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EDITORIALS

The N. D .. A. Meeting at New Orleans

ORT H ODO NT IST S should plan now to attend the next annual meeting ofthe National Dental Association at New Orleans from the 20th to the 24th

of October. The meeting will of course be a great success. Many papers bear­ing directly and indirectly on orthodontia will be presented.

He who visits New Orleans at the end of October, when the members of theNational Dental Association are scheduled to gather in that interesting Southerncapital, will have a feast for the eye as well as a delight for the mind. Herethe eighteenth century shakes hands with the twentieth, and, as in some of thecharming old capitals of Europe, there is but the need of a score of steps to turnback the pages of time a couple of hundred years. Resistant to the inroads ofprogress, the old structures have remained, the Cabildo, for example, in which

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sat the Spanish councillors who made the laws for the province of Louisiana,Here was consummated the purchase of the Louisiana territory, now dividedinto more than a dozen states of the Union, and in the main "sal a" the representa­tives met whose principles were Napoleon Bonaparte and Thomas Jefferson, Itis a fitting use for such a historical edifice that the Louisiana State Historical So­ciety holds its sessions in the great hall. Beside the Cabildo stands the Cathedral,which at the moment is nearing its centennial.

In the old quarter, the French section, the relics of days of long ago per­sist. Here are the close-shuttered, balconied houses, which have a history ofslavery ; there is the quiet paved street with its ancient houses, in touch with thepresent day by the sign, "One-Way Street," while on every hand there is theromance of a tropical, out-of-doors, flower-embowered city. Quaint archwayslead from the streets, through which one catches glimpses of domestic life, thewell-nourished Southern "Mammy" in the shade of the soft-hued wistaria or themore florid courtyard with its reminders of former beauty. Here a fountainsplashes in the filtered sunlight, there a bed of posies gleams in the brilliance ofnoon, above a balcony tells perhaps the story of some local Juliet, while luxuriantshrubbery, roof of tiles, shuttered windows and the presence of flowers, breathepicturesqueness and antiquity,-the peculiar charms of this ancient quarter ofthis old city.

New Orleans in its picturesqueness and its famous welcome to visitors callsfor a record meeting, one worthy numerically of representing the great Nationalassociation of dental practitioners that is to assemble there.

Fishing Will be Good at New Orleans

M EMBE R S of the National Dental Association fond of fishing had betterbring their strongest rods and reels to New Orleans when they come to

the national convention, October 20-24. The waters surrounding New Orleansare teeming with edible fish from the aristocratic and palatable pompano andmackerel to the plebian and coarser textured catfish and chopique.

"Spend your vacation in New Orleans in October," is a slogan the generalconvention committee has adopted in urging members to be here for the bigmeeting. It is understood many will follow this plan. The Indianapolis delegation,coming nearly 100 strong, have announced they intend to fish and enjoy life gen­erally. This does not mean they will pass up the convention ; they intend to taketo the great outdoors after the meeting is adjourned.

October is an ideal fishing month around New Orleans. The city is sur­rounded by lakes, bayous, passes, and other forms of water easily reached byrailroad. All of the fishing resorts boast clubs at which fishermen can obtainlive bait, tackle, food, motor launches and other things that go with a day on thewater.

Steps have been taken by the State Conservation Commission to preservefishing for the whole state; this does not mean that fishing is restricted. These