The Prescott daily news., 1910-05-05
THE BOSS TO RUFUS

ihiS ioed oi yours that the boss is going to get out of you all he can for the money is right, but your idea that you amt going to do any more than you get paid for, that you ain't going 70 give the boss something for noth. ing, IS about as foolish as it could he It about as sure way as you could ma of always keeping yourself down ana never amounting to anything at all.
 "Of course the boss wants all he can get out of you for what he nays you-why shouldn't he? When you buy anything you want full value for your money, don't you? Why shouldn't you give full value when you sell?
 You say you do give a full day. lull square day, but you don't see any reason why you should give any more, why you should make the boss pres ent of anything valuable.
 How foolish Suppose you found one grocer who, when he sold you pound of sugar gave you down, plump. generous weight, and another who gave you pound but looked sharp all the time to see that he didn't give you a grain more? Which grocer would you patronize? Eh?
 Don't you suppose the man you work for likes men who give down, plump, generous weight in work? Don't you suppose that that's the sort of man the boss likes to do business with and that he keeps? Isn't that the sort of man that always has work, whether anybody else does or not?
 Don't be satisfied with giving just full measure of work, with doing your stent. Take an interest in the busi- ness and do all you can, and don't be afraid of responsibility. Make your self valuable as well as useful
 Going home on the subway last night I heard two business men talk ing shop together, and one of them was telling the other about some changes that he had just made in his store
 Tt seems that this man had work ing for him two young men who had both been with him some time but one longer than the other and getting more pay. After a while the next man still highSr up than these two young men went out and somebody had to be promoted to his place. Nat urally the man to go up would have been that one of those two who had been there longest; but said this man, was doing the talking, the other man who hadn't been there so long, was now the better man.
 They were both good, 'thful, de- sirable men, you unders oa, both workers; but the man who had been there longer could only C" It he was set to do, while the ot, had go ahead in him and he vast aid; he was ready to meet and tackle any thing that came along and able to get away with it, good man in the business. And says the man who was telling this, I hated to have to promote the junior over the seniors head, and the senior was older in years too; but what else could 1 do?
 Suppose you were in business for yourself. Rufus, and suppose you'd got in that business every dollar you could rake and scrape. You'd be in terested in that business, wouldn't you? We'll, some you'd be more than interested, you'd be anxious and you'd plug in and work harder than anybody you could hire, besides ta king all the risk
 "Youd have your troubles, yes; more than anybody else in the shop and you'd want to get all the work that was coming to you out of the men you hired? Naturally. Now sup pose you had working for you two men one of them having that idea that he wasn't going to do anything he wasn't paid for and the other man who pitched in and did everything he could and worked for the good Of the business, keeping that in mind all the lime and not thinking about himself not caring a snap whether he stayed minute late or an hour.
 (Which one of those two men do you think you'd like better and which one do you think you would advance the pay of and promote and hang on roq That's an easy one, isn't it?
 Now suppose this man that wasn't thinking of himself all the time, but was thinking of how he could help vour business, should turn out also to be able and capable and coura- geous: not only devoted but able to do things don't you suppose you'd help him all you could? If you had grain of sense you would. and l think you have got some sense and that's why