THE SUPPLY OF RADIUM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9743, 7 March 1914, Page 5

THE SUPPLY OF RADIUM.

CRY IXO AMERICAN XEKI). SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 3. Tho Secret;iry of tho Interior (A! c Franklin Lane), in his annual report i-o Congress, recommended that legislation Ho enacted empowering the president to withdraw into Government reserves all lands known to contain radium-bearing ores. Some ini em-ting statement* as to the supply and uses oi radium were made before the Committee on .Mines of the House" ot Representatives the other day in considers! Lion of the proposal. Four doctors who appeared before the committee said that radium was the only cure the medical world had discovered for cancer. In the I'nitod Mates there is to-day less than two .'."ams, in reduced form, of radium, an' l , all tlm doctors agreed that the crvl need in their work was more of the ment. Discussing the <••)<■!> member oi the fiom-e of llej.i'X'Wntative.s. who is now under treatment ior cancer. one of the physici mis id he was sun- a cure ejected ,1 more ra'iiuni was nvadabh\ ll( f<a i-! no i"rnn *cmn« ti r ior com-i ntrating the available suppL could he ma 'e in justice to the thousands oi' other pnnifais. Ho added r<i:>t his .•■*- sociates wi re at work tryi::;: lir eov.-" a process ior the. reduction o, radium from tho ores of Colorado. I»:if omconcern n>w furnishes radium to tho medical profession, and its formula for ieduction is holo secret. r \ be purs-os** of the suggested withdrawal of radium lands ironi public use is so that tlie meagre supply may be made available icsr scientific and medical purposes.