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Show ARE DENTISTS MANUFACTURERS? A Ooestloo That I Jut Now Worrying the Censu Bnreau Official, Washington, D. a, Oct. i24. The census office is agitated by a peculiar question. JVhen a dentist descends from his tooth-pulling pedestal and makes sets of artificial teeth, does he become a manufacturer That is the question which is puzzling the census bureau officials. The matter came up for discussion this morning for the first time when three Baltimore dentists. Dr. E. P. Keech, W. A. Montell and M. W. Foster secured a brief lease on Acting Superintendent Childs' ear and protested against the appearance of their names and occupation in the manufacturers' man-ufacturers' schedule. As individuals they w ere enumerated with their dental titles attached, and to this no objection was mado, but when a special agent engaged en-gaged in hunting up statistics of manufacturers manu-facturers desired their names, they straightway lifted up their voices with more or loss earnestness. The delegation delega-tion insisted that dentists whether they constructed sets of teeth or not were professional men, and just as much so as a doctor who made a splint or a bandage for a patient. Mr. Childs promised the Baltimoreans a speedy decision, de-cision, and unless all the signs fail, their prayer, which has already been heard, will bo answered. |