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Show JANITOR LEAVES AFTER HEARS Ben Barrett, Custodian Jnd Fireman of Bingham Central Schools Is Dismissed After Manjf Years of Faithful Service. j Ben Barrett, for the jpast seven years in charge of furnace work, and custodian of the Bingham Central Schools has been dismissed from the service, it was announced during the week. James Le Claire, janitor at the new high school, was also given - his walking papers. f Mr. Barrett leaves th, employ of the Jordan School districj with a most enviable record, it being said that in the seven years he has bitn in charge of the heating of the schools and custodian cus-todian of the three buildings, there has never been frozen jipc. Never has there been ne mimite when Mr. Barrett shirked his duty! nd yet he has been dismissed. VVy? If there is a good reason Jfor the dismissal of Mr. Barrett, the Press-Bulletin would like to know wha it island will be glad to enlighten ths humlreds of Mr. Barrett's friends, who atjhis time fail to realize the motive biliind such a move. "For the good of the irganiza'lion" is one of the reasons given for the dismissal of Mr. BarreM, but this must be a mistake, as it would have been "for the good of tjie organization" organiza-tion" to have sent him a (Aew contract, It has also been rumorethat he was "let out" because of political reasons, and if such is the case, it is high time something is done to keep politics away from institutions fcf learning, and away from hard working men, who after seven years of faithful service ser-vice are "fired" because some one else knows a friend whcMias an uncle who needs a job. f Petty politics of this .ort may be all right, and it may hi the proper thing to put one's frienAs in a posi-j tion, after becoming "erccted.Hut it does seem rather peculiar, to those on the outside of the ring, to see a man who has served the people of this, camp as has Mr. Barrett, receive a letter from the Board of Education of the Jordan District, stating that his services are no longer needed, and a contract will not be forthcoming for the next school year. The Press-Bulletin does not claim any relationship to Mr. Barrett, and neither does it care to go on record as saying that it has made a tour of inspection of the school buildings to check up on Mr. Barrett's work, but it has been told by those who know, that the reason for Mr. Barrett's dismissal dis-missal was suggested by the Principal Prin-cipal of the Bingham Schools to the School commissioner from this district, dis-trict, and thus "the can" was tied, be-1 be-1 1 cause the buildings wire not "clean-I "clean-I cd properly." It will be well for the people of Bingham Canyon to remember that Mr. Barrett never did have anything to do with the cleaning of the buildings, build-ings, but was merely the engineer and custodian. Mr. Barrett has given seven years of his life to the care and wants of the children of Bingham Canyon, YOUR CHILDREN. Is he going to be "fired" because there was a change in school commissioners? It has been said that a petition will be circulated for the re-instating of Mr. Barrett, and it is Jto be hoped that every citizen cit-izen of Bingham Canyon who is in favor of FAIR. DEALING will affix his name on the dotted line. |