Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-05-02 | Page 7 | "Your Own Boss"

0 1 V H Your Own Boss J d RE IE E you nursing a hope that some day yo you youcan 1 can can be your own boss instead of work work- Mfg g under some som some one else else's orders Certainly I does But there is no such thing thins ass absolute independence in life Always eels f s a. a a. bos either boss boss either either a pe person 91 i or or ora a a. a force forced J t. t d oyer over u us with a whip T TakeS Take e the 1 career career of of fone one man Rodger man Rodger Dolan In baby- baby is s mother mother r wa hi boss boss Y When e he g grew V 1 o large yag for her handle dad stepped in m with f shingle Rodger Rodg r ran away way from home F en h he heas Ivas as 16 tired tf f th the firm H He became a wal wa- wa l for a a. a tong buckin crew that l was laying laying- i an in oil pip pipeline line through a middle western west- west ern rn state He hada had a boss on this this' job job job-a a i boss Rodger odger graduated He bucked ng with the crew Still he he had hada had a boss the f r man Because he was the best tong buckin buckri buck- buck in ri the be gang always on time timet exer exerting ing hi his v ounce nce of strength quick to notice notice- and POt how v money could be saved by taking sh in the work Rodger soon got the f oreman's Job The foreman moved on pro on-pro- pro pro- ro ted 11 r.- r. L U h fAha Aha chuckled Rodger vIm iNow Im I'm my 4 wn boss poss II u Rodger r quickly found t that aj he had l rely exchanged bosses traded bosses traded the foreman fore fore- man nan for a district superintendent So it went vent h e y years years' years ars slipped by Rodger todger kept kept rising Finally he was vice president of the e. e oil com com- pany piny Apparently he had only ohly t io move one link in the chain of bosses and hed he'd be ilta ip a position where hed he'd have no one over hr The great day dai came kismet came kismet Rodger t ib b became aine president nt of the company comp He sighed v relief at finally b being ing his own own boss But ut th the sigh died in his throat For he learned that he still had bosses bosses th bosses th company's directors directors directors tors and nd stockholders income tax auditors congressional legislation and d that most tyran tyran- fr L t SAL A 1 lic of of Vail bosse bosses boss Ue c s nf ys cus cuS- k 1 1 To please se these bosses kept ROdger- ROdger Rodger Rodger- hustling hus hus- husi i until his hair turned white Th Then he retired retired re re- re- re i tired with enough money to s support him i in I comfort for forthe the rest of his life But I 1 still have a boss he confides I My children who used to boss me around have grown up and up-and and grand grandchildren hildren have taken a hand at the bossing Im I'm within sight of the time when Ill I'll have one foot in iTI inthe inthe the grave and its it's dawning on me nie I that that- I stilt still and always will have the eternal God We Ve cannot annot escape from the boss boss system Go even to a deserted island and the boss bobs up up like like a ghost weather ghost weather conditions crop crop- cropf f failure death And over all ali of course God The boss system m is part of natural l law It is un universal froni y from from the sun bossing the i planets th that lt revolve around it it to to the school of fish or flock of wild ducks following ving a l leader ader Where you find no boss you find nothing worth bossing