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Show MK.V OF WESTERN i i i : i a s g s w a x xed both political parties are at soa ihhIhix about for au available man for I'reni lent especially since the death of Hooscvelt. ,U an ai'tirmath of the war (hero has Ijfii-n a ureal clftal of talk about taking U) of military ep. ri.'iiee for th:-, position. Col. Leonard Wood is a national lie, ".re who is occupying a conutantly kirvr p!:i:.o ia the hearty a ail minds ;' A on rira n people. Ah Governor General of Porto Rf-mj Rf-mj and Cuba, and in charge oi' the sanitarv recom'.t ruction of the Philippines Phil-ippines be trot administra tive training. train-ing. lie Ava- not. only a mili'ary liero at Santiago, fat cleaned up the city of Ha'.-'.na and t;ej:i e, oi:' t'-e lu::t vesiifv'H of the yellow fever there. lie was on:- of a nun II party with ' Captain Lawton weo '.vent into Mex-1 ico and won a medal from Congress as the lighting surgeon who took (Jeronimo. I He won! over to Frai.ee and made i an independent report on tundirj Hons o:i the western front that forced forc-ed C'OIig:'eSH to act. ! i lie was summoned three times' he- " .ate t'ori'.cittee on Mili-' Mili-' . . nd (r-.i.o'-ed inefficiency .. ' m.!' e.;'"f! speeoing up war. f . nib-r hy birth, he is m e - : :,''ii!Hi v. ;-h a true western- ' V ( vi loe ;md capacity for ; .-i'" ' in n i'.itiative is neces-iary. neces-iary. . Wb a he ,st sent to Camp ! . .i-io'i !.( fiiiivi an unrli-ained bog . are ore r' d rii! tee picks and shov- ! in K' ! i - ( i-y and cleaned it i ' ' ::;:d i...-n without blankets . 1 oi-:-..! :',n.hn'i pairs at his own e - ' ' 'e 1 ill to Washington and ' - " : i " ;: lie:: t ceremony. i !..' 'i way of cutting r'.-.i't ('!.-. . h red tape and disentan- ;;Kng ambiguous officialism with a r ;":' of common sense that - n Mills. A1 Ci.itip Funs ton he was the first lo i ii r i ivi '.!! trade schools for enlist- : rd men to prepare them for taking fail .;irt in reconstruction.. His - oik at Plaftsburg was adopted adop-ted ;. basis for hundreds of civilian rniepu. ,,o !r' work at Camp Funston :s !'.!, v-, at. other camps. Tie west can probably not name the i.,.:;t r'res;dent but it will take liin.llv to Wood's western way of do-;Vl":3 do-;Vl":3 nn.l 'iunklng them. '!'he cut'' lean in the present ad-n.ini: ad-n.ini: ; i'ai ion who takes western ' is Secretary Lane of Depart- ! Interior born in Canada. Tee west takes up nearly every-t's every-t's i!.;tt Secretary Lane proposes v' -termers generally regret that i V .rr.l from being a candidate 'l i e western viewpoint is all-import;, nt when it is considered how for ton years we have been hog-tied and handicapped by eastern policies. : Unless there is some weakness In his armor of epuipment for public service and political availability unit. un-it. c v. n to the press, Col. Wood would do. His life has been a strenuous one, but he is a n.;frhty good sport and lias t.ever beefed tat took his medicine med-icine when politics kept him off the European battlefront. ; The U. S. Senators took his reports ion weaknesses found in the army establishment es-tablishment because he had tJie courtage cour-tage to iel! the truth. He was the Apostle of preparedness prepared-ness for uvo years before there was any preparation to fit our country to defend itself and he was right. He was the first to tell Senate Committee on Military Affairs that we must put 4,000,000 men in field . iv. I'tt tm s right. He was first to demand that the armies a! home be given vocational raining to tit them to take up the von; of civil life and he was right. I i onuru Wood is a typical westerner west-erner as a man of action and it is hard to show that he is not what the. west wants in Presidential timber. a |