The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
REAL WORKERS AT - NATIONAL CAPITAL
By HERBERT COREY

WASHINGTON, April 26.-AHe wouldn't like to do it himself, says Henry O'Afalley. If he were house wife he would not come home with q dead fish sticking tail and ears out of the market basket. Still less would he care to spend the time that might be given over to Nah Jong in performing an unofficial autopsy on the aninpl with dull knife, from which he>would emerge with scales in his hair.
 We must make fish eating easy" he says. I've Americans are like that. We like our luxuries. The telephone, flivvers, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, a. thousand other things are expressions of our effort to dodge the curse that was laid on Adam. We've improved almost everything, except the domestic method of mahaging Fridays fish, 3,:
 Don't Eat Our Share Of Fish
 We have the best fish in the world, says the commissioner of the U. S. bureau of fisheries, and more of them than any other nation, but until we can deal with them painlessly we will not eat our share. Other less finicking na- ticns regard fish as a dietary standby. Visitors to England get fried sole or boiled turbot at dinner whether they want them or not. Some sort of fish is almost obligatory on the !. French table, the Scandinavians eat some kinds raw, and the other European nations have their fish complexes.
 Americans eat only fourteen pounds of fish each year, against one hundred and seventy pounds of meat per capita. That's wrong. But I do not blame the American housewife. would do just as she does, if T had to mess around in a hot kitchen three times day"
 But--it being a part of his job to popularize fish among our best people --Mr. OMalley thinks the problem has been solved. Fish are being sfilletted" at the seaside, which is to say that the best parts of the fish are being re- moved. These are placed in parchment paper bags, thoroughly chilled, and shipped to inland points. The house. wife can put the little paper bag in her shopping bag
 No Messiness, No Smell
 It isn't messy" said O,Malley. No smell. No wetness-''
 And when she gets home all she has to do lis to take 1t out of the bag AAU SOuh @tts 0Hs IT SnS pFeIeFS, Sne can cook it right in the bag. The French cooks have perfected that meth. cd, and they are the best cooks in the would. None of that rich seaside fra granee gets into the house at all then ---or into the hair--sff
 ''sThere is no waste, either" he points out. What part of the fish isn't 'filIet- ted is made into fish meal and other commercial products. This latest bit of difference to the housewives prefer ence for modernity and calm is only a year or so old. but the firms that are shipping the fish fillets in paper bags have more than they can do. I con fidentfy expect to see the day when almost all the fresh fish sold on the American, market will be handled in this way. The filletting may even be done at sea" =
 !, Was Always Interested In Fish
 Of course. D'Malley is a believer in fish. He began as a boy with bent pin fishing in Vermont brooks Then he grew so interested that. he got a, job as q common labofer in Vermont fish hatehsfx. When the Appropriation ran out he returned to his regular job as 3 steuoRrHpher at the railway station, but when the Appropriation ran in again ha went back fo Ills fishes. By and by he got on the regular Toll which was q proud day for young OsMaliev.