The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1920-01-28
WOOD HAS VARIED
CIVIL EXPERIENCE
ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITIES ARE
TESTED AND PROVED IN HAM
DING GREAT BUSINESS
PROBLEMS.
ey EDWARD 3. cLARk.

From time to time people ask,
"What has been the administrative
and business experience of Leonard
Wood? What has been his experience
with men outside of the army? What
does he know about conditions In the
different parts of the United States
and in our overseas possessions? Has
he any thorough knowledge of foreign
affairs and of our foreign relations?
The administrative qualities OF
Leonard Wood have been tested and
proved. No American living has been
tried more thoroughly than he In com
plex fields of constructive civil work,
administrative work Of the highest
order which carried with 1t the neces,
sity for the exercise of keen business
acumen.
The republic of Cuba, built upor
firm democratic foundations, is mon
ument to the administrative ability OF
Leonard Wood. In the Philippines IL
to be found another monument to his
craftsmanship.
Leonard Wood graduated in medi
cine from Harvard University in 1884
and served for more than year In
one Of the great hospitals, later tt
take charge of the charity depart
ments in a section of the city of Bos'
ton where the poor lived.
Not long after the completion OF
Woods work In Boston he became az
assistant surgeon in the army. coming
into contact with the western plains.
man, the miner, the people generally
and giving much of his time to the
work of assisting the Indians and to
a study of the problems of irrigation
and reclamation.
Then for Leonard Wood there came
four years in California. He covered
the state many times in pursuance OF
his duties and extended his field as
occasion required into the states OF
the Northwest. Then for two years he
was in service in the South, having
headquarters in Georgia.
From the South Leonard Wood wen
to the city of Washington, where his
work brought him into daily contac
with Grover Cleveland. Then he hat
the same intimate relations with vii
liam Mckinley and the men of his
time.
Then came the Spanish war and thu
active campaign in Cuba as the col
onel Of the regiment of rough riders
of which Theodore Roosevelt was tn,
lieutenant colonel.
At the close of the Spanish wa
Leonard Woods supreme administra
tive duties began. He was made thu
governor of the city of Santiago ant
a few weeks later of the entire east
ern half of Cuba.
Under Wood profiteering was abol
ished, industry was built up, agricul
ture rehabilitated. hospitals organ
lied, equipped and maintained, ten
of thousands of people clothed ant
fed-and all this done in thorough
businesslike manner. 1t was done un
der tribulations which arose from
the fact that the people were i'm
poverished to the point Of starva
ton and had been dying by thousands
for the lack of the things which Woo
quickly provided.
Then there came the rehabilitation
| of the municipalities, the establish
ment of schools, the opening of roads
the organizing of government in tn
provinces, the REIMBURSEMENT of taxa
ton and of the courts, and the worl
; of providing for the thousands of chill
dren made orphans by war or famine
There was more business and NOR