Letters Received to H.H. Barker, January 26, 1929

RADIUM SPECIAL SERVICE RADIUM SOLUTIONS IN RADIUM THERAPEUTICS RADIUM BATHS APPLICATORS TO ORDER THE RADIUM EXTENSION SERVICE NOT INC. MEDICAL & DENTAL ARTS BLDG. 185 NORTH WABASH AVE. TELEPHONE DEARBORN 1665 CHICAGO, ILL. January 26, 1929. Mr. H. H. Barker, 535 Pearl Street, New York City, New York. 1/+1/19 Dear Mr. Barker: Enclosed please find check in the amount of $75.00 monthy for which please send us sixty 10 microgram ampules and credit my account with the balance, and oblige. I have a friend who is employed by the United Press that was in to see no a few days ago to discuss the effect of the unfavorable publicity on our redium business and he is inclined to the belief that if you were inclined to do so, that arrangements could be made so that publicity that would overcome the present handicap and work it into an asset could be secured. The information would be furnished, of course, by you indirectly so that it would not appear 8.S coning from your Company He feels as I do, that there has been e. gross inw justice done to radium and he is relying upon the fact that the American people are a sport loving people and, therefore, bes lieve in fair play. It will not be long now until the anniversary of the payment of this money to the girls and, no doubt, there will be a continuation of unfavorable publicity at that time unless something is done to counteract it. I feel sure great good could be accomplished through this connection from our standpoint, as distributors of a non-deleterious therapeutic agent that has proven its value in hundreds of caseso It is almost impossible to secure finance to put over e deal with so much to overcome and I do not feel justified in my own mind in jeoperdizing peoples money on a radium jar deal with the present existing conditions. One of those girls has just gone to a hospital, supposedly to die. Since the middle of December Mrs. MacDonald is becoming paralyzed and no doubt "we can expect to read of the death of these girls anytime, with the usual amount of publicity condeming radium. If there is some effort made to combat this through legitimate channels and thereby, clear the name of Radium, I would be willing to cooperate and render any assistance possible. Otherwise, I see no possibility of making money (in spite of the foundation that has been laide from tableth