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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1924)
Auto Show Will >• ^ Be Exposition in Motor Prgress Niueteenth Annual Exhibit st Auditorium Febru ary 18 to 23 to Show Development. Omaha’s 19th annual automobile show, which will he staged in the Municipal Auditorium, February 18 to 23, will be more than a display ot the latest automotive creations. Tt will emphasize the development in fars and will bo a motor transporta tion development exposition. Approximately 14,000,000 automo biles are in use in the United Btates today, ot which 4,000,000 were manu factured In 1923, during a none too prosperous period. Figures prepared by the National Automobile Chamber ot Commerce show that the 1924 car Is selling for less money than the 1913 car, In spite of the great improvements. These figures show that, using the 1913 dollar as a basis, tho automobile dollar is worth $1.11 today. A few other figures are: gasoline, $1.01; tires, $1.23; cost of living. Cl.3 cents; cloth ing, 61.6 cents; shoes, 60 rents; fond, 68.5 cents. Other figures are about the same in proportion. On tho other hand the automobile has become distinctively a means of transportation. “These two things made possible the ^ introduction and sale of 4.000,000 cars * in 1923,’’ says A. B. Waugh, show manager. “They also lead us to predict that the Omaha show this year will be the most successful slnre 1920. There are more car dealers in our association today than a year ago, although there has been the natural contraction in the number of manu facturers. IVe can promise a bigger, better showing of cars, trucks and ac cessories. Authoress to Shoot Tiger. London. Jan. 12.—Mrs Thomas Seton, American authoress, has ar rived in London, en route for India, with an ambition to shoot a man eating tiger. "I have shot a bear, moose, wap iti, eik and antelope and want to add a man-eating tiger to my bag,” said Mr*. Seton. ‘‘Please don’t give the impression that I go round the world killing animals. "I would rather shoot them with n camera. I shall never kill but one tiger except in necessity. If I have good luck I shall get all the thrills possible. I have not yet fixed a day with the tiger, but I hope to stay outside of him.” Milk Quenches Fire. Middle port, O.. Jan. 12.—A bucket of milk, thrown by a neighbor woman, put out the flames in th* auto of Worthy Johnson, living near here. The fire started from a lighted lan tern. “ Don't Skid Cadillac Four-Wheel Safety Brakes Prevent Skidding. Try Them Today. J. H. Hansen Cadillac Cn. HA 0710 Farnam St. at 25th New Womens Shop to Be Opened j ?L> 1$utlce'tct'oacL {M- ■ cToe ^B at o f'£J, "] . . HIVN PHOTJS c | Leslie Iturkenroad and Joe Itonoff, two of Omaha's young business men, will open a woman's apparel shop, under the name of Hurhon & Co., the opening date to be announced later. Iturkenroad has always lived in Omaha and has been in the merchan dising business with one of Omaha's largest department stores for the last five years. Itonoff has been in the ready-to-wear business In Omaha, Sion* City and Oes Moines. Chrysler Six Is Well Received New Car Scores Big Hit at New York Automobile Show. New York, Jan. 12.—Officials of the Chrysler Motor corporation today are declaring the reception accorded Walter P. Chrysler’s widely heralded new motor car, the Chrysler Six, pub licly shown for. the first time any where at the New York automobile show last week, probably was the greatest and most enthusiastic ever given an automobile. Thousands upon thousands of per sons swarmed to the Armory, where" the show was held; to the Hotel Com modore lobby and to the showroom of the Colt-Stewart company, the leading Chrysler dealer In the metrop olis, to see the line of models dis played. Included were the Chrysler roadster, two touring cars, brougham, and two sedans, and cut-out chassis views of the motor and rear axle. Hundreds of demonstrations were given during the week with the two touring models driven from Detroit for dopioristrating purposes. Both cars were brand new. Before the first day’s demonstra tions were Concluded, the number of applicants desirous of riding in the car became so great appointments for demonstrations were being booked j days In advance. Before the Mon day crowds had gone home, virtually every possible demonstration for the entire week had been booked. The striking feature of the new Chrysler, according to many who managed to obtain a ride, is the smoothness of Its mechanical per formance, plus its flexibility and the ease with Which It leaps out of traf fic tangles. Facts and Figures Preliminary facts and figures of the automobile industry for 1923, as compiled by Alfred Iteev'es, general manager of National Automobile Chamber of Cornmerce, follows: PRODUCTION. Uare and trucks. 4,014,000; cars, 3.644, 000; trucks, 270.000. Previous record motor vehlcl* produc tion. 1922. 2,659,064. Percentage Increase over 1922, 60. Production of closed cars, 1.235,000. Per cent closed care, 35. Total wholesale valuo of car*, $2,243, 385.000. Total wholesale valu* of truck*, $267, 500.000. Total wholesale value of car* and trucks, $2,510,885,000. Tire production. $45,000,000. Wholesale '%luc of motor vehicle t!r* business, $760,000,000. Total wholesale value of part* and ac cessories, exclusive of titea, $1,310. 000.000. Average retail price of car, 1023, $811. Average retail price of truck 1923, $1,080. Purchasing power of automobile dollar (1913-100), 111 cents. Number of person* employed In motor vehicle and allied lines, 2.760,000. Special federal excise* taxes paid to United Slates government by automobile industry in J923. $156,000,001). REGISTRATION. Motor vehicle* registered In United Stat-s i a pprox.), l4.5oo.000; motor car*, 12.880,000; motor trucks 1.620.000. World registration of motor vehicle*, 17.000. 000. P- r < ent of w'orld registration owned by U. 8. A.. 85. Motor vehicle registration on farm*, i 4,25ft,ooO: motor cars, 3,890,000; motor trucks. 360.000. Miles of unproved highway, 430,000. Total miles of highwrays In United Hates, 2.941.294 motor bus and truck. Number of motor buses tn ua# 61.000. Number of consolidated schools using motor transportation, 12,500. Number of street railways using motor buses. 107. Number of railroad* using motor ve hicles on short linen. 167. EXPORTS. Number of motor vehicles exported, 328. U: 3. ‘Prom United State* factories and Canadian plants in U. 8. A.) Number of motor cars exported. 189,984. Number of motor trucks exported, 37, 049. Number of assemblies abroad of Ameri can cars, 101,400. Value of motor vehicles and part* ex ported. $234,129,000. (Including engines and tires.) Rank of automobile* and parts among all export*, sixth Per cent of motor vehicle* exported. 8 per cent. Imports of motor x-ehlrles. 890. RETAIL BUSINESS IN U 8 Total car and truck dealers, 43,607. Public garage*. 60.911. S*»ryj<p HaUona ami iffair ahops, 67.802. TtheGood MAXWELL Club Sedan Nothing Like This Value in Closed Cars By whatever standards you measure an enclosed car, the New Maxwell Club Sedan is certain to give you a delightful surprise. Never before has there been such a happy com bination of dependable, economical performance with so much comfort and such varied utility. And your greatest surprise will be over the fact that all these values are obtainable for *1045. Millard-Rose Motors Farnam at 28th Street HA rney 5066 Club Sedan *1045 /. o. b. Detroit Paucity of Detail Principal Fault in Original Stories Scenario Chief Tells Why Plays and Booka Win Out Over Mere Plots. What's wrong with the original story for the screen? Why is It that ao few of them are accepted? Why is it that chiefly the works of famous authors and playwrights get consideration? Florence Strauss, eastern scenario editor for Associated First National Pictures, Inc., throws some new light on the reasons that motivate pro ducers in their preference for pub lished stories and produced plays over so-called original stories. I.ack of development Is the chief fault with the original story, accord ing to Mrs. Strauss. “The chief reason is that amateur writers don’t develop their stories. They have been suffering from the delusion that an original story to get any consideration at all should ran from 2,500 to 5,000 words, and never to exceed that. The reverse Is true. The short things don't get any con sideration. because there is no chance for character and atmospheric devel opment. They offer nothing but plots, and there Is very little that is new in the way of plots. “The fact is that nearly all plots run to formula, and the day has passed when Just the plain, unvar nished plot can get by on the screen. As one woman said, ‘Men are all dif ferent, but husbands are all alike,’ I would like to paraphrase her state ment by saying ‘stories are all dif ferent, but plots are all alike.’ “In the boy's telling of the screen play that he had seen," continues Mrs. Strauss, "there is a very fine example of lack of atory development nnd in the reading of skeleton plots submitted by ‘original' writers for the screen, the scenario deportment en counters much of the same sort of trouble. “Today the screen demands char acter development and atmosphere much more than plot. Our screen people must lie real people, and un less the scenario department can visualize them as such they will not do. “In published stories and produced rlays thia character development and this atmosphere have been very oere fully worked out, while the original stories 999 times out of 1,000 omit these very necessary touches." OUR CHILDREN By ANGELO FATRI. Too Neat. There la such a thing aa being to# neat. Mothers who ars forever pick ing up things about the house will scarcely credit this, but it’ la true. The rule of order, "a place fop every thing and every thing In Ita place," Is bulte right. If It is not anforoed there will bs a lot of needless friction and waste. But the place Is what we're think Ing about now. Of course hats and costs and rub bers and such thing* are easily dis posed of. They go to their places la the closet, and that's all about that. Books go on shelves and stand In rows, and coma when they're called for, of course. But playthings? Playthings for tbs little ones? They're always tumbling about and getting underfoot, and tbs little* ones cannot keep putting them on tables and shelves and In drawers where they might bs out of the way. Being out of the way when they’re wanted la Just the trouble. The tod dlers have to go to som* on* and ask for the ball, the rubber elephant, the scissors and the paper, the wooly lamb and the painted bear. That'a being too neat for the good of the children. There ought to bs a plaea wham ths toys can stay until tha young ster cornea back to them again. When a person build* a fine garage and ■has to go to supper before ths cars can t>e Installed, Isn't it too bad that the whole atructurs has to com* down and be put away In ths box? Beginning all over again tha naxt day never makes up for tt. The fli*. sion went when the garage came down and went Into the bo*. Whe wants to build when hts work lasts only long enough for a passing glance, not even for a day of service? And when one feed* his bear and leaves hint In a corner to grow, only to see him swooped Into a capacious drawer, what'a the use? I/et the bear go hungry! You see play loses a lot of Its value to a child when It la granted no continuity. Tha toys have life and meaning to the child who plays with them. They are a stnry he Is telling and unless he tells It to the and hie pleasure — and his education — la spoiled. Sometimes I think a child's habit of Jumping from one thing to another without doing nnythlng much with any la due to this constant Interrup tion of his play when he wee very little, Habit# of mind are laid very early and the earlier they are laid the longer they last. Isn't there some place where a child can play out hla Idea and leave It to find It still thera when he comes again the neat day time? Of course the middle of the sitting room floor won’t do: neither will the stnlrs, or the hall. Hut surely there Is one corner in th# house for him? How would you like to have your sewing snatched lip and put away every lima you took a few stitches? Children don't get on that way very well either. Cepyrl*hf. lilt. K(f(? I.nviitg Chrrk. London, Jan. 12.—Poultry farmers of the future will have no need to wonv ns to which hen la or Is not a pitying proposition, fur by nti Inven tion Just patented by William Mlddet man, well known Dutch breeder, the ben Itself will virtually write a pen ciled note telling the farmer -how many eggs she has laid per day. Tli# Invention consists of a colored pencil fixed In an upright position to a kind of saddle on the lien's back. When the hen leaves s special kind of t»ap nest after laying an egg Ihs pencil marks a sheet of paper flved on the door. Knell hen has a differ ent colored pencil, and bv the color of (be mnikliig (he fanner knows i w hlch lien has laid the egg. Head of Largest Electric System in State Started as Phone Operator Corporation Now Supplies Power to 160 Gities and Towns in Middle West. When a 17-yearold boy telephone operator .in Wahoo, Neb., in the 90s foresaw the possibilitlea of commer cial use of electricity, little did he suspect that when he was less than 50 he would he president of Ne braska's largest electrical system Yet such has been his accomplish ment, and Rufus K. Ree, 114 South Fifty-first street, the hoy who oper ated the switchboard In Wahoo, is now president of the Continental Gas and Klectrlc corporation of Omaha. This company has contracted to pur chase control of the Kansas City Power and Right company, a $50,000, 000 concern. Rees father, James M. Ree, came to Nebraska In the middle of the 19th century, when Saunders county had 15,000 Indians. Rufus Ree took his first job In the telephone exchange and became seri ously Interested In electricity. After working In the exchange for a year he went to Chicago, where he worked as wireman. In 1893 he returned from Chicago to Omaha, where he helped install the first multiple-jack switchboard In the old telephone building at Eighteenth and Douglas streets. At Clarlnda he built an electric light plant. He started a pioneer movement for superpower when. In 1909, he built the second transmis sion line In the state, extending from Clarlnda to New Market, a distance of about seven miles. As the Clarlnda plant prospered un der Ree s administration It expanded until It served 14 towns. While at Clarlnda he Installed Iowa's first artificial Ice and cold storage plant operated In connection with an electric power house, and installed the first city steam heating system In Iowa which received Its steam from an electric plant. Ree came to Omaha as president Kufnx E. Ijut.. of the Continental company in 192^ and during his administration ^hat company has pursued a policy' of healthy growth and expansion. The Continental now has an interest in the Eee Electric company syst.-m as well as owning and operating the Nebraska Clas and Electric company, the Eincoln flas and Electric com pany, the Iowa Service company, the Maryville (Mo.) Electric Eight and Power company and the Canada Gas and Electric corporation. It Is the most extensive electric system in the .Missouri river xaliey and serves 160 cities and towns with electric eur rer. . Labor Dole Attacked. Eondon, Jan. 1".—Tens of thou sands of Britishers are learning to live without work, according to Sal vation Army General Booth. This, he says, is not by choice, but becatise of a job shortage and the labor dole. He estimates 200,000 boys of working age are Idle. The condition, he declares, is leading to “moral decline and a mischievous in fluence over all alike.” Husband Sa\s V ife Drank. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 12.—An un usual divorce petition was filed In the district court here charging the wife drank to excess. Emerson A. Miller alleged the mother of his 9 months-old son was guilty of gro«s neglect and that she had returned home so highly intoxicated she was unable to look after the welfare of the child. Surgeon* In Sydney, N. S. W,, re. eently performed an operation through which they surre«gfully grafted a new nose fin the faro of a man using the middie finger of his left hand for the misaing organ. The operation took three weeks. Special Announcement ERNST HERMINGHAUS Landscape Architect • l as bpen placed in charge of our nurseries and will render to our patrons expert service and counsel. Mr. Herminghaus is acknowledged to be one of the fore most landscape architects of the middle west. He is a graduate of the School of Landscape Architecture of Harvard University, recognized as the leading school of this art in the world. He comes, therefore, equipped for any problem, however intricate, embrac ing the beautifying of landscapes. With the addition of Mr. Herminghaus to our organi zation, a’ head of the nursery department, we are in position to offer greater service to our patrons. Wherever desired we will be glad to furnish sketches where a somewhat elaborate setting is required and assist in fully working out the problem of landscape development. We are pleased to make this announcement at this time, when landscaping is receiving such general attention and study. We have made a distinct stride forward in the direction of home and city beauty. We invite our patrons everywhere to avail themselves of the professional counsel and co-operation which Mr. Herminghaus’ identity offers. Now is the time to give con sideration to spring planting. Woods Bros. Companies 132 S. 13th St., Lincoln, Neb. Phone B-6744 THE UNIVERSAL CAR * . # , i Looking Ahead AST Spring a total of 350,000 people were disappointed in not being able to obtain deliveries of Ford Cars and Tracks, as orders were placed faster than cars could be produced. The demand for Ford Cars and Tracks this Spring, will according to all indications, be far greater than last Spring. Winter buying has been increasing at a greater rate than ever before. Actual retail deliveries the past 60 days totaled 308,170 Ford Cars and Trucks, an increase of 1,961 a day over a year ago. Over 200,000 people have already ordered Ford products on our purchase plan, the majority of whom will take delivery in the Spring. The above facts are given with the suggestion that you list your order promptly with a Ford dealer if you contemplate the purchase of a Ford Car or Truck for use this Spring or Summer and wish to avoid delay in delivery. '—^ Detroit, Michigan X <7 You need not pay cash for your car. You can arrange to make a small deposit down, taking care of the balantt in easy pay ments. Or, you can buy on the Ford Weekly Purchase Flan. This puts you on the preferred order list snd insures delivery of your car at a time to be determined by yourself. See the Nearest Authorized Ford Dealer