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AUGUST, 1915

EDITORIAL

500 to 1500 each. With such ac- The transportation committee commodations a great Congress of the National Dental Association can carry on all its many depart- and the Congress have arranged a ments and interests in the most number of very attractive routes satisfactory manner.

giving you an opportunity of travTo fully appreciate the scope of eling thru a country unequalled the Panama-Pacific Dental Con- for beauty and grandeur. gress, one has only to look at the There awaits you at the Golden official announcement of Con- Gate that hospitality which has gresses to see that the Dental Con- made California famous. gress will be one of the most im- Members from the North, South, portant. Every branch of our pro

East and Middle West, on to Frisfession will be given ample time to

co! present and consider its particular

DONALD MACKAY GALLIE, work.

President. Among the organizations making up the Congress are the Inter

THE JOURNAL OF THE NAnational Dental Federation, Na

TIONAL DENTAL ASSOCItional Association, National Asso

ATION. ciation of Dental Examiners, Assocation of Dental Faculties, Ameri

This issue of the Journal of the can Association of Orthodontists,

National Dental Association, is Delta Sigma Delta, Psi Omega, and Ti Psi Phi Fraternities, and the

the third copy under that title pub

lished; and the officers and comState Dental Societies of the Pacific Coast. Surely this Congress sociation, feel that they have put

mittees of the National Dental As. should appeal to every progressive

their hand to the plough and may dentist!

not turn back. The success of the The officers and committees in

worth thus far of publishing our charge of this great undertaking

own Journal and our own proceedhave labored hard for three years

ings is far greater than those who to make it a notable success. How

have carried on the work anticido you propose to help them?

pated. When the Secretary of the While distance and time may National Dental Association and prevent many from

from attending, acting editor began this work, it there is nothing to prevent you was with some misgivings, as to from becoming a member, in this the raising of the dues of the Naway our far west colleagues will be tional Dental Association; for it supported and encouraged and you takes money to properly publish will profit by the association and a scientific Journal. The Board the transactions.

of Trustees and the Journal ComYou know our profession has mittee, seeing the possibilities in not been standing still for the past this enterprise and realizing the year, wonderful developments have desirability of having our Journal taken place. You can not afford uniform from the first volume on, to drop behind.

decided to adopt the name Journal

an

of the National Dental Associa- ship make the fact known before tion, without waiting for the or- our national meetings or directly ganization of a Journal staff and to the editor of our Journal. Let the increase in dues.

This was

those who have discovered means made possible by the discovering

of palliating, preventing or elimithat our Secretary had the quali

nating the scourge of disease that ties of a first-class editor, as well

manifests itself in the mouth, as a good secretary, and the whole

make those discoveries known to Association is indebted to him for

our National Dental Association, the way in which he is carrying

that the facts may be published on the work. A man may have the

abroad to all the intelligent memorganizing ability of a Napolian, bers of our profession and the abiland the genius of a Franklin, but without the co-operation and sup

ity of our profession to serve hu

manity be correspondingly import of his associates, his efforts will be handicapped and defeated.

proved. Let those who by deft

ness of touch, and acuteness and This, therefore, is appeal to the members of the National precision of direction, have come

to perform such wonderful operaDental Association thruout the

tions upon congenial and acquired length and breadth of this broad

defects in the human mouth, anland to show their appreciation of the industrious efforts being put

nounce and describe their work to

our National Dental Association forth by our own Secretary by as

that the members of the professisting and supporting him loyally

sion may know on who to rely in at every point. We must remember that as a profession, bound to

referring patients for these deli

cate operations and that some may gether in a national organization

become stimulated to develop and owing and publishing the medium,

prepare themselves to do similar that records our efforts and activi

work. If this is done in these vaties, we are as a man born again;

rious activities of our profession, we have put off the swaddling

the Journal of the National Dental clothes of dependency and have ac

Association will become a record cepted the armour of responsibil

that no self respecting member of ity. Having accepted responsibility, it is the duty of every mem

the profession, or one whose mo

tive is service to his patients, can ber of the association, to in every

afford to be without. The responway possible, by loyalty, by service, by industrious effort, to sup

sibility is upon every member of ply to the National Dental Associ

our association to contribute to

wards this end. ation a careful and painstaking and sincere efforts extended in this

With our honest statement of our work and efforts

direction there will be no question to improve our service to human

of the scientific or social standing ity. Let him who has discovered a

of members of the profession. more ingenious and a less trying and tedious method of operative

HERBERT L. WHEELER, procedure, or prosthetic artisan- Chairman Journal Committee.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

GREAT DENTAL DISPENSARY TO BE BUILT AND

ENDOWED BY HEAD OF KODAK COMPANY.

ANNOUNCEMENT TO DENTAL SOCIETY.

(Rochester, New York, Democrat and Chronicle, Wednesday, July 21, 1915.)