Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-17
MAKE REPORT ON
DENTAL SCANDAL
EXAMINATION QUESTIONS NOT
GIVEN TO APPLICANTS
INVESTIGATION WAS PROPER
State Board Of Examiners Finds That
No Fraud Was Committed, but
That Great Mistake of Judg-
ment Was Made
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 16.-The COM
mission appointed to investigate the al
legged scandals connected with the state
board of dental examiners has now
submitted a report to Governor Pardee,
of which the following are some Of the
salient features:
1--WE find that the questions pro-
pounded at the San Francisco .examin-
alton of applicants for dental certif1-
Gates had not previously been given out
to applicants, as alleged in the public
press, although there was in the case
of the questions in anatomy SINH
larity between questions that had been
used in Quiz classes, and some that
afterward appeared upon the black
board during the examination. Your
commission Is Of the opinion that DR..
Mayhew did, quite innocently however.
allow his associate, DR.. Dunn, to see
his questions in anatomy before he
placed them on the blackboard. but we
do not find evidence warranting the
conclusion that DIR. Dunn consciously
gave any of Dr. Mayhew's anatomy
questions to applicant Papandre.
1--WE think that DR.. Mayhem allowed
his associate, DIR. Cool to see his ques-
tions before placing them upon the
blackboard, but there is no evidence of
any sort that DIR. Cool made use Of the
information thus confdentially placed
in his hands.
1--WE find that applicant Stellers'
signed statement to DR.. Russell H. Cool
with regard to examination questions
being out did warrant DR.. Cool in de-
manding an investigation then and
there, and that an almost irreparable
mistake was made by the members of
the state board of dental examiners
collectively and severally in not hold
ing a full and frank investigation i'm
mediately. We think that such an in
vestigation would have been made If a
spirit Of mutual confidence rather than
one of distrust and suspicion had ex-
listed among the members of the State
Dental board.
1--WE find that the majority was not
justified in refusing to consider DR..
Coops charges unless in informal meet
ing, of which no record should he
made.
I'VE find that DIR. Cool was not war
ranted in refusing to disclose the evil
dence In his possession seeming to
show that the questions in anatomy
had been given out prior to the exam
ination unless In formal meeting Of
which record should be made.
official Atmosphere Deplorable
I'VE find that the examination Of ap-
plicants for dental certificates held at
San Francisco June IL to II, 1905, was
conducted with substantial fairness and
free from undue favoritism and that no
element of peculation entered therein"
The attitude Of members of tho
board toward each other has been one
of extreme suspicion and intensified
acrimony, and the official atmosphere
has been deplorable. For the want Of
a little of the spirit Of wholesome mag
naminity and mutually of confidence
the state of California has been be-
smirched with a nasty scandal and a
great hardship has been inflicted upon
many deserving persons. AS now con-
stituted the state board of dental ex-
aminers has no future.