Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-26
LANE CHEERS
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VICTIMS
Government Co-operates With
DR.. 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 a 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 IF
radum- bearing lands in Colorado AMI
Utah.
We propose TO retain these lands
for immediate development of the ra-
dunn bear ring ores that they conta n
in order that the women and chill
dren as well 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.
we have formulated a plan by
which every prospector in the West
will be encouraged to go cut at once
and discover and develop these ura-
mum ores.
we are going to provide favora be
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 Government.
our definite scheme for disposipg
of the land which we would withdra -
from private eXuloitation and monop-
oily is TO divide the lands into units
of abb ut $50 acres each. A prospect 1r
will be given the exclusive right 20
develop uranium which he may find
on one of these 360-acre tracts. He
will turn over % per cent of his ores
to the Government. The rest he NAV
put on the market The Government
will reduce this % per cent share nd
use 1t to control the price and to fur
nish free treatment through the Pub
lie Health Service.
1T is not withdrawal from use
that 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
to secure uranium claims. We for
mulated this plan to prevent the ex-
portation Of these ores to Europe
and to prevent the creation OF a pri-
vate monopoly which would charge
"holdup" prices due to the control of
the 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
they are about to open in Denver.
They have secured a lot of ore from
the Crucible Steel Company. The
secret process which the Government
chemists have worked out for the ex-
traction of radum will be intrusted
to them. and after they have secured
seven grams of radlum for themselves
the rest will go to the public.
III Is not Otten thdt my department
deals with a matter of such init
mate interest as this. but the happi-
ness and lives of hundreds OF thou
sands suffering from this malady may
be affected by the action to be taken
by this Government in this case"
Mr.. Lane read a letter from DR.
Kelly offering to donate the entire
laboratory to the Government at the
close Of temporary work he is to I'M
dertake there, and to cooperate with
the public health officials in estab-
fishing system of radium institutes
throughout the country for the treat
ment of cancer without charge