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...Brethren Service Committee, which supervises the program from its Elgin, Ill. headquarters, had been in touch with four European governments (Spain, Holland, Belgium, Yugoslavia) which want or will want heifer shipments. War exigencies have prevented any shipments to Europe so far, but the committee hopes that some may go to Spain and France by fall...
Under an Almond Tree. The man behind the heifer project is 50-year-old, grey-haired Dan West, who owns a farm near Goshen, Ind., but who spends most of his time traveling around the country for the heifer program. Son of a Brethren preacher, he thought up the heifer plan under an almond tree in Murcia, Spain, where he was engaged in relief work during the Spanish Civil War. Spain's undernourished children, with less milk than a Hottentot, inspired him with the thought of importing U.S. cows to Spain...
When World War II began, West laid his idea before the Brethren and eventually the Church adopted the plan. Soon many Brethren had agreed to donate and raise a heifer for Europe. Now in the Brethren's barns (from Goshen to Westminster, Md.) are 1,000 cattle all earmarked for export to liberated countries...
...Committee has ruled that all heifers must be bred before shipping. Thus there may be two heifers or a heifer and a bull by the time the original heifer gets abroad. West says that, after the war, the Brethren will send heifers anywhere they can-to Japan and Germany, if possible. To West the project is not so much a matter of increasing depleted European dairy herds as it is a means of saving lives and helping the Brethren to practice what they preach...
...beyond the natural interest of any male at an Eastern college to peek into a suite at Lathrop Hall, to find that the stresses of Harvard monastic life are duplicated at the Poughkeepsie nunnery, and to eavesdrop on "heifer" sessions-beyond this aspect, "Consider the Daisies" will appeal to undergraduates as a novel of, by, and for collegians. Writing with matured comprehension but with the fresh vigor and enthusiasm of youth. Miss Carrick gives promise of joining the most faithful portrayers of the American scene...