Letters Sent to S.C. Lind, March 21, 1938

Mar. 21,1938. Dr. S.C. Lind, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Dear Dr. Lind: You will probably be interested and somewhat shooked to learn that our good fraend, Barker, is now in Memorial Hospital, New York City, in rather a critical condition. As a matter of fact, he does not realize the seriousness of his ailment and would be terribly upset if he know I were writing you this, but the fact remains that in all prohability he will never be able to resumo his duties with the Corporation. He roally started to ail about last August or September, but paid very little attention to the pain in his right chest until the first of the year. He has gone through all the stages of diagnosis, and of oourse 80 fur as he is concerned, he has beon told that they have been unable to find what the matter is. Confidentially, the condition is ono of cancer of the right lung, with a brain involvenont. We are all brokon up hore and of course will niss Howard a great deal sinco ho has been an important part of our organization for a great many years. It will not be a simple matter to replace him, but that is a question which now we face, and I wonder if you have in mind any young men who might be qualified to sorve us in the capacity of both physicist and chemist. The chief duties would be to put radium in solution and make up luminous compounds. There would be a limited amount of determination of radio-activity, and there would be considerable work on making brightness measurements on luminous material. Ile would also do cono siderable experimental work on adhesives and some on zine sulphide, and give some assistance to our general production manager in the ape plication department. It is not so easy to find a chomist familiar with radium, but probably you have in mind some bright young fellow who has had at least some experience. llost of the work, anyway, is such that he would have to broak in on it here. As you know, wo rofine or recovor no radium whatever here, but only male the solutions for use in the luminous material.