Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-30
REGULATING DENTISTRY.


There is a very successful Dental College
in connection with the State University.
It's aim is, as with all the learned profess
sions, to elevate that of dental surgery,
that the people may have the fullest bene-
fit of the most advanced scientific discov-
erv, and the highest degree of skill and
knowledge possible to be attained in
odontology. A ike purpose evidently
stimulated Assemblyman Whitcomb in
the introduction of Assembly Bill 81,
which, with some minor amendments, has
received the approval of the Committees
on Education in both houses of the Legis-
lature IN brief, the bill provides that
dental practitioners shall be provided with
a certificate issued by Board of Examin-
ers, to be appointed by the Governor. Six
months of time is allowed dentists in
which to secure certificate, which shall
issue on the result of satisfactory exam
nation, or upon presentation of a diploma
of graduation from any reputable dental
college. 4 small fee is to be charged for
the certificate and is to go into fund to
meet the expenses of the Commission.
That body is required to report annually
and to account in detail for the money it
receives and disburses. \ penalty, as for
misdemeanor, is attached for practicing as
dental surgeon without procuring GER
tifcate. Some objections are raised by
some dentists to the passage of the bill,
but they are not clearly stated. 1t would
seem that any properly read and qualified
dentist should be glad to support
the bill, since It's sole object APP
pears to lie to dignity and better
protect the profession, and save it from
mere experimentaIists and from incom-
pctents. Those who are ignorant of the
nervous system of so much Of the study Of
anatomy and medicine as is required Of a
skilled dentist, and are too Indifferent 10
excellence to study and fit themselves, may
well be expected to object, and their objec-
tons are easily fathomed This statement
of the question Of course reflects upon the
capacity of any who do ohect-but we
submit that it Is logical The bill is by
no means radical, harsh or discriminative
1t is a regulative measure that it does
seem should receive general approval, and
from none more frank commentator than
the qualified dentists We mistake greatly
if it will not receive the warm Endorsement
Of the dental faculty Of the College at the
UniversiW-an approval that should 90 a
long way toward converting it into a
law.
Tins attempt to make the anti-mon-
opoly stand taken by the Democracts in
the last session and in the extra session
responsible for the defeat of the party, is a
miserable failure, and it will only go down
with the unthinking." So says the Stock
ton Herald. 1t is one way of putting the
matter. But another is that the unreason-
lag stand taken by the Democrats OF GER
tain stripe in the last session, and the extra
session, relative to the transportation
problem was largely responsible for the de-
feat Of the party, and it does go down
with the thoughtful.
OUR local evening contemporary ignoring the
common courtesies of everyday lie, SO far tran
sceIds the ordinary code Of good-breeding as to
state that the RECORD UNION has taken special
pains to curry favor with the Italian contingent
OF our population, and 10 bring the Bees use Of
,thsl Byrou's phrase TO their attention refer
ring to our c0Hiemporary-of the words. bast
ard Latin, in connection with remarks about
Italians, to which italian citizens have taken
exception. Aside from the lalsity of this state
inent. and for which our contemporary had no
other groundwork than its own suspicious dis
position, the editorial paragraph is worthy of
notice only as atloriing us the opportunity to
state. for the benefit OF our ncighbor and others
who also have false conception of true Jour
ualiStic methods, that the RECORD UNION does
not cone III itself with cards published by adj
yertiSCrS. except to reject libelous matter and
expressions unit for its columns The Italians
who published "a card critic>:ug our ueighbor's
expressions are entitled at least to the credit of
originality and ofindepcDdence of motive. They
WOnld have done better 20 have made 10 reply,
for we, betterthau they, know how i; delights our
ncighbor to be noticed ut all, and especially SO
by the RECOEB-J Mon. our contemporary makes
this very petty matter the excuse Tor coarse crit
lciSm OF the RECoRn-j MONS English, which is
q matter of qualification, since commentator
from that quarter would indeed be evidence of
inelcgance III our methods of expression.