Education: Mmes Guernsey & Jersey

Two cows named Mrs. Pauline Guernsey and Mrs. Winnie Jersey and their calves Dolly and Dimples were well acquainted with Los Angeles by last week. Bumped, joggled but still placid, they had been carted around by two big trucks among 85 of Los Angeles’ 294 public elementary schools. They had been gazed at, petted by some 2,000 school children daily. Their guardian, one Jay Dutter, member of the California Dairy Council, had lectured about them, fed them, demonstrated the uses of such typical bovine features as the udder.* Sponsor of this tour was Mrs. Etta Louise Ross, assistant director of the nature study department of Los Angeles high schools. She and Director Charles Lincoln Edwards thought that something should be done to acquaint the children with this useful animal. They enlisted Dairyman Dutter. He discovered that 50% of the children up to the third grade, 20% of the older ones, had never seen a cow.

*Cinemaddict Los Angeles school children might already have been udder-conscious after viewing the capacious, undulant udder of the cow in Mickey Mouse films. These were banned last fortnight by Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays (TIME, Feb. 16).