The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-08-12
NEWS CULLED
IN THE CAPITAL
ACTIVITIES OF STATE DEPART
MENTS--OTHER HAPPENINGS
Special Columbus Correspondent.

ter look 10 Inelf euuCdllOndl
training. After the latter part
of this month it will not suffice to go
to a dental college and then ask for a
state license to operate on the teeth
of the community. A new and rigor-
Gus law, reputed to be one of the most
rigorous in the United States, requires
that before any person within this
state can practice the profession of /
dentistry he or she must have had |
high school education or it's equiva- |
lent. The applicant for dentists GER !
tificate may hereafter be ever so keen |
in dental lore and he or she may be !
especially proficient in the finer arts /
of the dental game, but if he or she
fall down" in the arts that are taught |
in the first class high schools of the
state the Zig is up" Which means
that the dental requirements in Ohio
now are practically as rigid as the re-
quirements for physicians. The pros
pective operation of the new statute
is causing all the dental schools to be
on the qui vive. Many of them are
changing their rules entirely to meet
the demands of the new statute. Some
of them are insisting that every new
student this fall show credentials of
high school educational equipment. 1t
has Just developed that the law re-
quires the state superintendent of pub
lie instruction to see to it that the
dental students live up to the educa-
tional standards, and before the task
thus imposed the officials and aides of
the office of the superintendent are ap-
palled. The law gives them no extra
help or extra compensation but adds
to their duties manifold. Just now the
superintendent does not know just
what to do. His assistants have their
hands full of regular work and the
dental colleges are insisting meantime
that examinations of their students be
begun. One of the plans to meet the
situation contemplates the drafting in
of the county school superintendents
in districts where dental colleges are
to help out. In other words, the super
intendents are to be asked to help in
the examinations. But they can get
no extra pay since none is allowed by
the law, and whether they will be will
ing to help depends. of course, on
their own conception of duty. Any
way, the state is facing brand new
era in the art of dentistry. A more
educated and therefore a better
equipped class of men and women are
being called to the profession by the
appeal of the new statute and some
revolutionary things may well be eX-
pected of the members of the profes-
sion as a whole.
Ruling of Utilities Commission.
Railroads that have been charging
higher rates for transporting Ohio coal
than they have been charging fol-, coal
mined in West Virginia and carried as
far, if not farthc s than the Ohio prod
uct, may not jus Wy heir discrimina-
tion by showing differences in mining
conditions between the two states.
This is in effect the ruling of the state
public utilities con- mission which has
begun it's investiga ion of the COM
plant of Ohio coal miners and opera
tors that the coal industry in this
state has been partly crippled by the
discriminatory rates of the railroads.
The railroads began their defense by
trying to show that mining conditions
differ in Ohio and West Virginia but
the commission ruled such evidence
out of consideration on the ground
that it had no direct bearing on the
plain question of whether or not rates
were discriminatory. Meantime con
ditions continue to be deplorable in
the Hooking coal mining section OF
Ohio where thousands of mines are
idle on account of the alleged railroad
rate injustice. Some hope is being
held out, however, by the promise that
the idle miners slowly will be taken
care of in other parts of the state OF
in adjoining states.
Special Session May Be Called.
1t has been definitely established
here that, although Gov. Willis will
not call the legislature into specia
session excepting as last resort, the
possibility of such a session is no
entirely remote in view of the acute
situation of unemployment in thu
mines in the Hooking district of Ohio
The governor is known to be loath tt
call an extra session, and yet he il
fully cognizant of the seriousness o
the situation. Among state officials
generally much difference of opinion
exists as to the advisability of an eS
traordinary meeting of the assembly
UnruIy Saloons Cause Trouble.
There are four unrulv saloons in thu
Hooking Valley coal district that arr
causing the state authorities endless
trouble just now incident to the pov
erty and unemployment that prevail
among the coal miners.
Bucyrus Not Minus Birth Rate.
The people of Bucyrus are bein
made the butt of many jokes now
adays owing to the reputation tn
town acquired in state circles. Fo
many weeks the state bureau of vita
statistics has been in the habit o
pointing to Bucyrus as following il
the footpaths of France. In othe
words, Bucyrus seemingly had n
birth rate. 1t was stationary insofa
as any reports at the state bureau in
dicated. Now the cat is out of tn
bag The people Of Bucyrus are no
minus a birta rate.
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