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BUSINESS SURVEY
Executive and Editorial Offices
A Magazine of Business Achievement
GALVIN BUILDING
236 West 55th Street
TELEPHONE COLUMBUS 2651
New York
June 26, 1925
United States Radium Corp.,
30 Church St.,
New York City.
Attention Mr. Rader
Dear Sir:
We are sending herewith by messenger an article
prepared for publication in our next issue. Kindly make
necessary corrections and return.
We feel this question to be one of great importance.
Sensational newspaper stories regarding alleged "dangerous
occupations" have done and can do a vast deal of damage to
important American industries. We want to make this article
as strong as possible. If you can make any suggestion for
improvement we shall be glad to have it.
Very truly yours,
THE BUSINESS SURVEY
By EGWilson
EGW/CK
Inclosure.
MESOTHORIUM NOT GUILTY
Thoughtless Public Clamor Against Use is Unjust
Death always makes a strong impression upon the imagination of
the multitude when XXXXXXXX the manner is or can be made to appear
mysterious or especially terrible. It is not surprising, therefore, that
there should be popular clamor from time to time for the suppression of
industries and closing down of plants in which deaths have resulted from
seemingly strange and shocking causes. The latest case in point is that
of the United States Radium Corporation, of 412 Alden street, East Orange,
N. Seven persons employed in the plant died, and a rumor that the cause
was the use of mesotherium in painting watch and clock dials in the plant,
to render them luminous and visible at night.
In the same week some thousands of persons employed in other
industries, which have ceased to seem mysterious and terrible to the public
mind, met death in various ways, some of which could not be clearly
explained. A considerble propertion of these occurred in the operation
of the railroads of the United States, yet this did not result in a demand
for the abolition of railroad operation. Any such demand would have been
laughed at as the yammerings of an idiot or the ravings of a maniac, in
this day and age; yet that very demand was made, seriously and fervidly,
by a large proportion of the American public when the first deaths in
connection with railroad operation occurred about a century and a quarter.
ago.
It is an established and demonstrable fact that the use of
mesethorium in the manner in practice at the plant of the United States
2
Radium Corporation is less dangerous than the manufacture of matches,
emery, wall plaster, fireworks, gunpowder and many other commodities in
general use. Mesothorium is employed in the treatment of disease, by the
same physicians who, seemingly for the sake of publicity and making a bid
for XXX ill considered pepular approval, joined the clamer against its use
for illuminating watch dials.
The clamor will die out, of course, since there is no reasonable
nor logical cause for it, and American common sense always prevails in the
long run; but meanwhile & corporation of high standing, performing a
useful and necessary service for mankind, has been subjected to annoyance
and loss. That is unjust.
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United States Radu
Carp
M Rader
30 Churcha
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