To the Editor of the "Nowtit-Cunxa Daur News Sin.—In this. morning's: issue of the N-C. D. N,, under the heading "From Day to Day," there are. two items placed quite close together: One paragraph contains a protest against the increasing amount of gambling in the settlement, The ther, a report. of the prizes won ata bridge and mahjong tea, Recently you printed two Euditbrials on the question of gambling, closely following on the publication of letters from'an American: Police The course covered isa' broad one lending to the degree of Bnehelor of Science and. Doctor of Dental Surgery. After the student gra duates from the Middle School, two years of Univerisity' science are re-{uired for matriculation into. den: istry proper and then four years of didactics and practical training and a final clinical year which gives the student seven years of taining after middle. school' graduation, The aim-of: the course is to produce oral' specialists and dental leaders. We seek 0 give such an education as'we believe China must to play a worthy Commissioner and from Inv. Fesken: den, on the same subject. 1 watehed "your correspondence calamus with interest, to see what reaction might follow. Te my surprise, the only letters to appear ridiculed: the whole idea, treating the subject as a huge Joke.
Since then T have been ponder: n will poe duce dental technicians, "group vitally needed in the dental programme of China but in this day of selentife knowledge of the relationship of focal sepsis and chronic disease and the growing knowledge of the: important part. dental diseases. play the systemic economy, dentistry must be led: by men and women wht have the sanio fundamental. train-of gambling, and-that most of those who do not gamble have so many friends who do so that they: feel tongue-tied.
If I, in my home, play. bridge for} silk stockings, who am icize my young. neighbour who bets on the dogs? 1f, at the request of my club, I sell tickets for' a: rae, how can I blame' my cook when Re buys a lottery ticket?
Or is it that in these modern 1e8 our consciences no longer have to work for us? The Municipal Council declares, "This gambling house has no permit: it must. be closed." We promptly are aware) that to be found playing there will make us liable to the inconvenience of a raid and, possibly, of being healed into court, Therefore, to gamble there becomes asin, ' But} again, of another place the Council decides, "This institution is licensed." Joyfully we flock to the we previously denounced.
Of course Shanghai will continue] to be a centre for gambling of alli kinds, through discretion may} curtail. certain forms. But it} appears that the saying, "Charity covers a multitude of sins" has used to think that} ing as other medical: speelalis 'The West' China Union Unive sity College of Medicine and Denistry: offers. training inthe oral specialty' of medicine, Ith dental graduates practice dentistry as an integral part of medicine. The health of the whole body is. the ain sought, Already we hive sev-feral graduates of this complete course besides: many of the shorter course, dental technicians, have had a large demand for our graduates for services in Eastern provinces but as yet we cannot provide a- sufficient number, 'This year one of our men went to the health centre of the Peking' Union Medical College and another to hos-Pital service of Cheeloo University, In view of these facts we will be lad if you will give this letter a lace in your columns as we would like to correct the statement which left out of account a work which has been in progress for several years and which has reached already la-very high state of-efSciency, Gro, W, Spantano.
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