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WANT “ADS” Them In B-Glll llll Only One-cent a Word Subscription, $1.00 a Year. iHL £>tiM Wralö LENTS, MULTNOMAH CO.. OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1914 — HOME DAMAGED BY BOMB IN ANTWERP MORE SUPPORT TOR OREGON DEMISES To the Editor.—In a recent edition of j Bit Attendance of Members, Notable Politicians, City Superintendent and Director Plummer Add Inter-1 est to the Meeting. your paper appeared an editorial that Candidates set »raly criticized the dentists of Oregon ' Hatu>day was a big day for 1-snts Grange The largest attendance for several months was on hand at the ban quet hour. Included in theee was a numlier of persons prominent in politl* cal life at this time. Among this num tier was ex-governor Geer, senatorial candidate. It. N. Booth, al candidate; Pat congression McArthur, Arthur langgutb, Judge Cameron and F. M. Hurlburt, candidate for sheriff, The forenoon session was taken up with the regular business of the grange Hevera) candidsteo were initiated into Photo copyrishi. 111«, by American Fr BELGIANS RETREATING FROM LOUVAIN tb« third and foorQ, degrees. The noon hour was spent in a well attend«! ban quet, and following this a short social period was well occupied. The lecturer hour was opened up at 2 o'clock Sev eral selections of music and a song In troduced the more im|>ortant features of the program. Dr. Wslgamst was present and made a abort talk on the proponed dental bill. ELECTION THE COMING PROBLEM Mr. Plummer was called for a talk on "The Influence of Eugenics in Practice." Mr. Plummer ia well prepared to handle this subject as he >r two years was in charge of thia d lartment at the State Fair, and baa u de a study of it as handled in thio state and various others. He pointed out the error many bad made in supposing that the advocates of the theories of eugenics were proposing to eliminate the physically or mentally un fit. It is rather to encourage persons eligible to matrimony to consider their responsibilities with greater care in the Photo by American tress Association. selection of partners. He made an un- usually go xl address and was warmly applauded. City Huperintendeut Aider man spoke on some phase« of practical education. He devefo|>ed the idea of encouraging those educational advance« that tilled young peotde for their local 18«ar Mr. Editor.—That war some The first Five Hundred party of the The officers and committees of the needs and also took Into consideration individual fitness and choice. He ap bomb you throw«! into th<* ' dentiate a aeaa»n at Woodmere was given at the Parent-Teacher Club are preparing a big prove« of the American idea in educa week ago when you wrote • that pi«« home of Mr. and Mrs P. T Harris in : benefit program to be given at the tion, as it aims at advancing all, rather about the dentist trust. I la is aliout honor of their mother, Mrs. L. J. Yeager theatre next Tuesday evening at than a few people, to an extreme. One Tibbles. The house was lieautifdlly time some one was saying something 8 o’clock. The Club assumed the re of the points he developed was that the decorated with Oregon Grape and alsitit some of them* state prot« ’ te«i sponsibility of |>aying for a Victrola last present European war would result in Autumn leaves. Dainty refreshments summer, for the use of the playground an exodus of people from that country tru«ta. < >f course 1 tadieve that dentists were served to over thirty guests. The to this as followed.the German war of' are pretty good things They an* a gentleman’s prize was carried oft' by Mr. , and the school. It is hop«l that every 1870. This has been exactly the re tMx*««><ary evil and if tliey are honest and Chas. Wagstat!, and the ladies prize! one will render them assistance in en was won by Mrs. Thus. Malloy, while ) verse of the general view as it has been reasonable in their price» tliey can do a deavoring to complete the final pay saul the result of the war would be to the consolation prize fell to Mrs. Percy ment. The program includes some in heap of good, but tliey could do lota depopulate Europe so immigration Duuliar. The occasion was a moat de teresting features: more good if their rate« were not so would be chocked. J. W. NcNeal spoke lightful one to all in attendance. Chorus, 7, 8, and 9th grades; Club on the '‘Social Influence of the Grange awful high. Those present were as follows: Mr. There are hundred« of Swinging, 9th grade; Scotch Songs, in the Community" and gave some very people who have to go with ba«l teeth and Mrs.8. J. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. P. Alexander Robb; Violin Solo, Carl good suggestions. Mrs. Lucia F. Addi* and endless pain b«*ause tliey cannot R. Dunbar. Mr. and Mrs. James With- Hawkins; Flower Dance, Winifred ton was present and made a short talk afford to pay tlie coat of liaving them ereil, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Wagstaff, Smith; Sailor’s Hornpipe, Virginia that took excellent effect. Mrs. Addb pulled or fill«!. It don't coat much to Mr. and Mrs. Edw. G. Curtis, Mr. and Enrixxi, Winnifred Smith; Ace of Dia ton la a candidate for the legislature take care of teeth and if people would Mrs. Geo. Stoner, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. monds. Mabel Greehow, Mabe) Smith. and while not making a political speech, only keep Uieir teeth cleaned tliey Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Malloy, Mrs. The admission for adults is 10 cents; she advanced some ideas that clearly would not have much need of having to Joe Hand, Miss Opal Hand, Mrs. Carl for children under ten years, .5 cents. showed her to be a competent judge of see tlie dentist. Muller. Misses Dorothy Johnson, Ixiis the <)tiestione of the day. Now the fellow who answered your Kershner. Annatiell Wagstaff, Verna The closing hour of the session was editorial wrote a pretty nice letter but Tibbles, Mr. Frank Tarrant, Mr. Sim fair Board Meets devoted to a consideration of changing he show«! that he was awfully worried mons, Harry Johnson and Rex Stoner. Portland, Ore., Oct. 13. (Special) the dues and of formulating some system And he must have saw the other dentists A larger and better county fair than of shutting out so many non-members in Portland before he said what he said, ever before, to be held for ten days in- Wet And Dry Territory of the order who takj advantage of the or else how would he have known bow stead of five days, was decided on by In view of the wet and dry votes to dinner hour and come In for a good to have said it. 1 have l«en thinking the directors of Multnomah County dinner. It is proposed to make the about what he said aliout them not hav be held in November, the following facte Fair Association at the meeting held at will be of interest : Nine states which poison Inviting any one to dinner from ing all the same price. That sounds Gresham Tnesday afternoon. out the order liable for a small charge, good Imt I’d just like to lie shown. If 1 before January 1, 191.3, enact«! prohibi- H. A. Lewie, president, presided at Kansas. Maine, and admitting outsiders to the table had my choice of lieiiig a horse doctor, a ti n laws were: the meeting and nearly all the directors Mississippi, North Carolina, North Da only on tickets. Persons unfamiliar (tanker, or a dentist, I’d ratner la» a attended, and it was the nnanimons with the work of getting up the dinners dentist so far as getting rich is con kota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Vir opinion that advance steps should be ginia and Georgia. They have a popu ranhne little wbat a burden It is upon a cerned. They have got ua all skinned. I Virginia, taken toward enlarging the scope of the considerable part of the members as have seen several dentists who owned lation of nearlv 15,000,000. fair. That five days ia too short a time with a population of over ,2,000,000, some of the members never rends, any banks and still they kept right on plug «ent dry in September. The TL- ’ law wiU was the general sentiment of the di assistance. ging teeth. They had the habit. There rectors, and that the time should be ex go into effect November 1, 1916 I NoW about >.iat tliree year courae of Reports showed are seventeen states in which fifty per tended to ten days. 1 preparation. I have seen aome of the that entries thia year had been 60 and . Llnlnq Up Candidates ao-called cent of the population live in There liave been a considerable num [Ms treat work I ever si-en done by <ien- no-license territoryw J’heee i are Ala- 80 per cent over that of former years, ber of candidat«i endorsed by parti«« I tints who had been in school three years ha ma, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida. especially in the livestock department, other than their own. The "Wet ele Dentist work depends more on the den Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, South Carolina, and in order to take care of the prob ment” are supposed hi I* favorable to tist than on the time he has been in South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Vir able increase next year it was con school. We im «I to have good dentists sidered necessary tb enlarge the scope Benson, who has Iwen nominated for ginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, twenty-five y«mrs ago, who did not even of the fair. the supreme court. They also will throw Nebraska and New Hampshire, which have two yean of school training, and All bills were audited and ordered support to Galloway, who has a record have a population of 5,000,000. There I have some teeth filled by some of tlieoe paid. Premiums to the amount of for favoring the thirsty crowd, or rather are thirteen states in which twenty-five here "bum short course” dentists. If $46® were ordered prid, and Secretary the element that is support«! by the per cent of the population live in no there was anything to that talk they thirsty bunch. McBride also stands license territory, namely: California, E. L. Thorpe was instructed to mail all would not allow student dentists to prac- warrants at once. pretty well With the "wets.” On th«- ' tier before they secured their state pa- Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massa Annual election will be held by the other han«l the "dry element” will up chusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, pers If a student is competent to fill association after the first of the year. hold Ramsey, Harris, and Bright. Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin or pull teeth before he has finish«! hie Present officers are: President, H. A. In county politics the only judge that and Wyoming. At different times third year why require him to take lewis; Vice President, R. W. Gill; is definitely dry is John Van Zante. twenty-four states have adopted the John is-strictly temperate in all things. another year. Of courae I am not onto policy of prohibition. All but ten for Secretary, E. L. Thorpe; Treasurer, all the little frills of being a doctor and Theodore Bruggtr; Directors, Theo. White he isn’t making much noise one reason or another, have abandoned don't understand everything aliout it it fur local option or control by license. Brugger, F. H. Crane, R. W. Gill, E. 8. about it he will have a lot of support but it look« rather strange to anyone Of the ten dry states the majority have Jenne, J. J. Johnson, C. M Lake, L. both in and out of his party. He made been dry but a few years, and one, M. Lepper, H. A. I.«wis, A. F. Millar, with my experience. a good record as Municipal judge under 1 believe you are on the right track, West Virginia, went dry on July 1. H. G. Mullenhoff, O. M. Plummer, R. Lone and he has many friends all over Statewide prohibition campaigns are on ' end hnpe yrm wfft wot let up on them. th* Ml in Ohio, Califoroia, Washing P. Rasmuaaen, D. M. Rabes®, E. L. «kr city who take him by the hand and Gm Williams. Thorpe, J. W. Townsend —I. H. WaUa. ton and Oregon stub him good luck. • school to give EDITOR GtlSSUPPORI FIVE HUNDRED INDENTAL CONTENTION PARI Y Al WOODMERE BENEFIT PROGRAM for taking the stand they have against' the Dentistry bill. There are two sides ! to every question and as this matter ia to come before the voters of Oregon next month, it seems only fair that they should be thoroughly inform«! of the issue before casting their ballots. I am moved to write this letter be cause I feel that, as an ethical dentist, who is also an advertiser io your paper, not only myself, but the other dentiate of this state bare a right to be beard in tbeir behalf. In the first place the ethical dentista of this and other «tates are not opposed to advertising that will state the truth and many ethical dentists are daily ad vertisers in the daily preea. They do, however, seriously object to the class of advertising, which by it’a misleading and untruthful statements, have as the mam purpose the coaxing of the unwary and uninformed in and to the offices of unscrupulous dentists, there to be bandied in a manner beet suited to their particular style of doing business. As for the examinations given by the State Examining Board of Oregon, a re view of their annual report will show, as compared with that of our neighbor ing states, that our Board of Examiners have admitted to practice a greater per centage of dentists than any of them. In answer to the statement that the examiners are trying to keep dentists out of Oregon, let me say that since 1906 over 400 dentists have been licensed to practice in Oregon; almost doubling the number of dentists here prior to that year and now we have in Oregon a greater percentage of dentists per capita than any other state in the Union, with tbe exception of four other states. Not a few of the men receiving licensee were at tbe time and are now, advertising dentists. As for the statement that the dentai society has made any effort to maintai n or to increase tbe price of dental ser vices, I will say that there has never been nor will there ever be any effort of that association that will attempt to dictate what any of its members shall charge their patients. One of the mottoes of tbe society is that, “Tbe workman is worth bis hire.” However, the main objection to the propose«' dentistry bill is that by lower ing the qualifications of the applicant to tbe lowest it will undeniably lower the standard of dentistry and Oregon will then have a standard that is lower than that of any other state in the Union. This proposed law permits any person of any ra'-e who has had a year's train ing in any college with any kind of re quirements to practice here; while tbe preeent standard in this enuntry for a dental school is a course of three years of at least ei*ht months each, and there ia a national movement to lengthen the time to four years of not lees than nine months each; a time none too long to properly train and educate a skilled dentist. No one so well as the dentist, realizes the importance of the human teeth to the bodily bealt ■ and aa a "Public Wel fare" movement we wish to warn the public of tbe danger of passing a dentis try bid that will certainly lower the standard and requirements of a pro fession that has tbe important duty of guarding, in part at least, the public health. There is not now, nor has there ever been, any objection on the part of tbe dental profession to competition, but we do w<ah and pray for a competition of a higher order and not a lower, tor competition of a higher order will serve to spur us on to greater endeavors and make of us better dentists. Tbe pausing of this bill will mean that any dentist from any country, -who baa practically any kind of credentials, will be permitted to practice dentistry in Oregon ; while the product of the new Oregon system will not be granted tbe same privileges in other states since the requirements of the other states (all of which require examinations by tbe Board of Examiners) will not recognise the credentials of a state that baa so tow a standard of requirements for it’s dentists as Oregon will then have. Thia will not exemplify the lauded spirit of Oregon for Oregonians. Sincerely Yours, P. J. O’Donne!, Dentist. Daily Mails and Bills Require a Large Amount of Consideration. Three-Fourths of the Bills on the Ballot WiU be Bad Ones. "At least twentyof tlie thirty measures to be voted upon at the coming election should be branded "No.” It is not safe to wait till election day to do it either. The pamphlets should be carefully read through and checked up as you go. If you find you are incapable of deciding yourself what a proposition means, bet ter ask several persons to give you their views, then make your own decisions.” Bo says the man who has a little in sight into the purpose of some of these intended laws. A great many people are beginning on page three of the pamphlet and going right through, eliminating as they go. No. 3<X). page three, will probably meet with a generous support for there io a growing feeling that our laws are too lenient in regard to the admission of foreigners to citizenship, and thio is the first »top in the movement to raise the requirement. The next one, providing for a lieuten ant governor will get a better support than ever before, and deservedly, The selection of the presiding officer of the State Senate by vote of the people will entail very little extra expense, and that will far more than be offset by the advantage gained. It would be better if the people could also choose the speaker of the house. Under the pres ent arrangement considerable part of the pre-election politics is directed at laying plans for these offices. Even before the primary this year several candidates were manouvering for posi tion. This struggle for position is con tinued up to the day when the Legisla ture meets. If no one is able to rally a majority by that time, several days of the session must be consumed in the efforts of the several leaders to secure control. In doing this all sort of "log rolling” is attempted. Votes are bought by promisee of positions on committees, positions of etategic importance to in terests that are preparing to carry through some important matter of pri vate or corporate advantage. When the state selects the presiding officers of the two houses it will eliminate * ’«e greatest source of legislative crookedness. The speaker of the House and the president of the Senate get ten dollars a day. The pay of the Lieutenant governor is to be the same under the proposed law. The lieutenant Governor will also succeed the Governor in the event of the remov al of the governor, thus not requiring other vacancies in the state offices while these positions are being filled. One of the biggeet attempted hum bugs on the ballot will be 306. This is an attempt to enable the governor and State Highway Commission to bond the state for any sum they may choose. It is said that a plan io under way to bond the state for anything op to 2 per cent of the present valuation. Estimat ing this valuation around (950,000,000, the amendment also proposes a limit of 2 percent on a bond issue oi irrigation and other public improvement work. Thus it is seen that the total poeai|>le bonded indebtedness under this propo sition would amount to about *36,000- 000, the interest alone running to pretty near a million and a bail. Since thia will all be in the hands of a board act ing on their own authority it can readi ly be seen that "pie” or "pork” will be exceeuingly plentiful in some parts of the state in the immediate future if this passes. Let ns not forget that all these debts will have to be paid, and that the interest will in every case be far more than the princip >1. This io one el the very worst things on the ballot and should be considered very carefully be fore marking it favorable. Robert L Smith Dies Robert E. Smith of Agate street, near Gilbert road, died Saturday of a brief illness. The funeral wan bold at the M. E. Church Monday at 10 a. m. Mr. Smith was well known about Lente where he has lived and worked for the past two or three years. He leaves a wile an<l two children. There are sever al other relatives living near here. His death was the cause for many regretful and sympathetic comments. Rev. Moore preach«! the funeral sermon. Mails at the Lents postoffice arrive The I Adies Aid of the Baptist Church and depart as follows: Depart Arrive will held a tea at the home of Meo. T. 8:90 A.M. €. Moore 207, 32d Are. «oath, Tueeday • dkf A. M. UAUEM. 9:10 P. M. IMP. «. » 49 P. M.