The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-13

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 war? Do you want to cut lG down your meat bills and at
 the same time add to the food supplies of our allies in Europe?
 If 50. why don't you eat fish? Ii will give you more brain and just as good muscle. It will digest quite as 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 eaters. The Chinese, who are SIS 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 as much fish as we do. Our present consumption of meat Is about 17 times as great as 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 adminis trator, is advising that every Amerl- ean add to the fish on his table. This ss the advice also of Hugh M. Smith he United States fish commissioner >r. Smith is our world authority on : scientists who are always studying the possibilities of sea food as a national asset. Their recent experiments show that fish meat will build up the body ss well as beefsteaS and that men can rsplace all other meats with fish every Aay in the year without i'll effects. Gbey advise us to eat fresh fish if we sre near the source of supply, and salt fish and smoked fish wherever we are. The bureau of fisheries has 8 book of recipes for preparing salt fish and smoked fish for the table. and if you will write pr. 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 I want to tell you something about our fisheries a national asset. The waters of the sea and land con tain I9.000 different kinds of fishes, and those in and about the United States have so many varieties that you could start as three-year- 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 in one year Is estimated at less than s50,000,000 Of this our product is fully one-fifth. It Is twice as large as that of Russia, 10 times that of Germany and more than 50 times that of Austria Hungary. It Is about one-third again as big as that of Great Britain. which ranks second as national fisherman, and the same is true of Japan, which catches S63.000,000 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 it's fishing boats and tens of thousands of it's fishermen are out of job.
 The North sea is one of the best fish ing grounds upon earth. During the year prior to the war 1t produced about 2.50o,000, 900 pounds of sea food so much that, if 1t were loaded on wagons, the fish train containing it would reach all the way from New York City to San Francisco, via Galveston, and back. The amount that Great Britain got from it was more than 1000, 900, 900 pounds. and this meant 22 pounds of sea food for every man, woman and child in that country.
 The North sea supplied not only a great part of the fish for the British, but 1t was the main source of sea food for Holland, Henmark, Belgium and France, and also for Switzerland and Germany, and other countries of inte- xior Europe where the fish were sent smoked, salted or dried. Most of the fish eaten in Europe is salt fish, and a vast amount of such food will be con- stunned by the soldiers. The supply from the North sea has been greatly