HERBAKIUM OF 
THOMAS J. DELENDICK 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN RECORD 
VOL. XXIV APRIL, 1935 NO. 2 
IWENTY-FOURTEH ANNUALDSRERORT 
OF THE 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
1934 
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 
To THE BOTANIC GARDEN GOVERNING COMMITTEE: 
I have the honor to present herewith the Twenty-fourth 
Annual Report of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the year 
1934 
COOPERATION IN RECOVERY PROGRAMS 
At the close of the Peloponnesian wars, about the middle of the 
fifth century B.C., Athens was suffering from post-war unemploy- 
ment—a condition analogous to that which is almost universal 
now. To meet the situation, Pericles proposed a vast program of 
public works to be financed with government funds. These 
included the building of the Parthenon, and gave work and in- 
come, not only to day laborers and artisans, but also to architects 
and sculptors, including Ictinus, who designed the structure, 
and the famous Phidias, who supervised the work. According 
to Plutarch, every craft and industry was involved. Weare told 
that hundreds of workmen, skilled and unskilled, including labor 
in transportation of materials, were employed for ten years or 
more on the Parthenon alone. 
The historical account reads like a page from a metropolitan 
newspaper of 1933-34. It was the CWA of classic Greece. We 
may question the desirability of such a program of state socialism 
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