Show YOUR OWN BOSS Are you nursing a hope that tha some sotte day you ou can be your our own owl boss Instead ot of working under unde Certainly some one elsos elso's Everybody doe does But there thero Is no such cuch thing as al is absolute Independence in life Al Always ways ars there Is a boss either boss either a per per- person person r son or a force that stands Os 0 over er us u i with a whip Take the career of o one man man- Rodger Dolan In babyhood his hh mother was as his boss When he h grew too large for tor her to handle handl 1 dad stepped In with a shingle Rodger ran away from horn hom home when he was 16 tired of the farm jo I-jo for a tong buckin crew tha that was laying an oil pipeline through a middle o t tern cm ern state He had a boss on this sob sob-a Job a a rough boss hoss Rodger graduated He d tongs with Ith the crew Still he be had hada ha a poss bosa iosa the tha foreman Because Ks he A wa was the best tong long buckel In the gang always s on time e exerting his last ounce ot of o strength quick to no tire tice and report how money could coul b be saved by taking shortcuts In the work Bodger Rodger soon got the fore mans man's job The foreman moved on o promoted Aha Aba chuckled Rodger Now r boss a aBut Im I'm m my own But Dut Rodger Roder Quickly that bosses bosses- he e had bad merely exchanged traded the tho foreman for a B district superintendent So It went ent The The Thi vears ears slipped by Rodger kept rIs- rIs rIsIng na- na nang ris Ing ng Finally he v was as vice president bt ol if the oil 01 company Apparently he I had iad only to move one more link In Inthe the he chain of o bosses and hed he'd be In Ina li a L position where hed he'd have no one on over yer him The great day KIsmet came came Rodger became president of o the th company He sighed with Ith relief at being his own boss But the died in his ins throat For he i learned earned that he be sUit still had bosses bosses- bosses t the le e company's directors and stock stock- stockholders holders Income tax auditors con con- legislation and that most t tyrannical of ot P eli 11 the bosses bosses com pan s 's customers To please these bosses kept Rodger odger h hustling until his hair white Then he retired with enough joney to support him la In comfort for or the rest of ot his life lite But I I still ba have hae e a boss pe he ie con con- conides ides con Udes ides My children who used to boss oss me rna around tv h-tv hive grown up- up up and ind nd grandchildren have hae taken a aland hand and at the bossing Im I'm wIthin sIght of ot the time timo shen v hen Ill ha base one tie foot toot In the grave and its it's dawn dawm dawning InS ing ig on me that I I still and alwa always s Ill have the eternal boss God boss God We Ve cannot escape from the boss system Go 1 even een en to a deserted Island land and the boss bobs up like a weather ghost ghost weather conditions crop shore death And over all of oC cOUlse God The boss system is part of o nat ral law It is universal from universal from the theun sun un bossing the planets that is- is volve ie-volve olve around it to the school of offIsh fIsh ish or flock nock ot of o wild lid ducks follow follow- following ing ig a leader Where you find Cind no boss you find nothing worth orth bossing |