Document EqEMK53vxYzyqXNkK3rD0rown

April 12, 194? Hr. G. E. Johnson, International Smelting and Refining Company, East Chicago, Indiana* Dear Mr. Johnson: I have your letter of April 5* and I am very sympathetlo tovard the purpose you have In mind. It la very difficult, hovever, to do vhat you plan to do briefly vlthout giving misinformation and vlthout producing misleading Impressions. Most of the things of this sort that have been put into such books are vorse than nothing at all. On the other hand, this is e very good place to introduce useful information, and certainly engineers and technical people should have seme accurate Information on this subject. The only suggestion vhich I can offer vhich has any hope of being useful Is that I send you the material as yet unprinted, that will appear In an official report of the Committee of the American Public Health Association,of vhich I, am the Chairman. We are attempting to provide an authoritative report on various aspects of the problem of industrial lead poisoning, and the material i3 almost complete. It consists of more than 100 pages of typewritten material, but it la vritten in a style vhich lends itself to easy interpretation, and I think you vould be able to get from it a very clear idea of the present status of the problems of exposure and control. If you agree that this vould solve your problem, I should be glad to for* ward the material to you. This vlll be an official report, and you vlll be at liberty to quote from it directly if you so desire. If you should vlsh to send the material vhich you use to me for comment or crltlolsm, I should be glad to give you such assistance as I can along this line. I make this suggestion because X am Interested in seeing that useful and precise information be made available to the people vho need It. Heed less to say, you need not refer your material back to me, un less it seems advantageous to you to do so. Very truly yours. RAK ef Robert A. Eehoe, M. ri. N22152