The Cordova daily times., 1922-09-16
GENERAL WOOD
 MAKES GOOD
 IN PHILIPPINES

LONDON, Sept. 16. - The London Times has printed a dispatch from it's Manila correspondent reviewing the achievements of General Leonard Wood as chairman of the special mis- sion which President Harding sent to the Philippines. "Only the courage. patience, experience, ability, forceful persuasiveness and untarnished pres tige of an administrator like the great American o1dier-statesman,' the dis patch says, "can unravel the Philip pine tangle and guide the Filipino peo- pie along the paths of true progress to prosperity and political security"
 Within a very short time after Gen eral Woods arrival in the islands, the correspondent continues, "the in fluence of his forceful, magnetic and singularly human personality began to be felt with tonic effect. All Amer- cans and foreigners and many Fili- pinos had become seriously alarm and discouraged by the economic col lapse which threatened the islands. The outstanding achievements of Gen eral Woods administration have been the rehabilitation of the currency sy@- tenn and the downward revision of the budeet whereby nearly 20000,00O pesos (normally $10, 0,000,0O0) was saved to the treasury, and the dispersal of a strongly entrenched political oll- garchy.
 "Wood cleansed the judiciary and axDedited the work of the courts; the writer says, "and established eitl- ciency into the conduct of the San J,azaro Asylum and the Culion leneT Colony, resulting in comprehensive measures for the eventual eradication of 1eprosv from the islands. Through his initiative liberal and sympathetic support has been given to the ao- vancement of science, particularly lh those branches bearing on sanitation and hygiene, and upon agriculture
 The correspondent then says that the establishment of the Manila port Area Commission by General WOOL has given an impetus to harbor lm- movements, and has facilitated the docking of oceangoing steamers and the loading and unloading of cargoes. Measures have been put through for extending and co-ordinating the arter- ies of commerce on land and water, with a view to affording better ser vice with cheaper rates.
 "One of General Woods first steps, the dispatch concludes, Twas to pre- pare and put through the legislature T series of measures calculated to re- habilitate the currency system ana reinstate the peso to it's normal par value of 50 cents gold As a result of these timely measures the credit or the insular government was redeemed. With the restoration of confidence new capital has been imported, and many private enterprises have been given a new lease of life.'
 Commenting editorially upon Gen eral Woods record in the Philippines, the Times, under the caption "A Great American Administrator, says: gro General Wood are due the thanks not only of his own countrymen, but of the British people, for his emphatic as sertion of the necessity for preserving the white mans power and the white mans prestige in the Pacific. Curl ously enough, Japan and China have both seen fit to honor hun. As true friend of Great Britain, as one who has done worthy service in time of war with out great Allies, and not the least as the host of the Prince of Wales during his visit to Manila. Cen eral Wood has assuredy merited such recognition as the British government can bestow."