The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-12
Three Hundred Delegates At
tending 37th Convention.
Much Time Is Given to Demon
stration Work.
M'CARTER'S ADDRESS.
The Organization Was Made al
Lawrence.
Gives q Brief Outline Of Its
Achievements.

Between two and three hundred
dentists are in Topeka today celebrat-
ing their thirty-seventh annual con-
vention and while they are having a
good time in this city it is safe to pre-
sumo that their patients who are In
the hands OF their understudies at
home are aching for their return. A
majority of the Kansas Dental asso-
citation meetings since its organization
have been held in Topeka. AT first
the meetings were scattered about the
state but for number of years past
this city has been selected for the
place for holding the convention.
The meetings of this association
have been marked with success from
the first and each succeeding -etherlng
has been better than its predecessor
and the meeting now being held is not
an exception to the rule. The Cope
land hotel has been a busy ~lace since
the advent of the doctors of dentistry,
the morning hours being devoted to
clinics.
Dozens of dental supply houses have
their representatives at the hotel and
the headquarters resembles an annex
to a factory for the manufacture or
teeth and the mountings which go with
them. Hundreds of colored bottles OF
preparations good Off the teeth, gums
and general human system, according
to the representations of their ex-
hibitors, are to be seen on every hand
and are displayed at the Copeland, the
headquarters.
This is an open season of freedom
from charges from the dentists to all
who call at the hotel. Teeth are ex-
tracted, gums treated or filling done
for the patient all free of charge and
at that subjects are hard to find and IL
has been necessary for number of
dentists to take their place in the
chair for the benefit of their fellow
practitioners.
The entire morning of each day of
the session is taken up by demonstra-
lions at the hotel, the afternoon and
evening being devoted to a pro-
gramme at Representative hail. in the
capitol building. The address and
been a part of the programme last
night failed to materialize, DR.. Clapp
telegraphing from New York that it
would be impossible for him to be
present.
One of the features of the meeting
was a paper on "Pyorrhoea,' read by
DIR. J. d. Patterson of Kansas City at
the meeting yesterday DR.. Patterson
enjoys the distinction of being the only
charter member OF the Kansas Den
tai association who is attending the
meeting this week.
DIR. McCarter's Address.
In his address DIR. w. A. McCarter
of Topeka, president of the associa-
ton, said:
According to the time-honored Gus
tom of this body, an early session of
our annual meeting is to be graced, or
disgraced, by an address from the
president 1t is an official courtesy
that requires some courage to meet.
Most of us are so busy getting other
mouth in good condition for speaking
that we have little time to practice
specchmaking ourselves. But no ora
torical eloQuence is needed for the
first thing 1 wish to say. A hearty
welcome given in the simplest words
carries its own force. Such a greet
ing L would give to every one of you
in the beginning of this convention
And bid you here and now, as guests
OF the city, to enter in and possess it,
Tor 1t Is yours while you are with us.
Before presenting to you the few
ideas, dental and incidental, that I
have gathered up, it may be well for
the moment to look over the way this
organization has travelled and see
what manner of thing it is. 1t was 81
years ago this month that the Kansas
Dental association was formed at
Lawrence. There were then, we read
fewer than ten dentists in Kansas
Only four cities were represented:
4Atchison, Topeka, Leavenworth and
Fort Scott Only six dentists entered
into this first organization. Today one
charter member alone is left-Dr. ].
ID. Patterson-who is with us tonight
THE Old Guard, with one meeting
alone excepted, has given his presence
and his influence to every coming to-
gether of this body. Among the mem
bers who Joined in the earlier years,
and who have been always active
workers, rarely missing a meeting. are
DR.. A. H. Thompson and DIR. w. NJ.
Shulze.
In these 81 years the membership
has grown from six to more than 900.
and steadily through all this time have
a broader fraternalism and a higher
professional standard been the fruits
of it's efforts.
THE best rule by which to measure
states progress is in the number of