Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
BY The Assoeiosed Press


DES MONIES, Aug. 3f.-
Tert OF President Eisen1ower's &
address at the Iona State Fair
last night follOiDs::
Gov. Beardsley. President
Hoover. distinguished guests. and
my fellow Americans: Before /
shall try to communicate to you
the thoughts that crowd into
my mind / want to straighten
out one little haSsle Of which
read on the way out here.
! saw in a squib in the paper
that there was some anxiety. II
not irritation, because it was
said / wasn't going to pay my
fifty cents to get into the fair.
Now, on behalf of q former
President of the United States
and myself. I hereby tender to
Gov. Beardsley one dollar and
hope he will pass it on to the
proper authorities. tHanded the
Governor a dollar bill which he
attempted to return but the.
President would not accept.)
Ladies and gentlemen. this is
the very first time in my life
that / ever paid anything for
the privilege Of making speech.
but today ! am so honored to
do SO that it would be worth
many times the price.
Home Of Hoover.
truly feel a deep sense of
distinction in being privileged to
meet with this gathering. ! know
Of some Of the statistics that are
quoted by Iowans to prove that
their State is the greatest of
all. have two special reasons.
The first, 1t is the native State
of one of the truly great Amer
leans, Mr.. Hoover. (ApplauSe.)
And very important to me, it
is the native State of Mamie
Doud Eisenhower, and if I should
have failed to say that I don't
think I should have gone home
this evening.
Now, ladies and gentlemen,
in this day and time when our
hearts are troubled about Incl
dents that daily appear in our
press, there are a thousand
things of which I could speak
briefly to you. and in doing so
I might be able to impart to you
something of the urgency your
Government feels in dealing with
the problems that are so i'm
portant to. all of us.
I think I shall talk for just
few moments about the world
in which we live. about foreign
things. Now, I know that pri-
marily and from an economic
standpoint Iowa is interested
first Of all in agriculture. So is
all the United States. All of US
we'll know without prosperous
agriculture there is no prosperity
in America, and you also know
that without a prosperous Amer
lea there is no prosperity for the
farmer. And from this kind of
reasoning and this, observation
it takes no mental leap at all to
understand that without very
close and proper relations with
the great portion of the world
there is no prosperity for any of
us because not only do we need
imports from other nations in
order that we may have tractors,
all of our steel supplies, rubber,
tin, and many other things. but
we must exp0Et We must export
to them the sarpluses which keep
our economy sound, progressive
and expanded. and from those
people we must buy the things
with which they can pay for
these exports.
Importance of Trade.
Now I am not going to talk
about that particular phase of
our foreign relations, the trade
and economic phase. I merely
want to talk about this, the abso-
lutte, utter necessity of every
American taking thought about
our relations with the world.
Why do we have to have
friends? We are strong and we
are mighty. We are rich. With
6 per cent of the worlds popu-
lation we have so much Of the
worlds resources, our industries
and agriculture, so productive
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