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Show derao a eeeono! examination by the director of Regletratlon, JUKI T. Hammond, who bolda that the recent re-cent examination held waa Irreru-lar Irreru-lar In tha mailer of the questions aaked In that tha appllcanta had access to tha questions. There were forty-three appllcanta that took tha axamlnatlon and of tha 159 qure-llona qure-llona covering .ight subject tha applicant waa to snseer ten queatlona quea-tlona on each subject. The list of queatlona. It la etatedV was access-able access-able to all appllcanta and It la said that the exsmlnlng committee eon' flneo) the examination te seventy of the llat of 16 queetlons almoat entirely. en-tirely. The reeutt is thst the director di-rector waa not eatlafled with the CIDPILOTS LIT UiiDEREO ,SECOf!DTEST Those who dealt to practice el-TrrrarHr el-TrrrarHr In T'tah will have tn n- - examination and has orderea ao-1 ao-1 other to be held on September a. 7 and I. ' In connection wit", the recent -. amlnaelon hald. a queer condition arose. Chiropractic had not formally for-mally been recognised In Utsh and In order to obtain a board to e- j amine the appllcanta tinder the law enacted by the recent leglsls- I ture the director of registration I waa compelled to ealect a committee com-mittee of five chiropractors en-gsgtd en-gsgtd In the practice of chtroprao- tlo to examine the claea. In that, chlropraetlo had never been reo-ognlsad reo-ognlsad before In Utah a commit- tee bad to be selected from among the chlropraetlo petltlonera of five 'who had never been examined themselves for license. - In athe tate. POLITICS PLAY PART.. . Then politics Interferred. "When the committee had been aelected It waa dlecorered that all the mem bora of the committee were Democrats, when It waa aald a; majority ahould be of the majority i party, hence a chance had to be made aad finally a committee oon-alatlnir oon-alatlnir of Dra. H. D. 8cott of la-gan, la-gan, Ross H. McCuno of Ogdsn. A.R. Keaalcr. .fv M . Colton . and H. E. Groeabeck of Salt Lake were designate and approved by Oov-emor Oov-emor Ma bey. The recent examination waa conducted under the dlreetlon of thla committee, which complied with tha law aa It waa under-1 stood and Interpreted by It. I Director Hammond holds ,nM under the method employed the. Integrity of the entire examination examina-tion la affeeted, hence hie die-1 charge of tha committee. He will select a new committee to cost-duct cost-duct the next examination. Bald Director Hammond: 'Ha long aa I am at tha head of thla, d partmsnt. It la my deelre to see that the examinations are fair tej O.e appllcanta for llcanaea, but -efficiently rigid a to taet fairly the knowledge of the eandidatee to practice the protaaejoo. fori which ther dealro llcanaea and; thereby glvea the public the protection pro-tection contemplated by the statute stat-ute creating the department MEMBERS EXPLAIN. In replying to the statement of Director Hammond, disqualifying ; the board of chlropraetlo examiners. exami-ners. A. B. Kealer and H. U Groeabeck. members of this committee, com-mittee, atate: "Mr. Hammond latee that ear-enty ear-enty questions out of the quls compend of 15 qrstlons wars Included In-cluded In tba examination of the chlropraotora held tha first part of this month. It Is trus that this compend consisted of the 11 queetlona quee-tlona aa Mr. Hammond stated, but these questions were so general gen-eral that a thorough knowledge of them would enable one. to paaa almoat al-moat any chlropraeUs examination. examina-tion. , "It muat also be remembered that the present director of registration regis-tration waa an opponent oc the chlropraetlo efforts at tha last sraaion of ths legislsture. The law aa paaaed crested a precedent. In no state before baa ; any doctor or dentist beau required I to take any examination whatever when a law licensing .practitioners j of his profession waa paaaed. In , other words, any man calling hlni- self a doctor or dentist or oateo- path waa granted a llcenas regard-leas regard-leas of previous educstion or pree-ent pree-ent fitness. The chiropractors feel that they aleo ahould be granted this privilege, even though thry are able to paas the examination. "Finally. It is a known tact that atate board examlnatlona In all tha healing arts are taken from quls eompends obtainable by tha entrants en-trants before taking the examination. examina-tion. The quls compend used by ' the . chiropractors was compiled from other atate board examinations, examina-tions, chlropraetlo school examinations examina-tions and questions sent In from ohlropvactore all ever the state. The board feels that It was broad and Inclusive, and that a thorough knowledge of chiropractic la sll its branches wss neeesssry to pass the sxamlnattoo. and clinical demonstration." |