The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-06-29

!" bOSky yVu 0cn 81 many AuSokAOAo
that you haven't right to ask. be-
cause you put yourself In the position
Of the inquisitive bull pup who started
out to smell the third rail on the troll
ley right OF way. You're going to be
full of information In a minute.
In the first place, it looks rs II bust
ness might be pretty good this fall,
and I'm afraid you'll have your hands
50 full IN your place as assistant man.
ager Of the lard department that you
won't have time to run my Job too.
Then I don't propose to break any
quick promotion records with you just
because you happened to be born into
Job with the house. A fond father
and fool son hitch up into bad
team, and good business makes Il
poor family carryall. Out of business
hours l like you better than any one
ut the Office, but In them there are
about twenty men ahead Of you in my
affections. The way for you to get
first place is by racing fur and square
aud not by using your old daddy us q
springboard from which to jump over
their heads. A mans son Is entitled to
a chance In his business, but not to .
cinch
It's been my experience that when
IN Office begins to look like a fumily
tree you'll find worms tucked away
snug aud cheerful in most Of the ap-
pies. A fellow with an office full Of
relatives Is like SOW with litter Of
pigs-apt to get little thin and peak
ed as the others fat up. A receiver
is next of kin to business mans rela-
tives, and after they are all nicely set
tied in the office they're not long in
finding a Job for him there too.
want YOU to get this firmly fixed IN
your mind. because, while you haven t
many relatives to hire, If you ever get
to be the head of the house youth no
doubt marry few with your wife.
After you have found ninety niMa
sound reasons for hiring man its
oil right to let his relationship to you
be the hundredth. It'll be the only
bud reason in the bunch.
Some men are like oak leavesthey
don't know when they're dead, but still
hang right on, and there are others WHO
let 20 before anything has really touch.
ed them. OF course l may be in the
first class, but you can be dead sure
that don't propose to get into the
second, even though l know lot OF
people say I'm an old hog to keep
right along working after I've made
more money than know how to spend
and more than could spend if knew
how. They believe that money ought
to loaf; believe 1t ought to work
They believe that money ought to 60 to
the races and drink champagne: l be
lieve that 1t ought to go to the office
and keep sober.
l don't mind owning up to you
though. that I don't hang Oh because
I'm indispensable to the business, but
because business is Indispensable tG
me. l don't take much stock in this
Indispensable man idea anyway. I've
never had one working for me, and il
l had I'd fire him, because the fellow
who's as smart as that ought to be il
business for himself, and if he doesn',
get a chance to start new one he's
naturally going to eat up yours. Any
man can feel reasonably well salts
fed II he's sure that there's going tt
be hole to look at when he's pulled
up by the roots.
l started business in shanty. ant
I've expanded it into half a mile o.
factories. l began with ten men work
ing for me. and I'll quit with 10000
found the American hog In q mut
puddle, without beauty spot ON hin
| except the curl in his tail, and Tn
having him nicely packed in fame!
cans and cases, with gold medals hun:
all over him. But after I've gon'
some other fellow will come along ant
add Z postgraduate course In porl
packing and make what I've done lool
like country school Just after til
teachers been licked. And I want 70,
to be that fellow. For the present
shall report at the office as usual, be
cause I don't know any other plac
where can get ten hours fun a day
year in and year out
After forty years of close acquatnt
ance with 1t I've found that work /
kind to its friends and harsh to it
enemies. 1t pays the fellow who dis
likes it his exact wages. and they'1'
generally pretty small. But it give
the man who shines up to it all tn
money he wants and throws in hea]
OF fun and satisfaction for good meas
ure.