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CAREER OF GENERAL LEONARD WOOD IS APPRECIATIVELY TOLD
Creation of Republic of Cuba Declared Republican Candidate's Title to Be Regarded as Constructive Statesman Platform Advocates Military Preparedness and Is Sympathetic With Labor.
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Leonard 'ad i a condensation of an ar
ticle that apnear In the April number
of the Worlds Work. It l copyrighted
by that maeazlnt and i renrinted liere
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BY BURTON J. HKXDR1CK.
T1IL first idea sungestcd by the
presidential aspirations of Leon
ard Wnnri Is tout h a rrtllitnrw
candidate. The second is that hos
tility to President Wilson, quite as
much as admiration for General Wood,
inspires the forces which are promot
ing his political interests. In the last
few years these are the phases of
tleneral Wood's career which have
chiefly attracted public attention;
there is a tendency to think of him as
the great advocate of preparedness
Mild its the soldier whom President
Wilson, at whatever cost, seemed de
termined to keep away from the west
ern front in the world war.
Tlie hasty newspaper reader, after
turning these facts over In his mind,
is inclined' to think that they do not
furnish the substance for a successful
presidential campaign. The American
people do not favor a "militarist" for
president; nor do they regard a
"grievance" as a satisfactory plat
form for a great political contest.
Yet the most important claim made
In the interest of General Wood is of
an entirely different kind. The United
States at the present moment has a
government which does not function.
The quality which it most conspicu
ously lacks Is executive power the
ability to get things done. It needs
a master mind which can take up the
executive departments, put at their
heads able men who can make them
operaie for the nation's benefit, elim
inate waste, introduce order and or
ganize an administrative machine
which will be able to cope with the
new responsibilities pressing upon the.
new America. It would be hard to
fit.d any living American who has
fciiown himself to be possessed of
greater executive and administrative
power than General Wood.
tieurral Introduces New Spirit.
Yet the fact that General Wood in
troduces a new spirit into American
Ufa Is an important argument in his
favor. A pressing need in American
public lire at present is for a man
who is "different": "genius." "world
statesmanship." "vision" have had
their innings; America yearns for
HERBERT HOOVER HAS LONG RECORD OF
Orphan Office Boy, Has Simple but Specific Ideas on World Problems and Has Proved Ability to Carry Them to
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11 the April number of the W'oriU's Work.
Ji lh printed here only in nan. It la a
copyrighted article and in reprinted by
Hpeirial permission.
BY FRENCH STfiOTHER.
MANY" Americans are asking
these questions about Herbert
Hoover: Is he a representative
American? Has he the personal qual
ities and the gifts of leadership that
fit him for the presidency? Where
does he stand on the political issues
of the day?
Is Hoover a representative Amer
ican? He was born in Iowa, in the
heart of the corn belt, in a village i
of 400 inhabitants, the son of a man
Mho was village blacksmith and
tanner in one. His parents were both
Quakers. He is a Quaker, being to
this day a member in good standing
of "the Highland (Oregon) Quarterly
.Meeting, where he has always re
tained the membership which he ac
quired at the age of 10 and where
he still pays his church dues.
At the age of 10, Hoover, for come
years an orphan, was sent by rela
tives in Iowa to live with other re
latives in Oregon. At Newberg. Or.,
he spent the next four years. Under
the sparkling inspiration of the vivid
life of the Pacific coast, his mind
found its natural bent. He insisted
on supporting himself at 14.
The next three years were spent
In Salem and Portland, Or., where
he earned his way in a real estate
office, living in a back room which
he fitted up, and spending his spare
hours studying mathematics. In 1S91.
at the age of 17, he had saved enough
money to start in college. He wanted
to be an engineer.
Hoover's Luck" Proverbial.
"Hoover's luck" became a proverb
I among his fellows at Stanford .uni
versity in California. He was in
the thick of all student activities that
called for "doing something," and he
was popular enough to hold many
offices to which he !.ad to be elected
by the votes ot his classmates. He
had a genius for organization and
management. He did not care to
play football: but somehow Hoover
was just the right man to manage
the team. He did not sing, but when
the glee club had to find someone
to direct its annual tour of the coast.
Hoover was the man they asked to
attend to that. He was treasurer of
his class, he was business manager
I of the college paper, he was treasurer
of the student body. Everything he
put his hand to turned out well.
Hence "Hoover's luck." But Dr. J. C.
Branner, his professor in geology
I and metallurgy (afterward president
of Stanford) used to get very angry
when the phrase was used. Luck,
nothing:" he would snort. "If those
fellows who keep talking about
'Hoover's luck" would study his
methods and realize that he succeeds
because he works his mind and his
body twice as hard as they do, they'd
have his luck, too."
Hoover spent his summers work-
ling in the mines and for the govern
ment in surveys. He graduated from
Stanford in 1S33. aged 21, and spent
(he next year in a gold mine in
Nevada county. Cal.. as a common
laborer, learning the practical side
of mining. Then he went to San
Francisco and worked for a year in
the office of ..ouls Jantn. one of the
best known of western mining en
gineers. In 1897 Janln recommended
him to an English mining syndicate
operating in the new bonanza gold
fields of Australia. Within a year.
Hoover, now aged 24, had located
and developed into a richly paying
property one of the best mines 1j
west Australia. In another year he
was the engineer and manager of a
group of three.
;hina Chooses Hoover.
In 1S99 the Chinese government
created a bureau of mines. Hoover.
aged 25, was appointed its chief en
gineer, boon came the Boxer . re
bellion, which was the protest of the
j old-fasbioned Chinese against the
presence of all foreign devils and
I their works.
Hoover and his bride (as Miss Lou
I Henry she had been a fellow student
In eoloi;' at Stanford and Hoover
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something which is not so "original"
as the present administration; which
does not see so far into the future;
which has a keener eye for imme
diately pressing problems.
In certain d-irections. General Wood
is a man of extraordinary ability and
achievement: but he is not a super
man, he has not concocted in his
closet strange and revolutionary no
tions of the presidential office, and
it is precisely for these reasons that
his personality so pleasantly accords
with the national humor. The mera
details of his life make refreshing
reading. His Americanism has an
appropriate beginning; two of his
ancestors this case is authentic and
had made her acquaintance in the
classroom by way of a three-sided
discussion with lr. Branner on the
prehistoric date of a pile of fossil
bones) stayed in Tien-Tsin during the
siege, not because they could not get
away but because they felt it their
duty to stay and protect, both from
the boxers and the Kuropean troops,
the anti-boxer Chinese who had loy
ally served Hoover while he was chief
engineer..
Hoover returned to the United
States but soon had another offer as
an engineer abroad and he determined
to undertake international practice
of his profession. These operations
he soon had under way on a vast scale.
Always as engineer and administrator.
Hoover operated mines all over the
world, in North and South America
and Central America, as well as in
Russia. Australia. Soutll Africa. Corfu.
Burma and China so wide was the
scope of his work.
Duning all these years Hoover main
tained, together with his brother, his
offices in San Francisco, New York.
London. Petrograd. Rangoon and
other points, spending a portion of
every year except one year in Aus
tralia and one year in China and one
in Belgium in the United States.
l.etal Residence" Scattered.
His home was always in California
and on every possible occasion he re
turned to it. He maintained a house
and his family sponl a considerable
portion of the years, while he was
traveling in various parts of the i
world, at Monterey and at Stanford
university. He was a "legal resident"
in half a dozen counfWes. for every
civilized country construes a visitor
a legal resident after from 10 days to j
two months for purposes of taxation.
In 1907 Hoover, together with some
other Americans, acquired a consider
able interest In a lead mine in north
ern Burma. They developed this con
cern with railways, metallurgical
works, steamships, until it employed
2r,000 men. In the years 1914 and
3915, the Belgian relief requiring his.
uiiuiviuen attention, ne sola nis inter- .
est to the other partners and thereby
gained a moderate competence, much
drawn upon during the war. This de
velopment in the Jungle of North
Burma was one of the largest enter
prises ever undertaken in the far
east, and its American control was
only lost when the British govern
ment, decided that no kind of aliens
should be permitted control of raw
material in the British empire.
But perhaps the most characteristic
of his activities was in the Ural
mountains of Russia, where Hoover
represented himself and a group of
Russian, British and American capi
talists in the task of restoring to
productivity the Kyshtim iron and
copper mines.
Mines Are Restored.
These mines, long among I
tho richest producers of their kind
in the world, had fallen on evil days,!
because they had continued operation !
by antiquated methods and because
the shift from unpaid serf labor even
to the plttapce paid to the freed peas
ants was too heavy a tax on its out
worn system of management. Hoover
was called in. He did what he has
always done; he got the best technical
brains that money could buy, and he
made the most thorough examination
of the situation that time and intense
study could produce. Then he pre
pared a plan of action. . .
Hoover's plan was to scrap
the entire plant mine shafts, ore
crushers, smelters everything that
"Kyshtim" had meant for a hundred
years. He proposed to move the en
tire working force of several thou
sand families to a new site nearer the
sources of ore, and start - all over
again with a modern plan.
His plan was to spend several mil
lion dollars: First, to build a house,
with shower bath and sanitary plumb
ing, for every man-and-wife connect
ed with the mine. Second, to build
new mine buildings and in'tall new"
machinery. Third, to pay every work
man a real wage for his work.
The plan was adopted, and executed.
Vision begot vision, and the owners
put up the millions without a whim
per. In a few months the new equip
ment of new processes and the new
spirit in the men were producing
profits that Justified Hoover's plan to
the utmost. . . .
Is Herbert Hoover a representative
i American? Did bis work in Belgium
based upon genealogical records ar
rived in the ilayflower. and served
under Captain Miles Standish in that
famous "first encounter" with the
Indians.
From that day up to the present
the American people have been en
gaged in no war. large or small, in
which the Wood family has not
played its part. The general's father
served in the medical corps for all the
four years of the civil war; after this
he retired to the little Cape Cod town
of Pocasset. and spent the rest of his
life there as an Industrious, poorly
paid, anil very lov;iJIe country doctor.
Thus Leonard Wood is not. as many
suppose, sprung from the aristocracy
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shame us or did It make us proud i
that he was an American?
Has Herbert Hoover the personal
qualities of the executive the quali
ties of leadership? The surface facts
of his career should be answer
enough: Managing director of vast
business enterprises at 30 or younger;
organizer and director of the greatest
charitable enterprise in history at 40;
and then, in succession, food adminis
trator of the United States, and head
of the supreme economic council at
Paris, where he held in his hands the
combined economic resources of the
world its food. Its credits, its raw
materials. Its shipping. Its railroads
and its telegraphs and practically
ruled Kurope during the months in
which the peace treaty was being
made. This control was exercised
through an organization of volunteer
aids, who numbered among their
thousands every type of successful
business man and professional man.
Practically all these men had been
required by Hoover, before he would
let them work for him, to sell out
their private businesses and give up
their private careers. And they took
their pay out in two things: the
approval of their consciences and the
approval of Herbert Hoove. Hun
dreds of them never saw hii; but
every one of them felt that so long
as they fitted Into his organization
and were allawed to go on with their
work, they had won an approbation
that was beyond price. If "the chief"
said they could stay, that was all they
could ask.
Personality Is Irresistible.
1 have talked to some of these men,
and the foregoing is an exact state
ment of their attitude. Their loyalty
goes beyond mere devotion: it is al
most a form of worship. I could not
understand at first Just why, because
every one of them spoke of his lack
of all the ordinary qualities of con
ventional good-feilowsnlp and most
I f 1 . e
of New Kugland; his stock is rugged
mentally, and physically strong, but
it is not of the Hrahmaus; lie was a
blue-e.yed. tow-headed Cape Cod boy
probably at times a "bare-footed"
one educated at a dilapidated district
school, trained in a hqme distin
guished only for its simple New Kng
land virtues. Wood's chief delight,
in his early days, in addition to an
occasional glimpse into Plutarch's
Lives and Dickens' novels, was. a
sailboat, and' his earliest ambition
was to join the navy.
Now and then he dreamed of an
undergraduate course at Harvard; but
for this the family purse was not ade
quate, and. at the age of 18, the future
general was thrown on his own re
sources. He "worked his way" through
the Harvard medical school, at the
age of 20 started practicing medicine
in the slums of Boston, and, at 24,
became a "contract surgeon" In the
army.
CongrraiNiunal lrdol Awarded.
When Geronlmo. the last of the
great Apache chieftains, began mur
dering American women and most
hideously torturing American children
in New Mexico and Arizona, Wood,
exchanging his surgeon's scalpel for
a rifle, became one of the famous
little company which chased the mon
ster over the sandy and burning
plains of the southwest and northern
Mexico, and did not desist until the
enemy surrendered. The reports of
Generals Lawton and Miles bear wit
ness to the healthy minded zeal
which Wood manifested toward bar
barians who wreaked their savagery
on American women and children;
and the fact that Wood received that
greatest of all military distinctions
for his efficient bravery In this cam
paign the congressional medal Is
testimony of the same kind.
The next event which stirred the
same primitive emotions in this doctor-soldier
was the regime of Vic
toriano Weyler in Cuba. Wood was
one of a large number of Americans
who did not believe that the American
people should sit with folded hands
while a European nation was conduct
ing a human slaughter house at bur
very doors.
By this time Ieoiiard Wood had
become an Important man In the
army and in Washington official life.
As physician detailed by the army at
the White House, he had gained the
intimacy of the families of President
Cleveland and President McKinley,
bo.th of whom were greatly attached
to him; and he had also made the I
great friendship of his life that with I
of them hinted that he could be ter
ribly frank but in the next breath
they would fervently describe his in
finite "charm."
They all felt it. The man is irre
sistible,." One more thing: Hoover's other
passion of the mind has been to gel
usable knowledge. He has always
had an uncanny power to find the
Information he needs. Part of this
power comes from going to the high
est authority to get the facts. If you
want some practical information
about the art of war. you can study
text-books for a lifetime, or you can
talk to a thousand lieutenants, or
you can ask Marshal Foch. Hoover's
method is to ask Foch. It's the
quickest, slirest, sanest and most
practical method in the world.
The truth is. Hoover knows. With
his tenacious memory for simple, es
sential facts, he went single-handed
Into the sessions of the supreme eco
nomic council in Paris, facing the
best political economists and trained
diplomats of Europe and their swarms
of "experts." and he dominated it
because he knew more than anybody
else there. Time and again, for ex
ample, Hoover demonstrated that he
knew more about the food require
ments and the food stocks, the coal,
and railway and shipping resources
of England, France and Italy than
their own administrators knew. For
example, be proposed an allotment of
food for Italy to which the Italians
raised bitter objections, until Hoover
proved to them that they were asking
tor more food than they had evei
consumed in peace times, and then
Bhowed them that they had made this
mistake by using the British meat ra
tion as their iood-inaex, whereas the
British had always eaten nearly twice
the meat, man for man. that Italians
I ate.
Kow, to so back to the devotion of
Theodore rtooscvclt, now assistant
secretary of the navy. . . .
Soon after the Spanish war. Wood
was confronted with this same issue
of fundamental righteousness In a
much larger aspect. In 190i, he was
a brigadier-general; this elevation he
did not receive, as many still think,
through an act of favoritism on the
part ofhis friend Roosevelt, now pres
ident; he was promoted to a brigadier
on the field of battle by General Shat
ter, in 1898. In recognition of his hero
ism and success before Santiago. By
1902 the kaiser had built up his pow
erful fighting machine, and took great
pride in exhibiting it to the nations
for whose particular benefit it had
been contrived. In that year Wood
was sent to Germany as the American
representative at one of the kaiser's
annual "maneuvers." The British rep
resentative on this same occasion was
Field Marshal Earl Roberts.
Lord Robert Asks Question.
"Wood," said Koberts, "what are
your country and mine going to do
when that army is hurled against
them?"
The two men became close friends,
and,- in their talks, agreed that each
had an identical duty to his own
country.
In the year 1902 Roberts returned
to England and Wood returned to the
United States and each started the
same . campaign in his own country.
How fundamentally alike the British
and Americans are these two leaders
of a hopeless cause now demonstrated.
Kor many years they were two lonely
voices putting forth the tanir plea.
From the official defenders of
American interests and honor Wood
received -only frowjis and petty per
secution. However, the campaign
waged by Roosevelt and Wood pro
duced two results that are historic.
Their popular preaching converted the
American masses from their long
antipathy to conscription, and created
the public sentiment which made that
policy inevitable.
Yet an army of 4.000,000 would have
been useless without officers. The
camps of business and university men
which General Wood established and
conducted before the war provided
these. It was thus the preparedness
"agitation" and the constructive work
of Wood which enabled the United
States to turn the balance against the
Gmnan military machine and thus to
transform an impending defeat into a
victory. ...
After the withdrawal of the Span
iards in 1898, Cuba presented condi
tions not unlike those which prevail
over a considerable part of the world
today. Kor centuries Cuba had been
the men who work under him. They
are big men. men of achievement, men
of imagination. Their god, almost,
is honorable success. Before they
worked for Hoover the measure of
success to most of them was money.
But they knew that even fools some
times made fortunes and knaves as
well Money was a marker of suc
cess, but only a crude marker. But
Hoover, the impersonal, tiie honest,
the clear-thoughted man who knows
his approval was a genuine marker.
If Hoover said you'd do. you had
passed a test higher than the acquisi
tion of money or of ordinary fame.
That approval holds big men better
than any other reward.
A final word fcbout Hoover's quali
ties of leadership. lie is a confirmed
believer ii common council. As one
of his aides expressed it: "Hoover's
decisions are his own, but they are
always based upon a conference with
the largest ntfmber of the beet in
formed people he cap gather for a
free discussion before he decides. In
these conferences he has no pride of
opinion, and he expects the most
searching scrutiny of the facts by
everybody present. His decision crys
tallizes the common judgment, and
the best method of putting it into
practice."
What follows is not a
STORM'S WILD BEAUTY THRILLS
IF VIEWED FROM LEAKY CRAFT
When Waves Invade Bedchamber
Terra Firma
BY JA1IKS J. MONTAtiUU. 1
THIS way to reduce rent Is to live I
In a houseboat. The houseboat !
Is immune from taxes. You an- i
chor it offshore, put up an awning to
keep off the summer sun, and laugh at
the assessor.
Houseboats cost all the way from
fifty dollars to fifty thousand. Ours
cost fifty. It was a used houseboat.
The family believes that It was used
by Noah, but I am not so sure about
It. Noah's houseboat must have been
a pretty substantial craft.
The man who sold us the vessel
guaranteed It. Moreover, he gave us
a bill of sale for it. He said all we
had to do was to nail on a few patches
and It would be ready for the water.
He didn't tell us that there are things
called seams on houseboats which
open up when the craft is left out in
the sun on the shore. But that was
probably due to absent-mindedness.
Bnth All Around ( raft.
We fixed our new dwelling up
nicely before it 'was launched. There
were five rooms in it. Including a
kitchen. A bath was not necessary.
Once afloat, that boat would be sur
rounded by the biggest bath in the
world. -
When the man telephoned us that it
was launched we told him to tow it
Into a pretty little bay we knew of
ar.d to notify us when it was there.
It looked very snug and cosy when
we first vieweu it, .the blue water
lapping all about it and the new
striped awning flapping in the light
breeze.
The furniture was already aboard.
In a little boat that was included in
the sale we rowed alongside and took
possession.
Ideal Seems Realized.
All the evening we sat out on the
front porch and pitied people who had
to live in stuffy houses. The wind
was just strong enough to keep the
mosquitoes on shore, where they be
longed. Sailboats darted in and out of the
bay. Motorboats chugged past us,
bobbing on the waves. Outside on the
sound we could see the big white
sound steamers passing. Presently
the lighthouse began to function and
the stars came out. It was idyllic.
Just at dusk I remembered that I
had forgotten my tooth brush. Its;
the colony of a dying European
power; a power which regarded col
onists not as human beings who had
a right to protection or enlighten
ment, but as sources of wealth to
Itself. ...
Cuba Is Wood's Monument.
After the surrender of Santiago.
General Wood had taken charge of
that city, and, in a few months, he
had converted it from a pest hole into
one of the cleanest and best governed
municipalities in the western hemis
phere. President McKinley therefore
selected Wood to do for the whole of
Cuba what1 he had already done for
this old province. At this tjme Wood
was 38 years old; the work which
this young man now undertook and
conducted for three years entitles him
to the full stature of an adminis
trative genius. Probably the highest
test of statesmanship is the actual
creation of a state; and the republic
of Cuba will be Wood's monument for
all time.
The tangible changes which he
quickly wrought in Cuban life were
fairly startling. In two years more
than 3000 public schools, with an en
rollment of 250.000 children, were in
full operation. One summer more
than 1000 Cuban teachers came to the
United States, studied at Harvard and
went back, inspired not only by Amer
ican education methods, but by the
signs of American progress which
they met at every hand. Shiploads
of school books, blackboards, desks,
kindergarten materials, manual train
ing outfits, gymnasium equipment
and" all the other Impedimenta of the
American educational system now ar
rived at Cuh;m ports.
It is a sufficient indication of the
importance attached to this new idea
of primary education that, out of a
total annual revenue of $17,000,000.
Cuba in a year or two was spending
$4,000,000 for its public schools. And
a similar change took place in every
branch of the government. What the
Wood administration did in reforming
the Cuban system of justice would fill
a volume.
The fact remains that Cuba, after
three years of Wootl, had been trans
formed into a healthier country than
the United States or England. Small
pox, which had annually taken thou
sands of Uves. disappeared so com
pletely that, after two years, there
was not a single case of the disease
in the whole island. Malaria and
typhu vanished Just about as sud
denly. bellow Fever Is Conquered.
Then, in 1901, the medical world in
two hcmplicres was astounded by
the news that the cause of one of
the most devastating of all diseases.
ADMINISTRATIVE FEATS
Successful C ulmination 'Luck" at Stanford Is Proverb.
"quotation" of Hoover, but is a fair
statement of what he has aid and of
the Implications of those sayings.
Socialism. Hoover believes thst so
cialism is a Kuropean .theory of de
spair, which could have been born
only in Kurope. where caste and eco
nomic wrongs have been congealed
through centuries of despotism. It is
one of those "disintegrating foreign
philosophies" which he has frequently
declared to have no place in American
life.
Foreign Trade. Hoover believes in
slimubiting foreign trade and in the
manipulation of the tariff that goes
with it just so far us these tilings are
for the good of the country. I'.ut he
points out that Hie basic industry of
this country is agriculture: and that
the backbone of this country socially
anil politically, and not merely eco
nomically, is the farmer.'
Agriculture. Hoover believes that
both the farmer and the consumer are
victims of an uneconomic system of
distribution of foodstuffs. This sys
tem arose originally from our geog
raphy: our food is not produced near
the places where it is eaten, and so an
army of intermediate handlers and
profit-takers has grown up between
the farm and the home. -We can never
get away from the long haul, but we
can work out a system of direct deal
ing between co-operative bodies of
consumers and co-operative bodies of
farmers that will cut out a lot of the
in Middle of Night Tenant Decides
Has Advantages.
i
would take but a few minutes to get
i""
al ."' ,r"Pe b' w "u h the boat w
tethered.
The boat refused to respond to my'
pull. I looked at it and saw that it
was reposing on a mud flat.
I walked all around the porch. The
houseboat itself was reposing on a
mud flat. All about it, where a little
earlier had been rippling blue waves,
there was nothing but oozy, chocolate-colored
mud.
There is a way to cross water, and
a way to fly, but no way to navigate
mud. When you are mudbound, un-
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But men lived for millions of years
without tooth brushes. A few hours.
I reflected, couldn't make much dif
ference to me.
We went to bed still happy.
save
for the sorrow the plight of our
shorebound friends naturally gave us.
At about 2 In the morning I was
awakened by the lapping of the
waves. Drowsily admiring their soft
music. I turned over to go to sleep
again.
Wae Invades Hedroom.
But there was something in their
lapping that didn't seem quite natural.
It sounded too close aboard. I got
up and stepped on one of them, w hich
continued lapping at my left shin.
Others lapped at my right shin.
Lapping waves outside a boat are
WE HAD RESERVED
yellow fever, had been found and thcCuba lay in creating a public school
way to eradicate it from the world
discovered. . . .
This achievement is one of the
greatest in medical history, and. next
to the discovery of anesthetics, is
America's greatest contribution to
medical science.
After tnree years of Wood's gov
ernorship, the Cuban people met in
convention, adopted a republican con
stitution, elected their own president
and congress, and became a free
nation. . . .
If the establishment of the Cuban
nation is not "constructive" states
manship. I do not know where an
illustration of such a thing is to be
found. Moreover, as already said, this
experience has an immediate bearing
upon many of the problems which
will confront the- next presicient. is
it not plain, for example, that Wood's
Cuban policy presents the only pos
sible solution of the Mexican ques
tion ?
It is absurd to suppose that Mexico
in its present condition can go on in
definitely; it is likewise absurd to
suppose that the Mexicans can solve
it themselves. Americans do not wish
to "annex" that country or to exploit
it; what they desire is that Mexico
shall be put u)n its feet, that the
blessings of sanitation. education,
communications, agriculture and in
dustry shall be extended to it, and
that out of the present chaos shall
be constructed a happy, intelligent
and self-goverr ing state.
Nor is the experience which Wood
pained in Cuba and the Philippines
without value in dealing with certain
of America's domestic problems.
It pave Wood a practical training in
the business of government which
few presidents have carried to the ex
ecutive office. He knows what it is
to select men for important work, to
supervise the administration of de
partments: in a word he has learned,
by many years' actual contact, how
to get things done. Tie lias also de
rived from his experience certain fun
damental conceptions of the business
of government which are just as
sound when applied to the United
States as when applied to Cuba or the
Philippines. Kor example, take the
much discussed question of "Amer
icanization." by which term is usu
ally understood the development of
oppressed European nationalities into
intelligent citizens of this country.
Remedy Is to Teach Knglish.
General Wood sees no magical short
road to the attainment of this result,
No amount of flag waving or singing
of the "Sftar-Spangled Banner" will
transmute this rouglt material into
the fine metal of the republic. The
remedy for most of the troubles in
intermediate profits, so that the farm
er will get a fair price and the con
sumer will pay a fair price.
Universal Military Training Hoo
ver believes in universal physical
training in camps similar to Boy
Scout camps under rigorous school
discipline, but he does not believe in
universal military training in mili
tary camps under army officers.
The Budget. Hoover believes, as a
good engineer and a good manager,
that this government can never be
effectively run until it adopts a bud
get pystem of estimating revenues and
controlling expenditures.
Responsible (iuvcnimenl Hoover
believes that tho present form of the
American government is the best form
of government ever devised b mum
He lias seen "responsible'" govern
ments t governments by ministries di
rectly responsible to the legislature
and the country, as in Kngland and
France) at close range for the last
five years, and he has no faith in
them.
League Considered Hope.
The League of Nations. Hoover be
lieves that the league of nations is
the hope of America and the hope of
the world. But his idea of what a
league of nations is. is the simplest.
He regards it simply as nine men
sitting around a table, discussing
things instead of fighting about them.
He has no worries about article X or
pleasant. Inside they are more or less
supererogatory.
I climbed back into bed. From tho
other room I heard terror-stricken
cries. The boss and the children
wanted to know if they should put
on life preservers.
But that wasn't necessary. The
waves lapped upward till they lifted
the mattresses gently from the beds,
then they began to subside. By morn
ing they had all gone out through the
seams by which they entered, and we
were saved.
The boat was messy that day. but
habitable. I went ashore to see the
man. but he had gone to another
tow n. He w as selling out his busi
ness and our houseboat was the last
article he disposed of.
Yoynsre of Adventure Begins.
When he had sold it. he went.
I came back that afternoon to take
the family off till repairs could be
made.
I had just got aboard when a thun
der storm came up. It was not a bad
thunder storm, but it sufficed. The
awning held for a while, then arose
like a sausage balloon and left us.
Presently the anchor rope, which
must have been older than the house
boat itself, parted.
Propelled firmly by the keen off
shore wind, we went out into the
bay. As soon as we slid off the mud
the waves came In through the seams
for another visit.
But we had survived them once, so
they didn't worry us. Outside where
it was rouh they made a little more
trouble. The way they knocked the
tables and chairs about was discon
certing But we dodged them nimbly
till we could get outside, where by
means of the ladder we climbed to tho
roof.
Storm's Beauty Mot A npret-lated.
It was a beautiful storm, but we
didn't seem to enjoy it. A storm is
SEATS FOR T HE STORM.
system, tn teachms the masses to
read and write; in this way it K.ive
them the foundation for the absorp
tion of the ideas that promote na
tional efficiency. General Wood likc
wiso thinks that the best way to
"Americanize" immigrants is to teach
them to read, write and speak the
English language. In the primary
schools he would have no language
except English spoken or taught. In
this way, he says, he would make the
United Slates a country ruled by
Americans, and Americans alone.
On the general question of labor.
Wood takes the sound economic
ground that the solution of the prob
lem of high wages is increased pro
duction. There is probably no Amer
ican who has thought this problem
out in more than general terms; Gen
eral Wood makes no pretense that he
has an elaborate programme, though
he apparently has an inclination to
the Canadian plan of investigation,
publicity and arbitration, not neces
sarily compulsory.
On certain great issues ho is defi
nite. He believes in a standing array
of 2,"0,000 men. six months' training
for all young men above 19. and
equipment enough to supply, if need
ed, a force of 4.000.000 soldiers. He
advocates a strong navy. He favors
the league of nations with reserva
tions which reflect the attitudo of
the republican majority rather than
that of the democratic minority. He
is in favor of a budget system.
General Wood is not a "military
candidate"; that is. he docs not be
lieve that the chief business of a
president is to involve his country in
war. In fact most of our so-called
"military" presidents have not been
military in this sense. There is a
curious impression in some quarters
that men who have seen service on
the battlefield do not make good
presidents. With the exception of
General Grant, all the presidents who
owed their elevation to their military
achievements have made excellent
records in the presidential office. In
attempting to estimate the success
of such statesmen we shall have to
itrnore William Henry Harrison and
Zai-hary Taylor, for these presidents
died so soon after their inauguration
that their presidential qualities could
not be tested.
The other great Americans who be
came politically prominent because
they had won military fame were
George Wash in gton. Andrew Jackson.
Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roose-
j vclt. It is certainly remarkable that
a people whose first president was
George Washington should think that
a successful general was disqualified,
by that mere fact, from directing the
'nation also in civil life.
article anything eise. Ho would limit
the constitution of the league to
three sentences, to the effect tltat it
should consist of one representative
of each member nation, that these
men should meet daily at an agreed
place and that they should be re
ciuired to discuss every question
brought before them until they
reached an agreement. That sounds
absurdly simple, but remember that
Hoover and the other members of the
supreme economic council were a
league of nations, and that they kept
the I'Ciice in Kurope for seven months
Just by talking. He sees no reason
to abandon a nation's sovereignty or
violate it. traditional policies or
wrench its spirit strange customs.
America Hoover believes in Amer
ica. His friends know that bis one
fan.it it-ism is his love of country. So
in r from fearing his "internatioiial-i-m."
the one thing they do fear is hws
intolerance of foreign peoples arid
ideas. He has lived with those peo
ples, and he has had intimate expe
rience of their ideas, and it is hardly
putting it too strongly to say that he
heartily detests the lot. Not the in
dividuals, not the tide of them upon
which they share our common hu
manity. But their social institutions,
their governmental Institutions, their
business structure these things he
has compared with ours and finds
them utterly distasteful, and always
has.
like a tiger; it is a far more interest
ing spectacle when you are not tn it.
After an hour a man with a motor
boat came along and took us off. He
asked us all sorts of questions, but as
they appeared to impugn our sanity
we didn't answer muny of them.
He charged us eighteen dollars fov
settiu ns on shore. He said that if
gas "was not so high he would only
have charged us se ventccn-f if l ,
which was quite consoling.
do not knew what became of the
houseboat. I have been notified by a
tuirboat company that it has been
salvaurd and I can have it by paying
a hundred and fifty dollars. liut I
haven't :ol a hundred and fifty dol
lars. The last hundred and fifty dol
lars I had I gave to a real estate
agent as the first payment on a house
I have rented for the summer.
(Copyright. 1920. by the Bell Syndi
cate. Inc.)
Km life to Kxchangre Students.
CALC.ARV. Alta. France and Al
berta will shortly have reciprocity In
the exchange of university students.
Legislation :e oeing enacted which
provides for these scholarships in uni
versities of Paris for Alberta students,
A similar action in France was
started last summer when an educa
tionist from that country visited the
west, addressing Rotary and other
clubs
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Of Eruptions. Cuticura Heals.
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ples. They were large and hard and
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y i? times my face would be a
mass ot eruptions. They
itched and burned, and I
would lose sleep.
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about two vears befnre T iim. a
Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and
when I had used one cake of Cuti
cura Soap and one box of Cuticura
Ointment I was healed." (Signed)
Mrs. Philip Hein, Box 303.903 Lake
St., Sandpoint, Idaho, Aug. 22, 1919.
Give Cuticura Soap, Ointment and
Talcum the care of your skin.
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