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...civic Washington's greatest problems is starlings, small insectivorous birds first brought to the U. S. in 1890 from England to combat sparrows. One Civil Works relief project during the past two months was to oust great crowds of starlings from downtown Washington. At night CWA men climbed trees, scaled roofs, went after the birds. Result was that the starlings fled for sanctuary to the Capitol. Flocks of them darkened the dome, settled on window ledges, twittered, committed nuisances until Congressmen could no longer bear them. David Lynn, Capitol architect, was assigned to drive them off. He rigged...
...taxpayers had reason to be thankful that they did not live in Britain where the Government hires common informers (generally discharged employes) to tattle on tax evaders. Payment to common informers in 1933 was ?535 ($2,675), far less costly than a house-to-house canvass by CWA workers...
...Philadelphia, CWA assigned 408 men and $69,197 to improve the housing of the zoo's animals. Also, 900 men were requested from CWA for an indefinite number of days, to exterminate each and every Philadelphia rat. ¶ In Tennessee, CWA assigned to the State University one person and $30 to translate a German manuscript on plant diseases...
...Georgia, CWA was put in charge of Miss Gay Shepperson, fortyish, professional social worker. This resulted from a thoroughgoing quarrel between blatant dictatorish Governor Talmadge and President Roosevelt's quiet stubborn CWAdministrator Hopkins. In the course of the quarrel, these words flew...
Ostensible point of dispute: Governor Talmadge's claim that CWA paid such high wages that Georgia farms were being denuded of cheap labor. Probable real point: politics & patronage...