The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-16
THE DIR. cRED1roR MArrER.
DR.. Creditor Thinks He is Being Abused and
Prosecuted by the Dental Association.


The case of the state against DR.. Cred
itor will come up for hearing in Justice
| fuckers court Saturday morning
and it promises to be interesting.
! Ed O'Bryan is employed by the defense
and Sturdevant Bros. by the state board
Of dental examiners.
| DR.. Creditor is charged with practicing
dentistry without license and upon this
the prosecution is based. The doctor does
not call it prosecution; he says it is perse-
cution.
The history of the case is as follows:
DR.. Creditor has been prosecuted hereto
fore on various occasions. He always
claimed that the prosecutions were based
on local jealousies. Last winter, it will be
remembered, he went before the legisla-
ture and succeeded in having bill passed,
the provisions of which made it compul-
sorry on dentists to pass a thorough
examination on practical dentistry instead
of theoretic dentistry. In other words
making it necessary for the dentist to be
able to fill a tooth properly instead of
being able to tell how it should be flied.
The bill was fought by the Dentist ASSOC
citation and hundred of protests were sent
in against it by dentists in every part of
the state at the suggestion of the associa-
ton. The bill passed Notwithstanding
these protests and the active and vigilant
Wichita tooth puller was on top, SO to
speak.
That was all very good until the Dentist
association met here some time ago.
During their meeting the board of exam
liners also met and among others examined
was DR.. Creditor He says he passed
first class examination in practical dent
istry but admits that he was little rusty
on the "book learning" connected with
the profession. The result was that he
got temporary certificate, proceeding
which he claims was in violation of the
law. The last meeting he did not
attend and therefore his certificate
expired. He was going to attend
it and pass another examination, but his
lawyers advised him not to do SO as the
board of examiners had violated the law
in giving him only a temporary certificate
= few days ago a complaint was filed
against him and the result will be ascer-
tanned next Saturday. He says the Den
tai association have it in for him because
of his activity in getting the law changed
and that had it not been for that hostility
he would have been given frst-class GER
tiicate during the meeting Of the board
here. He has been a practical dentist for
over twenty-three years, was a member of
the Dental association of Indiana over
twelve years, and learned the business
under the present vice president of the
National Dental association. He thinks
that he is abused, and says if the Dental
ASSOCIATION rules were made the law. no
man of practical knowledge in dentistry.
who may happen to be little rusty on the
book learning connected with the
business could get license to
practice while every Tom, Dick
and Harry, who may have read a
few books on the subject would be given
license whether he could pull a tooth
or not.
Mr.. Sturdeyant, attorney for the plant
ifs, tells different story altogether and
bases his theory of the case upon what the
law says aud not upon whether the doctor
is a practical dentist or not.
The case is very interesting and many
things could be said about it were it not
for the fact that it is pending and there
fore nothing should be said that might
prejudice it one way or the other.