Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-01-29
WOODHhSVAR!ED
CIVIL EXPERIENCE
ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITIES ARE
TESTED AND PROVED IN HAN
pLlNG GREAT BUSINESS
PROBLEMS.
nu EDWARD q. CLARK.

BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.
From time to time people ask,
"What has been the administrative
and business experience o. Leonard
Wood? What has been his experience
with men outside of the armyY What
does he know about conditions ia the
different parts Of the United States
and in our overseas possessions2 Has
he any thorough knowledge Of foreign
affairs and OF orr foreign relationsT
The administrative qualities oil
Leonard Wood have been tested and
proved. No American living has been
tried more thoroughly than he in COM
pick 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.
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cine from Harvard University IN 1884
and served for more than year in
one of the great hospitals, later to
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
4 Woods work in Boston he became an
I he a
into contact with the western plains
/ man, the miner, the people generally,
4 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
4 four years in California. He covered
the state many times in pursuance of
his duties and extended his field rs
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 went
to the city of Washington, where his
work brought him into daily contact
with Grover Cleveland. Then he had
the same intimate relations with Will
liam Mckinley and the men Of his
time.
Then came the Spanish war and the
active campaign in Cuba aS the col
onel of the regiment of rough riders
of which Theodore Roosevelt was the
lieutenant colonel.
At the close of the Spanish wal
Leonard Woods supreme adrninistra
tive duties began. He was made the
governor Of the city of Santiago ant
a few weeks later of the entire east
ern half of Cuba.
Under Wood sprofiteering 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 IN
J der tribulations which arose from
. the fact that the people were i'm
poverished to the point of stafwa
ton and had been dying By thousand
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 orgasslzing of government in tn
(. provincessxehe REIMBURSEMENT of taxa
ton and Of the courts, and the woll
7 of providing for the thousands of chi
dren made orphans by war or famine
There was more business and NOR