Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1942, Page 24

U. S. Has Substifutes For Cod Liver Oil - Once Sent by Japan Americans Also Can Do Without Séed Oyster and Easter Lily Imports (Fifth of & Series.) By THOMAS R. HENRY. The livers of cidfish are the | cheapest source of two substances | essential to human life—vitamins | A and D. Without the former, one gets night | blindness—complete inability to see in the dark—and a greater suscepti- bility to all sorts of infections. Without the latter, especially when there is a deficlency of sun- shine, children get rickets. For the last two years Japan has been the second largest source of | cod liver oil and the stoppage of all | imports will make necessary far- reaching readjustments. Neither of | the substances is every effectively synthesized. Imports of cod liver oil now are at a very low level. For the last few years this country has purchased close to 7,000,000 gallons. Until the outbreak of the war, the chief source of supply was Norway. In 1939 the imports from that coun- try amounted to 2,360,000 gallons. Iceland was a close second with nearly 2,000,000 gallons. With the German invasion in the spring of 1940 Norwegian imports stopped ompletely and American firms irned to Japan, which hitherto had supplied only a cheap grade of cod pil for use in the leather industry. Substitutes Available. Canada had virtually embargoed exports. Newfoyndland, one of the | largest producers, had allocated her entire supply to England where it was & war necessity. The United States market saved the economic life of Iceland for a time, but she ‘was far from able to supply the de- mand and the domestic American production was small. So in the first five months of last year the Mikado's subjects supplied 35 per | cent of United States imports—a big | financial boost to the empire of the tising sun. Now cod liver oil is a relatively | cheap means of keeping the bones | | tomorrow, it has been announced of American babies from getting soft and at the same time supplying | them with other necessary elements. | Last July stocks in warehosues had | declined to less than 2,000,000 gal- | lons, less than a three-month nor- | mal supply. | But henceforth Japan is welcome | to all the cod liver ol its underpaid | workers can extract. Its soldiers will be sadly in need of all the pep fish | livers can give them. America, with a little additional expense, can get plenty of vitamin D for its babies | from halibut and swordfish livers. It also can produce it synthetically by irradiation of ergosterol. There | is plenty of vitamin A in shark | Hvers. This substance also can be | extracted from carrots. Unfortu- | nately there is no combination | source of the two vitamins quite so | economical as the cod liver. Seed Oysters Cut Off. American children in the past | have consumed a relatively small | amount of the cod liver oil which has been imported. Laying hens need it even worse and the major supply has gone into poultry feed. The deficiency can be made up, experts of the United States Tariff Commission believe, by sardine oils fortified with synthetic vitamins. An important Japanese import has been crabmeat—about 9,000,000 pounds a year valued at close to 42,800,000 It is far from s neces- sity, but, say the Tariff Commission experts, several years will be re- quired to make up the deficiency trom domastic sources. Ofher shutoff imports from Japan are not likely to cause much difi- culty in American living, although there may be slight inconveniences, some necessary rearrangement of industry and possibly a little unem- ployment. A curious case is that of seed oysters. Practically all bivalves grewn on the Pacific Coast came from Japanese “seed.” ‘This produces about 8,000,000 pounds of oyster? a year. A “seed” grows to marketable size in from 12 to 28 months. Eastern varieties of oysters require from three to five years in the Pacific environment. A considerable stock | has been laid by, but it is forecast | Pacific Coast bon vivants will not | be able to get their oysters quite as fresh or quite as tasty for the next few years. | Easter Lily Shortage. One of the effects of the war probably will be a shortage of Easter | lilies. Almost all the bulbs come | from Japan. Approximately 7,000 tons—about 26,000,000 bulbs—have | been imported every year. Only about 5 per cent of the required number is produced in this country. Recent experiments by the Agricul- ture Department, however, indicate | that better ones can be produced here at a lower price. In a few years, it is likely, the | murderers of Pearl Harbor would not have been furnishing flowers to celebrate the resurrection of the | Prince of Peace—war or no war. The same is true of another major Japanese export to America—Christ- | mas tree lights. The hungry, under- | paid subjects of the mikado have | produced the majority of theas used | in the past and the beauty of an Amercian Christmas would have | been marred if folks had realized | that so much of it was due to t.he‘\ labor of ill-treated slaves. Religious Census Planned ROCKVILLE, Md,, Jan. 12 (Spe- cial) —Under auspices of the Bap- tist, Christian, Episcopal, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches of Rock- ville, a religious census of Rock- ville and territory within & radius of about 2 miles will be started by J. Arthur England, chairman of | the committee in charge. The amusing adventures of the First Family of the Funnies— Elondie, Dagwood, Alexander, **Cookiz,’ and Daisy—{rom their home to your home TONIGHT WJSV—1:30 P.M. on the air for CAMEL cigarettes WOODWARD 107 1™ F axD G STRERTS LLOTHROP Puost. 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