Excerpt from Men Who Are Making the WestThe typical Western leader has an open-hearted ness, a warmth, a friendliness, a cheeriness, a charming democracy of manner not equalled by the ultra-busy men of large affairs farther East.The whole atmosphere in the West is different. Even the busiest of men there contrive to find time for cordiality, for courtesy, for hospitality.The air seems less charged With the spirit of competition, of catch-as-catch-can.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.