Authors, Collaborators and Staff Members
Albert W. Atwood, A.B., The Stock and Produce Exchange Bruce Barton, General Publicity Dwight E. Beebe, B.L., Collections Ralph Starr Butler, A.B., Marketing and Merchandising Geoffrey S. Childs, B.C.S., Office Methods Edwin J. Clapp, Ph.D., Transportation and Terminal Facilities Raymond J. Comyns, B.C.S., Personal Salesmanship Herbert F. deBower, LL.B., Business Promotion Roland P. Falkner, Ph.D., Business Statistics Major B. Foster, M.A., Banking Principles Charles W. Gerstenberg, Ph.B., LL.B., Finance Leo Greendlinger, M.C.S., C.P.A. (N. Y.), Financial and Business Statements J. Anton deHaas, Ph.D., Foreign Trade and Shipping John Hays Hammond, Consulting Engineer Edward R. Hardy, Ph.B., Fire Insurance Warren F. Hickernell, Ph.D., Business Conditions Solomon S. Huebner, Ph.D., Marine Insurance Charles W. Hurd, Business Correspondence Jeremiah W. Jenks, Ph.D., LL.D., Relation of Government to Business Joseph French Johnson, D.C.S., LL.D., Economic Problems; Business Ethics Walter S. Johnson, B.A., B.C.L., Commercial Law Edward D. Jones, Ph.D., Investments John G. Jones, Sales Management Dexter S. Kimball, A.B., M.E., Cost Finding; Factory Management Bernard Lichtenberg, M.C.S., Advertising Principles Frank L. McVey, Ph.D., LL.D., Economics John T. Madden, B.C.S., C.P.A. (N. Y.), Accounting Practice Mac Martin, Advertising Campaigns G. F. Michelbacher, M.S., Compensation and Liability Insurance T. Vassar Morton, Litt.B., Credit Practice Bruce D. Mudgett, Ph.D., Life Insurance E. L. Stewart Patterson, Domestic and Foreign Exchange Frederic E. Reeve, C.P.A., Accounting Principles Jesse H. Riddle, M.A., Banking Frederick C. Russell, B.C.S., Auditing Bernard K. Sandwell, B.A., International Finance William W. Swanson, Ph.D., Money and Banking John B. Swinney, A.B., Merchandising William H. Walker, LL.D., Corporation Finance
THE LAW OF SUCCESS
During the winter of 1883 a slim, studious young man was working as assistant foreman in a greasy little machine shop at Aurora, Illinois. He was saving money with a view to spending the next year at the State University, and he was devoting every minute of his spare time to thought and reading. He was not making much of a stir in the world, and only a few of his close friends ever gave a second thought to his ambitions or prospects.
One of these friends was a newspaper reporter, a recent Harvard graduate. He, too, was interested in study, especially of financial questions, and he found it a pleasure to guide the reading of the young foreman. Many an evening the two friends spent in the discussion of great economic and financial problems. Though both men had their ambitions and dreams, it did not occur to either one that he would ever play a big part in solving these problems.
A few years later the Harvard graduate became financial editor of the Chicago Tribune and brought in the younger man as his assistant.
During their years of newspaper work together they continued to study and think, and their knowledge of business principles and methods gradually broadened. They were fitting themselves almost without knowing it to step forward into positions of leadership.
Today, the former reporter is the head of a great university school of commerce; the assistant foreman became the president of the largest bank in the United States. One of these men is Joseph French Johnson, now Dean of the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. The other is Frank A. Vanderlip, the great financier.