CONTROVERSY OVER FARM BILL PROMPTS IKE TO TELL STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100120092-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 92
• Publication Date: April 21, 1958
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON SCRAPBOOK
Controversy Over Farm Bill
Prompts Ike To Tell Story
.By WALTER TROHAN
Chicago Tribune Service
hower's boybgod stories, which he rep! ated
frequently during the controversy over farm
legislation, goes back to his days on a farm.
"An old farmer had a cow that we wanted
to buy," Eisenhower recalls. "We went over
to visit him and asked about the cow's pedi-
gree. The old farmer didn't know what pedi-
gree meant, so we asked, him about the
cow's butterfat production. He to1t us that
.he hadn't any idea what it was. Finally, we
asked him if he knew how many pounds of
milk the cow produced each year,
"The farmer s+ hook his head and said, 'I
don't know, but she's an honest hard work-
ing old cow and she'll give you all, the mjjk.
telligence Agency, the
although be has One of the largest gum
shoe staffs in the government. The literary
hero Dulles is seeking coined the phrase
'.'Trojan ghost" to describe Moscow's play to
-enter the. hearts of the people at home and
' abroad by booting Josef Stalin off ' a thou-
Harry Lauder. After 18 holes o go _0n a
rough, cold day, Lauder complimented his
caddy for a splendid job. Lauder paid the
fee and then slipped something else into the
caddy's hand.
"That's for a glass of hot whisky, ]ad," he
said.
When the caddy opened his hand it con-
tained a lump of sugar.
Defense Secretary Wilson says. there are
three kinds of people in the world: Those who
make things happen; 'those who fvatch things
happen, and those. who have no idea what
has happened.
Early `ln the century, men who tinkered
with ailalanes generally were regarded as
not exahtly normal. James IT. Smith, Jr..
assistant'secretary of the Navy for air, re-
calls that when Augustus P. Post, president
of the .hero Club in 1905, set out to fly
from Albany to New York City, and had to
land at Poughkeepsie for fuel, He picked the
likeliest spot, a broad lawn, and on landing
was met by a gentleman to whom he apolo-
gized for using the lawn.
"That's all right," said the man, "wm are
sand pedestals. Dulles says he wins ap- glad to have you. Sooner or later you fliers,
plause everytime he uses the phrase in a all land here. This is the state asylum for the,
speech. He's forgotten where he read it and 11insane."
,who coined it. He wants to name the un-
known author and give him full credit. Mail
entries accepted and no fingerprints required.
Itep. Sidney R. Yates (D-Il1) tells a tale
about the late, famed Scotch comedian Sir
Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles J.
owen told the Airport Operators Council inN
Philadelphia recently; "Experience is what
you get while looking for something elite."':
Assistant befense Secretary Wilford J. Mc-ti
Neil, who is the d6partment's controller, kept
waving a printed card during a session at
which a number of generals and admirals
paraded before Defense Secretary Wilson
asking for more money.
Al length one general asked McNeil what
was on the card. This was what McNeil had
been hoping for. The card was passed
around. It read:
When he talks he reminds me of a duck
paddling about on the placid bosonfof a bot-
tomless lake drawing two inches of water and
serenely unconscious of the fathomless depths
beneath."
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