The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-08
UNCLE SAM'S COOK BOOK
Social Service Department By MRS. SIDNEY NJ. ULLMAN

The superintendent of documents. Washington, D. G. has published a price list of American foods and cooking called Uncle Sam's Cook Book" Though no department bureau of the govern ment has ever issued an edition of a book bearing this title, yet the title itself has become so widely known and so gen. orally used that it can not be altogether ignored
 All of the government prints relating to foods and their preparation issued by the agricultural department and it's several bureaus and by the fisheries bu- reau, the government hospital for the insane, the public health service, the commissary departments of the army and the navy, and other branches of the government have been small pamphlets like those which this price list offers for sale to the world in general at the modest price of cents or 10 cents each.
 Still the popular name Uncle Sams Cook Book didn't spring up from noth- ing. It had a source and a reason. It originated in the fertile brain of some representative in Congress who wanted to discover or invent something novel and
  at home who had honored him and whom he was willing to have honor him some more. It is we'll known, we think, to most readers that each senator and rep resentative is entitled by law and by GUS tom to a considerable number of the cheap but meaty. and handy little publi- cations known as farmers bulletins for distribution among the voters and citi- zens of his state or district. These are printed in cheap form so that the money provided for them may go farther-so that each dollar may provide a greater number of readable bulletins for general information.
 The farmers bulletins now number more than 500 distinct publications, each on different subject. and the whole list covering almost evry branch of farm and household economy. A few years ago, when they were less numerous than now, some ingenious congressman, casting about for way to increase the favorable feeling among the home folk and at the same time offer them something novel and useful, conceived the idea of sorting out the bulletins relating to cookery and household science generally from the oth- CTS and having them bound together in bright red cloth and lettered in big gilt letters with the words Uncle Sam's Cook Book" This title was a hit. The demand for the books was large. Those who did not "catch on'' felt disappointed and aggrieved.
 But the departments kept on printing little pamphlets as before. And appar- ently they intend to keep on.
 In the cook book we find cata logued such subjects as: Cold Storage" Color ing Natter, Dietary Studies 'The Care of Food in the Home.' Food and Drug Acts.'' Food Legislation" Meat Inspection "Metabolism, Nutrition" investigations and Experiments" Weights and Measures "Fermenting Power of Yeast" etc. The following ar ticle will tell you how to get the publca- tions of any department. Read and you will know:
 The government of the United States is the greatest of all publishers of scien- tifc works. It employs thousands of scientists, who are engaged the year round in making researches and nves- tisations in all branches of agriculture in geology, in mining, in electricity, in chemistry, in astronomy. in engineering, in aviation, in preventive medicine, in forestry, in irrigation, and almost all