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Show OWNER OR EMPLOYE? '"PHE main object of life is doubtless to get A something out of it besides trouble, and so any critical comparison of rival methods of earning earn-ing a living can not fail to be interesting to all men. The only ones not affected are the carefree care-free hobo flitting from place to place and the wise lad who early in life took the precaution to marry the lovely daughter of the capitalist. Now about the matter of running your own business, or working for some one else on salary iand commission. If we go into history the testimony testi-mony is somewhat conflicting. Moses was a salaried sal-aried man for the Pharaoh corporation and did very well for himself. On the other hand our old friend Rismarek, also a salaried man, built up a wonderful business for his firm, but, as so often happens, was thrown out of a job when he got along in years and the young fellow stepped in and took over trie business. Among those who went into business for themselves, them-selves, Mark Anthony did well and would probably prob-ably havo become head of the world's greatest corporation if he had not got into fast company and wasted his time on wine suppers, houseboat parties and so on. Alexander the Great, strictly a business man with no foolishness about him, in ten years built up such a tremendous organization that he fretted because there were no more good sized towns where he could establish branch houses. Napoleon, Napo-leon, who was in business for himself, prospered exceedingly for a number of years and probably would have died rich except for an unwise second marraige and the fact that he tried to spread out too much for his capital. We all know the outcome of the business owned and managed by William Hohenzollern. Interested Interest-ed creditors would do well to compare a Dun or Bradstreets report on his affairs made the spring of 1914 with his rating at the present time. J. R. jSprague, in Sunset Magazine. ( BCn 1 |