1446                                 VETOES.

The Attorney General advises me that, under Senate Bill No.
102, dental parlors now conducted under a corporate or trade
name could still be conducted in the name of one of the dentists
who practice there, and in that way could continue to operate
exactly as at present. -For these reasons, both the Attorney Gen-
eral and the State Board of Dental Examiners consider that the
bill would be ineffective, and the Board, as well as the Dean
of the Dental School at the University of Maryland, suggest
that I veto it and that the situation continue as it is until the
next Legislature has the opportunity of enacting an adequate
bill.

From the best information I can secure, it seems that this
particular bill originated in trade jealousy on the part of cer-
tain dentists who resort to advertisements of a kind which the
State Board thinks do not conform to the requirements of pro-
fessional ethics. These dentists advertising under their own
names were beginning to feel the competition from certain
dental parlors or associations which advertise under their trade
names, and they had Senate Bill 102 introduced with the idea
of possibly putting these parlors and associations out of busi-
ness. I have examined a number of the advertisements put
out by these individual dentists and put out by these dental
parlors or associations. They are all of the same character.

If, as the Attorney General holds, the only result of approv-
ing the bill would be to enable the dental parlors to continue
exactly the same kind of advertisements as they now publish,
with the exception that these would have to be under the indi-
vidual names of the dentists instead of under their trade names,
then I agree with the State Board that the approval of the bill
would do little or no good at all. The parlors would undoubt-
edly continue the same line of advertisements under the names
of one of their dentists. They would simply join those who
are already doing the same thing under their own name.

For these reasons, I will veto the bill and leave the subject
to be adequately dealt with by the next Legislature.

GRADES AND STANDARDS FOR FARM
PRODUCTS.

(Chapter 514, Senate Bill 211)

This bill authorizes the State Board of Agriculture to es-
tablish grades and standards for farm products and to provide
for the inspection thereof. The bill is considered necessary by