The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
DENTAL SURGEONS
TO OPEN ANNUAL
MEETING TO-DAY
Big Clinic Friday to Be Important
Feature Of This Years
Session.
DIR. TINDALL TO WELCOME
VISITORS TO CAPITAL
Motion Pictures Will Show Educa-
tional Facts and Methods
in Mouth Hygiene.

The sixteenth annual meeting of the
National Dental Association will be open
cd with prayer at 10 O'Clock this morning,
tary to the Board of District Commits
sioners, will deliver the address of well
c"me. which will be responded to by DIR.
+. o. Hetrick. Of Ottawa, Kans. The
annual address of President Melendy
will follow. The convention. which will
be held at the New Willard. will be in
session until Friday.
More than 800 members will attend. The
programme includes many important fea-
lures. including the big clinic at the New
Willard on Friday. There will be clinics
in oral surgery at several hospitals and
some rare operations on cleft palates are
on the programme. A large number of
interesting papers will be read at. the
various meetings, including an essay by
DIR. George b. Harris, of Detroit, on an
titoxin for pyorrhea.
To show Motion Pictures.
Surg. Gen. Rupert Blue. of the Public
Health Service. will deliver an address
Of welcome. and DR.. Z. II. Melendy will
respond. Motion picture films will be
shown. illustrating educational methods
anu II
Two hundred members of the Delta
Sigma Delta. dental fraternity. held
their annual banquet at the New Willard
last night. w. d. Tracy acting as
toastmastsr- Impromptu and humorous
speeches were made by Charles E. Jones.
E. c. Kirk. Burton Lea Thorpe, George
Edwin Hunt. Frank s. Shaw. J. d. Pat
tcrson, n. S. Hoff. +. B. Moorehead. Dan
NJ. Gallie. B. Holly Smith, T. w. Brophy.
]. Il. Buckley. and others
The officers OF the fraternity are E. s.
Gaylord. supreme grand master: Charles
Z. Jones. supreme worthy master: Frank
Shaw. past supreme grand master:
r. Hamill ID. Swing, supreme scribe: II.
F. Mcthven, supreme treasurer: George
Edwin Hunt. supreme historian; W. d.
Tracy. supreme senior page; J. p. Mar
shall. supreme junior page. and r. ".
H. Strang, supreme tyler.
To Consider Reorganization.
Reorganization along lines which
will make It thoroughly representative
of the profession IN the United States
probably will be one of the chief items
OF business before the association. A
proclamation announcing that the
question of reorganizing would be for
mally before the meeting was issued
a few days ago by DR.. Arthur r. Me-
lendy, and in a preliminary way. he
stated that the proposition to reform
the association has been receiving lib
ersl assurances Of support by the State
which have been in session
since the convention in Cleveland last
year.
The subject OF reorganization has been
igitated in the National Dental Associ-
stion for about five years past. and va
'ious problems bearing upon the main
ssue were thrashed out at succeeding
annual meetings. Not until the CIeve-
and convention in 1911. was a basis of
Igreement reached, and then ii was ten
decided that the association
mould be reconstructed after the gen.
raj plan of the American Medical AS
The constitution, which was
oughly drafted at Cleveland will be
for adoption or rejection at
he meeting in this city next week.
The National Dental Association Is gov |
'rned primarily by an executive council, |
which decides practically all matters of |
BUSINESS in sessions separate from the |
cientifc meetings, submitting its findings |
Qly for ratification to the whole associa- !
ion. Under one plan which Is being con-
idered for the reorganization this ex- |
cutive council will be retained with not 1
o exceed twenty-five members. while an |
ther plan which is in view contemplates |
he formation Of a house of delegates in |
leu Of the executive council, the house 1
o have as many as one hundred members.