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Show Fish Are Good Every .Day WE AMERICANS do not eat enough flsh, and tho Fisheries Bureau says it is largely because of tho flsh-on-Friday habit The averago housewife, house-wife, having acquired tho habit, will not buy flsh on any other day .of tho week. This means that tho individual consumer con-sumer must buy when everybody else Is buying, thus enhancing tho price. And tho dcalov must obtain from ono day's sales enough to cover six days' experses. This also makes prices go up. Tho fisherman Is up against the same dlfllculty. His business iu governed gov-erned largely by wind and tlde conditions con-ditions over which ho has no control. Ho must catch Ilah whenever ho can, and by expenslvo Iclug hold them until tho ono flsh day of tho week. Here again is a causo of higher pricey. Every day ought to bo a flsh day. Lot us try to drop the' flshmn-Frlday habit. It is ono way to; help win tho war. |