CORRESPONDENCE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 296, 18 June 1909, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE MISSION OP RADIUM. (To' the" Editor.) Sir,— l notice the public arc very anxious to get information about "the spark thrower," for such radium means, and the idea is getting abroad that it is the blessed angel of pity sent to preach deliverance from one kind of evil, viz., cancer. I fear it will be like the thousands of similar blessings which ar© illustrated by "the little boon sweet at first but making a sense of bitterness in the stomach." (Rev.) First, can nature pity man when he has no pity and continues making Dreadnoughts and inciting his fellow men to band together to produce all sorts of bodily suffering. Sometime ago in Christchurch there was a lively correspondence over field hospitals, and the importance of getting drugs to promptly allay pain from billets wounds.' One writer promptly stopped it by suggesting wifhiii eaclv bullet the anodyne in a full dose should be enclosed. My idea of the mission of radium is of a religious nature. "Nee Tamon eonsumotur" is the Presbyterian motto, with the burning bush, and the translation would be — "Not even yet is it burned away. — I am, etc., RADIUM.