The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-12


record as a citizen and lawyer
of Seattle for the past eighteen
years Judge his future actions
by hiss past record and conduct.
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The Story of WashingtOn's
State Dental Conspiracy
\ 10 you know how q persan feels
Il uftfr De has spent five years lm
F. college a. not refer O. thc class
f That 50 60 college 90 be Fashionable.
7 raii your attention o. che fellow
thnt hhH o. maintain himself and
care fur family While he js lu cole
ieEn Well De always has r mind
new daF wheH De Will be- ahie 20
better DIE conditions lte eontem-
through the broadening of hlr sphere
~ uHefuiHeHa tu others Some day
mon wli learn that O. full ilfe can
auiy Doe cumprFhcuded and enlovsa
+ when an men cnn make for them-
selves and families lie commen.
+ nufate with the life OF human be-
Z inEt
THE room nov N COLLEGE
The self-suetnininE boy in college
who Does not possess bank account,
F VII soon cultivate q desire for Old
clothes The fashionable theatre
even the gallery viii not furnish
suitable entertainment for him. and
Z society sort OF CRATES on his nerves
Plain food is more 20 hlH liking
when his eKChequer IS consulted.
and. do you know. that 10 makes
real human man out 81 a fellow 20
survey the rugged edges Of cirrum-
stances for about five years while lie
I takes his college course You see.
& ~ Is this way The worlds nano-
rama reveals so many who are I'M
able 10 endure hardHhips and 90
many who are far worse off than the
cNcrwurked and underfed student.
that ~ liEhtens his burdens because
/ be finds cheer IN the thought ~ A
future-that brighter day ahead.
Arrived IN SEATTLE
on the last day % February. 1891.
arrived Ia Seattle about g.g0 p IN.
had seen Kansas City grow from a
town or $4,000 % city ~ zoe. Q00.
ana now ! found Seattle in 1901. 10
he Just about such town as KAN
sas City was Ga 1883. hills and all
and concluded that Seattle afford.
ed splendid opening for a high
class modern priced dental office
called on a number OF Seattle den
lists and found them about as Ieal-
Gus Of each other as chorus girls
and the ones doing the largest husi-
about
THE DENTAL COMBINE WAS
BORN
made inquiry about the dental
examination and the dental board.
and was told by one dentist that
had better go and call on the dem
tai board members and take them
out fishing, because the Dental So
.iet% WAS getting law passed by
the legislature that would put a stos
10 the Eastern dentists coming
here" I was not in practice Tor M
self then. In fact. I had hard Tim.
et X getting position at all. ant
she dental combine was IN its In.
fantile stage. being nursed hy ths
monopoly bottle, which Is such .
PUBLIC
This dental combine had sens.
enough Go know that there wouid he
about SO much dental work 10 40
ana " the number OF dentists were
UNITED, II would mean more money
Tor the favored few and the denta.
I combine built wall around thfs
state by subscribing money with
which 70 secure the present dentR
/ law ~ Washington.
THE Old LAW ALL RIGHT
No one except the dental comhirs
complained about the law of 1855:
/ The old law prescribed an eXamine
lon Tor dentists and designated TIE
subjects In which q dentist ehouldlg
examined. and provided that thc ex.
animation should be elementary ana
pfact ical and also that "a perscr
could study dentistry under a prs
ceptor IN this state. and after ten
/ wears practice and study be cow
tahe the examination for state
THE NEW LAW AND THE Coz.
Dine
a few dentists who had been
studying and practiclng under pre-.
tfptols from i've 60 eight years UNI
der the old law. came TO the rescue
ana secured "a new law that works
permit any one to be examined rfNc
had practiccd in this state for Sve
years hut the new law wRs gain
Ftmodeled TO meet the require feuts
OF the combine. on It's way 90 lynn
nia. ana before "a was enact 4 int
law by the legislature md. be
mold the pious dental combine With
the sanctimonious Countcnance haG
become q real protector az tht dear
people there were dollars Iu til
the graft would work This new law.
which Is now the law. did not per-
NIT a dentist TO he examined at all
unless he had a diploma. and vet The
law diu not prescribe am cNamina-
ton Tor dentists and it prohibited
the study Of dentistry an this state,
The dental law OF this state dele.
gates absolute power 60 the dcnta'
hoard, and Il was only necessary for
the combine 20 control the dental
board In order 20 make its power ef'
foCtiVe
Next week I will show how the
combine controlled the dental bOart
ana how law failed Co hc law.
EDWIN j. BROWN.
us First Ave.
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