Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-13
A war food movement
in which everyone
can take part
Copyright, 1918, by Frank G., Carpenter.

HM22SsSM o you want to help win the
D m @war? Do you want to cut
@ ~ bthe same time add to the food
MS3S352& supplies of our allies in Eu-
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If SO, why don't you eat fish. 1t will
give you more brain and just as good mus
Gle. 1t will digest quite easily and fit
you for your duty in these stirring times OF
our nation. The Japanese people, who are
among the bravest on earth, are fish eat
ers. The Chinese, who strong as we
are live largely upon the same food, and
until the war broke out nearly every man
in northern Europe was eating twice
much fish as we do Our present consump
ton of meat is about II times great
Our consumption of fish, and every pound
OF fish we eat will release that much beef,
mutton and pork for shipment abroad.
Herbert c. Hoover, the food admins
traitor, is advising that every American add
to the fish on his table This is the advice
also OF Hugh NJ Smith the United States
fish commissioner. DIR. Smith is our world
authority on fish, and under him is a large
corps Of scientists who are always studying
the possibilities of sea food as national
asset Their recent experiments show that
fish meat will build up the body as well as
beefsteak and that men cal replace all other
meats with fish every day in the year with
out i'll effects. They advise us to eat fresh
fish if we near the source of supply, and
salt fish and smoked fish wherever we are.
The bureau of fisheries has a book of re-
cipes for preparing salt fish and smoked
fish for the table and if you will write DR..
Smith he will send it to you He will tell
you also how to can fish and smoke it, and
about other ways in which to put up your
supply for the winter
But | want to tell you something about
fisheries as a national asset. The
waters of the sea and land contain 10000
different kinds of fishes and those in and
about the United States have SO many va
rieties that you could start as three-year-
old baby and eat a new fish every day until
you were old enough to have babies your
self, and not reach the end of the list We
are now producing more sea food than any
other country The value of all the fish
caught by man i'll year is estimated at
less than $5OO,OOOO0O. OF this our product
is fully one-ffth. 1t is twice as large ao
that of Russia, 10 times that of Germany
and more than so times that of Austria
Hungary. 1t is about one-thrd again as
big as that of Great Britain, which ranks
second a national fisherman, and the
same is true Of Japan, which catches sos
100000 worth of fish every year.
The sea food of Germany has been cut
down by the war. The Baltic is poor
fishing ground, and until now the most of
the kaiser's fish has come from the North
sea, which he has SO peppered with mines
and submarines that thousands of its fish
ing boats and tens of thousands OF its fish
ermen out of job.
The North sea is one OF the best fishing
grounds upon earth. During the year
prior to the war it produced about 2 100000
poupds Of sea food, so much that, if it were
loaded on wagons, the fish train containing
it would reach all the way from New York
city to San Francisco, via Galveston, anil
back The amount that Great Britain got
from it was more than l,OOO,OOO,OOO pounds,
and this meant p pounds of sea food for
every man, woman and child in that coun-
try. I,
The North sea supplied not only a great
part of the fish for the British, but it was
the main source of sea food for Holland.
Denmark Belgium and France, and also
for Switzerland and Germany, and other
countries of interior Europe where the fish
were sent smoked sailed or dried Most