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PAGE TWO THE MASON COUNTY JOURNAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1920
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LEONARD WOOD, ADMINISTRATOR
WOOD HAS VARIED
CIVIL EXPERIENCE
ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITIES ARE
TESTED AND PROVED IN HAN-
DLING GREAT BUSINESS
PROBLEMS,
By 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
differentparts 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 lhbroughly than he in com-
plex fields of constructive civil work,
administrative work of the highest
order which curried with it the neces-
sity for the exercise of keen business
acumen.
lne 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
assistant 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
twork of assisting the Indlens and to
I udy of t h£e problems of irrigatlo
gu reclamat[oif.
h(/h or Leonard Wood there came
our years in California. He covere
the state many times in pursuance of
his duties and extended his field as
.oslon required into the states of
the Northwest. Then for two years he
was in service in the South, having
headquarters in Georgia.
From the South Leonard Wood went
to the city of Washington, where his
work brought him into daily contact
llth Grover Cleveland. Then he had
# same intimate relations with Wil-
liam Mctnley and the men of his
I Then came the Spanish war and the
aetive campaign in Cuba as the eol-
,e relmeut of rough riders
of which Theo'ot RooyLt was the
lleutenatlt colotleh .. , "..; ,'
At the c'os 0 te SInish war
Lona/l Wood's supreme adminlstra-
't'ive utie began. Ite was made the
g0"v*err f ie city of Santiago am:l
a few weeks later of the entire east-
ern half of Cuba.
Under Wood profiteering was aboi-
ished, industry was built up, agricb
ture rehabilitated, hospitals organ-
ized, equipped and maintained, tens
of thousands of people clothed and
fed--and all this done in a thorough
businesslike 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 dyin4[ by thoBands
for the lack of the things which Wood
quickly provided.
Then there came the rehabilitation
of the municipalities, the establish-
ment of schools, the opening of roads,
the organizing of government In the
provinces, the readjustment of taxa-
tion and of the courts, and the work
of providing for the thousands of chll-
4Lrsn made orphans by war or famine.
There was more business and more
varieties of it than it has been the lot
of many men ever to have placed up-
on their shoulders.
Not long after this there came the
greater opportuntt!es 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 officials engaged in the
great work of reconstruction were
selected from the people of the island.
• be Cubans were taught government
while the government was being built
and thus they were able to run it when
the rqle of the Island was turned over
to its inhabitants.
When it became necessary to reor-
ganize the Cuban railroads Wood se-
cured the services of Sir William Van
Home, 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 tl
establishment of a system for placing
and permanently caring for these lit-
tle dsolates. Chief Justice White
of the Supreme court of the United
States, at that time an associate Jus-
tice, was consulted as to the method to
be parsued In reorganizing the courts.
Leonard Wood vas in Cuba about
four years. He left there a reorgan-
ized and sound banking system, a
good railroad system, no debts, nearly
$2,000,000 unincumbered money in the
treasury, a sngnr crop of nearly 1,000,-
000 tons a sound municipal laws, fine
public works, a firm agricultural
foundation and an absolute respect
amSng t.he People for life and prop-
erty. The school system which Wood
established was founded On the laws
of Massachusetts ad Ohio. Roads
were built wliicli made' communication
speedy. The hospitals erecte Urh, ler lis
supervisloil wr d &e tgla yp
Lord Croer said he wlshed this
American officer was available to fol-
low him in his reconstruction work
in Egypt. Ellhu Root said this work
never was paxaleled in colonial pos-
sessions anywhere. Theodore Roose-
velt said 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.
Afte the Cuban experience Wobd
'was for five years in the Philippines
confronted with the dlfficult labo
establishing a cyll overnmen, th's
time amon 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 codltlons in the British colo-
nies, Borneo, Sigapore, and to keep
.in ckse 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 knowledge of all
which at that time came under,his stu-
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 busl-
00ENTV-¥EAnS00G6 "
(I,'v,::= Jouz'na[ of January 26, lf'O0)
Frank Herman, the Clocuallum
pioneer, is back again, after two
years spent in California.
L J. F. Riley, cashier oi" the State
, Pank, leaves Saturday for San I"ran-
I cisco on a two weeks trip.
i Mr. and Mrs. Bert Daniels of Ho-
quiam spent several days in town
this week.
Andrew Lumsdcn expects to stay
in Shelton this summer and help out
with the ball team.
Win. Cooke, the dairyman, has
leased the company farm in Shelton
Valley and is preparing in increase
his dairy herd.
Nick Campbell returned Friday
from a three months' trip to Ar-
kansas.
John Fisk cme in from Gem, aKan-
sas. on Monday. He has been gone
for several years.
Ash Circle, Women of Woodcraft,
was organized at Odd Fellows hall
Friday. The following ottieers were
installed on Tuesday: Annie Vogflin,
P. G. N.; Esther Munson, G. N.;
Mary Speeee, advisor; hla Wehnes,
clerk; Celia Norton, Mat.; Hattie
Angle, banker; Louisa Wood, attend-
anl; Ben Troyer, 1. G.; (leo. Vog'tlin,
O. G.
Carl Eiekler.has purchased the old
Keezer place, near Matlo:k.
Capt. 'few is having conshterble
trouble with his new boat, the Noth-
ern Light.
New pews have just been com-
pleted for the Methodist Church. ,
Mrs. Stovall and Mrs. Badgle.
have purchased the Shelton Hand
Laundry and wlil continue the busi-
ness at the old stand next to Odd
Fellows hall.
Mrs. O. L. Tew has opened a mil-
linery and dressworking parlor on
second floor of McDonald & .O'Neill's
store.
Note--Oh yes, it was in 1900 when
McDonald & O'Neill quoted the fol-
lowing pmces:
Sugar, 20 lbs. $1.00, 100 1bs...$5.00
Flour. per sack ............... 85
Wheat, 100 pounds ............ 1.05
Shorts 1,00
Ham, -er pound ............... 12
Lard, 10 pounds ............... 90
Butter, er pound ............. 25
Eggs brought 20c a dozen, butter
55c a roll and hay $11 a ton.
STATE POWDER PLAN
' FALLS DOWN AGAIN
OFFERS NO SAVING TO CON-
SUMER, BOARD OF CONTROL
TELLS GOVERNOR
Holding that the act of the last
legislature proiding for a "powder
revolving fund" to be used in the
mrchase of powder in large quanti-
ties for distribution to settlers was
imprv/ctical and of no benefit under
existing conditions, the state board
of control this week recommended
to Governor Louis F. Hart that the
state take no action under the law at
this time.
The board advises that nothing
further be attempted toward state
purchase of powder until manufac-
turers adopt a different policy as to
sale in large quantities.
The board finds that it cannot buy
a year's supply of 30 carloads of
powder any cheaper than at the rate
of a single carload and that counties
or individuals can buy powder on
this basis as cheaply as the state
can. By buying and shipping to cen-
tral point for counties using less than
car lots, or in hundred pound lots, the
local freight rate on small shipments
could be saved, but this is not con-
sidered sufficient to cover cost of
storage and other expense.
The powder purchase act was de-
signed as a means of co-operation
between state and counties in buying
powder at wholesale prices for land
clearing and road work. An appro-
priation of $75,000 was made to start
the revolving fund, and accumula-
tion and use of $500,000 in the lat-
ter authorized if the plan worked
n t"ecetts came in through county
distribution to individual users.
With the idea of determining the
amount of powder that would likely
be used, the board addressed letters
to the commissioners of all the cou-
ties in the state, and receiving but
a few answers to these, addressed
like communications to the county
auditors, asking if they would use
powdel, in car lots. Twelve counties
made no reply whatever, 13 were
not desirous of handling car lots,
seven were indifferent about the mat,
ter and only seven desired the aid of
the board and signified their willing-
ness to distribute from the carloads.
r-01ympia Standard.
9esttle was twice honOred by the
Wmshington irrigation institute, in ses-
Sion s,t Spokane, when E. F. Blaine of
'tha cry was elected president af the
ln.stute and the sound city was c.hose
ms the next fiaeetlng place. Other of-
ricers chosen were E. F. Banker, Okan-
ogan county first vice-president; N,
W. Moulton, Kenaewiek, saoond vl
president; N. W. Durham, Spokane,
and' Ralph B. Williamso, Y.kilah
directors for three years.
Washington women, rpesenting
clubs aad civic organizations :through-
out the tate, meeting at Spekane "tb
plan means .for reducing living ousts,
adopted a ,platform calling for "simp]e
living" and "sane buying," as oppose4
to reckleSS expenditure for luxuries,
ness matter.. : . . l ad launched a state wide campaign
'.une aummmtrauve career oz Leon- ,-- - ,- on ....
to xenon ec omy ann conservauo.
ard Wood is spread upon the records [ The u' f the be c tt a me n
O y0 S& a sto
of his country. The work which he ..........
has done is lasting. It Iea states- caeca prozxteermg was coauemneu as
man's work, danerous sad unngcessa,
" " Ilk,J;/, 1 ,,.a ,.
TItlRTY YEARS AGO
(From Journal of January 31, 1890)
[ Lewis Slelton is in town for a
few days.
[
i License to marry is:sued by Auditor
i Day to John Shaw and liss Francis
Ebcrhart of Mason County.
I L. ]HcPhail is arran'ing to extend
the Commereial Hotel back to the
alley affording move hotel room.
The small house on 7th street
built by Thus. Daniels for. h'is ac-
comdation while at work in town,
burned down Saturday morning. Mr.
Daniels and son will rebuild at once.
Shelton hotels have been 'crowded
the past week. It is leered that
a three-story hotel is soon to be
built here.
We have had snow on the ground
since Christmas, rather unusual and
unpleasant for this part of the coun-
try.
Among visitors at court this week
were: Dan Lynch, We. 0. Ellis,
John Hudson, John Callow and C. S.
Brumbau gh.
W. H. Kneeland is building a dwell-
ing on Second street, in the grove.
S. D. Bidgood and C. S. Brum-
bangh are applicants for enumerators
of census for Mason County.
The additional store room in the
Win. Asmus buihtin: has been rent-
ed to a Seattle hm-dware firm.
F. G. Morrow last week traded his
house and lot at the point to Lewis
Shelton for two lots on Fourth street
back of Bert Knceland's residence.
The Shelton sawmill, Mr. Lewis
manager, shipped a scowload of lure-'
ber to New Kmnilche this week for
the new hotel to be built by Pat
O'Hare.
A most enjoyable dance was held
at Kamilche, now McBryde station
Saturday. Chas. Norton furnished
the musiC.
Frank Duncan is having lumber
hauled for a new blacksmith shop on
the lot recently purchased from Mrs.
Young. This makes the third shop
here.
21 inches of snow and Russian in-
fluenza are reported at Happy Valley.
The Union City mail carrier has
had a hard time of it for the past
two weeks, having been forced to
take the mail over in saddle bags on
horse back.
Waterways Dill Passed by House.
Washlngton.All attacks on the
"porkless" Hver and harbors appro-
priation bill #led in the house and
after numerous amendments had been
rejected the measure was passed with
its appropriation of $12,400.000 for the
maintenance and continuance of work
on projects ander way. The vote on
passage of the bill, which carried the
smallest appropriation of any measure
of its kind in years, was 167 to 25.
American lSxpore 8how Decline.
Washington.---December exports de-
creased in vale $60,000,000 from the
$741,000,000 rmoled for November,
while imports dropped to $381,000,000,
& decrue of $44,000,000. tile commerca
department re¢ted.
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worth $25
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iF he's fine extra larqe, darl
"Shuberi" Wants Washing[on Furs
ALL YOU CAN SHIP
And Will Pay These Extremely Hloh Prices
GET A SHIPMENT OFF--TODAY
[,.IEXTRA LARGE l° N.I LARGE° I N. IMEDIU,° " ,-I.MALL° ¢ I n -° ]
vlXT'A lO AVIA6{ I .XTDA TO AVERAO[ I[XTA 10 AV ,RAG[ ]EXlna YO AvtIIA5 AS TO SIZE ZU&LI
Fine, Dark
Usual Color
Coa?t ......
Winter
all
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125.00 to 20.00118.00 Io 15.001 14.00 to 12.00 I0.00 $r 8.00 10.00 to 5.00
118.00 to 14.00112.00 tO 10.00 [ 9.00 to 7.50 7.0 fo G20 7.01 to 3.50,
112"00 to 10.001 9.00 to 7.50I 7.00to 6.00 5.5o to , 5.50 o 3.00]
I00[U S KRAT
6.00 to 5.001 4.75 to 3.751 3.50 to 2.751 2.50 to 1.751 2.50 to 1.50 [
4.50 to 3.75] 3.50 to 2.751 2.50 to 2.001 1.75 to 1.501 1.75 to 1.25 !
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[XTRA TO AV[RAG[ I[XTIA 1"0 AVIRAO{ XTf)& TO aVQ£ I Va TO AV AQ I AS 10 $11E,Q QUAtITY
Black 15.00to 12.00 ll.00to 9.50 9.25 to 8.25 8.00 to 7.00 7.00 to 3.50
Short 10.00to 9.00 8.50tO 7.50 7.25t0 6.75 6.50to 5.50 6.00to 3.00
Narrow 8.00tO 7.00 6.50t0 6.00 5.50to 5.00 4.75to 4.25 4.50t0 2.00
Broad 5.00to 4.00 3.75t0 3.25 3.00to 2.50 2.25to 1.75 225to 1.25
These extremely high prices are based on the well-known "SHUBERT"
liberal grading and are {luotcd for immediate shipment. No. 3, No. 4,
and otherwise inferior skins at highest market value. For quotations on
other Washington Furs, write for "gSebabettblpper," lhe onl re-
liable and accurate market report and price list of its kind pubhshed.
lt'a FR£E--Write for it.
A shipment to uSHUBERT" will
- result In "more money"--"quleker."
SHIP ALL YOUR FURS DIRECT TO
./&. B. S H U ]5 E RT',00 =
,AMERICAN RAW FURS
,Z- 27 W.Austin Ave. v. ,sChicaqo. U.S.A.
South Americans Have Finance Plan,
Washington, D. C. -- Recommenda-
tion that proposed relief for Europe
from the United States be furnished
through the medium of loans to the
countries of South and Central Ameri-
ca. the proceeds of which would be
used to pay the debts of those colin.
tries to Europe in the form of food-
stuffs and other necessaries, was oon-
sidered by many delegates to the asc-
end pan-American financial congress
as the outstanding conclusion of the
J cong;ess.
Navy Rallww Guns Go to Army.
Washington.Seven railway mounts
for 14-ineh naval ¢iflea, manufactured
by the navy department during th
war for ttaa in France and some of
Whi maw aotual service on the west-
ern front with special gun crews, have
been transferred to "the army on rec-
ommendation ot the Joint army and
navy board.
Bad Ploturee May Bs Barred.
Washington.Immoral motion* plo.
ture films would be barred from inter-
state commerce under a bill reporte{I
y the house Judiciary eommitt.
Compare the Chevrolet
One Ton Truck
with other trucks. You will find none
more practical and economical An
investment in a truck pays dividends
all the year 'round. Modern trucks
operate as well in winter as in sum-
mer. In cold and stormy weather
customers find it a distinct advantage
to deal with a merchant who can de-
liver the goodsto their very doors.
SHELTON GARAGE Phone391
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