Show WOOD HAS VARIED VARIEE CIVIL EXPERIENCE ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITIES ARE TESTED AND PROVED IN HAN DUNG GREAT BUSINESS PROBLEMS By EDWARD B. B CLARK From time to time people ask What has been the administrative and business experience of Leonard Wood What hn has been his experience with men outside of ot the army array What does oes he know about conditions In the different parts of ot the United States and In our overseas possessions Has Hashe Hash Hashe h he an any thorough knowledge of ot foreign affairs and of our foreign The administrative c qualities of Leonard Wood have haye been tested and proved pro No American living has been tried more thoroughly than he In corn corn- plea plea- l fields of ut constructive civil work administrative work ork of ot the highest order which carried with It the necessity necessity sity for th the exercise c of keen business acumen The republic of ol Cu Cuba a built hullt firm demon UC itic foundations I Is a n mon mono monument If to the administrative ability of Leonard Wood In In the Philippines Is Isto Isto another monument to hl hi to be found statesmanship st Leonard Wood gi graduated In medicine medi in 1884 1 cine cane from Harvard Har University htone In ht and served for more than a year hospitals later to one of the he great take charge of the charity departments departments depart of Bos BOa ments in a section of the city lived where the poor pOOl toil ton Not long after th the comple completion on o of 01 Boston oston he lie became e an nn Woods Wood's work Oile In coming coining assistant surgeon In the army contact with the western plainsman plainsman plains Into the miner the people geD generally man the to and giving much of his time the Indians and toa toa to toa work of ot assisting a study of the problems of Irrigation and reclamation Wood there came camp for Leonard Then California He lie covered four tour years eurs In athIs of at in pursuance o ohis times the state many and exten extended ed his field as his duties the states of or orthe required Into occasion h he Northwest Then for two years the having in service In the South was in Georgia headquarters CO nh tl T Leonard Wood went a From the Inc Sou u uto where his of ot Washington to the city Into dally daily contact I work ork brought him Then he had Cleveland with Grover relations with William Wil Wil- William the same McKinley Intimate and the men of his hit liam time Spanish war and th the Then came the in Cuba as the col col- colonel campaign active acUte of ot rough riders onel of the regiment Roosevelt was the Theodore of ot which colonel I IL lieutenant Spanish war of the close At the administrative supreme L Leonard Woods Wood's was WIlS made the He lie duties duties' began tive Uve and anda Santiago ro of city o the governor of the entire east caSt a fe fe few weeks later of hilf of Cuha ba ern HUU I u lA g was Under Wood was bunt built built up a agriculture p- p Industry aP rehabilitated hospitals organized organ ture and aud maintained tens zed equipped clothed and of ot people of thousands done In a thorough fed and ted and all manner this It was done under under Under un un- businesslike which arose from der der tribulations were Impoverished Impoverished Im Im- t the 1 fact that the people point of starvation po to the dying by thou thousands ands tion Uan and had been the things which Wood for the lack of at quickly provided the rehabilitation Then there ca came ne the establishment establish establish- of the municipalities of at roads merit ment of r schools the government government opening In inroad the he of g organizing the readjustment of taxation taxation taxa taxa- provinces the She courts and nod the he work the tion and of uC thou thousands ands of at children chil chO the for of providing prO Qi o famine amine orphans by w ar or pier dr dren n more re aid There herc was Mas more business b varieties of It than it has bas been the lot lotof lotof of ot many men ever to have placed upon up upon on their shoulders Not long after this there came the the greater opportunities opportunities' in Havana It was necessary to write re the election laws to make them fit the be habits of the Uie people Production had to be stimulated stimulated for agriculture was the main source of ot the islands island's wealth there Here again the same measures were followed follow follow- I ed nn and as a result there were established established law and ord order r protection of life and property and liberty within with wIth- in the law These were the foundation stones Wood knew that the government must must be run ruin by the Cubans and so 80 DO percent percent per 4 cent of ot the officials engaged in the great work of reconstruction were wert selected from the people of the island islan The Cubans were taught government go j white while the government was being built and thus they were wele able to run It when j the rule o of the Island was turned o e over overto overto to its Inhabitants j When it became necessary to reorganize j the Cuban railroads Wood secured secured secured se se- cured the services es of Sir William Van Yan Horne Home president nt of the Canadian Pa- Pa and of r Granville M. M Dodge build buH builder er 01 of ot the Union Pacific The same general policy polley was was followed fol tol- followed j lowed in dealing with the problem of or caring for the tens of thousands of orphans that had been left by the war Homer comer Folks commissioner of ot charities chart chari ties of ot the state of New York was called to Cuba by Wood to aid in Un establishment of a system for placing and permanently caring for these little lIttie little lit lIt- tle tie desolates Chief Justice White While of of f the Supreme court of the United States at that time an au associate justice jus jus- tice Ice was consulted ris as as to the method to tobe tobe toe be e pursued in reorganizing the courts Leonard Wood was In lu Cuba about four our years He left there a reorganized t zed and sound banking bunking system o a good rood railroad system system- no debts neall nearly money In the treasury a sugar crop of nearly 1000 tons sound municipal laws fine fino public worlds works a firm rm agricultural foundation and an absolute respect among imong the people for fol life and prop prop- erty The school system which Wood established was foun founded ed on Oil the laws of of Massachusetts and Ohio Roads were built which made communication speedy The hospitals erected under his supervision were of the highest t type pe Lord Cromer said he wished tins this available to fol tol follow fol- fol American offic r was ns reconstruction work 1 i low ow him in his In a Eg pt Elihu Ellhu Root said this work 1 never sever was paralleled In colonial possessions possessions pos pos- sessions anywhere Theodore Theodole Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt elt said that Leonard Leonnrd Wood has rendered services to Cuba of a kind which if three thousand th usand years ears ago would have made him azero a hero zero mixed up with the sun god in va various van Ions rious ways BS After the Cuban experience Wood was vas for five fi years In the Philippines with the difficult labor o of of establishing a civil government this time Ime among a n Mohammedan people There he did the same successful work tort he did lId In Cuba This period of residence In the Phil Phil- Wood an ao opportunity to gave rave 1 I- I L T nt A 1 study conditions in m IU the me British U cob cob- ales Borneo Singapore and to keepIn keep keepIn In close touch with conditions In Japan and ond alon along the China ChInn cons const Wood traveled cled through India spent pent some time with th the Dutch In Java and with Lord Jorri Cromer In Egypt He mined gained and retained knowledge of or nil all which at that time came under his stu lIous observation atlon Then Leonard Wood became chief of the general staff starr of the Unite States army in whose hands rests rests very lar largely ely the direction and adi administration admin fn of the military establishment which after all Is 00 per cent a Q busi business ness matter The administrative c career of Leonard Leonard Leon Leon- ard Wood Is spread upon the records of ot his country countr The work which he has done Is lasting U tt la Is a statesman states states- m ma man 35 1 w work rk |