No Job for you

After high school Daddy work on farms and for the railroad. But for some reason he found himself out of work. He went to his dad and asked him to help him get a job. Grandpa Cox was the one that placed people on state jobs like working road crews. I think that daddy said that Grandpa was Precinct Committeeman for Sangamon County. Well the answer was NO! Daddy told me that he never knew why Grandpa would not help him, he just said no, get your own job. I know that this hurt my dad very deeply. Well daddy started walking to Springfield from Auburn every day looking for a job. He said that sometimes he would get a ride, but many times he walked all the way... Well he finally got a job at St. Johns hospital. Daddy would sterilize the equipment and make up the surgical packages each day. He said that he really enjoyed this job. Daddy worked at Saint John's Hospital for three years.. He left there when he enlisted into the ARMY the day after Pearl Harbor.