Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-27
CHEERS
Z D D D D D
VICTIMS
Government Co-operates With
Or. Kelly to Put Mysterious
Element in Reach Of All.

WASHINGTON, Jan, 26.-Hope for
the 100000 cancer sufferers in the
United States was given in remark
able statement by Secretary of the
Interior Lane to-day before the House
Mines and Mining Committee on the
bill providing for the withdrawal Of
radum- bearing lands in Colorado ana
Utah
We propose to retain these lands
for immediate development of the ra-
dium bearing ores that they contain
4 in order that the women and chill
. dren as we'll as the men among the
poor and rich alike in this country
may have treatment for cancer at the
earliest moment possible" said Secre-
tary Lane.
I'VE have formulated a plan by
which every prospsctor In the West
will be encouraged to go est at once
and discover and develop these ura-
nium ores,
We are going to provide favorable
terms for development, and in Feb
ruary there will be opened at Denver
laboratory where the process OF
making radium will be used by Drs.
Kelly and Douglas, of Baltimore. The
moment that the first gram of radium
is made by this process the process
Will be published to the world.
One-fourth to Govern nnent.
Our definite scheme for disposiug
Of the land which we would withdraw
from private exploitation and monop-
oily is to divids the lands into units
OF about $50 acres each. A prospect >r
VIII be given the exclusive right 20
develop uranium which he may find
on one Of these 3s0-acre tracts. lie
Will turn over rs per cent of his ores
TO the Government. The rest he may
put on the market. The Government
viii reduce this 25 per cent share and
use II to control the price and to fur
nsh free treatment through the Pub
lie Health Service.
1T Is not withdrawal from use
mat we ask here. 1t is Withdrawal of
these lands for use. We saw private
monopoly reaching out for these
lands We saw the agents of Euro
pean firms busy in Colorado trying
10 secure uranium claims. We for
INFLATED this plan to prevent the ex-
portation of these ores TO Europe
ana to prevent the creation of pri
Vate monopoly which would charge
holdup" prices due to the control Of
Inc ore beds and possession of the
secret process of manufacture.
All Over Seven Grams to Public.
Doctors Kelly and Douglas are
spending $4,000 on the laboratory
.aey are about to open in Denver
lhey have secured a lot of ore from
,ne Crucible Steel Company. The
secret process which the Government
dentists have worked out for the ex-
traction of radium will be lntrusted
70 mem, and after they have secured
SVEN grams of radium for themselves
we rest will go to the public.
4, II Is not often that my department
uesIS with matter of such init
mate interest as this, but the happi-
ness and lives of hundreds of thou
sahds suffering from this malady may
~ affected by the action to be taken
" mis- Government in this case"
= Mr. Lane read a letter from DR..
inelly offering to donate the entire
,Sooratory to the Government at the
use OF temporary work ne Is to un
s y there. and to Cooperate with
HHt public health officials In estab-
.usnlhg a system OF radium institutes
nIoughout the country for the treat
"eht OF cancer without charge.