Evening star., 1933-12-03
LIVE STOCK SHOW
At CHICAGO DRAWS
WORLD ATTENTION
Event Opening Yesterday
Expected to Surpass Those
OF Other Years.
BY RUTHWELL DUNCAN.


CHICAGO, Ill.-Once a year Chi
cago becomes the center of inter
est for the stock breeders of the world
The international live stock show is
an event unequaled anywhere in the
field 1t opened yesterday with a dis
play SURPRISING the best of previous
years, a fact stimulating faith that in
the basic productive enterprise which il
represents the spirit OF recovery is hope
fully at work
The exposition, held in International
Pavilion. feature of the famous Chi
cago stock yards, brings together the
successful breeders of live stock from
every corner of the continent. Canada
always is an important participator and
often a distinguished prize winner Eu-
ropean countries frequently exhibit.
Cattle horses, sheep and pigs are the
conspicuous entries, but fowl also have
their place. The deeper music of the
COWS, the saXophone gruntings of pigs,
have shriller accompaniment in chorus
Of croWings cluckines, cacklings and
quackings from proud representatives of
the feathered tribe.
Wins Social Recognition.
Although the primary interest of the
show concerns the prairie and the
range, the farm and the paddock, the
exposition has won recognition in Chi
cago's social circles. The evening pro-
grams are often given to brilliant au-
diences gathered about the tanbark
ellipse in which gated horses display
their beauty and grace. The horse has
become so rare spectacle on city streets
that the opportunity to see one of ma
ture's most elegantly lovely creatures,
stepping with nervous delight to music,
appeals to many persons who would not
be intrigued by the humber quadrupeds
Of domestic value
Between those vocationally interested
and society's delegation of spectators
lies a strata of citizenship with memo
rleS Of rural beginnings which years OF
urban living have not effaced. For
those citizens a day at the live stock
show is vivid renewal OF chlldhoods
experiences, and many a story is re-
called and told of days on the farm.
Such visitors suffer a sort of pleasant
nostalgia as they survey the broad
backed and woody sheep, the recumbent
porker, whose little legs will barely sup
port his fatted rotundity and the medi-
tative COW. sublimely indifferent to en-
vironnent or fate.
Takes Edge OFF Discomfort.
In recent years there mas peen an
element in attendance that has viewed
the spectacle with growing dissatisfac-
ton for destiny that placed them in
the city rather than on the soil For
such the distant meadow looks greener
than closer contact might find it. Much
as they have been told of the hard lot
Of the farmer, they are disposed to be-
lieve he is better of today than the
jobless worker in the city. Perhaps If
they talked with some of those who
have come from the regions where wide
acres bear fodder for lowing herds the
edge might be taken from their discon-
tent.
The live stock show, however, fur
nishes for Illinois a welcome diversion
from matters more veXatious. 1t affords
in thousands Of homes topic for con-
versation less controversial than the do
ings of the liquor control session Of
the General Assembly or the operation
of the N r. A.
The instituting of civil work relief Is
Proceeding, but more slowly than the
public was led to expect by the ex-
travagant ballyhoo with which its in
ception was heralded. Difficulties have
been experienced in the set-up, and
projects have ripened less rapidly than
the unemployed workers hoped But
thousands have been put on jobs, and
as the wheels get better geared progress
doubtless will be faster