Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-02-05
WOOD HAS VARIED
CIVIL EXPERIENCE
ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITIES ARE
TEsTED AND PROVED IN HAN
DLlNG GREAT BUSINESS
PROBLEMS.
BY EDWARD 8. CLARK.

From time to time people ask,
what has been the administrative
and business experience of Leonard
: Woodf 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 2"
i 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 it the neces-
sity for the exercise of keen business
! acumen.
The republic of Cuba, built upon
firm democratic foundations, is q 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
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 went
to the city of Washington, where his !,
work brought him into daily contact !.
With Grover Cleveland. Then he had
he same intimate relations with VIII
lam Mckinley and the men of his :
line.
Then came the Spanish war and the b
lctive campaign in Cuba as the col >.
mel Of the regiment of rough riders
# which Theodore Roosevelt was the ~
lieutenant colonel. %
At the close Of the Spanish war a,
Woods supreme administra- II
i've duties began. He was made the n
overnor Of the city of Santiago and w
few weeks later of the entire east
IN half of Cuba IN
Under Wood profiteering was abol- ST
shed, industry was built up, agricul- nj
ure rehabilitated hospitals organ in
led, equipped and maintained, tens Jf
thousands Of people clothed and W
ed-and all this done in a thorough SO
manner. 1t was done I'M W
err tribulatiOns which arose from ga
he fact that the people were inn vi
overished to the point of starva- III
on and had been dying by thousands
,r the lack Of the things which Wood Of
nickly provided. st
Then there came the rehabilitation We
the municipalities, the establish. isl
ent Of schools, the opening of roads wi
Re organizing of government in the ne
royinces, the REIMBURSEMENT of taxa
on and of the courts, and the work ar
providing for the thousands of chill of
zen made orphans by war or famine ha
There was more business and more mi
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