New-York tribune., 1921-01-27
General Woods Career
"A Summary Of Extraordinary Quail
hcat;ons 70, Cabine, Service

hcations fov Cabine, Service
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: suggest-and there is no "may
not" about it~-that every one who
supported Leonard Wood last summer
;insistently write President-elect Har-
ding in support Of your efforts to So
cure him place IN the new Cabinet.
Since the death Of ex-prestdent
Roosevelt there Is probably no man
living whose activities have extended
over so many countries, been so varied
and so efficient in each case as have
these of Leonard Wood.
Leonard Wood has performed not
able services for America In Great
Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland,
Spain. Malta. India, Ceylon, Singap pore
and other Straits Settlements: in the
British Protectorate of Egypt, in Java.
Dutch and British Borneo, the Philip
pine Islands, the Argentine Republic.
tce Panama Canal Zone, in Cuba, In
Porto Rico and In forty-six of our
ferty-eight states.
His services embrace twenty-seven
national activities Of an executive and
administrative nature, thirteen of q
business nature, five of diplomatic
character, six Of social and institu-
tional reform and betterment, seven
humanitarian activities Of recognized
international Importance and e.even
intern !tional Investigations Of foreign
colonial systems. In addition, he has
held seven administrative military
commands.
There are few people who know
that Leonard Wood has been a slum
doctor, O commissioner Of customs. a
justice in international Disputes, a d.
rector of university, an agricultural
credit banker, etc.
Considering his character and his
administrative and humanita rian work.
/. Is silly to consider him q mere mill
1tary man or TO attempt to exclude
him from the Cabinet because he has
been honored by the uniform Of the
United States Army and has honored
/. for many years
1t Is impossible, even briefly, to give
any adequate indication Of the many
Kinds of service he has rendered.
AS Secretary of the Interior and
Director of National Relief. Leonard
Woods reform and relief work in Cuba
has never been equaled. Cuba is four
times as large as Belgium; Wood not
only spent millions to feed its starv-
ing people and rehabilitate it's indus
tries, but he made the people so pros
porous within twelve months that they
themselves were able to pay for their
relief and reconstruction work. Other
men have spent millions in relieving
starving people in all parts of the
world; but no man except Wood has
ever taken charge of a starving peo-
pie whose lands had been devastated
by years Of war, put them to work
and made 1t possible for them to pay
for their own relief
AS Secretary Of Labor he induced.
without any friction whatever. an en-
'ie seli-'nOoient Latin nation of q
semi-tropical climate to go to work
and to remain ut work
AS a constructive legislator he super
vised the drafting of national demo-
cratic constitutions; the recoditication
OF nation'r laws. the drafting of spe-
cial educational and public charity
laws and of special railway laws 80 far
IN advance of their time that they have
since been copied by twenty-five other
governments. In addition, hc reor-
gan'zed the entire Cuban system Of
judicial procedure.
Az reformer Of insane nsylums. he
abolished in Cuba the horrible system
OF keeping the insane In little boxes
on wheels. built model sanitary asy-