Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 26, 1920, Page 2

P @AGE TWO LEONARD WOOD. ADMINISTRATOR A X Wal vy ) varieties of it than It has been the lot of many men ever to have placed up- WOODRASVARIED oo CIVIL EXPERIENCE ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITIES ARE TESTED AND PROVED IN HAN- DLING GREAT BUSINESS PROBLEMS. B8y EDWARD B. 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 relations?” The administrative qualities of Leonard Wood have been tested and proved. No American living has been tried more thoroughly than he in com- plex fields of constructive clvil work, administrative work of the highest order which carried with jt the neces- sity for the exercise of keen business acumen, The republic of Cuba, built upon firm democratic foundations, is a mon- ument to the administrative ability of Leonard Wood. In the Philippines is to be found another monument to his statesmanship. Leonard Wood graduated in medi- cine from Harvard University in 1884 and served for more than a 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 Wood's work in Boston he became an assistunt 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 a study ot the problems of lrrigation and reclamatiou. Then for Leonard Wood there came four years in Culifornia. He cowere(} the state many times in pursuance o his duties and extended his field ns Qeeasion required Into the states of the Northyest, Thep for two years he was T service fn the South, having tieadquarters 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 Wil liam McKinley and the men of his time. Then came the Spanish war and the active campaign In Cuba as the col- onel of the regiment of rough riders of which Theodore Roosevelt was the lieutenant colonel. At tbe close of the Spanish war Leonard Wood's supreme administra- tive duties began. He was made the governor of the city of Santiago and a few weeks later of the entire east- ern half of Cuba. Under Wood profiteering was abol- ished, industry was built up, agricul- ture rehabilitated, hospitals organ- ized, equipped and maintained, tens of .thousands of people clothed and fod—and all this done in a thorough businessilke manner. It was done un- der tribulations which arose from the fact that the people were im- poverished to the point of starva- 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- went of schools; the opening of roads, the: organizing of government in the wrovinces, the readjustment of taxa- and of the courts, and the work oviding for the thousands of chil- made orphans by war or famine. re was more business and more on their shoulders. Not long after' this there came the greater opportunities in Havana, It was necessary to re-write the election laws to make them fit the habits of the people. Production had to be stimu- lated, for agriculture was the main source of the island’'s wealth. Here ‘| again the same measures were follow- ed and as a result there were estab- lished law and order, protection of life and property, and liberty with- in the law. These were the foundation stones. Wood knew that the government must be run by the Cubans, and so 90 per cent of the officlals engaged in the great work of reconstruction were selected from the people of the island. The Cubans were taught government while the government was being built ‘and thus they were able to run it when the rule of the island was turned over to its inhabitants. When it became necessary to reor- ganize the Cuban rallroads Wood se- cured the services of Sir Willlam Van Horne, president of the Canadian Pa- cific, and of Granville M. Dodge, build- er of the Union Pacific. The same general policy was fol- lowed in dealing with the problem of caring for the tens of thousands of orphans that had been left by the war. Homer Folks, commissioner of chari- ties of the state of New York, was called to Cuba by Wood to aid in.the establishment of a system for placing and permanently caring for these lit- tle desolates. Chief Justice White of the Supreme court of the United States, at that time an assoclate jus- tice, was consulted as to the method to be pursued in reorganizing the courts. Leonard Wood was In Cuba about four years. He left there a reorgan- fzed and sound banking system, m good rallroad system, no debts, nearly $2,000,000 unincumbered money in the treasury, a sugar crop of nearly 1,000, 000 tons, sound municipal laws, fine public works, a firm agricultural foundation and an absolute respect among the people for life and prop erty. The school system which Wood established was founded on the laws of Massachusetts and Ohlo. Roads were built which made communication speedy. The hospitals erected under his superyision were of the highest type. Tord Uromer said he wished this American officer was available to fol- low him in his reconstruction work in Egypt. . Elihu Root sald this work never was_ paralleled in colonial pos- sesslons anywhere. Theodore Roose- velt sald that Leonard Wood “has rendered services to Cuba of a kind which, if performed three thousand years ago, would have made him a hero mixed up with the sun god in va- rious ways.” After the Cuban experience Wood was for five years in the Philippines confronted with the difficult labor of establisbing & civil government, this time among a Mohammedan people. There he 'did the same successful work he did in Cuba. This period of residence In'the Phil- ippines gave Wood an opportunity to study conditions in the British colo- nies, Borneo, Singapore, and to keep in clogse touch with conditions In Japan and along the China coast Wood traveled through India, spent some time with the Dutch in Java, and with Lord Cromer in Egypt. He gained and retained kmowledge of all which at that time came under his ste- dious observation. Then Leonard Wood became chief of the general staff of the United States army, in whose hands rests very largely the direction and admin- istration of the military establishment, which after all is 90 per cent a busi- ness matter. The administrative career of Leon- ard Wood is spread upon the records of his country. The work which he has done is lasting. It is a states- manle wark R e [ —— ‘DR, E. H. MARCUM Oftice hours, 11 am. to 12 m., 2 pm. to 5 p.m. Schroeder Block. Office phone 18, Res. phone 211. —_— NORTHERN MINN. AGENCY. Dwight D. Miller . WE CAN, nsure Anything A Offices, Northern Nntli'm”l:nk Bldg., Phone 181 DRS. GILMORE & McCANN Physicians and Surgeons Oftice Miles Blook FIRE INSURANCE REAL ESTATE REYNOLDS & WINTER 212 Beltrami Avenue Phone 144 B — A. V. GARLOCK, M. D. Eye—Ear—Nose—Threat @lasses TFitted Cold-Storage Junk Vs. fi;:dking of the Countryside OI)CASIONALLY sorue carping critic ventures the opinion that a good deal of “buuk” is perpetrated on the floors of congress. Maybe these critics do not know the difference hetween “bunk” and oratory for home consumption. For instance, Representative Thomas of Kentucky, in speaking of a pro- posed adjournment of congress, is quoted by the Congressional Record, in part as follows: Mr. Thomas. And that would bring a change of living conditions from cold-storage junk and indifferent cooking to the fresh, pure food and good cooking of the countryside. Con- gress could there mingle with the DR. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office in Mayo Block Phone 396 Res. Phone 397 H. C. NELSON Piano Tuning and Piano and Violia Repairing—Bow Filling 216 Beltrami Ave. Phone 573W —_— ! DR. L. A. WARD Physician and Surgeon Bemid}i, Minn. BUSINESS o~ MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS thrifty sons and fair daughters of ‘the TRANSFER & DRAY LINE mwm soil and breathe the Inspiration of J. Bisiar, Mgr. ‘Phone §78-W Nymore and Bemidji Phone 620-W nobler thoughts and loftier ideals. The frost is now on the pumpkin, the ripened corn is in the crib, the golden wheat is in the bin, the yellow yams are mellowing and sweetening in the cellar, the succulent persimmon and the toothsome ‘“possum” are now ripened under the cool temperature of frosty, freezing moonlit nights, and all natuye is redolent with the pertume of dying flowers and aglow with the varicolored beauty of autumnal forests and the glory and splendor of autumnal sunsets, specialty. And then to contemplate the epicurean richness of a country dinner L consisting of country-cured ham; and hog and lye hominy, made only as they know how to make it in Kentucky; accompanied by light, hot biscuits and country-made blackberry jam and other like delicacies; and to crown all, as a final course, a big, juicy, “possum.” Such a dinner is a real and glorious feast, fit not only for a congressman but for the gods; and after it is over, how pleasant to go to the old log stable and crawl up into the loft as in by-gone days and be a boy again, and repose on the new-mown hay as of yore, and be lulled into peaceful sleep by the patter of the rain on the old board roof, and drift away into dreamland / ° e ——— ‘TOM SMART Dray and Tramster Res. Phone 58 818 America " FDOR 1t D. H. FISK, Attoarney at Law Office, Northern National Bank Bldg. Phone 181. Collections a | E. M. 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