Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-21

science and the care OF her two children.
Pierre Curie long since ceased to aid her in
her scientific work, for, dreamer AZ he was,
he was killed by taxicab while absent
mindedly crossing one Of the crowded streets
of Paris.
After all her years of work she does not
possess any radium OF her own. for that
which she separated has long been consumed
IN the study of its properties. The French
Government allows her to use some Of its
own, but this must be carefully conserved
and cannot be risked in experiments.
The only desire she has expressed to her
friends IL that she may have some radium
Of her own. committee Of women and
scientists has been formed to raise a SUM-
Gent fund to present her upon her arrival
in America with one gramme Of this precious
substance. The committee has announced
that 1t will welcome contributions Of any
size from the women OF America and that
the Equitable Trust Company Of 81 Wall
street. New York, has been empowered to
receive donations for the Nine. Curie Ra-
dunn Fund.
Not only have gladly accepted member
ship on this committee to provide this self
sacrificing woman and great scientist with
the only thing which she wishes In the
world but every one whom I have ap-
preached to assist us in this matter has
responded with equal enthusiasm Only
yesterday clinic patient of mine, suffering
from cancer, begged that she might be per-
mitted to contribute 81, all that she could
afford, in order to help the cause. Her name
will rank high on the list which will be
given to Nine. Curie when the radium Is
presented, as will those OF the women OF
greater means, several Of whom arc giving
$1,000 apiece and one $4,000.
Only those who have worked In labora-
tory can know the fascination Of discovery
and can appreciate the motives which led
these two people to devote their lives to the
separation OF radium and its allied COM
pounds and the study OF their nature. The
children Of ones brain are far more i'm
mortal than the children OF the body They,
indeed, can never be taken from one. No
one can injure them. No one can buy them:
they remain always monument erected by
the brain to its capacity to reason. Even in
Its busy and multifarious life the world in a
queer, dumb fashion appreciates occasionally
one Of these great research workers and at
tempts, in clumsy way perhaps, to express
Its approval and to offer some reward.
Usually the world is quite astonished and
even panied to find that true science is its
own reward and that nothing It can do,
either by applause or by criticism. can in
the least influence one Of the great geniuses.
The reason is very simple: the great genius
is creative and those who create have very
little interest In material things.
She Comes to Study
Amplificatious of Her Method
And 50 Nine Curie, after a long life of
arduous labor. is to take a few weeks vaca-
ton and come to a country she has long
wished to visit. She will ind here many
friends and pupils, for her laboratory has
long been a place to which ambitious STU
dents flock. She wishes to see some Of the
institutions in which her original discoveries
were carried on and amplifed, for the dis
covery OF radum has led to the finding Of
many other curious new elements some Of
which are as fugitive as the gnAts Of =