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    "ocrText": "-2-\npresented in the report. Even granting that all cases reported are authentic, the\nreport states that the injury was caused by the practice of pointing brushes with\nthe lips. The report further states that this practice was abandoned in 1925, which\nwe know to be a fact.\nFor the past tiro or three years some of the best medical, chemical and\nphysical brains in the country have been devoting a great deal of time to the study\nof this question and, have made numerous recommendations for the elimination of\npossible hazards. If certain practices of the past, which may have caused injury,\nhave been abandoned and new methods adopted under the suggestion of those best\nqualified to recommend, it would seem as if an industry as honorable and as important\nas that of luminous material should be permitted to live without undue harassing.\nThere are many naterials used in industries in this country that are of a\ndecidedly injurious nature if not properly handles, such as phosphorous, tetra-ethyl\nlead, fire works, cyanide of pottassium, etc.\nThis question of \"radium poisoning\" has monopolized the press from time to\ntime for the past two or three years. The agitation was originally started by\na\nclever attorney who succeeded in getting the five radium cases on a contingent basis.\nInformation was very generously distributed and, we are sorry to say that most of\nit was misleading and unture. However, the general subject made a human appeal,\nand knowing what we would be up against we could see no advantage in being drawn into\na\ncontroversy through the press. Doctors and so called \"Radium Experts\", vied with\neach other in gaining notoriety and, the general public, which is poorly versed in\nthe knowledge of radium, was mislead. The five \"radium victims\", so often r ferred\nto, are still living and will probably continue to do 30 for a good many years, and\nthis in spite of affidavits and testimony by \"Radium Experts\" that in all probability\nthey would be dead by last September.\nWe expect further publicity on this subject, because the same general group\nthat had the five original cases titaling $1,350,000 against us - at the present time\nhave also filed against us three (3) suits $1,150,000 and, the article in"
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