Bisbee daily review., 1921-05-27
T Gaue My Secret To The World; 1t Was Not 10 Enrich Anyone" Says Mme Curie Who Discovered
 Radium In 1868, And Is Now Visiting In America

lively uoOr woman and lives when at home at the Institute Curie in Paris on the salary Of a teacher at the Sorbonne.
 Gave Secret to World
 "I gave my secret to the world" she declared Ut was not to en- rich anyone. It was for all ypeO- pie"
 Many fantastic stories have been told about radium and it's mysterious properties. It has been said that an ounce of this metallic chemical element found in pitchblende.' is worth more than S3.OO0, ,00g.-to obtain which requires the' reduction of $500 tons of ore by the most painstak ing and complicated processes.
 The modest discoverer of raI dium has never, it IS said. refused to release it for the use of human ity the world over, as result of which her small store has become exhausted. The great Polish wo- man savant sNvisit to America, marily for the purpose of investi- gating pitchblende deposits ill / Colorado, Utah, Pennsylvania and other states, gave rise to the movement on the part of Ameri- can women to supply Madame Curie with a gram of radium worth S1O0.OOO which shall be .all her owny This will enable her to continue her researches along curative lines when she returns to Paris.
 pr. Robert Abbe,. New York surgeon, who worked years ago alongside of Mme. Curie in her Paris laboratory, recently declar- ed that no other woman had ever pursued a trail into an unknown jungle and brought to light such an ''unsuspected new factor which had such revolutionary intiu- ence in science" He said she did not stumble on radium by chance.
 Educated iii chemistry and phy- sics, she possessed, he said, "the dominating will, the zeal in pur- suit, the indefatigable working power, the self-sacrificing bray cry. The same forces which made it possible for Peary to reach the No.+b D1lo .orriad thic .aynlOrar into an unknown wilderness Every year a new chapter has to be written about this wonderful substance.
 Story of Discovery
 The discovery, of radium came about in this wise: Professor Roentgen. a German scientist, an nounced his discovery of the K Ray in 1895. These rays possess ed the property of emitting radia- \ tions of a special character which cwere- able to penetrate through matter opaque to ordinary light
 A year later H. Becquerel, a French physicist, observed that certain uranium preparations emitted rays resembling those dis covered by Roentgen. Becquerel rays became the new wonder and by delicate tests were proved to be electrical Thus began the search for the new element and every form of uranium in labora- tories was tested
 Mme Curie at this point diverg- ed from the search of other chem ists. She went to Carlsbad where pitchblende had been mined for a century for the extraction of uraniunass in making Bohemian ! glass and beautiful dyes. Around the mines she found 90 tons of re- 7 fuse, an analysis of which proved it to be four times as strong in Becquerel rays as the uranium which had been taken from the ore. Mime. Curie by long and te- dious process of extracting lead, silver, tin, bismuth and other me tallic substances from the pile of refuse dissolved the mass until the residue was 50 times stronger than uranium. Dr. Abbe says of this:
 This small remnant glowed in the dark. All but two metals had been eliminated These were known to have the slightest radio activity. Therefore, there could be but one conclusion = Mime Curie was facing a mysterious new force Two years later she was able to announce it's discov- cry and her method of extracting it from the ore.