Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1920 — LEONARD WOOD’S BIG ACHIEVEMENTS [ARTICLE]

LEONARD WOOD’S BIG ACHIEVEMENTS

Rebuilt Cuba and the Philippines, foundidthe Plattbburg camps, devoted himself to national preparedness. As “a statesman ho rehabilitated Cuba and loft it a modern tedopead ent republic. Ao a missionary of civilzation ho won the co-operation of the Cubans and the Philippines to establishing dean and dfleient elvil government. As a busaoss administrator ho made enduring publie improvements tn Cuba and the Philippines and gave financial prestige to these two countries, which bo found bankrupt at the start. 7 - ' ■ 33 As a judge of mon he selected Rood to wipe out the yellow fever scourgei Olcott, Dodge and Van Herd to develop the Cuban transportation system, and Hanna and Frye to create the island’s modern educational ostab* liahments. Schools, hospitals, harbors, railways, lighthouses, highways and telegraph linen were bullt by him in Cuba and his entire administrates wen Wood the lasting admiration of statesmen in America and Europe,