Radium In World
Less Than A Pound
Belgium Has Monopoly On Troduc
tlon In Its ( oiiro Mines—
Demands Is Great.
Within a work s time the British
have o.ersufc.cribrd a national ra
dium fund which is bring set aside
to purchase sufficient radium for
the country's present- and future
needs in fighting ranee: and other
diseases. K.r.g George was treated
wdi rac.i.m in Ins irtent illness
and th't newraised fund is part
of a national thank offering for
his recover.'’. There v.ill probably
b* about $1,500,000 available for the
purchase.
Of ail the so-called precious met
als, radium is by far the scarce;it
and most costly, though it is rot
used for ornamental purposes. Its
use Is largely medicinal, particularly
in combating ranter, although it is
also employed industrially in paint
ing luminous watch dials and sim
ilar objects.
Every important hospital has its
tlnv supply of radium and a rarf'ul
supervision is maintained over the
particles. Usually, because of Its
highly destructive radi-actlvity. the
radium is kept in platinum needles
about the sire of an ordinary sew
ing needle or in glass tubes.
While radium is of the greatest
curative value In the treatment of
disease, it is so powerful that if
handled injuriously one gram could
kill a man within an hour of ex
posure The radiatins break dow n
cells of healthy as well as diseased
tissue, and even affect the bones,
so that great rare is exercised in
the handling of pure radium. The
tubes of radium for medical use con
tain generally from one io a hun
dred milligrams only.
Demand lx Great.
Since there are only between '250
and 350 grams, or from, one-half to
three-quarters of a pound, of radium
in the entire world today, the de
mand far exceeds the supply, as
radium treatment for cancer alone
has grown to large proportions
However, radium is a long lived
substance, losing about half Its
volume in 2,500 years, so there is
no immediate danger from deterior
ation of the present amount, small
as it is
The largest supply in any one 'n
atitutlon in the world is at. Mem
orial hospital In New York, where
there are eight grams The private
hospital of Dr. Howard A. Kelly, tn
Baltimore, who was himself a pio
neer in the radium field, is the
possessor of five grama of the pre
cious element.
Mme. Curie, the discoverer of rad
ium, has two grams in her labora
tory in Paris—the original gram
whfch she and her husband Isolated
and a gram which was given to her
by American women for experimen
tal purposes.
Worth *70.000 A Gram.
Radium is produced in several
countries, though the Belgian gov
ernment enjoys a virtual monopoly,
handling, as it does, ninety per cent
of the world's supply. Prior to the
working of the mines in UDper
Katanga, Belgian Congo, most of
the radium came from the famous
mins in Bohemia, from Portugal and
from Colorado. The mines in Colo
rado are so low in content that
arr row practically shut down.
The pitchblende ore of the Congo,
from which pure radium is extract
ed, is considered very rich if it yields
as much as fifty milligrams per ton
of ore. Other governments have
made outlays similar to that of
Great Britain
Various Institutions have acquir
ed radium for their own use by col •
lecting funds for that purpose. Thus
the University of Pennsylvania set
asid* *73.000 for the purchase of a
gram for the university hospital
The value of radium is depend
ent. upon radioactivity, which is
carefully measured bv delicate in
struments- The current price in the
medical profession is *70,000 a gram.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of a mort
gage deed with power of sale there
in contained, executed bv J. F.
Jenkins and wife. Avalona Jenkins,
of Cherokee county. South Caro
lina of the one part to J. O*. White
to secure and indebtedness of $993 01
and recorded in the office of thn
Register of Deeds for Cleveland
county in book of mortpages 108,
page 397 and default ’n the payment
of Indebtedness thereby secured
having been made. I. the undersign.
J. G. White, mortgagee, will on
Monday, the 15th day of July, 1929,
at the court house door in the town
of Shelby, North Carolina, at 12
o'clock, noon or within legal ho>*#s
sell the land encumbered by said
mortgagee to secure funds with
which to pay said indebtedness,
which land is situated in the East
edge of the town of Grover, in
Cleveland county. North Carolina,
and being lots numbers one and
two In block two! lots two. three,
four, five, six, and seven in block
three: lots ten and eleven in block
four, of the J. F. Jenkins land oa
platted by J. R. Edmonds, C. E.,
which platt is recorded in the of
fice oftfte Register of Deeds for
Cleveland county in Book SS. page
•54 to which platt and record ret
erence is made for further descrip
tion.
Terms of sale cash. This June 11,
1929.
J. G. WHITE, Mortgagee.
O. M. Mull, Attorney for Mortgagee.
Maxwell Talks Taxation At
Asheville Meet Of Bankers
Intangible Property, He Says, En
titled To Special Treatment,
Two Reasons.
j Adoption of the tax classification
amendment to be voted upon by 11 if
electorate of the state next, year
and the working out by the next
general assembly o( real adjust
ment of an countable and fair sup
port of the public schools were
urged at Asheville. Thursday morn
ing by A. J. Maxwell, commissioner
of revenue and chairman of fha.
tax commission, speaking before the
North Carolina Bar association.
• Intangible property, bv which is
meant bonds, stocks, notes, bank
deposits, etc,, is entitled to special
treatment." said Mr. Maxwell, "for
two reasons:’’
"First, the law limits the rate of
Income earned by these classes < f
property while tax rates—formerly
moderate—mount higher and highr,
and absorb every year an increas
ing proportion of ttieir legal fixed
income. This state limits the in
terest rate to fi per cent, while the
general property tax absorbs in
taxe> from 2 to 4 per rent, when
the law , is complied with. It, goes
without saying, though," said Mr
Maxwell, “that the law is enforced
only against the unadvised and the
unfortunate.”
"The serond reason for special
treatment, of intangible property is
that it participates to a smaller de
gree in the benefits of government.
Most-of the expenditures of our
governments is for purposes whim
enhance the value of real property
and tangible property. All expendi
tures for schools and for roads give
increased value to homes located
within their reach, hut none of
them adds a penny to the limited
income or to the fixed principal of
a note "
"Perhaps the strongest argument
on the practical side." said Mr.
Maxwell, "is the universal failure
of thr effort to tax intangible prop
erty in the same way as tangible
property, not only in this state,
but in the other seventeen states
which have not yet ndopted classi
fication, as well A challenging
feature of our own failure to tax
this property at the uniform rate
is the increasing extent of this fai'
ure.”
"fn 1921 solvent credits were 7 5
per cent of our total listed property
There was a gradual decline i.i
amount and percentage every yea
for seven years, and in 1928 solvent
credits were only 4 4 per cent of
the total. Actual revenue from our
efforts to enforce uniform property
tax rates against credits is steadily
and rapidly approaching tlie vanish- j
ing point.”
Mr. Maxwell thinks that the pro
posed amendment to the Constitu
tion, granting the general assembly
authority to make a reasonable
classification of property, which w <s j
defeated by a small majority in the
last general election after a eainp
aipfn devoted almost exclusively to
national rather than state issues,
and which will he submitted In
broader scope to the electorate ir.
1930, stands an excellent, chance, of
adoption, provided the public is
sanely Informed as to our inabili'v
under the share of the tax load on
property, and as to our ability to
secure more total revenue at lower
and non-cojifiseatory rates under
proper classification.
Speaking of the need for a better
adjustment of the question of equi
table, fair .support of the public
schools, Mr. Maxwell said In part
As a somewhat careful observer
of the trend of events in North
Carolina. T have the profound con
viction that the gravest menare *<>
the peace and progress of the state
is the biennial deadlock that has
come to occur at, each session of
the general assembly as to the basis
of support of the public schools of i
the state. Before each session con
venes its membership is organized
into opposing groups on the quo -
lion of the extent to which revenue
shall be collected by the state and
distributed bark to the counties for
the support of the public schooi"
Thcse opposing groups spend mbs.!
of the sixty days of the legislative
session in bitter and, recriminating
deadlock, to the negle'’* and aimed,
exclusion of patient consideration
of other important legislation, which
is rapidly developing a class con
sciousness and an array of the in
terest, of different sections of the
state against each other"
"If we were to review the politico 1
and industrial history of the state
for these last thirty years I believe
we would set down as one of ‘he
primary reasons for its marvelous
progress its almost complete free
dom from the blighting effect of
sectional or class consciousness. We
have known no East or West, save
in alternating recognition of thozc
whose public service has merited
high honor.
The good fruits of this policy
should quicken our perception to
recognize the evil consequences of
a departure from it."
"I am endeavoring to bring this
question before the public view in
the conviction that no other one
tiling within our power to do at this
time would be worth more to the
cm PUKED
Kable Declares His Partner Brought 1
In Churchmen As "Prize
Customers."
New York,.June 2,'i —Thr theoreti
cal head of Kablp and company,
brokers for Bishop Janies Cannon,
jr. of flip’ Mrthodist Episcopal
church, south, testified today thtk
to the bishop he was "just the of
fice boy" although able to identify
the bishop's account as one for
stock speculation.
The witness was Charles W.
Kable, appearing at a referee's
hearing into the bankruptcy of
Kable and company, which has
been raided as a bucket shop. Katie
and Harry L Boldhurst, members
of the firm, are tinder indictment
for using the mails to defraud in
connection with the operations of
the rompan.v.
Kable said he was a mere figure
head for Goldhurst who had
brought in tlie southern bishop as
the prize customer of the firm.
Kable said his sole contact win
the bishop consisted of saying good
morning to him when the bishop en
tered the office on a half dozen re
cast cns.
Just "Office Itoy,”
"As far as he was concerned.”
said Kable. "I was just the office
boy " -
Kable was able, however, to ex
plain the firm's method of selling
securities on the partial payment,
plan, a basis on which Bishop Can
non in Washington lias said he
purchased securities from the com
pany. Under flic plan securities
would be delivered when the cus
tomer had paid in full for them.
Kablp was shown a photostafic
copy of the bishop's account, and C.
future progress and security of the
state than to reach a sound settle
ment of this disturbing question on
a. basis so nearly fair to all sections
that it could be incorporated in the
Constitution of the state as a per
manent settlement.
The question may reasonably be
asked if I have a formula to pre
sent A formula may be found for
its solution if—and only if—we can
establish an approach to the prob
lem that is comprehensive. that
visualizes the demand for adequate
public schools throughout the state,
and both the obligations and the
limitations of the state, on the one
hand, and of the local communities
throughout the state, on the other'
Pd ward Fa fans; trustee in bant - j
ruptey . a ski’d
“Don't you see that. Bishop Car
non's was really a speculative ac
count. that those securities were not
held for a,nv length of time?"
Kable replied: "The account I
must: have been speculative in view
of the amount and volume of trans
actions,"
Benoit pointed to the initial
transaction—the purchase of 600
shares of Lehigh valley. Kable said
the initial payment under the par
tial payment plan should have been
about $600.
"But, lie made no payment," the
lawyer suggested.
"No, sir," the witness answered,
adding that the bishop's credit with j
Goldhurst was good.
Liked Goldhurst.
Kable said the bishop apparent
ly also had a high regard for Gold-1
hurst.
"He told me,” the witness added,
"He could recommend anything to;
Bishop Cannon and the bishoi
would tell him to buy it.
On one oi the bishop's trip
about, the world in the interest d
the Anti-Saloon league. Kable said!
Goldhurst had a list of the plac v j
the bishop would be and kept in
toueh with him.
Kable was somewhat apologetic
about his connection wi.th the firm
that bore his name. Several tim> ■
hr drelared "anything I could sr v j
wouldn’t be authoritative." He os-j
tified he had signed all the Chech,
of the firm without question because i
he "felt that the business was all
Mr. Goldhurst's.”
Kable explained how he had en
terrri the business He returned
from Florida in 1926 looking for a
statistician's job in Wall street. !e
said, when hr met Goldlu r. t
through a friend.
"He asked me if I would manag'
an office for him,” he went on. "I
was flattered. He told me he was
I
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via
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
SYSTEM
WEDNESDAY. JULY 3RD
ROUND TRIP FARES
FROM SHELBY, N. C.
To
Washington, I). C. _ $13.00
Norfolk, Va. __ $10.75
Richmond, Va._$9.75
Old Point Comfort, $10.75]
Virginia Beach, Va. $11.25!
Tickets on sale July 3rd.®
regular trains except Cres
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ing to reach original start
ing point prior to midnight!
July 8th. Ask ticket agents.]
joins to sell stock options, 111
iidn't know what, that was. so hr!
explained it to me.
"He said he acted as a dealer in:
securities. He didn't necessarily
have to buy the securities at the
time. The contract with the cir -!
tomers stipulated the securities did;
not have to be delivered until they
were all paid for.
"He said that I would probably
hear some criticism of him as he
had been associated with his sister,
Clara, who failed in Wall street. Ifc
said he couldn't use his own name
for the firm and that he wrould use.
mine. He offered me $35 a week.
Wre signed a contract for partner-j
ship, but I was never really a parr-,
ner. The contract stated I was to
receive half the profits, but it never
worked out that way.
Robeson County Club.
From The Lumberton Robesoniaii.
A county-wide organization to
work for (hr development of M.r
county, agriculturally and Industrie 1
ly should be able to a-comp!' h
something worth while if it func
tions efficiently, end there i no
reason why it should liot do th -
if it is given the support and co
operation of the forward-look.;'.
LADY'S SUFFERING
She Writes That “A Friend
Told Me To Take Car
dui and I Know
It Helped Me.”
Greenville. Miss.—In describing
how she suffered several years ago.
Mrs. Mattie Dalton, of 213 Walnut
Street, this city, recently wrote:
“I would cramp, and my hands
and feet would draw, so I came near
having convulsions. I would have to
stay in bed a week, and when I
would get up. I just dragged around,
and did not feel like doing my work.
I suffered a great deal with my
back.
“A friend came to see me and
saw how I suffered. She told me to
try taking Cardui, which I did. I
seemed to have more strength, after
my first bottle. After I had taken
about four bottles of Cardui, X saw
a great improvement.
"I quit having such bad spells,
and was stronger and better than
in a long time. I gained in weight.
I took a few more bottles of Cardui,
and felt so well that I quit taking it.
“I certainly can recommend Car
dui, for I know what it is to suffer,
and I know that Cardui helped me."
Thousands of women have writ
ten to tell of the benefit Cardui has
been to them, in helping them to
build up their health.
Purely vegetable. Get a bottle
today. All druggists.
I
lien in every township
Such an organization, to be known
•imply and unostentatiously as tr.e
Robeson County club, was launch
'd at an enthusiastic meeting o!
more than 75 representative men oi
Robeson in Luniberton Friday night
—men actuated by no other pur-1
pose than to work out some plan |
oy which the general prosperity ol I
the county may be promoted. If
ihc club succeeds in accomplishing j
its purpose every citizen of the
county, regai dless of iace or con
dition, will be benefitted.
It is important to understand that
the club is strictly non-political It
will have nothing to do with poli
tics. It costs nothing to be affili
ated with it. There will be no duos
or foes
Heaven knows best, but it would
be nice if some of these impoited
insects pests liked dandelions —
Pasadena Post.
TO EMPLOYERS
OF LABOR
The North Carolina Workman's Compensation
Art goes' into effect July first. If you employ five
or more men you MUST carry insurance. Prepare
NOW for the going into effect of this law.
Let me explain its details to you.
CHAS. A. HOEY
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Ancient, Historic, Exotic and Gav—Capital City of the
Republic of Cuba.
A MOST INTERESTING PLACE TO VISIT.
Contrary to the general impression, the climate in
Cuba is pleasant during the summer. The hotel rates
are unusually low, and a trip can be made there at small
cost.
Average summer temperatures, as furnished by Belen
College Observatory are as follows:
Minimum Maximum
June 76.14 88.53
July 73.8 88.55
August 75.7 89.45
September 75.07 89.02
The nights are always cool and pleasant, due to the
ever present Trade Winds which sweep in from the
ocean.
All Year Tourist Fares to Havana are in effect via
all railroads, going either to Tort Tampa or Key West
thence P. & 0. Steamship Co. Popular excursions at half
fare or less are also offered by the rail lines at intervals
during the summer season. Stop overs permitted at all
points in Florida. Consult your local ticket agent or pas
senger agent for detailed information.
Steamer reservations made, descriptive literature, ho
tel rates and any further information desired will be
i cheerfully furnished upon application to:
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