The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-02-10
BEATS A
BOYCOTT

chicago, rep. 1O-Already the uTe-
less cooker has succeeded the boy
colt for first honors in reducing tae
household meat bills of Chicagoans,
the use of cauck, plate, round and
other cheap cuts of meat being made
possible by the new humble hero of
the hour. Tie discovery that about
One-quarter of the meat of the steer
mas To sell for half the money for the
whole animal set the boycotters to
thinking that porterhouse steak is not
all that is edible in a beef. Then ap-
peared tle fireless cooker, whether
patented or homemade out of a crack
er box lined with newspapers, and
meat again entered the boycotter's 5
diet. not the highest priced cuts, but
others that have an equal amount of
nutriment and are quite as appetiz-
ing when thoroughly cooked. That is
where the heat-insulated fireless
cookers moved up front for recogni-
ton and laurels. Scientific tests prov
ed that meats brought to a boiling
point and then set in the "fireless"
gained in flavor lost almost nothing
in weight and were cooked for one
tenth the amount of fuel required in
the old way.
Washington, Feb. 1O.-The fight is
only just begun in Congress against
the postal savings bank bill demand
ed by President Taft, as a measure of
tariff and TO redeem Republican par
ty pledges. The American Bankers
Associations perennial opposition to
the measure has become desperate
warfare, a tact disclosed by its circu-
lars to bankers all over the country
sounding the alarm and demanding
redcubled enorts-of course, unselfsh
cforts for the good of the people.
The Postal Savings Bank League has
issued from Chicago a statement ex-
posing the plan of the bankers, under
he leadership of William Hanhart, of
New York, who is reported TO have
said a million dollars would be spent
20 beat the postal bank bill Every
banker in the United States has been
ordered TO secure signatures to nicely
printed petitions to Congress against
he postal bank idea" says the state
mcnt Every stockholder of banks.
every borrower and every business
man under the influence of a bank
viii be very urgently invited to sign
win be flooded Tais order no doubt
viii be disregarded by thousands of
bankers broad gauge enough to see
that the banking business is not i'm
periled but benefited bv a measure, to
encourage thrift and care for savings
hat now are largely boarded or in
vested in Uncle Sans money orders.
But word has gone out from Wall
street TO beat the bill in the House.
Among the reasons sole-nnly advanced
IN The Official literature of the bankers
IS the assertion: IF the postal saw
ngs banks were established, the
South. Southwest. middle Northwest
and West would be over run with
bandits" How is that for argument?
The bandit idea is the conclusion
drawn from another statement: "Pos-
tai Offices are probably the most fer
tile field for robbery" Banks undoubt-
edly nave yielded many times its loot
% robbers that postoffices ever did,
vet the Bankers Association offers
caIse small banks and the centraliz-
d money power boti fear that it may
hurt their profits. The loot of a few
hank officials now in the penitentiary
exceeds that of all the bandits for
twenty years. II is time for American
citizens to wake up and notify their
congressman that the gain of the
of the postal savings bank bill"