Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-23
WOOD HAS vApIED
CIVIL EXPERIENCE
ADMINISTRATIVE cUALlTiEs ARE
TESTED AND PROVED III HAM
pLINc GREAT BUSINESS
PROBLEMS.
By EpWARp .. cLAtiK.


From time TO time peAple ask,
'What has been the administrative
and business experience oes 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 Sf 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 lie in COM
pick fields of constructive civil work,
administrative work of the highest
order which carried with 1t the neces-
sity for the exercise of keen business
acumen.
The republic of Cuba, 't7uilt upon
firm democratic foundations. is mon
ument to the ADMINISTRATORS 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 year in
one of the great hospitals, later to
take charge of the charity depart
ments in q 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 Sotlth, having
headquarters in Georgia.
From the South Leonard Wood went
to the city of Washington,r where his
work brought him into daily contact
with Grover Cleveland. Then he had
the same intimate relations with Will
liam Mckinley and the lAen of his
time.
Then came the Spanish var 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.
tive duties began. He wa; made the
governor of the city Of S;!ntiago and
few weeks later Of the entire east
ern half of Cuba.
Under Wood profi:eering was abol.
ished. industry was built us agricul.
ture rehabilitated, hospi ais organ.
ICED. equipped and maintained, tens
OF thousands OF people s9lothed and
fed-and all this done ina.a thorough
businesslike manner + va: done I'M
der tribulations which arose from
the fact that the people were Inn
poverished to the point Of starva-
| ton and had been dying by thousands
for the lack Of the things which Wood
quickly provided.
Then there came the rehabilitation
Of the municipalities. the establish
ment of schools. the opening Of roads.
| the organizing on government in the
provinces, the readjustmtnt of taxa
ton and of the courts. AID the work
of providing for the fhousf nds of chill
dren made orphans by wV or famine
There was more business and more