The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-12-16
POST OFFICE BUILDING A
PAYING INVESTMENT

Chicago, Dec. l6.-Ine erection of
post-ofice buildings throughout thd
%ountr in towns which have only
rented quarters and branch ~postoffice-
as in cities where more su~b-stations
are badly needed has been proposed
as an investment of postal savings
bank funds that would save Uncle
Sam millions of dollars every year,
would add handsome communities and
would give employment to hundreds
Of thousands of men, the sponsor for
tie idea being former United states
Senator William f. Mason of Chicago
who has knowledge of the facts a. he
was chairman of the postoffice COM
mittee in the United States senate.
In Chicago, for instance" said Sena-
tor Mason in a letter TO Chairman
Geo. II. Currier of the Postal Savings
Bank League which is urging the en-
actment of a postal savings bill dur
ing this session of congress-, the gov
eminent would be able to save not
less han a hundred thousand dollars
a year by employing funds deposited
i'm constructing the branch p~ostoffice
buildings which are needed. The in
yestment of say $6,0O0.0 900 would cost
in interest, at the 2 per cen paid pos
tai depositors. fully 500. 900 less than
the rentals O paid. Moreover 1t
would give employment to thousands
Of men and put the money into circu-
lation. There would be similar econo-
mics in other cities and towns" The
problem of the investment of depo-
sits, which the hostile banking inter
ests have held up as a bug-o-boo
against the postal bank plan was one
which President Taft in his message
10 Congress dealt with decisively.
saying: II believe postal savings
banks to be necessary in order to Of
fer the proper i-nducement to thrift
and saving to a great many people OF
mall means who do not now have
banking facilities and to nom such
a system would offer an opportunity
for the accumulation of capital. +"
The question of how the money dapo-
sited in postal savings banks shall be
invested Is not free from difficulty.
but / believe that a satisfactory pro
vision for this purpose was inserted
as IN amendment TO the bill consider
ed by the senate at its last session"
In a bulletin issued by the Postal
Bank League IL is said: "AH mem
beers of this League and all those who
favor postal banks are urged without
delay to make it their business to
write to the members of the house
subcommittee on postofices and post
roads urging that the postal bank
bill as now perfected be reported for
action in Congress without delay.
A national organization to systeCna-
tically war against the white slave
traffic has bsen practically completed
and the announcement 500 will be
made that 1t be known as the Aneri-
can Alliance, with headquarters in
Chicago. State and local declarations
of wonen's clubs. vigilance and pro-
tective organizations and bar asso-
Citations, commercial bodies and the
churches win be asked to affiliate or
united, we'll defined plan. Active aid
will be given by this body to the
Mann bill in Congress for the new fed
referred in his message to Congress,
saying: II greatly regret to nave to
say that the investigations made in
the bureau of immigration and other
sources of information lead to the
view that there is urgent necessity
for additional legislation and greater
executive activity to suppress the re-
cruiting OF the AMI of prostitutes
from the streams of immigration into
this country-an evil which, for want
of a better name. has been called
the white slave trade I believe IT
to be constitutional TO forbid. under
penalty. he transportation Of per-
sons for purposes of prostitution
across national and state lines, and
by appropriating q FUND of $4,000 to
be used by the secretary Of CON-
and labor for the employment
OF special inspectors IT win be pos