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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1949 DOC#: NMA113 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Journal Article - Cancer in the Factory Among Ourselves Vol. LXXXV CONTENTS No. 1 hi S m i t h s -lour i r u u r ional sh ip-- set cover--is still exploring the seas of The Survey for January 1949 T change. On course all these years as a guiding symbol, it was drawn by Robert Cairns Dobson for the cover of October 4, Editorial Civil Liberties in Germany Paul K ellogg 4 A rth u r G arfield H ays 7 1913. when the page was brought to it Portrait in Question Marks G eorge Britt 12 present size. It was, noted an editorial, "On Appeal in the Supreme Court" . T ed P oston 18 "the caravel of Columbus,'' sailing into the uaters of the New World. Attack on the Business Cycle Food for Europe, but with an IF B iu l a h A m idon 22 N athan K oenig 26 B \ck tK May 1932, I h t Storey caprifp The Angel to the Virgin: a poem . P eggy P ond C hurch 31 a story by Katharine Schaub, then serenely The Suit'ey Through the Years---1909 1949 32 waiting death from radium poisoning contraded as a painter of watch dials. This Apprenticeships for Living Helping Another Country Isn't East K athryn C lose 35 E rnest G . G r iffin 39 the editors called a "poignant argument for far greater safeguards for workers exposed They Tax Themselves for Fun F arnsw orth C rowder 42 to new chemicals and for compensation Hors d'Oeuvres: a poem H arold W illard G leason 45 laws (covering) . . . not limited lists of Cancer in the Factory M arion R obinson 46 disease, but any disability directly due to occupational hazard." Today, seventeen L etters and L ife Report of a Citizen H arry H ansen 50 years later, only sixteen states have such generalized laws though the need for them Other Reviews 51 is daily more apparent. Evidence is pro vided in Marion Robinson's article on page T he C ommon W elfare Alice V. Keliher and Others 54 46 telling of the hazards to human health and life from mysterious cancer-inducing P ersonalities and P r o jil is T raveler's N otebook 58 Janet Sabloff 59 chemicals used in industrial production. Copyright, 1949, by Survey Associates, Inc All rights reserved. L ong time Survey readers need no intro duction to Miriam Van Waters, now under attack by Massachusetts politicians; nor to t Gertrude Springer who comes to her dt. Publication SURVEY ASSOCIATES, INC. Offiie: 34 North Crystal Street. East Stroudsburg, Fa/'*'"' * 37 O<cu*.*.r_>- fense on page 55 of this issue. One of the country's foremost penologists, Dr. Van Editorial and Business Office: 112 East 19 Street, New Yorp 3, N. Y. AgnfCshaBirrmowann oLfetahceh;boseacidre:taJroys,epAhnnP.RCeehdamBbreernlnaeinr': vice-presidents, John P almer Gavt, Waters lias been an intermittent contrib utor to Survey pages since May 1922 h hen EarlBGoa. rdH /orfrtdsiorne,ctoSrhse:lbAydoMlf. HAa. rrBiesrolne., BJrre.d, KJa.coKboeBhillelrik. oBplfa. nJcohseepIhttePl.soCnh, aFmebredrinlaanind, Kuhn, J r., W ilham W. L ancaster, Agnes Brown Leach, H erbert H. Lehman, J ustine we published as a special section her re W ise Polier, W illiam Rosenwald, Lowell Shumwav, Victor W eybright ik port on a national survey of penal institu tions for women. In the late Twenties Edito : P\ut. K ellogg; Jiaiiam ft# editor : George B ritt D aviAs,ssCocoiraate Eemdimto*r,s:LoBuelualaDh LAamsikdeorn,, KAantnhleReenedS Bprroeuntn. er, K athran Close. Michael M. when she was referee in the Juvenile Court of Los Angeles she wrote a series of JoanCnaonCtr.ibCutoinlcgoredd,itMorost: ti(eHoCnoonrdaroyn), RJ ouhssnellPaKMuErRtz,GBavriatd, iiAy laBiunffLio. c7k\em. esLeTo.n SWhohtiwppellel,, articles on parent-child relationships which later became parts of two successful hook, F lorence Loeb Kellogg, Davifl S. Gillmor field Crirecbuulsa*tionntataivneds adAvenrntisiRngoi lmearnaIgsesrl:erR,osDaomroontdhyLePeu; tavdfieyr;tisrienggistarsasri,staMnta,ryMaKry. GSiomldoenn; S "Youth in Conflict" and "Parents on Pro bation." In a later article about Ed ard ayeacorpT$yh.5e.50BS,yuftwtseuovbsycperuiapbrtsliios$hn9e--.d DoIonnmdetehxseteidc:1siotnnoeRf eytahedaeerrms4o5nG,thutw.idoePyrtioecaerPseorf$io8sd.iincgaClleanLcaoidtpeiairenastuaornfed,thBFisooorikesisguRnee:,vio5en0wce d Hickman, a convicted murderer awaiting Hanging in a San Quentin prison, she gained widespread attention for her analy DQiugaerstte,rlyIndCeuxmtuolatLivaeboIrndAerxticMlese,dicPussy,chBoilooggricaaplhyAIbnsdtreaxc,ts,CuPrurebnlitc BAioffgariarpshyIn. formation Service, Cooperative Membership in Survey Associates. Inc., including subscription: Year $10. sts of the ingredients of heredity and early S neglect that combined to produce a vicious criminal. recent formation of the Friends of the 9,000 votes ahead of any other Democratic rn Gertrude Springer is still known as "Miss Framingham Reformatory, Larue Brown, candidate in Portland. In 1940 he was Bailey" to the numerous public welfare chairman, 53 State Street, Boston. The elected to the Oregon House of Representa 1 workers who in the days of the great de committee, which at present consists of tives. Although by this time apparently pression used her "Miss Bailey Says--" about 200 prominent Massachusetts citizens, confirmed in his political inclinations, Mr. i series of Survey articles and pamphlets as is sending out some 10,000 letters to per Neuberger is not renouncing his career as a bible for client understanding. Mrs. sons likely to be interested in supporting a writer and is due to appear soon again dt Springer, whose authorship has by no Dr. Van Waters, her methods and admin in the pages of The Survey. means been limited to the Miss Bailey istration. d series, was managing editor of Survey hfitl- O n page 59 Janet Sabloff of the Sur monthly from 1930 to 1942. From her vey staff makes the first entry in our pleasant retirement in Cape Cod and R / . hvrd L. N fue.frgf.r, one of the most "Traveler's Notebook" sir.ee the interrup Brookline, Mass., she occasionally sends us hook reviews and other requested items. appreciated contributors to Survey Graphie last year, w'as victoriously swept into office tion of the war years. Hoping to continue this as a regular Survey feature, the author In her present statement Mrs. Springer on the tide of November 2, being elected welcomes any comment from prospective indicates that Dr. Van Waters' friend are to the State Senate by the largest vote ever or armchair travelers as to the type of ready to put up a fight to keep her in her received by a legislative candidate in Ore material they are interested in as well a present position. Indication that thi will gon. Two years before, he was defeated stories of their own experience "on the he something to he reckoned with is the for the same place, but still ran almost 3 Cancer in the Factory New industrial processes have sharply increased the danger of occu pational cancer. Whose the responsibility for prevention and control? MARION ROBINSON ITtiWoAnSwOaNsLYindOiNctCedIRCfUorMSthTAeNcTrIiAmLeEVoIfDEcNanCcEeTr.HAT CIVILIZA- leaNsto, wis tcoodmaeysacodniscelausseivoef eivnidduesntcriealthcaivt ilciaznactieorn, .inMpoadrterant imnganfoisr fwacheadt wheithacahiterveemdenindohuiss gpreenaatletsyt ipnrihduem, aasnthsuofufgerh gtheeanwcerauthpfounl mGaond foofroduarrifnogreftaothtearkse wnearteurbe'rsinsgeicnregtsvfeonr hisTohwe nd.iscovery that hundreds of materials used for in dmuesatnri,alinmatnhuefancetxutrefceowntayienarcsa, nmcearn-pyrocdhuacninggesagaenndts nweiwll trhesepvoenrsyibiflaictitesswinhiocuhr upnecrosovnearlthanisdnienwstitduatniognearl ilnivems.odYerent lwivoirnkg tmhaaty wpiolslsibbelydohnoeld totherolslecbreatckofthaell thcarneacetr.of Tthhies fernovmirownmhiecnhtanleacralnyce1r90m,0a0y0 tpueronpluepeathceh cyleuaer tnootwheddieis.ease duTsthriealfirpsrtoecnestrsyesinwtahse aromll-ecraell coofmagmeonntspluanclee.ashIned1b7y75ina Linocniddeonncephoyfsiscciraont,alPcearncicvearl aPmoottn,gwcrhitiimngneyofswtheeepcsu,risouugs gsoeosttedonathcoenbnoedciteiosnobf etthweeeunnwitasahnedd thuerchaicncsu.mulations of pitDchurainngd ttahre wneexret ahdudneddretdo ytheearsli,stpaorfafsfuinspaenctdedshcaalueseosi--ls, itnhgiss tiinmeF,raonfccea,nGceerrmofanthye, asknidn--thbeyBwriatyishofIsmleesd. icaInl w18r9it5 ademr eadmicoanl grewseoarrkcheresr winentht etoGweormrkanondycaencinedr uosftrtihese. blHade afomuinndes--thebectaa-unsaaptihvtehyalgaemnitneto abnedlubrekninzgidiinne.the aromatic In the cobalt mines of Schneeberg, Germany, an occu- --whBoythaisrecmeonnt tshtafgfomesemofbferonofhSeurrvoewynAasssoaciafrteese lSacnhcoeolworfiteSro.ciaAl Wgorrakd,uwatieth oefxptehreienNceewboYthorikn ctiamseowreoraknadndNienwsoYcoiarlkw, oMrkisisntReorpbrinetsaotnioncaimneBatlo jSourrvpeoyrtAiosnsoocfiattehse thrersepeoynesaibrsiliatygofotor ctharerySuarvmeav Mbinidamtioonntohflyte.chTniocatlhkisnotwaslkedsgheeinbtrhoeugsohctiaal wcoomrk fhieerldnaamnde haasgidfitsafpoprealirveedlyfroexmprTehsseioSnu.rveTyhmouagsht thaebalde, oift cwoinllt,ewntes.hope, continue to appear in the ptuartiieosn, aklilaleildmtehnrteecaoluletdof"mfoouur nmtaiinnerds.iseIanset"hehaesa, rlfyor19c0e0n's ictanwcaesr dciasucsoevderebdy tehxaptosmuroeuntotairnaddiiosaecatsievewoarsesr.ealIlyn l1u9n2g6 iaumsim-raildairumdiscmoivneersy owfaJsoamcahdime sathbaolu, tGmerinmearsnyi.nAthbeouutrathne syaomunegtimweo,m"ernadiwuomrkdeirsseaisne"thmeadluemitisnoaupspedairaalncpelaanmtsonogf NdeevweloJpeerdseycanancedr Coof ntnheectibcount.es, Twhhiritlye paersceevnetreofantehmemia odveveertlooopkedt.he others at an earlier stage before malignancy lanRdepinorttshefrpoamst tthhereechdieefcaidnesspeecsttoarbliosfh faacctoorniensecitnionEnbge stwkienencanhcoetr tawrhifcuhmdesevienlopthseamEnognlgishwograkserws.orAksndanidn tthhee pthaastt tawneunmtybyeeraorsf, orethseerarcinhduhsetrreiaallnyduasbefruoladsuhbasstanrecveesalbeed lboenngzoiln, tchhisromararateys,ofnidcekaetlh caagrebnotns.yl,Sianncde 1a9s2b4e,stcorseohsoatvee, Salelrvbiceeen isaddpeudb-litsohinthge, liinst. coTnhneectUio.nS.wPituhblica Hheeaalltthh friefptyo-rttw, oa kcihnadrst ooff twboednyty-steivsseune. agAenltthsouwghhichninaettteacekn othfirttyhe-tshereceoarrreelamtioanrksedare"Es"tifllorfi"leEdstaubnlidsehred"."Suspected,"' TOMn. lyHEa SsTmORaYll OfrFacEtNioVnIROoNf MthEeNTthAoLuCsAanNdCEsRofIScLaInTcTeLrE rKesNeOaWrcNh. egrosneandalocnlignicqiuaniestlyh,avgeagthiveerinngit mattoemnteinontu.mRienseatrhceh lhaasst atwmenotdyesyteabrsutasbreavniddennceew bleagnadnmtaorkmionuntth.e Tloondgayupiht iilsl ssitnrucgegiltes acaguasinestancdanecfefre.ct Aarnedroitoitsedcruatcitahlefohreathrtisocfoiunndturys, triaTl apkroedPuclatinotn.X, one of our country's great dye manu fpaocptuulraintigoninodfu1s0tr0i,e0s0,0.sitPulaatnetd Xinemaplcooyusnt1y,00w0hpiecohplhe,astena doufstwahnodmvawpoorrkbydeteopnsinarethgeivheenarotffoifnttohethfeacatotmryo,spwhheerree. Tunwito foofr thfiefteeemnplaonydes,twBeonbtyanydeaMrsikree,spheacvteivewlyo.rkeTdhien rtehset obfeetnhesucfrfeewrinhgavpeaibneeanndthedriescsoimx fyoeratrsfoorr sloemsse. tMimiek,e ahnads bhleadgdoeers. toItseceana bdeocttroera.tedThbeut daiasginsoosifstenis tchaenccearseofwtihthe cancer, by the time the symptoms show up, the disease is IwnfeollrmadevdanbcyedM. ike's physician that the cancer may be 46 THE SURVEY M connected with materials used in the plant, the plant phy sician examines the rest of the men on the eren, linh preGseeonltoogn)e.atnhde twcloimmataeinwfaecreto. rs10m1 mthaer <augveisrruhiemtreuuet tmh, i disisfeoausen.d tNoohnee souffftehreingothfreormmdeine sehaorlwy ssteargioeussofsytmheptsoammse. cnooutvld ger'oewnn meuncohrmeoffuescltyoncommapnli.catBedut he)nviaronmmyerinatd ko<' hisMciaknec'serilwlnaessscadursaegds boyn tafokrinmg oanrtohms.aticItaims ipnreosviendtothhaist cchheemmiiccaall aanndd mpheytsailclualrgaicgaelntessiraeMleiasshetdnebnyis dainedinTcrceaisneoooi svyasptoerms, thhurot uhgeh itswennotty eyliegairbsleexfpoor sucroemptoentshaetiodnu.st Faennd' dizeelettihonatodf aanirgeprrelsusurkres tionolst,he Itmcaotmereiaslsasuasesrh!ofcokr toportetealr sptaattieonc-ocmonpneencstaetdioinllnleaswssliakree twhirsitcteann hsoe rtehcaotganizneedw uonclecsus pinrgo--duicntiosnh,ortrt,anaslpmoortsattioalnl, cthoemmtraupnpicinatgisono, fligmhotidnegr,nhe1, ft< sapepcriifvicaatellysewttlreitmteenntintoto ctahree floawr .MiTkeheducroinmgpahniys imllnaeksess, which we have considered as contributing to our safe1n, comfort, and convenience, cen- anIdf fPolranhtisXdedpisernedgeanrdtss aMftiekrew'sartdra.gedy and fails to find a JuOnOg's owfaytentoopf rtohteecmt eitns nweoerdkeedrs,inthtehisexupnerittsopfroedpiecrtatinoinnewoiullt, ci eTr Xhaf)sSThcOc-Fn tlteHartnr edIS inKNtOhWe NpasAtBOtwUTenEtNyVIyReOaNrsM. ENTTh\iLs CmAaNy- .1r9a2n6- after a certain period of exposure, develop cancer--and all in the bladder. hitasvme obsetednrabmecaatiucseaptpheearvaenrcye nuantutirlethoef iintsduosrtirgiainl adgeelatyve;rs' lotnhge tioInf tohfethpelantwt omimsteankeinnlythpiustsmiotssttoetxaploeseffdorstpiont,towpirtohtoeuct owuetl,l hadowvaenvceerd, . thTathotshee wfihrsot kcnluoews mapepdeiacraeldhissetvoeryntyp-ofiitnct hseomf ptalkanintgatalcacroguenatnodf inthethepossusrirboleunddainnggecromtomoutnhietrys, iitnmthaye otefabrsacategroiaaalmndosot thsiemr ualntainmeaotuesldyisewaisteh-pProadstuecuirn'sg daigsecnotvse.rt samnciya tsoaveretchkeonninweithor ttheen pinrotbhaebivliatyt roofomcsa,ncbeurt dweivllelsotpililnhgavine theThmeedeincsaulinwgorbladttlaenda.gaeixncsetpitnffeocrtioscuasttedriesedasreesaebasrochrbeidn Eng* ifnoratyhourndfirfetyd ootthheerrsmoeumt binertsheofcothuentpy.lant population and tvhaerioeuasrlyco1u9n2t0r'ise.s, the clues were not followed up unnl Ii tbhee- ieatlhede jssobtee-, ehaalvthe .tetaalctkh :etteede,n" r'OaWrcNh-h; hlaasst upithilisl iunndturys-, nhaansualwe,hteerne phere. in the iree rheasst i, of atnhde ;disweaitshe nav be TRVBY t Ja n u a r y 1949 4" agree that cancer should be a reportable disease. witli jrnestphoensciabsielitoyf cvoemstemduninicatbhlee dsitsaetaesehse, alCthomdpeepnasratmtioenntslawass tmhouustghbesoammeensdtaetdes tsoo aplhlorwasefothr eoirccluaspta'stitohnaatl ecaacnhcecra.rciAnol agreeniachaegaden)'t soss-moualdnyh--aavnedtonebsse' onnaemsebdeisnpgecdifiisccaolvlye,retdhearlel athdeopttiemd.e--Sthomateseoxmpeertbsrofaeedl, pthoroastehoaltogtyherme usshtoufilndaiblse1 abne aodffdenesnedutmo atollotwhe ucnridmueinaelxpcoosduer,emoafkianng iint daisipduunailshatoblea known agent. ihe parsutnttwohenstytrisdeeasrsh, atvhee bgereonsvtrh\kEo%f iinvdutshtrey haenldd thine irnescsreainsethoef oncecssu-pasteiaornsa.l cHanerceer adrcemsaonmde moloretherapqiudesptiroongs that must he answered: abHleodwatawiidnetshpirseacdouinstrthyiscoanfcfleicrntiionng?theThneurme baerre onfoocreclui speartvioednailncawnocrekrse,rs Tofo mdaatneysionmdeus8tr,i0e0s0, caafsfeesctihnagvembaeneyn doibf fDerr.enHt ubeopdeilry. iosrgparnosb.abTlyheapapcrteucaialbnlyumhbigerh,eractchoarndinsgs'htaot is recorded. How long and how intense an exposure to these agents will produce cancer in humans? What is the length of the latent period before symptoms appeal ? These arc two of the toughest nuts to crack. As in the cases of mMaikyeapapnedarBforbo,mittehnasto bfeifetneenfoyuenadrs tahfatet r mthaenifpeesrtiaotdionosf exposure. If industries are not alert to the dangers for dthiseeiarse,emthpelotyuersn,ovaenrdof cpalnacnetrworerkmearisnsscaattnersjcnlrueepsotrotatbhke four winds. A start on this gigantic detective job is be iHnugepmear'dsediartectthioen,NaittioisnahlopCedanctheart Itnhsistitpurteo,jecutndweilrl Dnort. pornol)vidheelpvalsuaavbelethienfloivrmesatoifonthoensetheemprelolayteiso,nbbuettwweielln atlhseo aepxppeoasru.re period and the length of time before symptoms fusTthwe h$a6t4haqpupeesntisonwhheenret,heasaginentalclomcaensceinr croesnetaarccthw, itish: shoummeancutrisiosuuse?waDyo, ecsaiutsehatvhee atisdsiureectitesefflefctt,oobredcooemseitcnindotvid with carcinogenic propertiheass? iOt,r, daosesoneit thceaouisye feunndcotciorinnael gchlaanndgeoirn thane leiivaetres wthheichdeathdelyn pgroend- wuchta?t Incauostehser cawnocredrs?, Tthhaetsehaavree tshtuemqpueedstiothnes leaxbpoerratstoriines haunnddrecdlisnicosf theThweodrlidscoovveerr.ies in the cancer bring a new', slim ray offiehldopeofinetnovitrhoenmsvehnotalel pinicqtuuirrey, mTahyerheolids jtuhset aanscwhaenrcetothtahte tahnisciennetwpfrioebldlemof. Swuilglgsehstaktehaht istohoenaed odfouthbetsfuellcya,nnbyutmthedericealismaengleaanmd hoef excitement in his eye. The cause of 99 percent of cancer thuarsn hoiuthtetrotobebeaetninyunfrkancotiwonn.in Itthemfairyst bweedthgaetotfhkisnowuilll edge to penetrate the innermost mvsterv of cancer. Mwe caVll\ pHroVSgrei LssR,FUIfYiePAmIDustPUbTe]giOnt nHoISw PtEoN'pVaLTyV inFOtRheWc'HoVinI othferessapkoensoifbiltihtye, goHodavilnifge, ehxeplomituesdt tnhoew'encvoimroenmtoentetrmfosr with it for the sake of a better life. McGuffey to the Contrary *i "TXPHREenJesDueitscFarattehserws awserpeeromftiettnedv,erbyecwauissee: oaft thhiseirdeslcichaotoel haetaLltah,Ftlochreem, yaoinuning bofedsuecahcha dchayildunistinl ontodoinff.icWulht atot iMmcaGgiunfef.eyBuwtoDuledschaarvteespdriodpnhoetsiteudrnaboouuttathceomfuptluertee prermofalirgkaatbe.leInfrdueiet.d,Ahniaslydteilciaglhgtfeuolmheatbryitcoafmsetatyoinhgiminobneedmuonrtnilinngooans hbeorlaeyatplleeaassatnotnlye iSnimboend."a--ndReSpcrhiunstteedr, frPounbtlis"hMerast.hemCoaptiycrsigahntd 1t9h4e0 IbmxagEindawtaiornd,"KabsynepreramnisdsiJoanmoesf Kerrman. MHUARY 1949 49