The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-29
As We See II
by Tom O'FIaherty

London, France launched the
largest submarine in the world
Appropriately enough the under
sea boat is named after SurcOuf,
the famous French buccaneer,
The sub is 100 meters in length
(mOre than 328 feet), with a dis
placement of 1886 long tons and
will carry a crew of ITO officers
and men. She will be able to
carry $50 tOrpedOes fourteen of
which may be fired Simultaneous
ly. Her radius of operation will
enable her to cruise half way
around the world. She will be
equipped with four cannOns of
five and a half inch calibre and
one light anti-aircraft gun. Hur-
rah for peace!
Charles Delos WaggOner, your
old friend of Telluride, Colorado.
who fleeced the New York bank
ers out of $5OO,OOO is now in At
lanta Denitentiary to serve at
least five years of a ten-year
sentence. Charles is an odd man
but even at that if he has salted
some of the stuff away he'll come
out of prison in better financial
circumstances and more respect
than if he only robbed a grocery
store. 1t pays to liO things in a
big way.
The British Labor Government
has refused Shapurji, former
Communist member of parlia-
ment, permission to visit India,
his native Land, on a speaking
tour. Ramsay Macdonald, the
socialist premier, is afraid Sha-
purji might advise the HindOOs
to mobilize a few million of the
38O,OOO,OOO in that country and
push the British army of Occupa-
tiOn into the Indian Ocean. King
George has no reason to worry
over the loyalty of his Labor Par
ty servants.
That man DOheny is certainly
a big-hearted chap. He recently
purchased Albert B. Falls cattle
ranch and paid $132, ,491.81 for it.
He is always doing little things
like that for somebody else.
When he melted cOunter-revOIu-
tiOn in Mexico he was trying to
save that country from BOlshe-
vism. When he gave Fall a gift
of 100000 for the EIks Hills ma
val oil reserve, he was only in
terested in providing the govern
ment with sufficient oil to fuel
Uncle Sans battleships in the ex-
pected war with Japan. He is
much misunderstood man.
Two wartime enemies stood
side by side at a meeting in AL
bert Hall, London, last week. One
was former German submarine
captain.
The other was commander of a
British decOy ship in the early
days of the war. Three thousand
BritOns cheered them to the
echo: God Saving the King" and
Deutschland Uber Allies" were
sang and played on the organ.
Imagine what would have hap
pened to that German if he tried
to sing his national anthem in
Piccadilly Circus fifteen years
ago.
Lady Simon, wife of Sir JOh
Simon, has written a book entitl-
ed Slavery" in which she urges
modern civilization to wipe out
'this greatest crime against the
human race" Now, Lady Simon,
this writer would be more con-
vinced of your sincerity than ne
Is, if you demanded complete in
dependence for the hundreds of
millions of human beings who are
enslaved under the rObber empire
which you and your tribe are up
holding as a model for the rest
of the world to pattern after.
Lady SimOn's husband is chair
man of a commission which has
just completed an investigation
of India. Did Sir John advocate
freedom for the HimdOOs? OF
course mot. The Lady does not
state that slavery exists in any
country over which the flag of
British imperialism flies. But the
Sudan, Arabia, Sierra Leone, Lii
IBERIA, China, Burma and Nepal
are slave countries! Perhaps John
Bull would not mind freeing"
those unfortunate people.
@sS*
Grain prices in the Chicago
wheat pit rose last week ON re-
ceipt of a report that the Argen-
tinian wheat crop suffered heavy
damage from black rust. It is a
sad reflection on an economic
system that the people of one
country stand to gain by the mis-
fortune of another people.
The Gillette Safety Razor Co
plans TO eSCaDIlSh tacUOry III
Russia. Among other reforms
brought to Russia by the Com.
munists, is the ban on the beard
The old chin sweeper is no longer
pointed to with pride but viewed
with alarm. The ancients may
have been making a virtue out Ol
necessity when they coined th'
adage that ga kiss from a mar
without a mustache is like supper
without salt" but we could new
er understand what the faintinf
beauties of old found in whiskerI
to induce them to bury theil
heads in small forest and EN-
erge smiling. The passing of tn
Russian beard will be tough OF