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Show SECRET PLANS ARE UNDER WAY J F!lilU!GHTINGFTJ jMzbMF 'niv ns ' ' mj- '? LJEW R. BROWN, editor of The Erenlng Independent of St. Petersburg, i'ln., his newspaper newspa-per plant, n reproduction Of the fmnt puce of hi newspaper on a cloudy day when it mi given away, and bird's') c lcw of st. Pctcra-hurg. Pctcra-hurg. Oty of St. Petersburg, has more than repaid the trouble of the Innovation In-novation American-Made Radium. Tho manufacture of radium !s to he undertaken In America for the first time In its history Alfred I dj Pont is investing millions of dollars J In Colorado mines containing pitch-blende pitch-blende and In extensive apparatus , for the extracting of radium from M pitchblende. His purpose Is assert- 1 ed to be a purely philanthropic one j and. if true It Is Indeed commend-able. commend-able. Radium Is widely recognized as a cure for cancer. Mr. du Pont, when a quantity of radium has been procured, intends to build a radium ra-dium laboritorv where experiments may he made and a hospital lnsti- J tuted for the uso of the public. Besides being the first radium X inwnufartured In America. Mr. du Pont's Institution will bo tho ;irt hi this country to offer free treatment 1 with radium. In England. France and Germany public Institutions of this nature were recently established, estab-lished, some of them philanthropic and others subsidized by the gov. ernment. The pitchblende fields In roloradu were dlseovereai about eight years ago. but until the pre." nt tlm no extensive a'temp' has been made to Utilize iliem for the man if. i tjre of radium The expense of manufacturing manufac-turing this precious substance is enormous, and to do It on g large scale reqnises a capital nothing short of fabulous. How costly and how difficult the proce?3 Is may bs inferred from the fsct that thers are but nine grams of radium In existence ex-istence In the whole world. There is need of radium In America. Amer-ica. If Mr. du Pont succeeds In ob- 1 tainlng radium and devotes It to the tires he has promised, he will have Ja mfcde himself a public benefactor. |