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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1940
Page
2
A Washington column argues the nation faces grave risk from war strain and defense neglect. It recalls World War I mobilization, criticizes current leadership, and questions plans for mobilization and press camp ideas while stressing naval and economic strength.
New York psychologist Elmer Wheeler declares that words more than weapons shape minds and markets. He cites Hitler’s use of sharp phrases like blitzkrieg and warns that propaganda and slogans, or sizzlers, can terrorize or persuade audiences far beyond bombs and tanks.
A Sturgis writer jokes about the annual anxiety of a corn crop. He prefers picking corn to worrying, notes that crop failure rumors start in February, and suggests forecasters and local shopkeepers fear a hard season ahead.
War news dominates business as La Salle Extension University reports continued growth in orders for war materials. Despite gloom, foreign demand and expanding government relief and defense spending push totals higher, with heavy goods sectors showing the strongest gains.
The piece traces broad industrial gains in steel, machinery, aviation, shipbuilding, textiles, and farm price stabilizing factors from government programs and demand. It then shifts to a rural town diary of weather, crop fears, and social behavior, showing repeated cycles of drought, frost, rain, and market uncertainty through April to June.
A wartime proposal would have the United States purchase Latin American crop surpluses and resell them in Europe to deny Hitler access to markets. The plan envisions emergency relief now with possible continued use, citing cheaper costs than warships and concerns about IHF and Hoover’s wheat board history.
The column recounts Karl Ullman’s rise from Lincoln Nebraska milkman to Latvia’s president and foreign minister, noting his 25-year rule, debt repayment, and a mixed portrait of a life shaped by fate, alliances, and a castle office. It also surveys General Ubico of Guatemala and his Kenya-like empire ideas, stressing his neo-authoritarian, pro US stance and road to British Honduras.
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