New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21

earnest wish that your genius and
energy may receive all encouragement
10 carry forward your efforts for the
advance OF science and conquest of
disease, have been commissioned to
present to you this little phial Of
radium. To you we owe our knowledge
and possession Of it, and so to you we
give lt, confident that in your posses
SION 1T wall be the means further to
unveil the fascinating secrets Of
nature, to widen the field of useful
knowledge, to alleviate suffering
among the children of man Take It
to use as your wisdom shall direct and
your purpose of service shall incline
you. Be sure that we esteem it but
small earnest of the sentiments for
which 1T stands. 1t betokens the af-
tectlon OF one great people for another
IT VIII remind you of the love of
grateful people for YOURSELF and it
Will testify in the useful work to which
you viii devote it the reverence of
mankind for one of it's foremost beue-
factors and most beloved of women"
Nine. Curie's Response
The President presented Nine.
Curie with the tube containing the
radium. AS she stood up to acknowI-
edge the gift her audience stood up
also IN order to obtain better look
Nine. Curie is not very tall, and the
rather broad brimmed hat she wore
cast shadow over her face. She
spoke slowly, in precise English, with
not too pronounced accent, her voice
barely carrying throughout the room:
Mr.. President and Mrs Harding: I
cannot express to you the emotion
which fills my heaart at this moment
You, the chief of this great Republic
OF the United States, honor me as no
woman has ever been honored in
America before. The destiny of a ma
ton whose women can do what your
countrywomen do to-day through you,
Mr.. President, is sure and safe. 1t
gives me confidence in the destiny of
democracy
81 accept this rare gift, Mr.. Presi-
dent, with the hope that I may make
IL serve mankind. 1 thank your coun-
trywomen in the name of France.
thank thin in the name of humanity
which we all wish so much to make
happier. I love you all, my American
friends, very much
At the reception which followed Nine.
Curic, at the Presidents suggestion.
recined in a chair seated at the Presi-
dents right. Mrs. Harding stood next,
and beside Mrs. Harding Nine. CURES
two daughters. Assisting Mrs. Har-
ding were Princess Lubomirska, Mrs.
Charles E. Hughes, Nine. Jusserand
and Mrs. Meloney.
This evening Nine Curie was hon
ored with reception at the National
Museum and tomorrow the French
Embassy will entertain for her. On
Sunday the Polish Legation will act
as her host.
Madame Curie is staying at Wash
ington at the home of the Third Assis-
tant Secretary of State and Mrs, Robert
Woods Bliss. She was received on her
arrival in Washington by a committee
composed of Mrs. Bliss, Mrs. Marshall
Field, Mrs. James W. Wadsworth ir.,
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Mrs. Charles
d. Walcott and Mrs. Vernon Kellogg.
Deed of Gift
The deed of gift which accompanied
the radium reads:
This agreement, made this 10th OF
May, 1921, between the Committee of
Women of the Marie Curie Fund. of
3 MAcdougal Street, New York City.
and Nine. Curie, of Paris, France, Wit
nesseth
wv hereas gram of radium has been
secured through the efforts of the
above mentioned committee and by the
voluntary subscriptions of the women
of the United States for the purpose
OF presentation to Nine Marie Curie
for free and untrammeIed use by her
III experimentation and in pursuit of
science,
Now, therefore, in consideration of
the object above set forth and in order
that the fullest scientific use may be
made of such material the said execu-
tive committee of the Nine. Curie Fund.
as representing the subscribers thereto,
does hereby give, grant and transfer
to Nine. Marie Curie the said gram of
radlum, to be used and applied by her
freely and in her discretion in expert
mentation and in the best interests of
science by herself personally, or under
her direction, or through such agencies,
assistants and successors as she may
nominate, and in the confident ex-
pectation that Nine. Cure will take such
measures as will insure the continued
use of the said material for the .pur-
poses stated, in case of her withdrawal
from activities or other disability
through such persons as she may ad-
judge best qualified for the purpose"