The Cattleman’s Pages of History T
HE CATTLEMAN MAGAZINE IS 100 YEARS OLD. WE THOUGHT WE’D TAKE A FEW MINUTES EACH month to look back at 100 years of covers and coverage of the cattle business of the Southwest.
Our historic cover this month comes from March 1942. The United States had gone
to war on Dec. 8, 1941, and this cover depicts that time. This description of the cover was written in “Of Things That Concern Cattle Raisers” that month. “The roll of a pawn is portrayed, more by implication than in reality, in the com- posite cover of this issue of ‘The Cattleman.’ At the bottom some cattle graze on a chess board which is a stage for world affairs. Dimly above are the armed forces of the nation, in keeping with the times. Chess is played with sets of men each having certain defi nite powers and
limitations. Campaigns of attack are planned and measures of defense are employed with a clear simile to actual warfare. As the game progresses men are captured and removed from the board.
The successful player moves his forces steadily forward until eventually he attacks and captures the king. The player does not know at the start of the game which of his pieces will
be the one that will deal the death blow to his opponent’s king. And the fact which makes the game of chess more like actual warfare is that it is almost impossible that one piece can make the fi nal kill. Victory in war is never attained by the armed forces alone. Supplies are
all important and may weigh the balance in favor of the Allies. Under sup- plies could come the sinews of warfare: tanks, guns, planes; or the foodstuff
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that keeps the body and soul of a warrior together. No less a general than Napoleon Bonaparte stated, ‘An army marches on its stomach.’”
No Political Advertisement Accepted Returns from political advertising space sold in the “The Cattleman” could be made
a substantial and useful total, but the magazine has long held the belief that it could best serve its purpose by steering absolutely clear of individual and partisan policies. Without each candidate for a given offi ce having equal space the casual reader could
construe advertisements, though plainly marked as such, as the choice of the publica- tion, its parent organization, the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, or the staff of either or both. We, therefore, reiterate our policy of refusing political advertisements.
Our Annual Livestock Inventory U.S. Crop Reporting Board Estimates Number and Values as of Jan. 1 [1942] The continued upward swing in the cycle of cattle numbers during 1941 brought the
total of all cattle on farms on January 1, 1942, up to a new high record of 74,607,000 head. This increase in cattle numbers took place despite the fact that the commercial
slaughter of cattle and calves, combined, in 1941 was the third largest on record in head and the largest in pounds.
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