Excerpt from Finance, Business and the Business of Life Mr. Hearst has kindly given me permission to issue this volume. I desire to thank him not only for this courtesy. But for the privilege, during the last four years, of daily addressing, with untrammeled freedom, the largest family of newspaper readers in the country. That the articles have not been wholly useless has been generously testified by both employers and employees, as a few letters here reproduced show. When the New York American's Business and Financial Department was organized, in January, 1912, a definite, straight course of action was mapped out and has not knowingly been departed from. The opening article said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.