plato believed in helping others and devoting himself to his family. "in 1939 he devised a plan to move his sister and her family off the old homestead in waugh, alabama, and into a new home nearby." elnora plato "funded the cost of samuel's sister's new house in waugh and "on more than one occasion, she was able to keep heir [sic] company from going bankrupt." samuel and elnora plato also "helped put several nieces and nephews though college and graduate school." in addition, he employed "some of them on jobs in louisville and washington, d.c.