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Show INVESTIGATION IS DEMANDED BY THE OGDEN STANDARD The Repeated Denials by the Millsites of Statements Made By the Standard Causes the Latter to Ask For a Test of the Truthfulness of the Matter It Prints Denial of Princi- . pal Beeson Brings Matter to a Focus School Board Asked to Investigate. On Saturday the Standard printed this little comment: What We Said. "It Is most surprising to note Mr. Mills' request for another teacher In the high school, notwithstanding a committee of teachers appointed to make assignments and arrange the program for the teachers, met yesterday yester-day afternoon at the high school and unanimously decided that no extra, teacher was required at the high school. Principal Beeson presided at the meeting and agreed with the teachers' committee on program " These few words placed Mr. Mills again in the light of a "baiter" of the school board While Mills was again culling the board's attention to his "plan," repudiated by his superiors, the high school committee on program actually had arranged and decided to get along without an extra teacher for the next semester, and Mr Beeson, Bee-son, after the program committee had acted, reported to the faculty or at a meeting of the teachers and in effect Biiid that "we have been laboring with the committee on program and have arranged to combine classes so It will not be necessary to have any additional addi-tional teacher for the coming semester." se-mester." Now there was nothing secret about the moetings. The matter was openly discussed and agreed upon. Ihe Standard reporter received this information from several sources and we are assured, even now, after Principal Prin-cipal Beeson denies it, that the Standard's Stan-dard's statement is substantially true and correct. It seems Mills slipped a cog in asking ask-ing for the extra teacher for the high school, and it appears that he promptly prompt-ly brought Mr. Beeson to the front to save his face. Beeson's denial . appeared In Sunday's Sun-day's Examiner and we reproduce It in full Anyone familiar with Mr. Beeson's literary ability at once will note that he was laboring under a great lapse of memory which he supplanted sup-planted with words, words, words, in an effort to help his friend Mills out of a hole. Here is the interview with Mr. Beeson as published in Sunday's Examiner, read every word of it and see how hard it is for Beeson to deny what the Standard said What Principal Beeson Said. "The matter of an additional teacher, teach-er, in the sense reported in the Standard, Stand-ard, was not even considered by the meeting of teachers held at the high school Friday night, let alone 'voted on unanimously,' as the Standard cays," said Mr. Beeson. "Mr. Mills has instructed us." said Mr. Beesou, "to get along without additional ad-ditional teachers if such a course can be made possible. I had already filed v. lib. the superintendent a request for the appointment of one more teacher, feeling that the efficiency of the teaching force would suffer, and the interests of the pupils themselves would suffer, if one were not appointed. appoint-ed. I have never withdrawn this request re-quest from the superintendent, accordingly accord-ingly his communication to the board was In line with my request "However, acting upon Mr. Mills' request that I save the board the salary of an additional teacher if possible, pos-sible, even If certain work had to be eliminated and classes enlarged, I called the teachers into consultation on the school program, with a view to effecting some plan by which we could try to get along without the additional ad-ditional appointment I have asked. The teachers agreed some time ago on a plan which, if it proves successful, success-ful, we may bo able to do without the extra teacher, (sic) This plan contemplates combining classes, eliminating elim-inating certain school work, and in nfhnr wnvK makintr sacrifices . which may permit the present force to do the entire work. How this plan will work we cannot tell until after Monday, Mon-day, when the semester begins. If we find that under it the students will not suffer too greatly, and the teachers teach-ers be too much overtaxed, (sic) we possible can survive without the added add-ed teacher. If we find that we cannot, can-not, the new teacher will be necessary. neces-sary. "We have not been in a position to pay a new teacher will not be necessary, neces-sary, because we have not had opportunity op-portunity to try our new plan out a plan which is, to say the loast, somewhat doubtful of successful operation. oper-ation. Hence my requoBt to Superintendent Superin-tendent Mills for an additional teacher teach-er still stands." Now the Standard is getting tired of Mr. Mills' tactics, in charging misstatements mis-statements himself or having some one do so for him, every time he gots caught at some trick he springs, cither to boost himself, to deceive the public or to put the school board in a bad light. Tho Standard demands a "show down." We ask tho board of education educa-tion to cite the program committee of the high, school to appear before the board of education and investigate investi-gate whether the Standard reporter, Mr. Mills or Mr. Beeson gives the true version of this latest trick of Mr. Mills. We do not know the membership member-ship of tho program committee and we don't care. But this monumental lying must stop. If the Standard Is being Imposed on, tho people want to know it; if Mills can pull Beeson around by the nose and moke him do his bidding tho public wants to know it. If the school teachers will tell one thing to each other In the presence of a reporter and then will deny It when, brought before Beeson or Mills, the public ought to know It. Again, we call on the school hoard to act at once and ascertain whether the program committee decided to get along without another teacher for the coming semester. oo SARRAIL SEIZES PETROL. London, .Tan. 23. According to a Central News dispatch from Athens, General Sarrall, the French commander, command-er, has seized 15,000 litres of petrol found in a secret depository in Salonika Salon-ika J |