Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-23
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Cudahy's Canning Factory to Reopen
to Furnish Army Contract
FOOD FOR ENGLISH FIGHTERS
wiz Mean BtE boost for Local
Yards aud Cause Employment
ot Large Number OF
Workmcn.

Cudahy's canning factory which has
been closed FOR more than a year VIII
opcn Monday morning In order to fin a
large army contract for the British gov
crnmcnt About iOo people Of all grades
win he employed when the plant opens
Monday and possibly so all told win be
able to secure employment when tho
factory Il running at fun blast
Tho order received from the British
government is for SCOT zoo onc-pound cans
OF beef to be ready for delivery within
ninety days. Tho company has lust com
pietcd 2OoOOO can order The last
order was put up In Kansas city. II will
take the Kansas city and Omaha can
ncrlcs Of the Cudshy plants three months.
working night and day to fiu the order
The opening OF the local cannory has
been reported for some time. but the
orders were delayed and the department
remained closed. The opening OF the
canncry means the reopenlng Of the
thinning department, the enlargement of
the box factory and an increase In
wrappers, iuggers and killing gangs. For
some time past the Kansas city house
has been buying cattle and shipping here
to South Omaha to be killed ana boned
after which the meat was returned TO
Kansas City to be packed for shipment.
The new order here will mean that
Cudshy will he in the market again for
live stock
II was said yesterday that tho an
nouncemcnt that Cudahy had rcopened
the cannery here would be hailed as a
godsend by many OF the poor packing
house men who have been out OF work
so long.
Point system Introduced.
Keeping in step with the times, Prin-
cipal s. w Moore OF the South Omaha
High school has launched Sor public dis
cusslon. q new method OF graduating
students from the local high school. The
name OF the new plan is point system
of graduation"
Under the new regime. student may
graduate on $500 points. In other words
equivalent to an average OF so por cent
IN thlrty-two subjects. The present sys>
tenn requires that the average student
have at least final grade OF 20 per cent
in thirty-two subjects. Under the new
system. the advantage Is that &C the
student makes special effort and gets
- ''H'''' fNAN'ANabN az kluNNss u NpulU
mean that he could graduate on less
than thirty-two subjects.
The object in view is to make the
grades of the average student show
quality as well as quantity of work. The
fact that a student could, by dint of hard
work. attain an average OF So per cent
In thirty subjects during the four-year
course and then graduate with only
thirty subjects actually dealt with, Is
enough to instill an incentive Ia the stu
dent for harder and more comprehensive
work and hence better tho vocational
side Of the high school courses. Again.
even with the number of studies re-
CURED for graduation lessened by two.
the standard required would DO 10 per
cent higher.
Principal Moore in speaking OF the
proposition said. The new system.
although undoubtedly ahead OF the times
and ahead Of anything proposed at the
recent state teachers convention IN
omaha, is still possibly the most prac-
VCai ofiered as yet for any modern high
school Of this state"
Quarantine 10 stand.
No immediate modification of Iowa
fu"i nhuHe' was the reply received yes
terday afternoon at the Union Stock
yards OF South Omaha in response q
a petition of the local live stock inter
ests. who wanted the ban on westo II
Iowa raised. This reply was not unex-
pected at the stock yards as told In Tho
Bee of yesterday.
The Live Stock exchange met yester-
day morning to consider the proposltiun
Of Keeping the yards open on Thanks
giving day. BY a vote It was determined
TO suspend the rules and keep the yards
open on that day. TINS, however. was
done in the hope that the quarantine on
western Iowa might be modified in n
short time.
Explaining the action of the depart
ment In refusing to lift the quarantlna
1t was said that new developments In