The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-08
L0NDON,S TRIBUTE
 TO ACHIEVEMENTS
 OF GENERAL WOOD

london, Sept. S-The London Times has printed a dispatch from it's Ma nila corresp ondent reviewing the achievements of General Leonard Wood as chairman of the special mission which President Harding sent to the Philippines. "Only the cour- age, patience, experience. ability, forcefu1 persuasiveness and untar- nished prestige of an administrator like the great American soldier states man." the dispatch says, ''can un- Vavel the Philippine tangle and guide the Filipino people along the paths of true progress to prosperity and political security
 Within a very short time after General Woods arrival in the isl ands.' the correspondent continues, the influence of his forceful, mag netic and singularly human personal ity began to be felt with tonic effect. All Americans and foreigners and many FilipinoS had become Seri ouS- ly alarmed and discouraged by the economic collapse which threatened the islands. The = outstanding achievements of General Woods ad- tatio.4 of the currency system and the downward revision of the budget, whereby nearly 2O,ooo,000 pesos nor- mally S1O'ooO9o> was TaNsa to of fhe strongly entrenched political obligar- chy.
 "wood cleansed the judiciary and expedited the work of the courts" the writer says. ''and established eff ciency in the civil service. He made a searching investigation into the conduct of the San Iazaro Asylum and the CuIion Leper Colony, resulting in comprehensive measures for the eventual eradication of 1eprosy from the islands. Through his initiative been given to the advancement of science, particularly Tn those branches bearing on sanitation ana hygiene, and upon agriculture.
 The correspondent then says that the establishment of the Manila Port Area Commission by General wood has given an impetus to ha~oor i'm provements, and has 1aclntated tLis the loading and unloading of cargoeS- Measures have been put through TOT extending and co-oTd1nallng the arter- ies of commerce on land ana water, with a view to affording better ser vice with cheaper rates ',
 'One of General Woods first steps, the dispatch concludes, was tG pre- pre- pare and put through the Leg1slature a series of measures calculated to re- habilitate the currency system ana reinstate the peso to its normal par value of cents gold. AS result t ot these timely measures the cfedll ol the ins1Iar government was redeem ed With the restoration of conti- dence new capital has been import ed, and many private enterprises have been given a new lease of hfe
 Conmenting editorially upon Gen. eral Woods record in the Philip pines, the Times, under the caption "A Great American Administrator, says; gro General Wood are due the thanks not only of his own country men. but of the British people, for his emphatic assertion of the neceS- sifv for preserving the white mans mower and the white mans prestige in the Pacific Cautiously enough Japan and China have both seen fiji Great Britain, as one who has done worthy service in time of war with or1r great Allies. and not the least as the host of the Prince of Wales d,1rine his visit to Manila, General wood has assuredly merited such rec ogr1ition ask the British government can bestow'