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we “clew”, we “clew.” It's a seafaring word. People who go to sea know what you mean by “clew up.” You say, “No, I can't come this week, because I've got to clew up first.” It means you've got to get your house clean, your woodshed clean, your woodshed filled with wood, the chores done, the water turned off, the stove emptied and covered up. You've got to clew up. It means getting ready, fixed up and in good shape.

At any rate, “boondoggle” was used as a term of disrepute and it was very painful. Very few men were paid for idleness.

I continued my interest in this project, first, because I was a professional social worker, and, second, because operating the employment service as we did we had to feed in constantly to the WPA projects. The Congress, when they passed the act, kept sticking in all kinds of preferences. Veterans should have a preference on the job. Then residents of the locality should have a preference on the job. Heads of families should have a preference on these jobs. It was the kind of thing that wasn't necessary, but was one of the ways in which Congress satisfied itself about this. The result was that somebody had to certify these people. When they lined up wanting a job, we had to put them through the employment service, because that was the best and most