THE MISSION OF THE CLUB 



The clanking whir of the nineteenth century in industrial 

 America, the reddened glow of her furnaces, the webbed weave 

 of her rails, and the crackling luminescence of her electrical 

 achievements; all by their spectacular novelties have diverted 

 the national attention from the artisanship and artistry of those 

 who, from farm and flock, grassland and granary, market and 

 menu, have builded an unsurpassed husbandry and cradled its 

 distribution. Today the crowding world has sounded its food 

 cry, its pitch shrilled by war, and public attention is gradually 

 focussing on food sources. Against such contingency the live- 

 stock industries have builded, but the squirming consumer looks 

 not behind the price barrier, and dreams not of the masterly 

 achievements of yardman and packer, showman and rancher, 

 breeder and producer, that lie hidden behind the veil. The marvel 

 is not that prices have been unprecedentedly high, it is that there 

 has been so complete a production and distribution that the food 

 gaps in the friendly areas of the world have been successfully 

 stopped. 



Heroes of production have there been, heroes of husbandry, 

 heroes of industry, each contributing his share toward the ulti- 

 mate fillment of the public maw. Yet where lives the urbanite 

 who can tell of them, or who can recognize the broad service and 

 ideals that have led to the perpetuation of their memories upon 

 the walls of this inner shrine? Here are portrayed in oils and 

 pigments, the loved features of those who have wrought their 

 works to the cohesion, advancement and prestige of the livestock 

 industry. What if the passing crowd forget, in here, revivified, 

 the eyes of those who gave look down, their souls still sing their 

 sagas to the mellowed memories of those who would commune, 

 or fling their challenge to the youth who sets his foot to travel in 

 their paths. The swarded pasture, the stir of market and the 

 tensities of tanbark take on new luster under their beatitudes, in- 

 spiring emulation of their achievements. 



