The San Francisco call., 1905-08-06
COLLEGE SLANG
PUZZLES BOARD
Commissioner Pillsbury Asks
Students to Define Their
Unusual Usage Of English
WHAT is IEAD PIPE's?
Still Probing to Discover
Whether Advance Ques-
tions Came Irreglllarly
What Is a "cinch?"
What is a lead piper"


What is a lead pipe?"
Is there any difference between
dope" straight dope and good
dope?" What is the significance of
each?
What is a "rough-house ana What
does it denote?
DID the heavy josher" get Square
DEAL or wasn't he next to the
johnny"
These are the questions which puZ-
zled the commission yesterday in its
investigation of the alleged irregulari-
ties of the State Dental Board. Ihey
were busy examing the young graou-
ates of the University OF CallIornla
and the College of Physicians and Sur
geons who took the examination in
anatomy last June, for which they are
supposed to have received the questions
in advance from some inside source.
AS the college students took the
stand they told what they had seen or
suspected in the peculiar vernacular
known as college slang. TO Commls-
sioner Devlin this was perfectly plain,
for he was within the pale of univers-
ity atmosphere not so very long ago,
but to Commissioners Pil1soury and
Cromwell, men of the old school, these
expressions were unintelligible. hence
their frequent questions and requests
for INTERPRETATION of many of the
terms.
QUESTIONS GIVEN ARE BROAD.
Yesterdays session of the investigat-
ing commission showed the evident in
tention of both sides in the controversy
to prove that all the alleged improper
questions given out before the examin-
ations were general and did not neces-
sarily come from one who had previ-
Gus knowledge of what the exact queS-
tions in the examination would be-
Witnesses Swore that some of the queS-
tions said to have been given out by
DR.. Dunn were such as might always De
given and that he merely happened to
have hit upon three or four. Likewise
witnesses testified that the questions
given out before the examination by
DIR. Howard were also general in their
nature and could cover almost any eX-
animation in anatomy of the head
The matter of the alleged giving out
of the examination questions in ad-
vance will be taken up and disposed OF
before the commission begins TO look
into the alleged buying of certain men,
bers of the board for the purpose Of
obtaining an illegal license. Commits
sioner Pillsbury made the statement,
however, that this putting the more
sensational matter aside for the present
did not mean that the commission
would not probe to the very bottom of
the affair later. we have been given
a very wide jurisdiction, he said, and
we will take all the time necessary and
use every lawful means to find out
whether these Irregularities do exist.
If there are certain dentists who are
pIacticing in this State without a Ii
cense we want to know 1t, and we VIII
take all steps possible to sift the mat
ter to the bottom"
SWEAR DIR. BRASCH CONFESSED.
Very little was accomplished yester
day in the matter of throwing light on
the giving out of the questions. Before
the sitting began DIR. Brasch, accused
and by his own statement guilty of
giving money to DR.. Coke for DR.. Dunn,
appeared and handed in his temporary
license. Two newspaper men were
sworn and they testified that DR..
Brasch had admitted to them that he
had paid 500 TO DR.. Coke for DR.. Dunn,
in direct contradiction to his testimony
on the stand Friday. They also said
Drs Brasch had said that "he would fix
Hullinger good and plenty for what
he had done.
The solid fve." Drs Mayhem, White,
Herrick, Howard and Baird, through
their attorney. Walter Braun, say that
DR.. Dunn proceeded contrary to law
when he granted this license to DIR.
Brasch whether he actually took money
or not. They allege that DR.. Brasch
was a candidate before them last De-
cember and that he was rejected at that
time. They then quoted the law from
the volume called the General Laws of
California, 1903" page 33, section IL,
which reads as follows: I'm cases
where a person is entitled to an ex-
animation for license, but when the
board of examiners, is not in session,
one member of the said board may ex-
anime the applicant and furnish him a
temporary license to practice dentistry
until the next regular meeting of the
board, when he shall report the fact, at
which time the temporary license shall
expire. Such temporary license shall
not be granted by member after the
board has rejected the applicant" It
is under this last clause of the law that
the solid five" maintain that Dr. Dunn
acted illegally.
DEMANDS LICENSE BOOK.
DR.. Herrick, secretary of the board,
said he was not in possession of the
temporary license books and that he
wanted the commission to demand them
from Drs. Dunn and Cool.
Drs. Frank McClaskey and w. G.
Smith testified that both the questions
III the possession Oh Ut. Lew SInlLn ana
those given out by DIR. Dunn were very
broad and could apply to any examina
tiOn in anatomy. DIR. w. c. Smith said
that DR.. Lew Smith was "the heavy
Josher" about college and when he told
the boys that he had the Straight
dope" he did not mean that they had
been given him by any member of the
board
DR.. Faith Sal So Leong, a little Jap
Iv1 fy dino otaG
whose license is being held up. ap-
peared on the stand Yesterday and tes-