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Waco 110

Sam was working against the day when there would be financial mergers and he was not going to be soaked up in the sponge, nor did he like the looks of things that pointed to the government controlling aviation and therefore snuffing out the individual who had the guts enough to create a private industry. Which in turn provided employment for hundreds of men, by the money that he would spend in his own company, for instance. When government controlled business, he felt that day, democracy went to its death, for the very motivation, force of mankind, to leave part of himself in the world through his work, was killed before it could even craw. Sam (and George) were building American as well as Wacos, which after all were the modus operundi for selling ALL American, and All American democracy was the way to make sure that our children, the children of our"lost generation", would not have to go to war to finish what we had to call "quits" on, just short of settling things for a long period of years. (I think now, of the vision the boy had, and the talks we had that nourished body and soul).

I had felt a little squeamish about the food and the smell of smoking on our trip west, but put it all down to excitement and change of water. When we got back home, I was not well, and finally became so ill with pains in my right side, I couldn't stand up. The decision was appendicitis It was disrupted, the blood test could was not known then,) but when the fear of a rupture was agitated, I consented to have the operation. This was in January, 1926 Sam was frightened. "I wait for you all these years," he began, but I stopped him and laughed him out of thinking an appendectomy was serious. His heart was tumultuous just as the day he arrived in Winston-Salem. Sam insisted on watching the operation, so sure was he that it was not appendicitis. (I never knew that he had to be revived during the operation. When I came to, I was told he had gone on home.) Edna Goembel was in the hospital having her son. I wished I were having Sam's son, since I had to be there.