anaheim-gazette 1934-06-14

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $2.00 MIX MONTHS $1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. OPPORTUNITIES GREATER THAN EVER Graduates from high schools and colleges, fresh with the enthusiasm of youth and hopeful of meritorious rewards in the larger world they are entering, meeting their first and most crucial test as they join the ranks of persons seeking employment. The real test lies not so much in one's success in finding a job, or luck in making money, for those are temporary things. What really counts is the spirit in which the graduate tackles worldly problems. If he meets each rebuff with a greater determination to succeed, if he laughs off disappointments and digs into the problems at hand, he has the makings of a leader. If continued failures to get a start produce an attitude of "what's the use," the years spent in learning might just as well have been passed in whittling at the nearest pool hall. Attitude is largely of home training, of inherent ability, developed by schooling. It isn't material success or failure that counts; rather, the problem, to use a colloquial term, is: "Can you take it?" Contrary to many who regard the depression as a great calamity to young graduates, we consider these "hard" times a great opportunity. So-called "soft" jobs in "easy" times beget spendthrift habits, loose thinking, inferior workmanship. No nation or man ever became great because of smooth sailing; problems, apparently impossible of solution, tune up our mental machinery for great accomplishments. New graduates, plunging into the affairs of a troubled world, get a head start on their elders introduced by the circuitous route of prosperity, boom and crash. contrary to many who regard the depression as a great calamity to young graduates, we consider these "hard" times a great opportunity. So-called "soft" jobs in "easy" times beget spendthrift habits, loose thinking, interior workmanship. No nation or man ever became great because of smooth sailing; problems, apparently impossible of solution, tune up our mental machinery for great accomplishments. New graduates, plunging into the affairs of a troubled world, get a head start on their elders introduced by the circuitous route of prosperity, boom and crash. We admonish young graduates to remember two things when they face calamity howlers of every description. The world isn't going to the "dogs", nor is civilization clinging desperately on the precipice of oblivion. We are in a period of transition, brought about by the cupidity of man-made institutions. When we emerge civilization will have taken a great forward step by learning that greed must be controlled. Instead of being unfortunate, as too many persons regard them, graduates in depression-time face the greatest opportunity the world ever knew. RADICALISM — A LOOSE TERM Whom do you hit when you strike at radicalism? This question is pertinent just now, when numerous patriots stand up to condemn radicalism, communism and other tendencies to the left. We do not doubt the honest and sincere intentions of these persons, nor do we disagree with them so long as their zeal does not carry them to dogmatism and abrogation of the Bill of Rights, otherwise known as the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The whole trouble is not one of intent. It is of definition. Webster, pointing out that the word "radical" is "of or pertaining to the root . . . hence . . . pertaining to the root or origin; original; fundamental," then gives a subheading definition as follows: "In politics, one who advocates radical and sweeping changes in laws and methods of government with the least delay, especially changes deemed to tend to equalize, or to remedying evvils arising from, social conditions. Where Radicals form a party or faction they usually act with the Liberals when not strong enough to act alone." Confusion arises from an unwise mixture of terms. Most persons, intending to restrict the activities of "reds," often refer to them as "radicals." When advocating denial of school buildings to "radicals," they unintentionally include our own Senator Hiram W. Johnson or, for that matter, most of the "brain trusters" and even President Roosevelt. "Radical" has been used interchangeably with "communist" and "red" when such is not the case. A communist may be radical, but a radical is not necessarily a communist. Webster bears this out when he says the "popular use of the word" means: "Any theory or system of social organization involving common ownership of the agents of production, and some approach to equality in the distribution of the products o findustry; unformulated socialism." Here we agan get in trouble, because most of us conceive a communist as one who advocates the use of force in overthrowing or hampering our own system of government in order to bring about a change. It is this phase which most of us rightly hate. The English language lacks a suitable name for advocates of A communist may be radical, but a radical is not necessarily a communist. Webster bears this out when he says the "popular use of the word" means: "Any theory or system of social organization involving common ownership of the agents of production, and some approach to equality in the distribution of the products o findustry; unformulated socialism." Here we agan get in trouble, because most of us conceive a communist as one who advocates the use of force in overthrowing or hampering our own system of government in order to bring about a change. It is this phase which most of us rightly hate. The English language lacks a suitable name for advocates of force in changing our form of government. "Communist" fails to apply adquately because its definition does not mention force; "radicalism" most certainly should be eliminated. Perhaps that is why we have coined the term "red". If we use "red" in this sense, let us not confuse our listeners and cause a great deal of misunderstanding by unintentional use of "radical" or even "communist" in its stead. UNCLE SAM ABROAD Senator Reed, in his masterly speech before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, referred to the Carnegie and Bok endowments. Carnegie was a Scotchman and Bok was a Dutchman. Both left money for propaganda to interest Uncle Sam in world affairs. Carnegie died in 1919 and his propaganda has been going on for fifteen years. Bok only died recently and his money has not had a chance to do much mischief. It would not be fair to say that the Carnegie propaganda was the only factor that induced Uncle Sam to take a trip abroad and become interested in European affairs. But it did a lot to swell the hands-across-the-sea chorus. That was a very expensive trip for Uncle Sam. A very sad trip. He will be lucky if, within a century, he pays all the bills that he incurred. The Carnegie Foundation is not contributing toward the payment of these bills. Au contraire, as the French say, it is urging Uncle Sam to take another trip. Because, unless Uncle Sam keeps traveling abroad, there is no justification for the Foundation's existence. Hands-across-the-sea is an excellent, pithy, benevolent and altruistic motto—as long as all the hands do not reach for Uncle Sam's pocket. We wish all our multimillionaires a long, long life. But if they insist on dying and want to invest their surplus millions in an enduring monument to their name, they can do no better than to create a foundation that will keep Uncle Sam at home. History of Anaheim Officially Recorded In Minutes of Anaheim Water Company, Which are Copyrighted, 1932, by Anaheim Gazette, and Printed In Weekly Installments July, 20, 1878. Regular meeting of the board of trustees of the Anaheim Water company. President Theo. Reiser in the chair; F. A. Korn absent. Minutes of the previous meetings read and approved. The committee reported that it met the board of directors of the S.A.V.I. Co. at their sandgate on Wednesday at 11 o'clock, and took measurement of the water above and below the gate and also water turned out for us at the waste gate into the river; this proved to be about 1806 inches of water on a narrow place above the sandgate, where the water had a strong current; 1780 inches below the sandgate with less current, and 1119 inches of water in the ditch below the waste gate, which brought the water back to the river. After a verbal agreement had been made with the directors of the S. A. V. I. Co. to leave the waste gate open as at present to-wit: 9 inches, the committee returned. The zanjero stated that on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. he found the waste gate only 4½ inches open instead of 9 inches as agreed upon. The zanjero was instructed to propose to all those interested in the Yorba ditch to take all the water up to Tuesday next, and after this let us have all the water for one week or longer and we would keep and pay for a man on the river. The zanjero to report on Monday morning. A bill for $29.95 for work done, and also one for $20.40 for a man on the river, were ordered paid. F. A. Korn came in and reported having been up on the head of the Cajon Irrigating company's ditch, that there August 10, 1878. Special meeting of the board of Trustees of the Anaheim Water company at 10 o'clock a.m. Pres. Theo. Reiser in the chair; John Fischer absent. Mr. Shanklin, president of the Cajon Irrigation company presented a contract to be entered into by the C. I. Co.'s ditch would be $13,000, or less, if the one-third part of the cost of the ditch did not reach that amount. No further business, the meeting adjourned. Theo. Rimpau, Sec. Pro Tem. August 10, 1878. Regular meeting of the trustees of the Anaheim Water company. Pres. Theo. Reiser in the chair. John Fischer absent. Minutes of last meeting read and approved. Zanjero reported no water in our ditch. The following bills were presented and ordered paid, to-wit: Bill of Messrs. Guy Smith & Co. for lumber, $16.06; bill of George C. Knox for professional services, $10; zanjero for work up to July 27, $19.45; zanjero for work to August 10, $18.05; zanjero for salary for July, $50. Zanjero was instructed to engage sufficient help and go with them up to the Cajon ditch to watch the same all night in order to let the water run day and night. The contract with the C. I. Co. was taken into consideration and upon motion resolved: To accept the proposition of the C. I. Co., to buy one-third of the ditch for the sum of $13,000, subject to the approval of the general meeting, and the president was appointed as a committee to go to Los Angeles and have the contract drawn. OBSERVATIONS CANT YOU DO SOMETHING! Bimetallism is the legalized adoption of two metals, as of gold and silver, to be used as currency, at a fixed ratio. For instance, then the government could fix the value of each metal, of course, that must be for the new mined bullion from the domestic supply only. For instance, again, they would place an order for 10 billion dollars worth of silver bullion. That would create a tremendous amount of new business. It would open up mines everywhere. They could then keep half of the bullion for security and coin the other half into money and pass that back to the people who produced it. That would stimulate business, there would be plenty of money and the goose would hang high. LIFTING YOURSELF BY YOUR BOOT STRAPS For instance you and ten other men lived in a vicinity. For instance, you had property worth 10 thousand dollars, and the others were up against it financially. "By jingo," you would say, "I'm going to borrow $2000, and give those 10 men work for 60 days in order to make business!" TAKE IT FOR WHAT IT WAS WOIRT When a man up and said he had been told by a friend that there was a traitor among the brain busters people didn't know whether it was a joke or a jolt. NOBLE EXPERIMENTS Zeke Kokum ups and says he inclines to the notion, now that he has seen both, that Hennavaye and Prohibition "is" twins. SCRAPING THE BOTTOM A man just returned from Europe, says things over there are unsettled. In one country he says a skilled labor- to all those interested in the Yorba ditch to take all the water up to Tuesday next, and after this let us have all the water for one week or longer and we would keep and pay for a man on the river. The zanjero to report on Monday morning. A bill for $29.95 for work done, and also one for $20.40 for a man on the river, were ordered paid. F. A. Korn came in and reported having been up on the head of the Cajon Irrigation company's ditch, that there is one foot of water in the ditch and run down freely 4½ miles. Resolved: To invite the directors of the Cajon Irrigation company to come in town tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock to have a friendly talk and try to have our water to run down through their ditch. No further business, the meeting adjourned. John Fischer, Secretary. Monday, July 15, at 3 o'Clock, P.M. Answer received from J. W. Anderson and resolved to invite the directors of the S. A. V. I. Co. to meet us at their sand gate at 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning. John Fischer, Secretary. July 21, 1878. Met the board of directors of the Cajon Irrigation company and agreed upon a temporary connection with the Cajon Irrigation company's ditch until their main ditch would be finished to the boundary line between Messrs. Shanklin's and Kramer. Monday, board went to select a place for connection. Tuesday committee was appointed (Messrs. Reiser and Langenberger) to procure right of way for temporary ditch, and consult lawyers about joining in the Cajon Irrigation ditch. Wednesday, work was commenced to make connection ditch, after telegram had been received that right of way was secured. Thursday, committee reported the lawyers would send in their opinion in a few days. Team was engaged to take up lumber for flume and plow the ground for the ditch. Saturday, Zanjero reported connection ditch finished. John Fischer, Secretary. August 3, 1878. Meeting of the board of trustees of the Anaheim Water company. Pres. Theo Reiser in the chair; all members present. Minutes of the previous meeting, as also statement of business transacted during week was read and sufficient help and go with them up to the Cajon ditch to watch the same all night in order to let the water run day and night. The contract with the C. I. Co. was taken into consideration and upon motion resolved: To accept the proposition of the C. I. Co., to buy one-third of the ditch for the sum of $13,000, subject to the approval of the general meeting, and the president was appointed as a committee to go to Los Angeles and have the contract drawn up by Messrs. V. A. Howard & Scott and ask in the same time their advise concerning the suit pending with the L. A. & L. B. Land Co. Mr. Shanklin was requested to go to Los Angeles and confer with our attorneys regarding the contract. No further business, the meeting adjourned. Theo Rimpau, Sec. Pro Tem. August 17, 1878. Meeting of the board of trustees of the A. W. Co. Pres. Theo Reiser in the chair; all members present. Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. The contract, drawn up by Messrs. Howard & Scott between the A. W. Co. and the Cajon I. Co., was read and laid over, for ratification of the general meeting to be held Tuesday the 20th inst. The secretary presented a letter and copy of advertisement for the certificate of purchase by school land warrants from Mr. Cabot. Resolved: To insert the same in the Anaheim Gazette for four weeks. The zanjero reported no water on account of a break in the main ditch. No further business, the meeting adjourned. John Fischer, Secretary. Kroeger's Hall, Aug. 24, 1878. Meeting of the board of trustees of the Anaheim Water Co., Pres. Theo Reiser in the chair; all members present. Minutes of the previous meeting read and approved. The zanjero reported that for the last three days there was no water in the ditch on account of a serious breakage in the C. I. Co.'s ditch and there is still 64 dollars worth of water to be delivered. The following bills were presented and ordered paid, to-wit: Bill for work, $7.50; for recording, $1.75; from Lewis for buggy hire, $22.50. No more business, the meeting adjourned. John Fischer, Secretary. NOBLE EXPERIMENTS Zeke Kokum ups and says he inclines to the notion, now that he has seen both, that Hennavaye and Prohibition "is" twins. SCRAPING THE BOTTOM A man just returned from Europe, says things over there are unsettled. In one country he says a skilled laborer gets 65 cents a day, although food-stuffs are high. Gasoline sells for a dollar a gallon. But in one town there were only three motor vehicles—two fordies and a shivvy—antiques. SNOOPING AROUND What is needed right now is some sort of a periscope that would permit individual with idle dollars to look around that corner and see what in heck prosperity is doing there. TOOK A HEADER Confidence is a wonderful word, but to many people it seems to have been lost in the shuffle. COMING UP FOR AIR If when the republican party sweeps back into power in 36 they will look around and when they see all those unpaid bills in the pigeon holes, they will say, "Whew! those guys sure had one heck of a time! AND THEN THE FIRE WORKS STARTED The new deal started all right and things were getting jake but it appears as though some one slipped an extra ace in the deck. THE FIFTH WHEEL ON THE WAGON Some of the members in a high hall of legislation meet and talk about this and that and want to fight each other—but their salaries go on just the same. THE MAIN STEM A fond father once upon a time took his young son on a sight seeing trip. They went here, yonder and there and the youngster was inquisitive as to who owns that great big building, the boy asked. That, said the father, belongs to the Flandard Oil company. As they journeyed on they saw a field of tanks. The lad said, "Daddy, who owns those tanks." The father replied that the tanks belonged to the Flandard Oil company, and reassured the youngster that the oil company owned almost everything round about. As the tour- August 3, 1878. Meeting of the board of trustees of the Anaheim Water company, Pres. Theo Reiser in the chair; all members present. Minutes of the previous meeting, as also statement of business transacted during week was read and approved. Zanjero reported that last Thursday night, Aug. 1, the water came in over connection ditch, and was in a fair way of reaching Anaheim, but that today when he came up, he found an obstruction gate put in our flume, also another gate on the side to let our water run into Mr. Yorba's ditch, and also noticed Mr. Amos Wright had irrigated his corn. Resolved: That the zanjero go up forthwith, nail up the one gate and take the obstruction gate with him to Anaheim. The committee appointed to consult with Messrs. Hutton & Godfrey handed the opinion, which was read and ordered filed. Bill of H. Zeyn for work of $6 and H. Boege for $10 ordered paid. Resolved: To notify Mr. Shanklin that we are ready to make a permanent arrangement with the Cajon Irrigation company, provided however that we get a guaranty that we will not be damaged in any way through actions which may be taken by the L. A. & L. B. Land company. Meeting adjourned. John Fischer, Secretary. Kroeger's Hall, Aug. 24, 1878. Adjourned general meeting of the Anaheim Water company. There being 33 shares represented, President Theo. Reiser called the meeting to order. The minutes of the previous meeting read and approved. Mr. Theo. Rimpau, one of the committee on contract, reported that no contract having been made out on account of Mr. B. Dreyfuss, the heaviest stockholder in the company, wrote a letter to Mr. Rimpau advocating the purchase of one undivided half interest in the Cajon Irrigation company's ditch, and to give us a guaranty for any loss which may accrue out of the lawsuit now pending between the Cajon Irrigation company and the Santa Ana Irrigation company. After due deliberation it was resolved by 31 votes against 2, le: To buy one undivided half of the C. I. Co.'s ditch for the sum of $20,000. The C. I. Co. finishing the ditch on their own expense to the western boundary line of Mr. Shanlin's land, and the C. I. Co. to give the A. W. Co. a guaranty for loss in the suit now pending with the land Co. The following amendments to the by-laws were offered and laid over for three weeks, to-wit: 1. To increase the capital stock to $90,000 to consist of 3000 shares at $30 each; 2. That each acre or fraction of an acre of land represent one share; 3. That each acre on which the amount for right-of-way has been acquired from the Anaheim Water company shall be credited with $3; 4. That all shares hereafter subscribed shall pay $3 together with all his young son on a sight seeing trip. They went here, yonder and there and the youngster was inquisitive as to who owns that great big building, the boy asked. That, said the father, belongs to the Flandard Oil company. As they journeyed on they saw a field of tanks. The lad said, "Daddy, who owns those tanks." The father replied that the tanks belonged to the Flandard Oil company, and reassured the youngster that the oil company owned almost everything round about. As the touring party reached the sea coast the lad, exclaimed in amazement, lookit, daddy, see all that water. Yes, my child, that's the Pacific ocean. Well, daddy, tell me, does that belong to the oil company? DRAWING THE SPOTLIGHT Every day in every way if you hold your ear to the ground you will hear that the G.O.P. is staging a comeback. The loose ends are being picked up. You can hear the tom-toms in the wigwams, war dances are being held and those in and off the reservations are putting on the war paint. Smoke signals are seen from the mountain tops and a lot of fur will fly from all accounts and no foolin'. Favorite sons will be trotted out, but it's doubtful if the old warhorses will have a look in. assessments which may be levied from and after this date; 5. That no more than 2000 shares shall be issued at present and not more until it is proven that a larger area of land can be irrigated with the required water supply. Votes on the resolution to buy an undivided half interest in the C. I. Co. canal were: Ayes, F. A. Korn, 3 votes; H. Kroeger, 2; Strodthoff, 1; John P. Zeyn, 1; F. Hartung, 1; A. Langenberger, 6; Theo. Rimpau, 9; Theo. Reiser, 4; R.W.Scott, 1; Meredith, 1; John Fischer, 2; Noes, R. Helman, 2 votes. No more business, the meeting adjourned till Aug. 31. John Fischer, Secretary POLITICAL STEW Served With a Dash of Local Flavor. Specially Prepared To the Recipe of the Orange County Weekly Newspaper Association. By PAUL E. TICKS GOVERNOR With the death of Governor Rolph and the installation of Lieut. Governor Frank F. Merriam to the chair of governor of the State of California, the picture has materially altered. Previously it looked as if the old northern strategy of running two Southern California candidates and single-shooting on one northern candidate might again result in the north copping the big plum in the coming election. But now with Frank Merriam sitting in the holy of holies, things may be vastly different. The Rolph machine was not very hot for Merriam. But with a few sharp spankings, possibly led off by the requested retirement of Finance Director Vandegrift and the possible substitution of Friend W. Richardson in this berth, the Rolph machine will doubtless hang out the white flag of unconditional surrender and offer to go down the line a million for the New Big Boss. Merriam knows the achilles heel of practically every Big Shot in the Rolph administration. He knows how to make every one of 'em holler "Daddy." And with the acquisition of Justus Craemer, co-publisher of the Orange Daily News to his board of strategy, in the position of executive secretary to the governor, we may expect some of the fastest and most proficient politics that the old state has seen in some time. Merriam did not look so hot for the republican nomination, a month ago, but right now he seems to have the race for Merriam, should he be the G. O. P. candidate? Or would George Creel, assuming he won the election from Sinclair, be a tougher bird to skin and broil? There you have us and your guess is just about as good as anyone's. Local developments of the Creel candidacy are interesting. J. Frank Burke, grand ballyhoo artist of Santa Ana has spent a lot of time building or trying to build himself a machine among the unemployed groups in Orange county. His whole editorial policy has been so shaped that the logical conclusion seemed an inevitable choice of Sinclair, the white haired boy of the particular group that Burke has catered to as assiduously. But then there are two great big hot-shots in the county whose opinions Mr. Burke does not desire to unnecessarily antagonize. One is the great landed proprietor, James Irvine, Jr. and the other is Ham Cotton, potent democratic leader of the county. It looked last week as if Ham had issued a request for editorial support for his candidate—George Creel. George sits high with the national administration. So does Ham. The Register played a fairly enthusiastic little solo in its editorial columns and gave a great big news hand to Creel's trip to the county of the golden Valencia. But if Mr. Burke deserts the PEEPUL'S cause for an old line democrat—what of the power he has sought to wield through unemployed and underprivileged? That is a tough one and may even have repercussions slopping over into strictly local campaigns in Orange county. THE BOOK the first line of which reads, "The Holy Bible," and which contains Four Great Treasures BY BRUCE BARTON A GREAT IDEA IS BORN It was assumed that when a woman married she took the gods of her husband; if he died and she must go back to her own people, she abandoned her husband's gods and took theirs again. But when the ten tribes of Israel split away from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, Jehovah did not go to either one or the other, but remained with both. His worship was often neglected, but in their hearts the people knew that He was still their God and always at the time of tribulation they threw down their idols and returned to Him. The idea of One God—unseen and not to be worshipped in visible form—had been born in the world, and had taken firm hold upon human minds. This is the outstanding achievement of the Hebrews, the thing which gives the Old Testament eternal truth and inspiration. In its total effect the Old Testament is a record of God's progressive revelation of Himself to men. This is the second element in its greatness. Steadily from Genesis to Micah the conception of His nature and quality grows clearer, bigger, finer. We have referred already to Amos, who was not a priest and had nothing but scorn for the formulae and ritual of the established religion. He saw the temple courtyards red with blood and men seeking through sacrifices to buy the right to be iniquitous, and he cried out: "God cares nothing for sacrifice; He is a God of Justice." I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. As a conception of the Almighty this represented a vast step upward. In those same days another preacher, Hosea, was adding another item to the expanding fund of truth. Hosea was a married man, and his wife was a flirt. So much so that Hosea was compelled finally to put her away. His friends said "good riddance," but Hosea was torn by lonesomeness, sorrow and regret. This woman who had wronged him—he still loved her. Pocketing his pride he went to her with forgiveness and took her back to his home. And out of that domestic tragedy there came to Hosea a great new truth. "If I, being only a man, can love so much and forgive so much, surely God must be capable of even more," he said. Amos had told the world that God is just; Hosea added, "and kind." TODAY AND TOMORROW INTELLIGENCE — at 17 years The discovery has been announced that the average mental age of the American people is nearer 17 than 12. That is encouraging. It seems that some of the psychologist who were making mental tests of recruits during the war put a decimal point in the wrong place, or something like that, and spread the idea that we were a nation of infants. Now they are trying to correct that mistake. Without poking too much fun at these psychologists, for there is really a great deal to be said in favor of their work, I am glad that they have found out what I have always believed. That is that most people have reached their full powers of reasoning and learning by the time they are 17 or so. What this country will be like twenty years from now depends, literally, upon what impressions the youngsters who are now between 17 and 25 get from their contracts with their elders in the next two or three years. BUSINESS — at the zoo At Yale University professors have been testing the intelligence of chimpanzees by teaching them how to transact business. The chimps can get "money" in the form of colored chips. Also they learn that other chimpanzees will steal their "money" unless they hide it or lock it up. Some folks have an idea that anyone who can count money and make change has enough education to get by with. What they are proving at Yale is that it doesn't take much intelligence to do such things. I don't know what else it will prove, except that we are closer akin to the apes than some of us would like to believe. Perhaps this Yale experiment will be put forward by some future "brain trust" as proof that business men receive too high a premium for the exercise of their talents. QUAHAUGS — for town debts I wonder how many people not "raised" on the New England coast know what a quahaug is? They are the round, hard-shelled clams now sold everywhere; but your real down-East Yankee means the soft-shell, long-necked kind when he speaks of clams. Anyway, the town of Barnstable, on Cape Cod, has invented a new idea in municipal ownership, a municipal quahaug farm. On three acres of town-owned tidal flats the town planted quahaug spawn in 1929. The town's annual report shows a net profit of $4,586 from the first harvest, last year, and Barnstable is going to spend a couple of thousand more to extend its industry. That is more sensible and profitable than some municipal ownership schemes I have heard of.