Evening star., 1918-01-13

III III your meat bills and at the same
- time add to the food supplies
of our allies in Europe?
If so, why don't you eat fish? 1t
will give you more brain and just as
good muscle. 1t will digest quite as
easily and fit you for your duty in these
stirring times Of our nation. The Japa-
nese people, who are among the bravest
on earth are fish eaters. The Chi
nese, who are as 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 con-
sumption of meat is about seventeen
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 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. DR..
Smith is our world authority on fish,
and under him is large corps of sci
entists 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
as wen as beefsteak and that men can
replace all other meats with fish every
day in the year without i'll effects.
They advise us to eat fresh fish If we
are near the source of supply, and salt
The bureau of fisheries has book of
recipes for preparing salt fish and
smoked fish for the table. and if you
will write DIR. 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
The waters of the sea and land con-
tain $4,000 different kinds of fishes, and
those in and about the United States
have so many varieties that you could
start as three-year-old baby and eat
old enough to have babies yourself
and not reach the end of the list. We
are now producing more sea food than
any other country. The value of all the
fsh caught by man in one year is esti-
mated at less than $500, 100000. OF this
our product is fully one-ffth. 1t Is
twice as large as that of Russia. ten
times that of Germany and more than
fifty times that of Austria-Hungary 1t
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 $63,-
100000 worth of fish every year.
The sea food Of Germany has been cut
down by the war. The Baltic is a 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 thou
sands of its fishing boats and tens of
thousands of its fishermen are out of a
job.
The North sea is one of the best fish
ing grounds upon earth. During the
year prior to the war it produced about
2.500. 100000 pounds of sea food, SO
much that, il it 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 twenty-five
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, Denmark, Belgium and
France. and also for Switzerland and
Germany, and other countries of in
terror Europe where the fish were sent
smoked. saited dried. Most of the
fish eaten in Europe is salt fish, and a
vast amount of such food will be con-
sumed by the soldiers. The supply
from tbs North sea has been greatly
reduced, and the food losses there will
: have - be replaced by dsh and meat