The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-04-05
WOOD HAS VARIED
CIVIL EXPERIENCE
ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITIES ARE
TESTED AND PROVED IN HAM
DLlNG GREAT BUSINESS
PROBLEMS.
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.

! From time to tine people ask
j "What has been the administrative
| md 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
md in our overseas possessions? Has
he any thorough knowledge of foreign
alfairS and of our foreign rcIatonS?
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 ncces-
sity for the exercise of keen business
acumen.
The republic of Cuba, built upon
firm democratic foundations, is Il mon
ument to the administrative ability of
Leonard Wood. In the Philippines is
to be found another monument to his
craftsmanship.
I4tbuuiu ~ Vbu SltiNtNNi III lil' W.
cine from Harvard University in 1854
and served for more than a year in
one of the great hospitals, later TO
take charge of the charity depart
mcnts in Il 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 CT assisting the Indians and to
stUaly of the problems of irrigation
md 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
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
one of the regiment of rough riders
of which Theodore Roosevelt was the
lieutenant colonel.
At the close of the Spanish war
Leonard Woods supreme adminstra-
tive duties began. He was made the
governor of the city of Santiago and
a few weeks later of the entire east
cln half of Cuba
Under Wood profiteering was abol-
ishcd. industry was built u. agricul-
ture rehabilitated, hospitals organ
lied. equipped and maintained, tens
of thousands of people clothed and
fod-and all this done in z thorough
huSincSSlike manner Il wa done I'M
der trbuations which arose from
the fact that the people were i'm
povcrishcd to the point Of scarva-
tion 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
mcnt Of schools the opening of roads,
the organizing OF government in the
provinces, the REIMBURSEMENT Of taxa
ton and of the courts, and the work
of providing for the thousands of chill
dren made orphans by war or famine.
There was moro business and more