The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-01-24
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CIVIL EXPERIENCE:
ADMINISTRATIVE 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 relatiohS3'
The administrative qualities Of
Leonard Wood have been tested@ahd
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.
Leonard Wood graduated in medi-
cine from Harvard University in 1891
and served for more than q 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
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 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 weat
4 to the city of Washington, where hi
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.
Then came the Spanish war and tht
L active campaign in Cuba as the col
onel of the regiment of rough rider:
of which Theodore Roosevelt was th'
lieutenant colonel.
At the close of the Spanish IVA
Il Leonard Woods supreme administra
tive duties began. He was made TIN
governor of the city Of 'Sahtfdgo All
few weeks later of the entire east
ern half of Cuba. 9 i tce,::.s=--~~a-s-,si
I Under Wood profteering was abol
ished, industry-wass bury ri ,ssg ricul
ture rehahilitated, N HOSPITALS organ
ICED, equipped aid ,saainfa ined. tep
of Thousands of pess1e etofked an
fed-and all this done In a thoropg
businesslike manner: It wa sdone Ut
| der tribhlatioHs witch arose fron
: the fact that the people were i'm
Z poveri5hed to the point of starva
ton and had been dying by thousand
for the lack of the things which Woo
quickly provided.
Then there came the rehabilitatio
of the municipalities, the establish
ment of schools, the opening4of road
the organizing of government in tn
provinces, the REIMBURSEMENT of tax;
ton. and of the courts, aud the wor
sof providing for the thousands of chi
/ drenf made .ernhans. by yv2E OF famin
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