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Show A DENTISTRY LAW. The city council has before it a bill-which bill-which may be acted upon tonight, rog, ulating tho practice of dentistry. We have not read the bill and cannot therefore there-fore judge of its provisions; but n grievance committee of two called on The Times and explained the purport to be tho practical exclusion from practice prac-tice of all dentists who have not lived in Salt Lake city at least one year or practiced their profession for at least eight years. We suspect tho grievance committee failed to state the whole case, and it is probable that the term of eight years applies only to those dentists who have no diploma from any school of dentistry, just as the medical. ordinance passed two weeks ago exempts physicians physi-cians who have practiced medicine in this city for lifteen years from examination exami-nation before tho board though they may not have any diploma. If this be tho case wo consider the bill a go"d one, since it is just as important that it dentist should know soniethiug about surgery and aniosthetics as that he be a good mechanic, and to acquire this knowledge ho must have either experience experi-ence or schooling, or both. To judge of the character of tho grievance or the aggrieved, we print, for tho guidance of the council, verbatim', a memorandum left with The Times for its bettor information: infor-mation: A Skeme Unenrthed for Our City Fathers - to Look Into. A Bill la to be introduced into the council at their next sit tint? to reflate the nractioe of dentistry. This bill would be a good thing were it not that all the old Moss Backs, who have been practicing dentistry for years In t)ie city and robblnn the people by charglutc outrageous out-rageous prices for their work, are behind 1 They "have written and debated among themselves them-selves to the exclusion ot all dentists who have located in S. L. inside the piRt year, a bill exactly ex-actly to suit themselves, and to drive out all new coiners who He likely to cut U on their practices sud prices, or in sh irt they wish to continue to rob the people In the future satno ns in the past. It would be wise for our city fathers to look well into this little skeme fur the good of this community or the pet pies welfare is likely to surfer. It is strange that mechanical skill (Dentistry) should be tree limes as expensive in Salt L. as lu other cltyes. i its size. Do they object to competition? " |