately most of the deposits of
carnotite are still government prop- 1
erty. Even should the private store
of ores be sold abroad in the highest 1
market, the peoplo of the United
States, of whom ono in every ten over
the ago of fifty is (or was) doomed
to die ot cancer, have etlll an enor
mous amount of raw material with
which to work.
Radium will cure somo types of
cancer absolutely It may euro all.
We can't say as to tho last point be-
Mme. Curie, Discoverer of Radium.
cause we haven't enough radium real
ly to try. Every bit of radium In tho
hands of physicians in the United
States work 24 hours a Tlay at saving
life, but still can only reach one out
of thousands!
Probably no medleal discovery has
ever so excited the nation as tho re
cent announcement of certain' cancer
cures. Even despite tho recent fail
ure of tho much touted turtlo serum
for tuberculosis, tho public has been
ready and eager to bellovo, though
seeming miracles are related
The United States not only needs
to save its public radium treasures
from private exploitation. Millions
nro needed tc set up plants where tho
ores my be put through tho 150 steps
necessary to eliminate tho tremend
ously tiny proportion of tho healing
Baits And, too, money is needed for
experimentation. Somo of tho best
processes for extracting tho radium
are secrets, Jealously guarded, with
held as water might bo kept from a
torturod Indian captive New pro
cesses of extraction must be pei foot
ed. Tho cost of radium must bo
brought down from its present alti
tude of 53,000,001) an ounce.
But even If that remains the cost,
radium must bo had Tho mere fact
that cancer cases havo Increased 25
per cent. n a short time, assures us
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of this. Human life Is not to bo meas
ured In dollars.
The man who has brought ub to our
senses on radium more than any other
ono person Is Dr. Howard A. Koll,
tho celebrated llaltlmoro surgeon To
him, after Mme. Curio, the woman
discoverer, is duo the credit for the
marvelous cures by radium.
For ten years Dr. Kelly has been
carefully experimenting on radium
For ten years ho and his associates
hnvo carefully refrained from public
utterance of a sensational nature. But
now he Is convinced of tho power of
radium In disease.
It is to save patients by tho thou
sand, whore ho Is able to save them
singly In his privnto hospital at llal
tlmoro, that haB now come forward.
Ho has already Interested many
wealthy men. ebpeclally Alfred I Du
Pont of Wilmington, Del. Tho latter
has promised to cooperate with Dr
Kelly to combat the disease which
kills -100,000 persons every yenr. 50,000
in tho United States, and 3.500 in New
York stato nlono.
This wonderful remedy Is In danger
of being gobbled up by a trust. Its
price has already been raised by
monopoly methods.
Dr Kelly and his associate, Dr.
Robt Abbo of New York, told the
Philadelphia Collego of Phslclans re
cently of curing serious cases of can
cer in 48 hours
Ono of these patients were known
as Uncle John.
"Wo put tho radium tube on and
after Its application for an hour Undo
John told us his growths wore getting
smaller." said the Baltimore surgeon.
'Wo laughed at him and told hiin it
was his imagination. Uut next morn
ing. Improvement was plainly discern
able "And on the following day, or with
in -IS hours after tho radium was ap-
Carnotite Ore From Which Radium Is
Taken.
plied, the growths were gone, leaving
a porfectly smooth, healthy tissue.
The euro was effected.
"I could hardly believe my eyes. It
I had said 'tumor, go!" and it disap
peared, I should not have been raoro
amazed than I was by thiB wonderful
cure.
"Another case I wish to mention
was that of a very rich Mexican wo
man. She was so rich indeed that
everybody in Mexico City wns in awo
of her The physician In terror said
'Sho has cancer, don't tell her.' By
not telling her, they permitted her
caso to become so aggravated that
when sho was brought to me, I hesi
tated to operate. But I did operate
and then applied radium, which like
a million knives went Into 'tho roots
of tho disease and cut it as no knife
could. And tho woman was cured and
is well to this day, or four years after
the operation."
Secietary of tho interior Lano snid
recently "Thero appears to bo in
tho United States less than two grams
of radium, that Is less than one quar
ter of an ounce This Is valued at
$120,000 a gram and all of it has been
procured from Europe, where then?
exist In France, Austria, Germany and
England. laboratories for its discov
ery Three-fourths of tho radium pro
duced In the world during tho year of
1 1912 came
from American ores, yet
Method
Used
From
In Extracting
Carnotite Ore.
Radium
wo hao up to this timo taken no
steps whntever to preserve for our
own peoplo this Invaluable metal and
our physicians and hospitals aro de
pendent on European laboratories for
euch supply as they can piocuro and
PRESERV
SO
RADIUM
nro subject to whatovor monopoly
chnrgo the European laboratories de
mand for their product.
"It is not posslblo to procure- at tho
present time so much as an additional
gram of radium Ono Amwlcan physi
cian Informs nip that after a search
of Europe ho has beon promised a
gnitn In tho courso of tho next year,
which was tho earliest, tlmo it was
possible to secure a promlso of oven
this slight amount
"It appeals to hao been established
that radium, when applied In tlmo, is
a euro for superficial cancer and somo
of tho highest nuthoiltjca adiso that
there Is no reason to doubt tho ef
foctheness of radium as a euro for In
Mountain Scene Near Mauch Chunk,
Pa., Where Radium Deposits Havo
Been Found,
ternal cancor, but that so far, we havo
not been able to secuio a sufficient
amount of tho mineral to demonstrate
how far within tho body Its rays will
bo effective. Ono of tho two expert
medical authorities in tho United
States upon this subject, has said
that with a large supply of the mln
ei al ho believed it possible to reach
anywhere within the body and effec
tively eliminate the diseased cells.
Because, however, ot the small amount
of the mineral available it cannot bo
used in such experiments, so great Is
tho necessity for It in cases whero n
cure is known to be possible.
'At present those who have radium
are forced to the awful alternative of
selecting among the pntlents on whom
it will bo used. Inasmuch as authori
ties havo estimated thdt one person
out of ten In tho United States over
fifty j ears old suffeis from cancer, It
would appear to bo difficult to over
estimate tho necessity for securing
immediately as large a supply as pos
sible of this mysterious remedy, and
especially is this buiden cast upon
this country, wherein thus far havo
been found tho largest doposlts cf
those (literals in which it Is borne.
"Radium is found in orc3 carrying
uranium and vanadium, which nro
used extensively In tho arts, and tho
processes by which it is extracted are
secret. A process has been invented
by tho chemists In our bureau of
mines, which promises, from tho lab
oratory experiments thus far made, to
bo successful Under the endowments
of two Americans a building Is now
being erected In Denver, which with
Its equipment will bo opened for work
in Fobruary, where an effort will bo
made to provo the commercial possi
bility of this American process. If
successful, this pincesu will be given
to the world and all ot the radium se
cured over und above a small mini
mum will be tho property of tho Unit
ed Stres, and will bo put into tho
hands of the United States hospital
service for public use
"Under all theo circumstances, It
seems to mo that tho only prudent
course that the United fltntos can fol
low is to withdraw fron public entry
such of its lands as an supposed to
contain radium "
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Factory Where Radium Is Manufactured.
I Dealing With
Excuses
Hr HEV. HOWARD W. TOPU
SuptriDtr ncltnt of Mm
Moody DiUe Inilitulr. Ch'toso
thee lmv 1110 cuspU.
Let us bogln
tho most common
of all excuses, "I
Am Not Very
Bad."
Tho in 1 s t a k 0
which this man is
making is that of
Judging hlmsolt
by u fnlso stand
ard. Tho remedy
Is to correct his
standaid. Say to
him, "It may bo
that you nro not
very bad in your
own estimation, or
in the opinion of
others , but let us sco what Clod Bays
about you. Ills Woul la tho only truo
standard."
flnnn innr lllliln nnil nsk him to
road aloud Honians 3:10. Thero is
none righteous, no, not ono. After he
has read it, ask him n fow questions:
"Whoso words aro these which you
havo read?"
"God's Words."
"Does ho know tho real condition
of n man's heart?"
"Yes."
"Does ho know a man's heart hot
ter than the man himself?" (
"Probably."
"Who does ho say Is righteous?"
"Ho says that there Is none rlght-
coub."
"What, not 0110?"
"No, not ono."
"Aro you an exception to this rule?"
"I suppose not."
"Then you admit that you are not
really righteous?" '
"I suppose I must."
Ask htm to rend Itomana 3:23. Then
cay to him, "Who does God say have
sinned?"
"All havo sinned."
"Aro you an exception?"
"No."
"Then you admit that you havo
sinned and como short ot tho glory of
God"
By this tlmo tho man Is becoming
uneasy. Ho Ib beginning to reallzo
that whatovcr ho" may bo in his own
estimation, In God's sight ho is a
sinner You have withdrawn his at
tention from tho Inconsistent church
mombors with whom ho hns formerly
compared himself, and you hnvo fixed
his mind upon the great God to whom
he must give nn account.
Another good verso to uso with this
class is Isaiah 53: (J. After tho man
hns read It, ask him, "Who does God
say has gono astray?"
"All of us."
"Docs that include you?"
"I supposo it does."
"What docs ho say wo havo dono7"
"We havo turned every "ono to hi3
own way."
"Then, according to God's Word,"
having one's own wny 1b sin?"
"So it seems."
It is woll to emphasize this point
strongly, for, to tho avcrago porson
tho word "sin" meniiB somo form of
vice or crime. According to this vorso
howevor tho real essonco of sin con
sists In having ono's own way, In
Rtenil nf walkintr in God's way. It
may not bo an Immoral way, or a dis
honest way, or nn untruthful way, but
It is his way nnd not God's way, in
which he ought to walk.
Returning to tho verso you can ask,
"What do you say of a sheep which
has gono aBtray?"
"It Is lost."
"Then If you have had your own
way through Hfo Instead of doing
God's will, you too nro lost, are you
not?"
"So It appears." ,
"Admitting then that you are a lost
sinner, what does God say that ho
has dono with your sins?"
"And tho Lord hath laid on him the
Iniquity of us all."
"Then your sins havo mndo It neces
sary for Jesus to dlo on tho cross?"
"Yes."
"Whon Jesus took your placo on tho
cross and filed for your sins, you re
fused to acknowledge him as your
Saviour, did you not?"
"Yes."
"And you hnvo never once thanked
him for what ho has dono for you,
havo you?"
"No "
"And yet you say you aro not very
bad. If this la not bad, will you tell
mo what 1b? Thero 1b only 0110 thing
worse, nnd thnt is to continuo reject
ing such a Saviour."
In dealing with celt-righteous people
It is well-nigh usoIcsh to argue. Nel
thor would It bo n very gracious thing
to tell them that you thought thoy
wore treat slnnerc They would not
bellovo It if you did, nnd quito likely
thoy might ictors "And you aro an
other."
Tho only effcctlvo way of dealing
with them Is to bring them faco to
faco with God, and mako them roalko
that thoy aro dealing with Illm rather
than with you.
Another way is to ask n person If
ho knows thnt ho has committed the
groatost sin a man can commit. He
will probably nnswor, "No, I have
not." AHk him to read Mntthuw
82.27, 38.
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TAKING PICTURES OF BIRDS
English Photograpcr Telia Interesting
Stories of His Adventures in
This Work.
Prof. Frank Newman, a well known
English photographer, tells many In
teresting stories or IiIb ndvonturea in
this work.
Ho cites ono case In particular la
which ho had lain In wnlt for a weok
with his imitation enmora going full
speed, grabbing a meal whon ho could,
only to havo tho bird tako fright and
leave her nest forovor, thus wasting
all his time. Ho baa, how over, been
"Snapping" a Condor's Ntat.
ablo to catch near pictures of tho mooi
hen, probably tho most timid of birds.
Newman has also been very suc
cessful in his pictures of largo birds,
such ns tho South American condor,
tho American eaglo and tho buzzard
and vultures of tho South. Aa may
bo surmised, a different Bort of skill
is required to get such pictures as
these.
As mny bo seen by tho accompany
ing Illustration, the feat requires dar
ing and nervo. The photographor 1b
lowered over tho sido of a mountain
in a boatswnln chair and with a cam
era between his knees gets his pic
tures. G. Dlako Garrison, a photographor
of animals, was baldly hurt in hla
Initial attempt of thin nature In South
America. Ho was attacked by ono of
tho birds whilo in this precnriouB posi
tion and severely clawed boforo his
partner was ablo to draw him up. In
defending himself ho lost his machine
necessitating tho retaking of tho pic
ture uudcr moro auspicious conni
tlons. Tho smaller quadrupeds, thoso semi
domesticated nnlmnls which wo meet
In our every day life, Buch iib tho rab
bit and squirrel, aro not n sltnplo
quarry by any means. Mr. GarriBon
in hla experience hns found tho best 1
way to get these, nnlmals Is with a
paplor macho cow, or other largo ani
mals, which, llko tho horso ot Troy,
will conceal men. This, together
with tho mechanism for Imitating tho
camera's nolso, will usually Hervo to
decelvo oven a wily fox. The cow Is
Hfo sizo nnd has a number of small
holes in tho Bides which servo to
allow tho camera to center on tho sub
ject, and also aro used for peep holes.
MEANEST MAN IS DISCOVERED
Reaches From Window of Moving
Train and Snatches Whisky Flask
From Thlnity Soul.
Wesson, Miss. About the mennest
trick recorded horo was played whon
somo person reached his arm out of
tho window of n moving train and
onatcliod a hottlo of whisky out of a
man's hand Just nu ho was In tho act
of taklnir a drink.
Threo or four prominent citizens ol
Wesson had been up to Hnzlehurst at
tending court, nnd had JiiHt returned
on tho local passenger tialn, which
arrives hero about 0:30 o'clock. Somo
whero or othor a hottlo ot tho real
Kentucky brand had beon procured,
and us soon aa the train Btopped at
tho depot thoso gontlomen alighted
from tho platform and walked toward
tho rear of tho train until they carao
to a dark place.
Horo tho hottlo was quickly un
corked, tho "AlphonsoGaston" cere
mony gono through with, nnd ono of
tho pnrty wan Just lifting tho bottle
to his lips whon It vanished
Thero was a wild chaao after the
train, but it was fruitless.
OPERATE ON A BOY THIEF
Surgeons Will Try to Cure Youngster
Who Can't Keep From
Stealing.
Norrlstown, Pa. Joseph Mlskpwlto,
1 boy living In Pottstown, practically
'waa Bontenced by Judge Solly to go to
a hospital Instead of a Jail for a aorlea
of petty thefts.
Tho boy will undergo an operation
for tho relior of pressure of tho skull
on tho brain, which, according to phy
sicians, causes an Impairment of hla
mental faculties 00 thut ho hubltualiy
nteals.
His condition Is duo to a blow on
tho head with a club thut ho recolved
whon ho waa six years old. Ho is now
nearly eighteen.
Assured that nil ho would havo to
pay would bo $1 a day while tho boy
waa In tho University hospital, tho
father gavo hla consent to tho opera
tion. Pet Cat Kills Rattlesnake.
Balonne, N. J. A pet eat at tho nor
gen Point iron worka killed a four
foot rattlesnake.
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Queer Human Nature.
"Peoplo nro funny."
"How now?"
"In this Van Million divorce suit
they divided $25,000,000 amicably and
thoy scrapped about tho custody of a
pug dog."
Described.
"Pa, what Is overhead, oxpenso?"
"What I hnvo to pay for your moth
er's hats."
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uiA'cpl wuler for bluing. Ask lor Ked Cross
liall Blue, the oxlm nood vuluo blue. Adv.
Ever notico that tho girl with a
broken heart always manages to save
a fow of the pieces?
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