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DR. CADMAN WRITES SENATOR EDGE President of Federal Council of Churches Sets Wet Senator Right as to Attitude on Beer and Wine Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, eminent New York minister and president of the hed eral Council of Churches, endorsed a vig orous protest against linking the name of that organization with any move to weaken the prohibition law. Dr. Cad man sent a letter to United States Sen ator Edge, of New Jrsey. This letter was written because Dr. Cadman read in the newspapers that the wet Senator’s name was used in connection with the call of the wets to assemble in Washing ton, February 22, in the interest of the modification of the Volstead act and that the Federal Council of Churches was also mentioned in connection with the legal _ izing of beer. Dr. Cadman, on this point, wrote to Senator Edge: This dispatch referred to the report on the prohibition situation issued sonic time ago by the department of research of the Federal Council of Churches and in such a way as to link it with a movement in Congress for the legalizing of beer and wine. Without any intimation that you are personally responsible for this fla grant confusion of our report to mod ify the prohibition law, I take the liberty of advising you. as the most conspicuous sponsor of this report in Congress, that this use of our report is wholly unwarranted by the facts. Calls for Renewed Activity of Churches Dr. Cadman also called attention of Senator Edwards to the official state ment issued by the Federal Council of Churches October 31. This statement said: It is our hope and confidence that the report of the research department on the prohibition situation, calling attention, as it does, to the danger with which we are confronted, will stir the churches to a renewed sense of their responsibility, not only for the enforcement of the prohibition law, but also for rallying the con science of the nation to its support. In closing his letter to Senator Edge, Dr. Cadinan put on the cracker in the ollowing paragraph: I would also call your attention to the fact that the statement recently promulgated by fifty-six Congress men, urging modification of the pro hibition law, contained what were re ported to be quotations from the con clusions of our report, but which are not found in it and which entirely misrepresent its tenor and purpose. I call your attention to these facts in order that there may be no confusing of the position of the Federal Coun cil of Churches with that of any or ganization or agency w'hich is advo cating, in our opinion quite mis takenly, the legalization of mild in toxicants. VETS LOSE IN MASSACHUSETTS Evidently the members of the Massa husetts Legislature are not partial to lie wet scheme of legalizing beer. Last veek the House of Representatives re used to adopt a resolution that Congress >e memoralized in favor of the manufac ure, sale and transportation and distri >utk>n of light wines and beer. The vote vas 131 to 64. The Stale Senate took imilar action a few days previous to the /ot# in the 1 louse. TREATY WITH SPAIN A liquor treaty between the United States and Spain, to prevent illegal im portation of intoxicating liquors, was signed a few days ago at the state de partment at Washington. The treaty is similar to those between the United States and Great Britain and other coun tries covering the subject. RABBI WISE FOR DRY LAW Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, generally rec ognized throughout the world as the out standing Jewish leader in America, in the course of a lecture in Pittsburgh recently, touched upon prohibition and denounced those who would modify the Volstead act. He declared that the dry law has not had a fair and sufficient trial. REBUKED A fight was made in the State Senate of Massachusetts, on February 11, to put that body on record '.r. favor of modifica tion of the Volstead act to permit the sale of light wines and beer. The motion was defeated by a vote of 7 to 15. This is one of the worst rebukes yet adminis tered to the advocates of wine and beer. NEVADA ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE SUPERINTENDENT AND WIFE CELEBRATE THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Rev. E. F. Jones and his wife Belle M. Jones, who celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary March 1, 1926. Mr. Jones is Supt. of the Anti-Saloon League of Nevada. The churches of Reno, Nev., sponsored a banquet held in the Century Building of Reno, March 1, celebrating the Golden Wedding anniversary of Rev. E. F. Jones and wife. Guests were invited from every section of the state, invitations being ex tended from the pulpit of every Protestant Church in the state and from every lodge room of the state of the order of which Mr. and Mrs. Jones are members. The Ladies Aid Society of the Metho dist Church of Reno furnished the re freshments and the officers of that church, together with the Ladies' Aid Society, acted as reception committee. Pastors of the Reno churches were on the program, together with the Governor of the state, members of the Supreme Court, and the United States district judge. Several couples of Nevada who have already celebrated their fiftieth wed ding anniversary were attendants of Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Mr. Jones has been superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Nevada for nine years and his wife, according to his own statement, "has been assistant in every way conceivable, even to keeping the books of the Nevada Anti-Saloon League without charge.” The couple were married February 29, 1876, at Lee's Summit, Mo. The bride was the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Whiting and was twenty-five years of age at the time of marriage, and the groom was twenty seven. Mr. Jones has been actively engaged in Anti - Saloon League work for twenty years. For a number of years lie was leg islative superintendent of the Missouri Anti-Saloon League and in that capacity won many local option victories—to be exact, 87 out of 104 which lie conducted. American Issue extends most cordial greetings to Superintendent Jones and his wife and joins the hundreds of friends throughout Nevada and Missouri and elsewhere in expressing a hope that they will live to celebrate many more wedding anniversaries. A $50,000,000 COMEBACK Remarkable Story of Business Re covery in Five Dry Years; Sears Roebuck. Co. Had Record Year in 1925 Writing in the Chicago Tribune of January 19, O. A. Mather reports the best year in its history last year for Sears-Roebuck & Co., Chicago, perhaps the largest mail-order house in the world. Both volume of business and profits ex ceeded those of the post-war boom year of 1919, which marked the previous rec ord. Mr. Mather says this record year indi cates that many of the agricultural dis tricts must have benefited in the general condition of prosperity as a large share of mail order sales is made to farmers. It also “completes the record of one of the most remarkable recoveries from the post-war depression that any industrial corporation has presented.” Mr. Mather says that five years ago Julius Rosenwald donated $5,000,000 of common stock and advanced around $16, 000,000 against plant, etc., to save the company from financial straits. There were $50,000,000 of notes outstanding. Dividends had to be cut off. Now there are no notes or bank loans. While Mr. Mather does not refer to the fact, nevertheless it is significant that the past five years during which this remark able recovery was made were prohibition years. It is only further evidence that millions of dollars have been directed to trade channels that formerly passed over the saloon bar. This year dividends of $2.50 will be paid by the company on the new share, which is equivalent to $10 on the present stock. Net sales for tin's mail order house last year totaled $234,421,930 compared with $206,430,527 in 1924 and with tlie previous high mark of $233,982,584 in 1919. Net profits last year were $20,975,303 com pared with $14,354,397 in 1924 and $20, 082.067 in 1919. In the same article Mr. Mather an nounces that the S. S. Kresgc Company voted to increase the authorized common stock from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000, to change the par value from $100 to $10 and to exchange 10 new shares for each old share. The S. S. Kresge Company operates a chain of ten-cent stores. The prosperity of tin's firm also is further evi dence of the prosperity of the country. LAW-BREAKING ALIENS Federal Judge Cliffe, of Chicago, re cently issued permanent injunctions clos ing by padlock nine places convicted of violating the prohibition law. The best known of these is the Arrowhead Inn. The names of the owners of the other places hit are suggestive of the fact that the majority of the violators of the pro hibition laws are aliens or of alien ex traction. They are as follow's: B. M. Poznanovich, 9485 Ewing avenue. Janies Turpa, 2002 South Troop street. Joe Corrigan, 1423 Fullerton ave nue. Joe Dianovskv, 1922 Elston avenue. Mary Tvaroh, 1700 North Rock well street. Joseph Zaukauski, 1358 West Twenty-second street. Janies Champos, 1330 West Madi son street. Anton Adolph, 961 West Nine teen Lb street.