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. 
