Identifier: leonardwoodadmin01hobb (find matches) Title: Leonard Wood, administrator, soldier, and citizen Year: 1920 (1920s) Authors: Hobbs, William Herbert, 1864-1952 Wood, Henry A. Wise (Henry Alexander Wise), 1866-1939 Subjects: Wood, Leonard, 1860-1927 Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: e down so close to the 2i6 Leonard Wood ground that our men were firing at it withrevolvers. Our failure to provide aero-planes and to live up to the schedule whichwas expected of us has been a cause of bitterdisappointment and no small amount ofembarrassment, and, as I said above, theenemy has taken our statements veryseriously and prepared to meet them effec-tively. The ships which were so badly needed totransport our men and supplies abroad did notmaterialize. To head the Emergency FleetCorporation, the President called the dis-tinguished builder of the Panama Canal, buthe made all the decisions of General Goethalssubject to approval by an admiralty lawyerfrom San Francisco who was at the head of theShipping Board. The public at last becameexasperated when two vitally importantmonths had been squandered in a deadlockwithin this double-headed organization, adifficulty which the President delayed toremedy. General Goethals wisely opposed thegranting of almost unlimited contracts upon Text Appearing After Image: General Wood in iqi8 At War 217 the vicious cost plus system with its en-couragement of inefficiency, as he did the largescale construction of obsolete types of woodenships; and his wisdom has since been confirmedby our experience in constructing these almostworthless vessels. In discussing the equipment of the AmericanExpeditionary Force, the War Departmentsofficial report (The War with Germany) says:The army in France always had sufficientfood and clothing. Captain Archie Roose-velt commanded a company in the famousFirst American Division, a division which hadnearly 100 per cent, of casualties. He reportsthat his men were without suitable shoes dur-ing hard campaigning, and that after all at-tempts to secure them through official channelshad failed, he wrote home and obtained thempromptly. His wife and his father acting to-gether bought and sent to his command attheir own expense 250 pairs of shoes whicharrived at a critical time. He says: To refute the dehberate lies put forth byth

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