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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JANUARY 3. 1921.- State Auditor Issues Report For Biennium Executive Departments Stand At Bottom of List in Ex pen6es Wages Should Be Raised. Lincoln, Jan. 1. (Special). Ac cording to a report issued by State Auditor George W. Marsh, state taxes delinquent for tlic years 1917, 1918 and 9) can be considered col lectable to about 97 per cent, while taxes unpaid for the years 1911 to 1916 are good to about 25 per cent. I Of those prior to 1910, only about ! two per cent will ever be collected. In speaking of the expense of run ning the state Mr Marsh calls at-i tention to the executive departments which stand at the bottom of the list. This is due to the fact that wages of employes in those depart-1 mciits are still on a "before-the-war' basis and entirely inadequate. There has been a substantial in crease in wage. paid at the sjate university and other state ' institti-. tions and a higher scale in the de partments created by the ' admin istrative code, but in the old de partments the wages of ten years . ago are stilr paid. Mr. Marsh be lieves that the wages in these old departments should be brought tip to correspond with thire paid in the others. Total Revenues. Revenues coming' in to the stato totaled, for the biennium, $22. 810,664.84, while the expenditures totalled $22,637,78 1.70. However $567,462 59 of the receipts went into tthe trust fund, leaving a deficit of $394,579.45. Regarding this report the auditor says: "This appears to be the first time for the state auditors to present a report of the totals in classified and condensed form, and to make the figures check with the state trea sury. Perhaps-this is, not required by -statute, but this matter of rev enues and expenditures being so im portant, an effort has been made to present an elucidative statement showing on the one hand the m.vn purposes for which the monev was expended, in amounts as well 1 as percentage.', and on the other hand the sources from which the revenue wcr; derived. "It will be noticed from the state ment that virtually one half of the revenues wera derived from direct taxes levied on property, tthe two next largest item b-nc "earnings of institutions." fM.WJROOfiO), and "auto licences." ($2,340 980.84). Majority for Special Purposes. As to the expenditures it will be noticed that about seven-eighths went for soccial purposes designated by the legislature over which the ex ecutive officers virtually have no control, as follows? F.dneatlnnnl purnosea, SS..S JM-J! Rom's, nid bridges. !7.84. .S08.20.0i Charitable and penal lnstltu tlons, 21.17 K 792,499.13 Total. .M , 1.?.1.9 Cnlv about one-eighth went for d.-part-nic-tal Mpmri'M follows: rortn departments. 4.5 . . . .l,0S6,967.sl Su-idry hoards. commls-Mons nnd mln-ellaneous. 2. .. 608.750. ,4 Judlelnrv departments, S.isr.. 492.50". 14 L 1 iV'"? . "T. SM.IM.lt Executive 'department's, 1.24 ?S1, 105.93 Total. 11.97; ( I2.70M69.70 Revenue and Epel41tur. Statement showing the ''revenues paid Into the state treasury and the -espendl-tnres as per warrants Issued, during tha tlennlum from December 1, 1918. to ro vimber SO, 1920. R'venuet. Tronerty. taxes, 49 7S ... .$11,342,751.20 Ucna'-tmental ana misc. col- loetlons, 8.HT... I.nndsjtold and leased, C.47 li,tert on bonds and tunds. 4.96i Knrnlnts of Institutions, Karnlngs of lnstltu., 11.32 Snips and refunds, 1.... Auto licenses (state; high way). 10.28 : t , t.i a 1 9 l,hS7.01t.31 1,475.117.13 1,130.580. 9 2,582,800. 00 . 328,446.61 ..140.980. GS. 1.X52.975.41 Total Revenues. V)9'7 I)t-dtrf-t the amounts set aside and placed Into the various trust lunds for permanent ...... Investments 57,46.5 Lcavlns; available for Ihe ravmcnt of current ex pendltures .122.243.202.25 Expenditure. -Leslslfttlv departments: ' . , Expense, 3th- session 14.331.10 Kxpense 37th session MHSHJ Expense Sth session 'MJ.'SS Expensa 39th ejlon 9.995.40 Total legislative sessions Constitutional convention 1179.467.51 113,068.59 Total leglsT depart. 1.28 S289.t36.12 Executive Departments. Oovernor Soereury of state 2l !xX ; State auditor ' " Htato treasurer i!'i22 If Attorney general ll-l.l !? State superintendent 59,570.15 Land commissioner 24,441.13 Total executive dep't 1.24 281.105.93 judiciary Departments. Supremo court 118 072.22 Supreme court commission .. 24,944.10 State library M.161.49 District courts 334.331.30 Total Judiciary dep.. 1.19 492,609.10 tvil Administrative Code Departments. Teuart. of agriculture I 426,674.97 Depart, of f Inline i Depart, of labor .v. Depart, of public works (ex-clui-lve of pub. Impr'e. ... rcpnrt. of public welfare ... Depart, of trade and com morce (exclusive of hall .In surances) 72.163.01 30,072.40 153.662.81 151.370.71 204.033.91 Total for administrative code department. 4.68 1.036,967.81 Sundry Boards Com missions, etc Board of agriculture ......t 82.500.00 Board of ed. lands and funds 62,210.84 Board of equal, and assess. 5,717.33 Foard of horticulture 6,600.00 Pnhlir- llhrar'v com 22.220.11 State rail. com. 120,493.35 New capitol com, 43,586.31 Vitate historical society . ... 22,961.93 Xaw enforce., act., under su pervision of governor .... 110,249.93 Nebraska National Guard ... 40.44J.81 Relief bill 11,637.93 . Miscellaneous appropriation 29,977.94 1918 deficiencies 47.043.28 Total sundry boards, commis sions, etc., J.69 ......... 608.750.74 Charitable and Penal Institutions. Total for 16 Institutions, in cluding board of control, 21.17i :... 4.792.499.15 . Educational Board and Institutions. Board of vocatlenal educa tion I 151 495.97 Tnder Supervision ( State Superintendent. Normal training in high school Aid to weak school districts.. Aid to rural high schools.. 132,057.79 10r683.01 1.900. 00 1.991,790.17 4.612.11 6. 226.768.05 Temporary school fund dis bursement Forest reserve fund disburse ment - State university . . . . ........ State normal school (four) V 1. 201.907.38 Total , foe education pur poses.- 99.00 I 1,928.110.11 a.- 99. Fablie Improvements Bead and Bridge Work. . Bridges State aid t 183,213.89 Roads State aid 2,380,962.44 Roads Federal aid 1.246.681.76 Roada 8tate Jilghway ...... 1.597, 97!l67.86 1497. 36 lioada x ore t Tcserv Total roads 27.86 .... and bridge. ,.t . 31,202. 67 Total expenditures for the biennium, 100 Total revenue available. I22.S37.T71. TO Z:.Z43.ZV2.ZB Exress ofaexpendlture ever avllabl9 revenue f 394,679.45 Some Nebraska Senat6rs . i ; . , , ; ; -, i f n ?k s ' fife; W ' fcfflfe ) Jbof7 Ai;.S-,- Y-:mmd 1 - iJ - "niTiLrrr 1 FAUS CITY Warmer Weather Keeps Hundreds ' Of Workers Idle Packing and Railroad Com panies Check Plans to Put Up Ice; More Men Asking for Work. .Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 2. Miss Fran ces Robinson, official in charge of the federal-state free, employment offices., is one Nebraskan who is not pleased with" last week's favorable change in the weather. Had it re mained at zero or thereabout? another few days, she would have been able to place several hundred idle men as ice cutters. The sudden change in the weather postponed this seasonable industry. Several of the packing companies and railroads were making prepara tions early;in the week to begin th: cutting of natural ice. A few more days of zero weather would have frozen the ice to a thickness suit able for commercial purposes. Nat ural ice usually is cut when 12 or more inches thick. Pay to Be Lower. The cotnoau'es .last year paid ice field workers SS cents an hour, but ii is believed the scale, wiil be at least 10 cents an hour less this season. The federal-state employment of fice,which has a branch in )maha, is receiving requests for employment from 75 to 100 men daily. With all outdoor activity at a standstill, the opening of the ice "cutting season will offer seme, relief. Miss Robin son estimates that the packing com pnnies and railroads will employ more than 500 men, if there . is. a good ice crop this winter. Most of the ice cut in the state is from na'ural lakes and streams. One packing company, however, has an artificial pond at Memphis, which is flooded during the cold weather. Many Seek Work. Though there is comparatively lit tle industrial activity in the state at this time, the employment agency found work for 743 persons during December. Ot this number, 24h were women who were given domestic, in-J dustnal and clerical positions. Twice as many men applied for work as were placed during the month. The monthly report shows that during December, 996 men reg istered with the employment office. Although 790 were referred to posi tions, but 498 reported that they were accepted. While 'here is still considerable corn to be, husked in the western part of thev state, the fields are so covered with snow that work is im possible, according to reports reach ing the employment office. Laundry at Sioux Falls Wrecked When Safe Blown Sioux Falls, S. D., Jan. 2. (Spe cial Telegram.) Yeggmen blew the safe in the American laundry, in the eastern section of the city, at an early hour this morning, secured $200 in checks and $135 in cash and made their escape. The building -was partially wrecked, the damage being estimated at $1,000. This was due to the terrific charge of nitroglycerine used, the explosion hurling the safe door through a large plate glass window in the front and shattering the building it self. Experts who examined . the wrecked safe assert the charge used iwas 10 times as large as was neces sary. Military Funeral Held. W Gothenburg, Neb., l.tn. 2. (Spe cial Telegram.) A military funeral was held here for Ivar V. Stewart, whose body arrived from France Friday. Rev. Arthur Atack of Oma ha preached the funeral sermon. The body will be taken to Lincoln, Neb., for burial. Lighting Fixtures Granden Elec tric Co., formerly Burgess-Granden Co. Adv. 4Sv "C - , . . ,- '--i i fr- B,rn L Zouis d3ercat Move Made for EarKer Date foi Inauguration (Continued From Page One.) be obeyed with-'n a reasonable time. It is unfair to an administration that the legislation which it thinks so es sential to the prosperity of tle country should be so long deferred. It is true, an extraordinary session may be called early, but such ses ssions are limited generally to one or two subjects, which of necessity make enormous waste of the time of each house, waiting for. tt e other to consider and pass the measures. "Second As the law is at the present time', . the second" regular session does not, convene; unil after the electioft of 'ftie succeeding con press. As an election 'often, changes'' the political complexion of a con gress under the present law, many times wc have the injus tice of a con gress that has been disapproved by the people, enacting laws lor the people opposed to their-las expres sion. Such a condition does violence to the rights of the majority. A member of the house of representa tives carr barely get started in his work until the time arrives for the nominating convention of his dis trict. He has accomplished noth ing, and hence has made no record upon which to pro before his party or his people. This is an inju: ,ve both to the members and to 'lie people. T!if re:ord of a repre sentative should be completed be fore he asks an endorsement of his course. :, 5 Contests Delayed. "Third. Under the present sys tem, a contest over a 'feeat in the house of representatives is seldom ever decided until more than half the term, and in many instances until a period of 22 months of the term has expired. For all. that time the oc cupant of theseat draws the salary, and when his opponent is seated he also draws the .salary for the full term; thus the government pays for the representation froifl that district twice. But that is riot the worst feature of the situation; during all of that time the district is being mis represented, at -least politically, in congress. - .... "By congress , meeting the first Monday in January succeeding the elections, contested election cases caa be disposed of at least during the first six months of the congress. "Fourth. The president and vice president should enter, upon the per formance of their duties as soon as the new congress can court the elec total votes. The. newly-elected gov ernors of our states are inducted into office as soon as the; new legislatures of the states canvass the votes and declare the election. It is the old coiif resa which now c6Unts the elec toral votes. It is dangerous to per mit the defeated party to retain :on trol of the machinery by which such important offices are declared elected. Temptation to Delay. ."In the event that no candidate for nresident receives a' majority of electoral votes, the constitution7 provides that the huse of represen tatives shall elect the president, the representation from each state hav ing one. vote. At the present tim it is ine oia congress tnai elects the president . under such contin gency, aim thereby it becomes pos sible for a political party repudiated by the people to elect a president who was defeated at,the election. Under the present provision of the constitution, ;, in the event the house fails . to choose a president before March 4, the vice president then in office becomes the president for four years. This affords a great temptation, bv mere delav, to defeat the will of the people and if it is ever exercised it will likely produce a revolution. "It is true that January weather would be likely be too inclement for an inaugural parade, but that is a reason too insignificant to con stitute an argument against a con stitutional amendment which prom ises so much for good govern rfient. Nearly till the governors of states are inaugurated in January. The pomp and ceremony which usually attends the coranation of monarchs are at least not neceasary to a republic." JoAn W. ' Cooper ; $JoAn 6. Gannon Harding Having Trouble Naming Official Family . " N Announcement of Members of New Cabinet May Be De layed Some Time Many Axes to Grind. . . , -By PHILLIP KINSLEY. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire. Marion, O., Jan. 2. President elect. Harding is having increasing difficulty in making up his official family. A few days ago he was ready to present to the country the names of at least three men to fill the most important cabinet position, but new protests and complications have postponed this announcement. The difficulty of making such de cisions and in taking iijto Conference, all eager to talk to him, may result in delay in his southern trip, planned for the latter part of January and .H'hruary. Mr. Harding is being importuned by many men with axes to grind p,:id he is learning daily wisdom of sifting and selecting and getting new view points. One of two men it had been prac tically decided to offer the positions to have been"" sidetracked during the last few days and the tentative slate still remains tentative. A. "Chicago banker" will be offered the secretaryship of the treasury and it is thought that the decision made a few days ago to put Charles G. Dawes in this place still remains unchanged. This situation stands for Charles Evans Hughes as secretary of state, but the intimation that he is more se cure than anyone else. . -, The official eraser is handy for all the rest of the slate, with the pos sible exception of John D. Weeks, said to have the backing of Senator Lodge. Senator Harding spent part of the New Year's day in his office with callers, and dined in the evening with Col.v George B. Christian, father of his private secretary. He took a long walk in the -afternoon with his physician. Dr. C. E. Sawyer. Pink Teddy Bear Ends Long Hunt for Forger (Continued From Face One.) found that a woman answering Miss Hardin's description h!hj purchased numerous pink silk" undergarments of the most expensive sort at the New York waist store here, the Fa mous at Lincoln, Blods & Lees at Fremont and at several other de partment stores. v Given Cash Chang;. Checks . in payment for the gar ments would run in larger amounts than the cost and cash was given for the remainder. Each check bore a signature of some respectable and prominent girl at Gresham, Brock or Talmage, all in a peculiar back hand chirography. One of the last of the forged checks had .been cashed by the Nebraska Power com pany of Omaha. Sheriff Davis went to Brock, where he found a note in a bank which Ethel Harden had piven to procure funds to obtain an educa tion. She wrote an ordinary flow ing hand, but peculiarities of cer tain letters showed a similarity with those of the forged signatures writ ten in back hand. Police went to the house on Izard street during Miss Hardin's ab sence on her vacation and searched the room occupied by her. In clos ets, dressers and in varioire parts of the apartment, it is reported, were fcund a large number of beautiful intimate" garments, all of pink silk Some of them had never ben worn. Her accounts at the Western Asso ciated Jewelers were fouid to be all right as far as cursory exami nation showed. Darkness Halts Celebratio;ai ; New Year Shojfs - ' Fire in Transformer of tighjt Company ' Plunges Part of City in Darkness tenter tainment Places Close. A portion of thi downtown -business district from Eighteenth street to Fourteenth.' street, betwecnCFar nam and Harney streets, and several outlying residential district iwere plunged in darkness Saturday night shortly bslore 9, when an under, ground transfprrricr, one of the 'larg est in the city, located. in thealley, at the rear of , the' Gaycty' theater, burned out. ' ' ' t The damage was not repanrea for several hours and resulted in the closing of many places, at an" earjv ' hour. Ihe iayety theater jswas packed with patrons and the show had barely started when the-accident occurred. The performance was called off. ' Chorus Girls Flee. Jx, Many of the chorus girls, '(who were in the dressing rooms and near the burning - transformers, - became frightened and, dressed in 'jheir stage clothing, rushed into the atley at the rear, believing the' theater to be on fire. ' ., Later they . re.turn.ed . and after doffing.' their ..stage ; wardrobe,sl; fur street clothes in tfce dark, Iwstijv, grabbed up armfuls of stage clothing which they carried, to their hotels At the . Henshaw hotel and cafe diners ate their suppers by candle IlgMr in the Beaton, arug . store; oi lamps, the vintage 'pf , 76, revere brought, into use,, while : at .Ptber places" gas jets which had-not-been used for years were placed in Qfiera" tion. , ' . ..'V:--' New Year's celebrations . at,. Var ious, cabarets in, this vicinity j. were brought to a halt although candles were lighted in an effort to holi. trje crowds. , ... ' , . . Crowds Go ' Home. :!p , Evidently the. lights-- wert-,ii'ot .' i ' V . 1 ' . ' ui riiuuKU ior ine merrymakers, as theyMeparted at an early hour. The repair department at the Ne braska Power company's office was kept busy last night answering hundreds of calls which came in ask ing "when will our lights be turned on and what in the world's the mat ter." Despite the midnight darkhess which prevailed after the street lights went out, there was little dis order, according to police reports. The Paxton hotel was the only large establishment in the vicinity that was not affected by Jhe acci dent. Other hotels and restaurants either' burned makeshift lights or closed their doors. Kearney to Carry on Extensive Building Program This Year j ''., - . . Kearney, Neb., Jan. 2. (Special.) In the face of unprecedented build ine material costs and wages there were completed in Kearney during 1920 between 90 and 100 new homes, involving an expenditure ot an proximately $1,000,000. Building trades experts stated that to their knowledge there was no city in the country, in proportion to size, which carried out a more extensive home building program last year than Kearney. Local contractors assert the outlook in their line for next year is equally promising. Prospective building for the new. year includes completion of the new Presbyterian church and an addi tional grade school at a cost of $100,000 and $125,000 respectively, and the Good Samaritan hospital, which will cost about $200,000. All these buildings yare s already 'under construction. , The Elks also hope to erect their new home this year. Announcement has been made that work is to start late in the-year on a large business block, . at Central and Twenty-second streets, to cost approximately $75,000. Kearney also hopes to get under way with paving this year, districts, totaling 42 blocks, having already been created. Atlantic Woman Has . Success in "Y" Drives , Atlantic, la., Jan. 2. (Special.) Miss Vida Hills, Atlantic young "woman, headed a drive which re sulted in the raising of $350,000 in Pasadena, Cal., for a new home for the Young Women's Christian as sociation of that city. ' Miss Hills is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hills of this city. She is at the head of the national publicity work of the Y. W. C. A., her headquarters being in New York city. "During tre year just closed Miss Hills "corseted several suc cessful drives fir funds. One of these was atMuscatine,N where a new' building will be erected by the Y. W. C. A. She also conducted budget drives in Boston and Phila delphia. ; Riding over Pasadena in an air plane, from which she scattered pub licity literature, was one of the means employed by the young tavoman to stimulate interest. . I Walnut Caoitalists Plan To Drill for Oil at Adair Adair, la., Jan. 2. (Specials Moneyed men of Walnut have or ganized a company for the purpose of prospecting for oil in the neigh borhood of this town. Leases al ready have been obtained on 8,000 acres of farm land and as many more acres will be leased if possible," The promoters of the scheme are represented by J. S. Embree, who is in Adair superintending the taking of leases. He announces that he and his associates have had a Colorado geologist, J. W. McDaniels, make a thor6ugh survey of the territory ly ing about Adair and that he assures them there are excellent chances of finding oil. Something Free "Were things very high at the summer resort where you spent yout vacation?" "Yes, very high for everything ex cept fishing worms. A native let me have all the worms I could find for spading up half his garden." Omaha Chess Player Wins Title in Iowa ; Howard E. Ohman, Nebraska champion chess player,- returned to Omaha yesterday a victor over W.J S. Gilman, champion chess player on Iowa. Oilman won lour straight games' over Gilman. at the Elks cluU rooms in Sioux City. The games were played last Friday and Satur day. ; , The victory is considered a dou ble one for Ohman, in the fact that Mr. Gilman is rated one of the best chess players west of Chicago anid.'hasi had - experience with chess expert in New York. Ohman is but 21 years old. Gilman, a wealthy real estate man of "Sioux City, is 48. "i r-r : uXibrarian Bans Robbery Tales For All Youths . . ftAlra n P tn. TTviJ.in. uwtto v "iuuo Or Other Crimes Cannot ts ' Be Taken by Young Patrons of Library. Pittsburgh.Jan. 2. Books on ban ditry, hold-ups and robbery or crime of any kind even detective stories K'tlt nrtf Km i-riirAtt "tf tf rVi Aran true, iivi. giYVil VJ VilllUIUl Ul boys up to 17 or 18, according to Miss Grace Endicott,' head of the j children's department of the central Carnegie library of this city. Similar action has been taken in Minneapolis where, it is said, that nothing would be done to encourage boys or girls in a life of crime. Books of the blood and thunder kind were held , to furnish boys particularly with ideas which later developed into crimes of a serious nature in some cases. Tales of harmless adventure are held to be all right, according to Miss Endicott, but the rough stuff is "nd. the ban. According to Miss Endicott's view, books which would be suitable for boys would be Steven- c0n's Treasure Island." Jules Verne's ."Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Mark Iwain s Tom Sawyer," Stockton's Buccaneers and Lpirates" and "Captain Chap." But the action stories must be de natured before they can be obtained by schoolboys. The Pennsylvania board of censors for moving pictures recently , ruled cut all films' that" capitalized crime in a favorable way. Bridge Contractor at ' Blair Dies Suddenly Blair, Neb., Jan. 2. (Special Tele gram.) Eugene S. Beaty, 65, pio neer of this city, died suddenly of heart disease today. ' He was born at Medford, Mass., and came to Blair in 1880. After working at railroad bridge construc tion for several years he entered county bridge work as a contractor and was well-known in eastern Ne braska, having followed that line of business up to his death. He is sur vived by his wife; a son, E. M. Beaty of Blair; one daughter, Mrs. Fred E. Rankin of Sioux City; four brothers, and two sisters. Mr. Beaty Vas a member of all the branches of the local lodge of Masons and also of the Shiners, Tangier temple, Omaha. The iu neral will be from the fan,iilyresi dence at 10 Wednesday morning, with the Masons in charge. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery with Father C. A. Beyersdorfer offi ciating at the grave. Men Bound Over on Charge Qf Aiding in Jail Break Nebraska City, Neb., Jan. 2. (Special.) Clarence Lockwood and Frank Stuart pleaded guilty in coun ty court to charges" of assisting Jesse Bulger in escaping from the counfy jail. They wer bound ovet to the district cot oil $500 bonds each. A ' , ' Earlier in" the day Lockwood and Stuart pleaded guilty in police court to illegal possession of liquor and Were 7ned $100 'each. Bulger was fined $25 on a charge of drunken ness. - The three men made a sensational espape from the ' city jail, last Wednesday, commandeered a car and driver and were driven to Weep ing Water, where they were ar rested, j Gage County Company to Start Drilling for Oil Beatrice. Neb., Jan. 2. (Special.) At a meeting held at Wymore committees appointed to boost the oil proposition secured signed, con tracts from the Holdrege interests, which means that a Gage county company will be formed for the pur pose of carrying on the work of drilling for oil. About 48,0(0 acres in the county have been ldased for that purpose, and actual drilling Will be started within the next few weeks. How She Missed Him. When a woman emphasizes how much she misses her husband it may only signify that she has tried to throw the cFockery at him. Advertisement. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take drove's LAX ATI VB PROMO QUI NINE tablets. The nenulne bears th signature of . V4. Orova. JOo. !New Record Made t d j s. 1IH 1UUUCUUI1 01 Autos in 1920 Total of 1,-900,000 FagBenger Cars and 340,000 Trucks Turned Out by American Factories Last .Year. By J. L. JENKINS. Chicago Tribune-Omatus Bee leased Wire. Chicagu, Jan. 2. One million, nine hundred thousand passenger cars -and 340,000 trucks were poured from Uncle Sam's automobile fac tories in 1920, to set a new and pos sibly a permanent production record for the automobile industry The domestic market, drunk with unprec edented buying power for the great er part of the year, absorbed 2, 000,000 motor. vehicles, while the re mainder of the output, valued at $365,000,000, was scattered over the world in export orders. The wholesale value of passenger vehicles produced during the vear is estimated at well over $1,500,000, 000. Trucks brought one-third of the passenger car total, in rewnue to the manufacturers and an increase in the pronation of accessories brought in more than $1,000.000 000 more to swell the coffers of the in dustry. Big Overproduction. During the year the automobile makers cut down the traditional l(arl , nf shnrmak pre tn tli rm'n ,,,i in . i. y . Where 10 PerSOnS in the - COUntrV walk to the one who rides. A SDeed- rag up oi production increased the 1919 factory figures by 300.000. The spurt resulted in an over-production that threatened to over-bal&nce the industry when national financial in terests combined to bring commerce back into normal channels. It is estimated there are 20,000, cars in storage, the result of pro- i . . i , . , . ' lapped the readjustment period, but this SUDnlv is xne-tefl trt mm,,, uuwv.vll lil.lllt.llt.Ulii W111L.H U V I I - ,.,:tu: u- V- rl , ' within a short time after normal I, resurrle(l tt,;s snrin?. " Leaders Of the industry believe that in 1920 they have passed itirmtrrli tUair r...i.. i inrougn their greatest industrial Crisis. Betrinnincr in Taniiarv tlii , c. ...... 1" ' " i ' mantifapfiirorc con : rnanuiacturers sent their plants into liigu tliu WUTKCU Wlin Tver in- rrpoemtr coJ J ojvvm . a ucaiiauu for new motor cars. Public Calls Halt. Production was at itsi peak when ,1 r the P? iaIjed. a halt and de-' "d the deflation of commercial ; values. In mid-Summer moot of the factories were ;t'lt o-nino- nrwarrt 2,u'rements of Europe: In the sobering In idLtuncs were st.ll going lorwarn fiuence on labor radicalism of the dl at top speed, and some authorities ' covery that emnloyment and wanes may. were predicting an early incrase in automobile prices. Then the Ford prioe cut came to tonnle over the house of cards, and the maiori'V of tn,mi(.-f iu-.ll ng an immed:ate reduction in prices, a national slumn in demand -and warehouses filled with materials bought at the peak of war values. The industry in general refused at first to acknowledge the neces sity of reduced prices, but one by one, price reduction announcements began coming in from individual manufacturers until war time infla tion was squeezed to a minimum. The best figures available show that the automobile industry in its entirety, had reduced its production and its working forces to one-third of its "peak" figures early in No vember. Eighty to 100.000 men were thus thrown out of work in Detroit alone, and other motor niak-! ing centers were simi'arlv affected. 2 Autos Turn Turtle Near Crab Orchard Tecuseh, Neb., Jan. 31. (Special.) Two automobile accidents occur red near Crab Orchard. The car in which Mr.and Mrs. Rollin Jeffery were riding skidded on the slippery rosfd and turned over agnint an em bankment, pinning the occupants under the automobile. - Mr. Jeffery escaped without serious injury.vMrs, Jeffery sustained a bad fracture of her right arm at the wrist and bruises. When Mr. Jeffery returned to the wreck the next morning to take his Car home he found that thieves had stripped the machine of Lall accessories. V TN . If T T 1 1 f -.--.--I a country call when his car turned turtle. The doctor, was forced to break the windshield to crawl from under the car. He was quite badly bruised, but sustained no broken bones. Bee Want Ads Are Best Business Getters. , IOTO section of the OMAHA BEE .A J-s. I rfevilrr ir O Nebraska for all adveiv jtisind vhei'e pei'fect tepro auction or illusfratiorvs is essential Financial By ALEXANDER DANA NOYE3. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire. New York. Jan. 2. The qualifying reservation which' has accompanied all prediction for the financial, and industrial new year is easy to un dcrstand. To 4he mind, even of ex pert observers, the unsettled markets and complicated business situation, whose results vere bound to extend at least some distance into 1921, have seemed to render at least an unfa- vorable beginning to the new year. In addition the apparent controll ing influences were so novel? so con fed, and, in their larger economic consequences, so obscure that even ihe most hopeful forecasts hesitate to pin down predictiori" to time and circumstance. Nevertheless it is possible to off set each discouraging argument with one of distinctly reassuring charac ter, derived from precisely the same facts. It is the business, both of the economic prophet and of the prac tical man of affairs, to weigh against one another, the two sets of consid erations and strike the balance. Unfavorable Elements. Grouped in this way, the half dosan conspicuously unfavorable elements in the Immediate financial outlook may be thus defined: 1. The fall In prices, insofar as it h(is Involved and for a time will continue to involve, severe business losses; curtail ment of production, reaction In trndo, reduction of dividends, and partial un employment. - ' ' ' 2. Disturbance to credit as a conse quence of tho reaction and the lostius, with Increased business failures " over tffose of recent years. 3. Condition of agricultural producers 1 cllne In Drlres ,of rraln and cotton: result especially of tne lonff ae- condition which la causing propaganda. I hntl. fnr .ronnmln r,rnm,nt s-niHtanro and for dellbutate reduction of next year a acreage and production. 4. Possible effects of the trade reac tion; on the one hand upon volume of railway traffic and therefore upon earn ings, and on t the other hand upon our export trade, especially with South Amei lea and the east, whose markets m yeff ago seemed to be the mainstay of nur for eign commerce, but are now In the srrlp of severe economic readjustments of thler own. IT. 8. Revrnue Threatened. S. Unquestionably heavy impairment of the government's revenue in consequence - . i. j. . . . . . - . . uj ine greui curtailment cu incomes una business profits durm mo, from which ! under existing; law. the great bulk of i the 1SS1 federal taxeB will have to be , raised. Politic-.! confusion in Europe, espe I rM A 1 1 V in flnfmnnv Italv I rol n.t ! Mailt. In flaM.nnv Tl.lu .. - ,1 I Greece, with what seems to most people t0 be '"appointing progress in economla recuperation and continued increase of pa- j per currency inflation. r This Is a formidable list: the facts on ! which it la based are known to everybody and there is little reason for surprise st t 1,10 iieiilm rveii oi nupeiui propnecy in he . face of such visible economla ob- stacles. The reassuring financial and industrial influences may be thus enumerated: ' 1. The fall in prices. Insofar as It means rdctlon In the hiKh cost of living; which tolerable a year ago; also in "s effects i legitimate homo reauirements and re 09 pn on einc;ency. Br. I. n , n wm VIEUII, 1 The last year's demonstration of the pewer and readiness of the federal reserve ; bard, not only to ilevlate financial crifli, through applying the brakes gainst iniiauon, to avert tne crisis ltseir. 3. The fact of the greatest harvest In our history and of one of the lanrc-t winter wheat crops on record sown thta autumn, at a moment when tholwhoij world needs it; this; being o-io Oif the fcremost traditional, influences In Sus telning Amerjcan prosperity; the lower prices for the crops being accompanied or quickly to be followed by adequato instead of insufflcent farm labor and by lower, prices for farmers' materials. 4. The-new and more hopeful outlook of- the raltwavjc- lint v.f vpn nmirnvi power or tm new rates undor tne ernments altered railway policy, while In the export trtde, the teaching of- nir whole economic history is thit a fn'A In prices, however sudden, invariably places American 'oreign trade on a sound er and surer basis. Bed Growth Checked. I. The fact that reduction in the pro ceeds of income and profit 'aics will force the hand of congress to reform the -whole unfair and precarious present sys tem of taxation. . The facts, as regards the European situation, that political disintegration i f the- bolshevist sort has made no head way byond the Russian border; that devastated Belgium has already-becnm.j a strong and actlvo producing state; that recosfttructlon of devastated Franco hns I roceeded at a paco which few people t-em to understand; that England and France have already checked or reerxed Urn expansion of their paper currencies, and finally, that the present year Is al most certain, to see the United States government personally co-operating In cYflnite form with the other nations al ready leagued for peace and reconstruc tion. .. These, then are the counter-balancing influences or oven the Immediate economla future. As to when and how soon the favorable considerations will counter-balance the un favorable, or. In other words, how . long the forces of reaction will supercede the vosltlve though largely latent forces ,f recovery that is a question no one can aiswer at this momenrrv ,-..r, But the economic history of 191-will depend quite as much on "the business riimmunlty's intelligent recognition of the icassuring offsets as on the automatic play of economic forces. , Baroness Is Poisoned Worcester, Mass., Jan. ' 2. Baroness Betts Pontiac of the Hcl-stein-Fraesian family, now 'iiving here, ate some sweet grasses plucked from the highway whtre. she strolled 1 i : i ;ii T i. . . . tfuu uciauie sfuuusiy iu. inc state authorities had just sprayed poison on trees lor moths. y GlMVURE OnKfift 6R