Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-26
CHEERS
Z D D D D D
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 Of
radium- bearing lands in Colorado AMI
Utah.
We propose to retain these lands
for immediate development of the ra-
dunn bearing ores that they contain
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 Score
tary Lane.
We have formulated "a plan by
which every prospector in the West
will be encouraged 10 go out at once
and discover and develop these ura-
MUM ores.
I'VE are going to provide favorable
terms for development, and in Feb
r
ruary there will be opened at Denver
a 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 ment.
Our definite scheme for disposipg
OF the land which we would withdraw
from private exploitation and monop-
oily is to divide the lands into units
OF about $50 acres each. A prospect )r
will be given the exclusive right 20
develop uranium which he may find
on one of these S60-acre tracts. He
will turn over % per cent OF his ores
to the Government. The rest he may
put on the market The Government
will reduce this rs per cent share and
use ii to control the price and to fur
nish free treatment through the Pub
lie Health Service.
1T is not withdrawal from use
the 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-
oh
"hold-up" 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 radium will be entrusted
to them, and after they have secured
seven grams of radium for themselves
the rest will go to the public.
TT is not often that 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 mslady 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 un-
dertafe there, and to cooperate with
the public health officials in estab-
fishing A system of radium Institutes
throughout the country for the treat
ment Of cancer without charge.