The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1920-06-10
WOOD PACIFIED
MORO PROVINCE
Stamped Out Piracy and Slavery
IN PhillppineS-Began Pre-
parednesS Program
in 1910.
sy JOHN c. soInE.
Author o. The ute Of Leonard Wood :

I i've methods There were no tfathe'
nurses in Cuba outside 81 the Sister
OF Charity. Wood founded scboo
/ FOR nurses. sent them 20 al parts o
the island as bis missionaries OF public
health, and In this way spread prop
/ uganda OF hygiene and sanitation
among the natives He had modern
4 hospitals built in every town OF size
/ and repaired the old ones. Finally h'
drafted the Sanitation Code Of Cuba
which Is now embodied In the Consti
4 tuition OF the Republic
FOR the monumental lab0rs be
achieved in budding up new repub
| lie on the ruins OF SPANS old colony
/ Leonard wood received from his gov.
eminent the salary OF ma Dor general
s. 500 year. The embryo Cuban
government showed lis appreciation Of
his services by adding like sum,
making Woods total income si3.0gO a
year for the two years and half he
spent as governor general. This Is by
far the largest salary he ever received
| During his Cuban administration he
vas offered a business position by an
American firm at n salary Of s4O.Oo
year, but he declined H. Wood is TO-
lay \ poor man
Wood formally transferred the Is
and 10 the new Cuban government 90
May 20. 1902. and immediately LEFT for
he United States He spent several
weeks In Washington writing his re
port OF the American Military Occups
ion. and then went 20 Germany with
other American army officers. repre-
senting the United States AZ the Ger
nan military maneuvers. On this o.
aston he was afforded his first view
u the powerful military machine
which the Kaiser was building. lie
met at the maneuvers many German
md British officers who We're later to
become famous in the world war.
When the Moros in the province OF
Nindanao. Philippine Islands. were
diving william Howard Taft, Cover
1or-General of the islands. great
zeal of trouble. General Wood volun-
eered 10 take subordinate post un.
Ter Taft TO pacify the Mohammedan
Insurgents. Roosevelt had succeeded
o the Presidency and was much pleas.
"a over Moods Offer The latter took
he eastern route 20 the islands, stop
ling in Egypt. India, the Dutch East
indies and other Asiatic colonies TO
study the most enlightened colonial
IL Il. a
Nlndanao. the second largest island In
he Philippine group, in the summer
Il 1903.
The Moros were pirates, slave trad
.rs. and all around bad men" They
mad never been known TO behave prop
erly. Wood had TO deal with a score OF
Filipino tribes in Mindanao and the
SuIu islands, speaking fourteen differ-
emit dialects. These tribes were hostile
each other, and all were ready 70
combine against the United States.
Woods Philippine career was but
.epetition OF his signal success in
Cuba. He pacified the Moros, wiped
out slavery and piracy. established
civil government and built schools. II
took him three years TO accomplish
this work, but when he left MiDdanao
this province was the best governed
section of the islands.
For two years Wood commanded the
Philippine division. During this time
he strengthened the Notifications OF
the island aud in many ways improved
he Philippine military system. On
hi. return 10 the United States In
1908 he was placed IN command OF the
Department of the East with head
quarters on Governors Island. New
York harbor. In 1910 he represented
the United States as Special Ambss-
ssdor NJ the Centennial celebration
OF the Argentine Republic.
On his return 10 this country Gen
ersl Wood was appointed Chief OF
| STAFF Of the United States army. He
now began In earnest his great cam
paign for the military preparedness
OF this nation which he continued Ill
The armistiee was signed ON Novem-
Der II. 1918. He had become thor.
/ nukIiN tOuNlHtfhf fAN VNh't
American army and naval officers. that
a general European war was at hand
and he was not afraid TO speak out bis
message OF warning. He gave the
country the largest militia maneuvers
The so called Battle Of Boston," ever
| neld in the United States. and in 1911.
| he established the cDn-Ee student
training camps at Monterrey. Cal, ans
Gettysburg. Pa when the war brok'
ont. these camps increased IN number
and attendance In 1915 he establish
ed the Plsttsbursh trimming camp
which. together with other camps huii
on It's model. had trained several thou
sand army officers By the time th'
United States declared war on Ger
many. II has often been pointed on
that no more interesting example o
the Influence OF q single personalit,
upon world events Is on record thar
that exerted by leonard Wood befor'
we entered the war Wood and Roose
vel, we're the Inspired .saders 10 III
movement 70 rphoid national homo
against foreign aggression and 20 pre-
pare for the struggle towards whiel