Growing up dad would explained to me when others had treated him without integrity, and explain his firm understanding that no one could mistreat a man who honored his priesthood and not face divine corrective action. Later when the individual would reap his reward, dad would point out to the inevitable consequence of the individuals less than honorable actions. It made an indelible impression on me, and I have striven to follow the example of my father.
Dad was only 58 when he moved to Crescent City, California, and from his youth he had cut and fashioned timber products, so he may have had thoughts of following his uncles into the logging industry, but many years of long hours tending his hardware store, developing severe veracious veins, and his more recent months of infections and total sick bed confinement, left him unable to venture out into the rough activity of the woods, so dad had to settle for a job in the Crescent City plywood mills.
After suffering allergic reactions for an extended time interval in the mills, he was finally incapacitated and sent to San Francisco for testing, which revealed that he was allergic to almost everything in the plywood mill, from the glues to the wood dust etc. He was promptly fired from his job. With a wife and six children still at home dad was in extreme need of a job when he took a job as a night watchman at a local mill. The dad's supervisor knowing of dad's need for his job, and sensing a vulnerability put the squeeze on dad suggesting that his job depended on a his maintaining a good reputation, to keep his night watchman's job, which would be true if he would supply the supervisor a bottle of liquor a week that he then would be assured of a good report. Dad was insulted that the man would even think to destroy his integrity, and told the supervisor as much in a polite way. Needless to say the man soon claimed to find dad asleep on the job and fired him. Dad's family experienced some hardships because of dad's integrity, but the family quickly adapted, while the supervisor was himself soon laid off and did not prosper!
