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The Log Vol. 3 No. 05

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  • *ie Man Who Bossed Johnson 'He That Ruleth His Own Spirit" The following story, original- appearing in the Amerwem wder, contains so much enthu- .. asm and encouragement that I e take pleasure in reprinting it. The scene is supposed to be I iid in a hotel lobby where a .imber of travelling salesmen - re discussing t tgetlur the elements of success. "There's a lot of talk about access in life printed nowadays: nine of it is pretty good, and I i oppose it does much good, a lot I rf you fellows need considerable rimming anyway. But, to my mind, they don't any of them - -each down to the root of the i -natter like my first lesson did. You can't make a salesman or " foreman or superintendent out ' Df every man you pick up; but you can make good ones out of a '■ surprisingly large proportion of the boys of today if you start i *em right; give 'em the proper ; mental training and lots of practice like I got." "Give us the recipe, Uncle," said the redheaded jewelry drummer. "I'm needing some more salary myself and I'm looking for points." "Away back in—well, never mind, it's a good while ago—I was a red-headed kid in a machine shop, and I guess I was . n I ■- ■ ■ ■ eighteen and had :.**■ ■ ■•■-■ my tine and wanted a foreman- ship worse than I wanted anything else in the world. You ] laugh- at my wanting foreman before I'd finished my time, but if the truth was known, that's about the ideal of every . cub of that age. They don'tsay so-I didn't then—but that's fttollt it, and it's a good, legitimate ambition. "We had a traveller -, i about al! the product of the shop, and it was currently reported that he had graduated from the shop and was getting three thousand a year and doing just as he pleased. Every time he came in from the road he would come out in the shop, give orders to the foreman and super, and shake hands with every man and boy in the shop. Then he would go around with the old man discussing the work and looking after the details of his orders, and what, he Baid always went with the old man. You'd think that he owned the shop and the old iillfE are creatures of habit. We succeed or v " we fail as we acquire good habits or bad ones; and we acquire good habits as easily as bad ones. Most people don't believe this, only those who find it out succeed in life." —Herbert Spencer, 'he's a shops man was super, if you didn't know. Well, I looked on Van as a prince. When I got tired of imagining myself a foreman I would sometimes wonder if 1 would ever earn as much as Van, $3,000 a year! And I was getting $1.60 per day. Three thousand dollars was untold wealth to me. "One morning I was in a fearful temper: discontented with myself and the world; some of the men had sprung some old gags that morning and I had bit on all of them. Naturally that hadn't helped any. Van came up behind me and blew a cloud of smoke, making me cough. I picked up a wrench, but when I saw it was Van I dropped it and laughed; nobody could get mad at Van. " 'Well, Reddy,'he said,'when are you going to be a foreman?' Then he sat down and drew me ? I inally he said: 'You e£.r I ,. f-'an, either of this place or some otht.,' just as soon as you've had sufficient practice in HBf men Everybody wants foremen and superintendents and -alesmeti, and till you've got to do is to start in and practice just as you did on the lathe and planer.' " 'How can 1 practice? I'm only a cub here; everybody tells me what to do and I've got to do it. They can practice on me all right- most of them are doing it good and plenty. Sew am 1 going to get anyone to practice on?' " 'Well, Reddy, there's one man whom you can practice on: tmct ptraona One is energe THE PAPERU'N WHICH TSIi to boss Johnson and you'll find it will take a lot of practice. When you get so that you can boss Johnson successfully—keep him right up to the mark all the time and keep him good natured about it—then, and not till then, you'll have the skill and practice to boss more than one man. " 'Now there's the man for you to practice on. Will you do it? Shake! I feel sorry for Johnson, for he'll have to stand it. I'm going to be around here for a week and I'll start you right. I'll tell you what to do and you can tell Johnson just as the old man gives his orders to the super and you can get them from the super. That completes the chain and makes it a working agreement.' ' 'Well, I was boy enough so that the idea tickled me. Van would come around and say, 'Reddy, tell Johnson to do this, and keep after him; see that he does it.' "Ip the course of a week 1 began to like 'he game. I also found out a lot oi things I had never suspected. As Reddy the foreman, I used to jack myself up as Johnson, the workman, and according to Reddy, Johnson was a good deal of a slob. Van went on the road and I kept after Johnson night and day. 1 ordered him to bed and ordered him up. I checked up on his work and 1 made him study. As Reddy, the foreman, I thought less of myself as Johnson, the workman, until when my opinion of Johnson was at pretty low ebb, I noticed that the old man was watching me a good deal, and 1 began to be afraid that Johnson would get fired, so Reddy drove Johnson harder than ever. "One night several months later I went to a show, and before the curtain rose I heard two people talking in front of me. One had been away, and he said: 'How's Reddy Johnson t doing?' Fine, said the ether; i ■fit lis SdALJfe; FKOM CHAMPION BlIL with some helpei had been raised then had been foreman 1 and wa: son I hadn't noticed it. have outsiders tell meal "Six months later 1 w\ ed the superintendem other factory at about double the wages, and the firm advised me to take it, saying that. I could comeback if I didn't mak That roused all the fight in me, and I made good. I think every red-headed man is sensitive to insinuations. "I kept on bossing Johnson until I made a salesman out of him. Now I own some works myself. I am as far ahead of Van's $3,000 a year as I was behind it when I started. I haven't had a salary for twenty years. In my own works I have got a number of kids that have started to practice on themselves till they are able to hold a foreman's job, and-there are some others scattered around getting experience that I'll get back when I want them. The scheme is working as well with them as it did with me. You see. its fundamental, ii starts to boj That's all that makes the 6 ence between the proprieto: the employee, one can boss self; the other can't. It' old idea. The Bible says. that is master of himself is g er than he that taketh a t I'm a democrat and can't t scripture: but it's somethin that effect. "Now ray red-headed fr;
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When it opened in 1908, the Champion Fibre Company was the largest pulp mill in the world. For 60 years it was under the leadership of Reuben "Mr. Champion" B. Robertson and was a...

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