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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-13

hundred-fold. We have not only the
United States proper, but we have Our
lonial possessions about which are fisheries
now producing S15,OOOOOO worth of sea-
food every year. The Fiipinos are like the
Japanese in that they live largely on fish,
and our islands have many kinds of fishes,
from these that live in the sea to some thar
wade about in the mud.
One of the fishes in which there is bound
to be great shortage in Europe is the her
ring. This forms large part Of the catch
OF the North sea- amounting in some years
10 about 5OOOOOOOOO fishes weighing on
the average amout one-half pound apiece.
We have vast schools of herring in the
north Atlantic and they swarm in the
waters of Alaska. They are dried and
smoked in vast numbers and there is hard
iy small country store anywhere in the
United States that does not keep them on
sale
We have one kind of herring which is SO
abundant that catch more than l,OOO,-
100000 OF them every year-so many that
their weight would exceed that of three or
TOUR million men, or more soldiers than we
are likely to send for some time to the
Is 1nenlaQen.
a palatable food fish, SO abundant that our
fishermen catch it in order that it may be
turned into oil and fertilizer. The fish is
almost as fat as the famous candle fish of
Alaska, which when dry will burn like
candle. Just before the war began the bu-
reau OF fisheries investigated this industry
1t estimated that the catch of that wear
produced 6,5OO,OOO gallons of oil and nearly
10000 tons of fertilizer and that the num-
Der OF fish caught were so MANY that if
they were laid end to end they would reach
in an unbroken line six times around the
earth at the equator.
We have more fishermen catching men
baden than in any other branch of the in
dustry. The fish are taken in seines, hun
dreds of thousands being sometimes pulled
up in single net. They swim about in
immense schools, their heads close to the
surface, and often tier above tier. packed
almost as closely together as sardines in A
box They are of bright silver, and are
phosphorescent at night, so that a school
then looks like moving bed of flaming fire
AS they swim below the surface in the dav-
time one may see their glitterine backs
down under the water and the boats seem
to be gliding over floor inlaid with blocks
of silver. This statement comes from one
of the reports OF the bureau of fisheries.
The menhaden is good not only for man,
but for many OF the other fishes we eat 1t
is the principle diet of the mackerel, the
buefish and the swordfist, and many other
tlshes prey upon it. 1t is caught all along
the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida
The industry is we'll organized and could
be easily modified by the food adminstra-
ton.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-13

Our best fishing grounds in proportion to
the number of men employed are the waters
of Alaska. We have $4,000 men there who
are catching hundreds of millions of pounds
of sea food every year. We have $4,000
fishermen farther south in the Pacific ocean
and about 10000 in the great lakes and the
Mississippi river. We have $4,000 fisher
men in New England $4,000 along the Gull.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-13

Uncle Sans Big Fishing Grounds They Produce One
fifth Of the Sea Food of the They Are and
What They Are-Three Hundred Million Cans of Salmon
Ready for Shipment Halibut for the German Army
Our Atlantic Fisheries and Those of Alaska.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-13


IeuT COME FROM Alaska
of Mexico and more than 10000 working
along the Atlantic coast from New Eng
land to Florida. Altogether there is an
army Of 100000 engaged in fishing as u
business and the capital invested is nearly
$SOOOO,OOO The number of vessels en-
ployed is more than 1000 and the total
catch runs high into the hundreds of mil
lions of pounds.
Our most important fisheries Just now
are those of Alaska, Puget sound and the
Columbia river. This is on account of the
salmon, which is put up in cans so that it
can easily be shipped to the soldiers Sal
mon has become popular sea food all over
the world. 1t is known to every nation and
eaten in every country Last year we took
out of the Pacific ocean enough salmon to
I'LL 100000 cases, each holding 4S one
pound cans In round numbers the amount
was 3OOOOOOO0 pounds or more than the
send to the war The whole catch was al
most enough to give can to every man,
woman and child in Europe or three cans to
every citizen of the United States 1t was
worth more than S7O,OOO.OOO. In addition
to this an enormous amount of salmon has
been sailed or smoked This also can be
shipped abroad for the use of our allies
The same is true of halibut herring and
cod
The coast of Alaska winds about to such
an extent that if it were stretched out it
would be 1000 miles longer than the dis
lance around the world. Nearly every part
OF it swarms with fish, and we have caught
SO many since we bought the territory OF
Russia that the amount received is 40 times
as much as we paid for the country 1t is
now close to $3OO,O00,OOO. and the bureau
OF fisheries says that with proper care the
product may be made continuous for all
time to come.
Nearly every part of the Alaskan waters
swarms with fish, and there are certain
banks or beds of the ocean which are paved
with halbut and cod. We used to get most
OF our halibut from the Atlantic, and it has
been one of the chief sea foods of the east
ern part of our country ever since Captain
John Smith wrote of it in his history of Viz
ginia.
Now four-fifths of our halibut comes
from the Pacific ocean and the bulk of il
from the waters OF Alaska The fish arc
caught with hooks and put upon ice as soon
as they come out of the water They are
shipped over the United States by fass
trains of cold storage cars Some of the
halibut is sailed and put up in hogshead,
for shipment abroad The Germans have
been laying in stock of such fish for their
army, and doubt not we could use some in
the same way for our soldiers. The Ger
mans imported the fish in hogsheads of $50
pounds each, at a cost of $500 per hogs
head
| saw them curing halibut this way at
Prince Rupert, in Canada The average
fish used was as heavy as good-sized man.
1t was sliced in two. the back and front
forming two slabs of snow-whte meat. 1t
was then hung up like the sides of beef and
the backbone was cut out The slabs were
then sated and laid one on top of another
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-13

Some may object to the taste Of the carp,
but that is because they do not know how
to cook it. The fish has been sometimes
called the hog of the waters 1t likes to
wallow i'll the mud, and when it is first
taken from mud pond it is apt to have
mud taste. This disappears of the live fish
is kept for few days in clear water, and
then the meat will be found to taste as fresh
as that of our fish from the lakes or the
seas
If a carp is cooked in the right way it is
hard to distinguish it from some of our
choicest sea food. A few years ago 200
members of the American and Canadian
Fish associations met together for fish
dinner. They were supposed to be experts
on fish, and they ate what they thought
was red-snapper and called it delicious.
After the dinner was over they were told
it was carp, which had been prepared by j
chef who understood how to cook it. In
protein food values carp meat is equal to
mutton, and almost to the best of sirloin
steak The bureau of fisheries can give you
simple recipes how to fry, boil and bake il,
and how to make carp pickles, carp salads
and carp croquettes.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-13

The bureau is planting fish not only in
the waters along our coast, but in those OF
our streams, lakes and ponds You have all.
heard of the carp. That is our alien Ger
man subject which has been interned in our
American ponds since his first coming in
1877. He has grown rapidly and, accord
ing to our last fish census, is giving us more
than 100000 pounds of food every year.
There are now millions of carp in the
United States, and the number might easily
be run high into the billions The fish are
raised on the farms of different parts OF
Europe and in Germany almost every
farmer has his carp pond We have some
thing like 100000 farms in the United
States, and if one farmer in six should start
carp pond the interior of our country
would have more OF this food than it could
possibly eat.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-13

The bureau OF fisheries has now "a per-
manent hatcheries, and more than 100 sub.
hatcheries and egg collecting stations To-
Gated in 81 different states and in Alaska.
1t has floating hatchery in the steamer
Fish Hawk. The Alaskan hatcheries dis
tribute great quantities Of salmon in the
rivers and streams where that fish swarms.
and they are planting shad eggs in similar
places along our eastern seaboard They
are planting whitefish in the great lakes
and are setting out oyster beds where the
oyster has never grown in abundance be-
fore. Some of the best oysters have ever
eaten are those which grow in these aftifi-
cial beds in the Gulf of Mexico, and along
the coast of the Pacific ocean. In San
Francisco you can now get excellent oys-
tiers, whose forefathers came from the At
lantic ocean across the continent in refrie-
orator cars holding 200 barrels EACH The
oysters are planted inside stockades to pro-
tect them from their fish enemies and after
two years they begin to produce for the
market.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-13

We do not pretend to be nation OF
fishermen, but our waters are so fat i'm sea
food that we could multiply our product an
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23
Locate the Trouble

The other day we put up to young but thought
full sipyard worker the often-heard current charge
that the ship workers are laying down on the job,
that they're killing time-working only to half
capacity.
The way this young chap-a loyal American to
the core-came back at U.S. nearly swept us off our
feet
cit isn't the men who slackers," he said hot
Iy. "It's the organization There's something
wrong with it. There seems to be intelligent
head of affairs in some of the yards Things go hit
and miss.
"a moulder orders mould made one way. It's
made the way he orders it, Then somebody over
him finds it's all wrong and the work has to be re-
peated Thus it goes all over the shipyard. Nobody
seems to be in authority. Nobody is responsible.
''The other day Seattle yard got big crew OF
so-called riveters from the east. They were given
riveting irons. These irons too big they said
And they found out that the only riveting they'd
ever done was to rivet overalls in an overall fac
tory. Think of the transportation that had been
wasted on them!
'sYou can't expect to turn out ships when the
higher-ups bungle things like that The men them
selves are willing to work. but they want to get re-
SUITS
How would it be, Mr.. Hurley, to investigate this
angle of the thing for while? Send some conscl-
entious Investigators, incognito, to the shipyard
gates to talk with such shipyard workers as the
young fellow referred to above.
It might be an eyeopener!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23

Just when everybody was feeling exuberant over
the fine spirit and originality of the Victory Hall
idea, along comes Tacoma paper to kick its home
town in the face No doubt with the best of inten-
tons but with an appalling lack of accuracy, the
paper refers editorally to the Victory halls which
will go up all the country" and goes on to dis
cuss the subject if it were rubber stamp idea
that was being put into effect universally.
The facts are, of course, that the plan for Vic
tory Hall, to serve Liberty loan headquarters
and to be erected by volunteer and united commu-
nifty effort the workers to be dned at the CONNER
cial club and the meals to be served by leading
Commercial club members, was strictly original in
Tacoma The idea may be copied elsewhere, and
we hope it will be- but it is Tacomas idea never
theless
Aside from the great good it ought to do in the
way of fostering a united Tacoma and wnthe-
war spirit the plan is valuable because of the
widespread publicity the event should receive. Ar
engagements, with that in mind, already have been
made for motion picture and other advertising
stunts But the whole point of the thing is it's
novelty That is why the mistaken statement that
this is nationwide scheme ought to be corrected
at once.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23

time" and l want to say right
now that all of the people may
not be wise to these profits
made in living necessities at the
present time, but you will find
that the larger majority of the
people are we'll informed on the
subject and they are vecoming
better informed every day.
The profiaeer hog must be
put down and out. The people
cannot give something they
have not go and cannot get, as
much as they would like to,
were they not illegally robbed
by the sharks.
To win the war, 1t takes
money, men, food and clothing,
and this must be forthcoming
inabundant quantities as long
as the war lasts. How can this
condition be met at the same
time we are making the war
needs second to the interests OF
the profiteer by our own acts in
permitting this parasite to ex-
ist? MINUTE MAN.
Dear Miss Grey: I am very
anxious to become a detective.
I have a clue which I think will
lead to the arrest Of some men
connected with a recent crime.
II I report this do you think it
will help me to be taken onto
the force? YOUTH.
1t is your duty to report wha
you know, for the good Of til,
community. And IL you secures
this clue by intelligent work 1
will advance your standing. Bu
many qualifications are necessary
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23

Dear Miss Grey: Please add
my protest to that of II. H. J.
against the "Profiteer Hog"
1t would seem to me that 1t
Is up to the government to i'm
mediately curb their vampire
profiteers IL the forthcoming
Liberty bond drive Is to be a
succss--it is a case or very SIM
pile mathematics: When we
have to give our all to the
profiteer for the privilege OF
living, there Is nothing left for
Uncle Sam to fight with.
Uncle Sam should have at
least 25 per cent OF what the
profiteer is getting, and Mr..
Profiteer must hand this over
to the government or cut his
prices so as to permit the COM
mon people to purchase the
equivalent In Liberty bonds.
The excess profits going to these
profiteens, who are no less than
traitors to the country, Is vast
iy more than the entire cost OF
the war to the United States.
As to putting these profiteers
in an internment camp, I want
to say that Camp Lewis would
not be large enough to hold the
Tacoma contingent, but there Is
a way of handling the matter
by heavy tines imposed directly
by the administration heads Of
the various government depart
ments, the money to go into the
war fund.
Abraham Lincoln once said,
"You can fool part OF the peo-
pie all Of teh time, but you can
mt fn>ol a IL &hn x,ooulo al "a II a
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0OC10fU-

ETY. at the Tacoma Music hall
Sunday at IL o'clock. The pub
lie is cordially invited to attend.
After the lecture, a brief bust
ness meeting of the society will
be held, three trustees to be
elected.
The Puget Sound Homestead
ers will give a card party next
Tuesday evening at the Eagles
hall. Playing will begin at $3.50.
The Query club will meet Nom
day afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Williams McMeekin, 2701
North Washington ST., Mrs. II. e.
York will give a few selections
from short story writer's.
Mrs. John Salater Is to leave
Sunday corning for Kodiak,
Alaska, where she will meet Mr..
Safater, who left here last week.
Miss Ruby M. Anderson and M.
!. OlSon were quietly married
Thursday afternoon in Our Saw
ior's church. Rev. o. J. Ordal
performing the ceremony.
Marriage licenses were issued
Friday at the county auditors
office to Paul Atkinson Munden
and Norah Mabel Pitzer, both of
wasco, CAL; to Conrad Shebilut
and Aryte Gordon, both OF Ma
dera, Cal, and to Jesse L. Clark
and Louise Victoria Romero, both
of Los Angeles. Cal.
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ANSWERS e eymM GREY

to become a detective, and you
will have to pass in all Of them,
Dear Miss Grey: To what
nationality does the name
Phyllis belong? PHYL.
The name comes from the
Greek. She was the princess Of
Thrace.
Dear Miss Grey: In what
year was the st. Louis Worlds
Fair held? HENRY.
In 1904, from April 80 to Dc.
cember 4.
Dear Miss Grey: My hair is
turning gray. but not all over.
Can you tell me how to hasten
this so that there will not be so
many ugly patches OF brown
hair? l dislike the streaked
appearance. M. v.
To hasten the ''graying" Of ones
hair is as unsatisfactory as to dye
it. Keep your scalp healtllful and
do your hair as becomingly Al
possible. That is all You can DO
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23

The card party given by the
Emma Shaw Rebekah lodge No.
200 was a big success.
The Monday Civic club will
hold an all-day meeting Monday
at the home of Mrs. Lindsay
Campbell, 1917 North 37th st.
Luncheon will be served at /,
followed by a business meeting.
The Ladies' Aid of the Imman-
uel Lutheran church is to meet
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs.
s. Jensen, AIS 10th st. All
members are to be prepared to
sew for the Falkland Children's
home.
The Woman's auxiliary Of the
B'nai Birth society will enter
tain the soldiers of Camp Lewis
at a dancing party at Sloan's
academy Saturday evening.
There will be no meeting OF
the Johnson's Crossing Soldiers
society until further notice be-
cause Of the illness of Mr.. Black
and family.
Mrs N. Leqne Of Bellingham
is the house guest of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. John Follow, 1888 So.
Ainsworth avenue.
John z. White Of Chicago will
deliver a Henry George lecture
before the Tacoma Ethical soci-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23

Wis RAPID RECOVERY
Yesterday right in the mornin,
Without the least bit of a warnin,
took as sick as pup.
Jimmy! but felt crumIny;
'Twasn't my head my tummy,
, But just couldn't get up.
done my best to get busy;
Hunched up in bed, but got dizzy
And just floundered back like log.
Funniest feelin' went thru me.
AS IL that darn bed Just held to me!
was just sick-like dog.
Ma come in rahdn' olatter.
Askin' me what is the matter?
But was too sick to speak.
Sort of half-conscious lay there.
Like as if I'd have to stay there.
Maybe month or a week.
Ma called the Doc. in a hurry:
He come and said she should worry!
(He's a cold sort Of gink.)
Says he. 81 suggest stimulation.
Why not quick operation?
Usin bed-slat, think"
That's one alternative, merely"
Says he. ut might act less severely.
Might give him less of a shock,
If he is kept very quiet
On an extremely low diet
And given nine strokes Of clock"
Then he lit out, without leavin'
So much as pink powder, even;
And just then the OIL clock struck nine
And well, sir! I'll give that Doc. credit;
1t happened just like he had said it,
And l was a-feelin' just fine!
Copyright, 1918.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23

Record of 10000 Americans
passed for military service and
then rejected by camp surgeons
show that nearly % per cent of
the final reflections resulted from
defective eyes. Teeth were re-
sponsible for $50 per cent; her
mia, TAT per cent; ear, 5.94 per
cent; heart disease, 5.S7 per cent;
tuberculosis, 5.37 per cent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23

8 a a multitude of truths
of ignor-
and Its appica-
short months other
American than it is French
al-embacing hides things
hidden discloses when late to seek cover 1t
in a action, WORDS
and could tell
you Of In Swissvie named Adam
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23
l44.38 Per Cent Gain

A banker friend sends us a note citing some re-
markable financial figures which he suggests
rewrite for use in the paper. But why rewrite
them? Don't they speak loudly enough for them
selves? Here they are:
In the general prosperity which has come to the Puget Sound
indicated by bank deposits
Tacoma fallen heir to its share.
In February 1908 tho total deposits OF the city $f3936
the total to have reached
n 144.3S cent. During the
1885, Tacomas increase has been 2855
oonA
officers that little counterfeit be-
high bright
counterfeiter will begin using gold
registered and 30 Of
registered special election I'm Now
that place
nd N don't to v6te.
the telephone that the seeking
% send France work the Hindenburg line.
n
tkerc than Cleveland
shhstftute for wheat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23

Speaking the world the aviators shy
to the winning hand, Aces
Up, and-you it--Kings Down.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23

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secular to men. He merely has .
esneral knowledge Of such ailments
ever the whole range Of ailments to
which flesh 10 heir. He therefore
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should 70 to him he may consclen.
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same good, sound Judgment when
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friendly advice to those who cali.
and you can pay as able. IN weekly
or monthly installments. My prices
are within the reach OF every man.
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Tacoma, Wash.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23

= s-rswbcsries just hack fom Florida
there than they Cleveland think
= snhstftute they for wheat
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23

little counterfeit
the high Of materials bright
rounterfeiter will begin using gold
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-23

The card party given by the
Emma Shaw Rebekah lodge No.
200 was a big success.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30
N.Y.A.CLists
Saturday Games
For IwoMonths

The athletic committee Of the New
York Athletic Club again has decided
to conduct a set Of games on every
Saturday of the coming two months
on its summer grounds at Travers Is
land to provide competition for the
athletes of this district
The schedule drawn up consists prin-
cipally of track and field events, al
though several of the nine meets have
been set aside for the swimmers. In
the majority of the games, the athletic
committee has added race for the
benefit of enlisted men. The entry is
free in every event.
The events of each meet follow:
July 6-l0o-yard run. ss0-yard run. one mile r,lr
for enlisted men. running high jump tal handi
caps)
July 1s-22o-yard run. one-mre run. 4lo-yart
run for enlisted men. ne-mile wark. throwing IS
pound weight TALL handicapsl.
July 20 tswimming day)-5o-yard swim fox en-
fancy dive (handicapl. rowing race
July 27-l0oyard nun. three quarter mile run
220yart run for enlisted men. running broad 3um
August s-i4O-yard run one-mile run. loo-yar,
run for enlisted men. two-me walk putting ii
pound shot TALL handicaps).
quarter mile nun. three mile nun (al handcapsl
August swimming day)-50-yard swim
taovise), loc-yard swim (handicap). fancy div
August 24-l2o-ysri nun. three quarter mile min
4fo yard run for enlisted men three -mie walk
ur.NinS le.pound hammer tal handlcaps)
,I AusuAl oo 81 swimming dsy)--e0 yard swim
thandicapl. ' Wv