The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-01-29
LEUNHKU WUUD
WOOD HAS VARIED
CIVIL EXPERIENCE
ADMIN STRATiVE QUALITIES ARE
TESTED AND PROVED IN HAN.
DING 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
pick fields of constructive civil work,
administrative work of the highest
order which carried with il the neces-
sity for the exercise of keen business
Hcumen
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 to
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 MS
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 viii
liam Mckinley and the men of his
time. y
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 war |
Leonard Woods supreme administra-
i've duties began. He was made the
governor of the city of Santiago and
few weeks later of the entire east
I'm half of Cuba.
Under Wood profiteering was aboi-
shed, Industry was built up, agrlcuI-
ure rehabilitated. hospitals organ
zed, equipped and maintained, tens
It thousands of people clothed and !
all this done in thorough |
'usinesslike manner. 1t was done I'M
er fluctuations which arose from
he fact that the people were i'm
overished to the point of starva-
ion and had been dying by thousands
or the lack of the things which Wood
uickly provided.
Then there came the rehabilitation
# the municipalities, the establish
nent of schools. the opening of roads,
he organizing of government In the
PROVINCES, the readjustment of taxa
ion and of the courts, and the work
If providing for the thousands of chill
iren made orphans by war or famine.
There was more business and more