Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-02-06
WOOD HASvARIED
Civil EXPERIENCE
ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITIES ARE
TESTED AND PROVED IN HAM
DLiNG GREAT BUSINESS
PROBLEMS.
BY 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 it the neces-
sity for the exercise of keen business
acumen.
The republic of. Cuba, built upon
firm democratic foundations, is mon
ument to the administrative ability Of
Leonard Wood. In the Philippines is
to be found another monument to his
craftsmanship.
Leonard Wood graduated in medi-
cine from Harvard University in 1884
and served for more than a year in
one of the great hospitals, later to
take charge of the charity depart
ments in section of the city of Bos-
ton where the poor lived.
Not long after the completion of
| Woods work in Boston he became an
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 tG
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 a.
occasion required into the states O.
the Northwest. Then for two years HI
was in service in the South, havin!
headquarters in Georgia.
From the South Leonard Wood wen
to the city of Washington, where hi
work brought him into daily contac
with Grover Cleveland. Then he hat
the same intimate relations with Viii
liam Mckinley and the men of hi
time.
Then came the Spanish war and tn
active campaign in Cuba as the CO
onel Of the regiment of rough rider
of which Theodore Roosevelt was th
lieutenant colonel.
At the close of the Spanish wa
Leonard Woods supreme administrs
tive duties began. He was made tn
| governor of the city of Santiago an
a few weeks later of the entire cas-
ern half of Cuba.
Under Wood profteering was abo
ished, industry was built up, agricu
ture rehabilitated, hospitals orgal
lied, equipped and maintained, ter
!. of thousands of people clothed an
fed-and all this done in a thoroug
businesslike manner. 1t was done III
der tribulations which arose frol
.. the fact that the people were in
poverished to the point of starv'
ton and had been dying by thousand
, for the lack of the things which Voc
quickly provided.
Then there came the rehabilitatic
! of the municipalities, the establis
f ment of schools, the opening of road
+ the organizing of government in tt
r provinces, the readjustment of tax
f ton and Of the courts, and the wol
t of providing for the thousands of ch
/ dren made orphans by war or famin
a There was more business and mo