Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-15
Washington. d. c.. Novembe
TURBULENT MEXICO

Washington. d. C.. November s.
TURBULENT MEXICO
The international nuisance to our
southwest kept even the placid. and
urbane William Howard Taft on the
uneasy seat for a large portion of
more than a year before he went out
of Office President Wilson and
Secretary Bryan have got to know
Mexico we'll enough to realize that
those people are not to be coaxed, and
there is a growing opinion in Wash
ington that only a show of force will
ever straighten out Mexican condi-
lions. General Caranza, the leader of
the constitutionalists, is in high
favor in Washington, although little
has been admitted in that direction.
The Constitutionalists are in COM
plete control of the greater portion
Of Mexico. 1t is noteworthy that In
the battles fought on Mexican soil,
that large armies seem to be able to
oppose one another for hours at a
time without many soldiers being
hurt. The Huerta government in its
last days has been having no end of
financial difficulties, and this no
doubt is largely instrumental in hav-
ing weakened it. The rebels claim
they have about sixteen soldiers TO
one rifle, and want the embargo lifted
so they can change the ratio.
THE NAVY HOLIDAY
Let no one be deceived regarding
all this talk about holiday. While
this may be a wish fathered by the
Admiralty of Great Britain. the
Right Honorable Winston Churchill,
and echoed through our own House
of Representatives, and seemingly
! tentatively endorsed by the Secretary
of the Navy, yet there are more than
''57 varieties of reasons why there is
not likely to be a curtailing of navy
building in any of the great countries
of the world. Already Germany has
vetoed the proposal, and that practi-
cally settles it. Again, what, for in
stance, would the steel trust, the
powder trust, and the naval officers
clubs, and army and navy trusts find
to do if there was sudden falling off
of activity in building great arma-
ments? A naval holiday would dis
rupt the whole scheme of things; and
to bring it about in our own country
the overwhelming power of the army
and navy, which had thorough hold
uson Congress, would have to be
broken. This would be a job even
larger than our esteemed ex-President
Roosevelt undertook in last year S
campaign. -
A WHITE HOUSE WEDDING
There is to be White House we'd
ding this month, and Washington is
quite giddily excited over the event.
Miss Jessie Wilson is to become the
bride of Mr.. Francis Sayre and the
knowing ones say that it is ''splen-
did match" The young lovers do not
belong to the mighty four hundred.
| Mr.. Sayre is to become an assistant
in Williams College, at Williams
town, Massachusetts, where the
young couple will live. Mr.. Sayre and
Miss Wilson have been brought TO-
gether through their work among the
poor.
s MONEY LAUNDRY WILL STAY
Laundry machines used by the
Treasury Department for cleaning
money sent in by banks for redemp-
ton, will be retained by the present
Administration. This has been made
plain by United States Treasurer
John Burke. The laundry" will
make an annual saving of $3.50, 900 tc
the Treasury.
PROFESSOR TAFT's PULL
| Former President Taft still has
something of a pull in Washington
as has been illustrated by the. fact
that a contract has been let for the
new government building at New
Haven. The building will be built
of pink Tennessee marble, which the
former President asked the Depart
ment to use, and it will cost $780,, 1926
ECHOES OF THE VACANT CHAMBER
At recent meeting of the House
, of Representatives which is com
prised of four hundred thirty fiv,
Congressman, it was found that 1.-THE,
were all there except four hundred.
! The Republicans have been criti
, cising the idlemess of the House
| where although the Members hay,