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PAGE TWO THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. . TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1915. Kmmimmmisijmm ITIK325 "3 IDXDCTdDiR SUP EE MAM Amazing Story of the Life of an American Citizen Who Placed German Institutions and Kultur Above the Traditions of His Native Land J1UII flSUM EL Y Frank Parker Stockbridge Reveals Character of Man Who Owing All to America, Gave His TalenU to Use of the Kaiser Intimate View of the Promoter. By, Frank Parker Stkbrtdft, Late Copyrlht. 101B T! Nn York. 0 (topjrlcbl. Canada, by jtrbt instalment. This is tbt amazing story of an Ameri can who became a German. It la the atorj of a man who owed everything to the United States, but who when the clash of opposing civilizations culminated in the summer of 1014 with tie opening guns of the world war, elected to throw his sympathy. Lis interest, bis in fluence, his efforts on the side of Ger many. America had given this man's grand father a refuge and a homo when he fled from German oppression. America had given his father wealth and happiness. America had given him, Edward Aloyshis Rumely, the opportunity to acquire mill ions millions that slipped through bis fingers in his eagerness to multiply them. It ia the purpose of this article to throw light on the devious ways and specious methods by which Imperial Germany sought to impose its kultur on a free people. It is the intention to illuminate, in some degree, the plan and purpose of the German propaganda that sought to corrupt the minds of the American pcoplo through their newspapers and that found n willing agent in this American born German. la Rumely a Relncaraatloat - IIow was it possible for an American to lead himself to Germany's ends in this: fashion? Is Edward A. Rumcljr a "throw-! back" to some bygone era? Is he an ata vistic reincarnation of some long dead llun ancestor? I form no conclusion and rttempt to render no verdict on this bio ngi"al question. The life story of Edward A. Itumely himself may furnish the an swer. I have known Edward A. Rumely for more than six years. For nearly two years my association with him was tbat of intimate daily contact Up to tbo sum mer of 1UH I saw Dr. Rume!y only as others saw himan impetuous, cothuiins- L'rc, brilliant, boyish young man with gigantic ideas and limitless confidence in himself and his abilities. Nothing could have been more amazing than his revela tion of himself as the ardent adherent, supporter and advocate of every German istic ideal and conception of civilization that wss diametrically opposed to all that America and American civilization stand for. .'''"-.' ' For nearly three years after the begin ning of the European wur I was in a rotation to observe and to noto mani festations of theso beliefs and this poiut of view: What I nm setting down here is written without malice, entirely without Litterness and i:i no heat or anger. Only One Law Violation Charged. It has not been charged that any of the acts, save one, which Kdward A. Itumely performed was iu violation of any law, and us to that particular charge upon which lis has been indicted I have no knowledge and shall make no comment. Men arc not legally punishable in America for their beliefs so long as their acts in expression of their beliefs do not violate the law of the land. The purpose of this article, therefore, is not to assail Edward A. Itumely but rather to explain him, and in explaining , Mm to explain tho thin; that America is fishtirg. Gorman kultur, its principles, its conceptions, its purposes, its programme nnd its plans Dr. Itumely whatever the explanation, biological or otherwise, for his completo acceptance of kultur as op posed to Americanism, was, and is, I am convinced, entirely sincere in tho belief (hat in working in the interest of the German ideal be was working in the in terest of humanity. This 1.4 story, thru, cf a symbol nil a manifestation rather lh.no of an - Individual. It la nkt Dr. Itumely lnaV for and ll potters nnd pur poses of wlilcti he was merely an In strument taut are the matters of real moment. Seventy years ago, in 1S4S, a group of young Cc:-mans organised a revolution tgainst the Prussian King. They be lieved the time was ripe for tho estab lishment of a democracy in Germany. The revolution was crushed, its leaders fled from tho country and, with thou sands of their followers, came to America in search of the liberty which they had failed to win in the fatherland. Thce revolutionists of 184S men like Carl Scburs, Franz Sigei and hundreds of others whose names hold honored places in the pages of American history were the vanguard of the German immi gration that wn to bring to America in the course of haif a centory several million new citizens. One of theso young revolutionists of MS was Meinrad Rumely, blacksmith. With a group of others he started West. Most of theso forty-eighters went into what was then the West Some of them went into the cities Cincinnati, Milwau kee. St. Louis in such numbers that tbey and their descendants succeeded in dom inating, eventually, the politics and pol icies of tbooe communities. Others went into smaller communities of tuo country districts and Mcinrad Rumely, with a few others, settled upon the little village of l.n Porte, in the rich farming country of Northern Indiana, as their stopping place. Hero Mciurad Ruuu-l.v. the blacksmith, let up his forge in 1SC3. The farmers ' ' " 1 i - ' -' ' ' ' ' .... ' ' t Managing Editor of the Eveninf MaiL Herald Co. All KlrbU ReMrved.) sw York Herald Ctapai;.) brought their tools to him to be repaired and sharpened, their ploughs and har rows, their wagons to be re-tired, their horses to be shod. Under the tickling of the immigrants' ploughs the prairie soil laughed into bountiful harvests. The farmers prospered ; soon the young German blacksmith had to hire a helper; before long he tad several. lie under stood the farmers and spoke their lan guage; they brorifht their troubles to him. Agricultural implements in that day were crude and trifling affairs compared with the tools with which the modern farmer works. It was easy for farmers to grow their Brain, but hard for them to thresh and winnow the huge crops, by the slow, old fashioned, processes in use. It they only had an efficient machine for this purpose ! Winter nights as he smoked his long stemmed, china bowled pipe Meinrsd Rumely was plarning ways to solve this vexing problem of his farming neighbors. Finally he built a crude machine. Next harvest he tried it, and it worked. The farmers, saw it and liked it and asked him to build more of them. In another two or three years the village blacksmith shop bad developed into a manufacturing plant where tho Rumely grain separators were being turned out. Business Grows and Prospers. The business grew and prospered. So did Meinrsd Rumely's family, for he had taken unto himrelf a wifo of the blood and the soil of hfs native land. By and by the sign rending "M. Rumly" came down and a new one went up. It read, "M. Rumely & Sons." The village of Laporte grew, too, and with its growth tho family fortune of M. Rumely & Sons increased, for he had bought land in the early days, and his sons had bought, and now that land was in demand fur factories and for homes for people who worked in the factories. And M. Rumely & Sons added other agricultural implements to their hue and wero the biggest factory of all in Laporte. In 1S87 the business was incorporated as the M. Rumely Company. Tho names of Rumely and of Laporte almost meant the same thing; they almost mean the same thing to-day. The visitor to Laporte steps off the Lake Shore train into the railroad station that lies in the midst of a great group of manufacturing plants, every one of them bearing the Rumely name. He drives up to Main street, which has lately changed its name to Lincoln Highway, past more factory buildings carrying the Itumely name, and he registers at tho Rumely Hotel. That is the background, the setting an l the tradition into which Edward Aloysius Itumely was born at Laporte, on Febru ary S, 1882. His father woa Joseph J Rumely, oldest son of Melnrad Rumely; bis mother, the daughter of another pio neer German settler, wtis Margaret Zim merman. From his earliest infancy the child was regarded by his admiriug family as a prodigy. Learned to Talk German Early. Ue learned to talk both in German unj in English much earlier thun children usually learn even one language; in Ger man, for even after thirty-five years in America German was Ktill the language of tho home circle in Mriurail Rumcly'd family. The sentimental attachment to the Fatherland, which was shared until lately by the majority of the German born citizens of tho United States, and which tho Kaiser fatuously believed he could capitalize and manipulate to serve his own ends in America, was nowhere found more deeply rooted than here in Laporte. Edward A. Rumely grew up in Laporte nmid nn ever widening circle of friends and acquaintances, who marvelled at his ready mastery of books and proclaimed him a genius. Few boys in this or any- other country ever displayed the precocity and facility for absorbing information and knowledge on every conceivable subject that young Rumely showed. Everything interested him everything interests him still. Ho read every book he could lay his hands on, from Agricul tural Department Reports to the latest exposition of the canons of l'Art Xouveau. Such brilliancy nnd versatility in tha eyes of his family destined him for a pro fessional career. Devout Catholics, they determined that he should become a priest; doubtless, they had mental visions of their son in the red hat of a Cardinal of Rome who knows? They sent him to the great Catholic College, the University of Notre Dame, at Notre Dame, Ind. The more young Rumely contemplated the idea of becoming a priest the less it appealed to him. He did not complete his course at Notre Darne. but persuaded his parents to let him go abroad; he wanted a taste of Europe, he wanted to see what great universities of foreign lands could offer him. Si in ISO!) ho started for Europe. He was still a boy in bis teens, when he matriculated nt Oxford. Somewhere in America, perhaps, he had picked uf the germ of socialism; perhaps it was through the associations he formed at Oxford that he became inoculated with the socialistic virus, for he lived while at Oxford in Ituakin House, the centre Aim 0 F w OR. t0WAR0, of Fabian socialism founded by another American, Frank B. Vrooman. He remained at Oxford a year. "I got all that Oxford University had to offer me in one year," he told afterward. From Oxford he went to Heidelberg. He took with him a pronounced socialistic- viewpoint and a dislike for England, the English people, their government and their customs that he has not hesitated freely and frequently to express. It was at this time that he first hogan to affect the long hair, the starchless collar and general unkemptness which the juvenile socialist finds so satisfying to his yearnings for equality. At Heidelberg, essentially the university of tho aristocratic junkers, young Rumely found but little sympathy for his social istic viewpoint at first. His German was perfect, his manners were perfectly Ger man, as they still are. As a German socialist he was quickly made to feel that his presence in the university was un welcome to his fellow students. "When I took my seat on one of the benches in the lecture hall the student sitting next to me moved away," he said in describing his life at Heidelberg to me. "The next day the same thing hap pened, and the next The third time the other members of the class began shuf fling their feet upon the floor, which is a German atudeut way of expressing dis approval. Asked If He Is n Jew. "After the lecture I was waited on by a committee of the class who demanded to know if I were a Jew. I told them no, I was an American, whereupon they apologized. They had assumed from my dress that I must be a socialist and, therefore, a Jew, but. of course, as an American, I was privileged to dress as I pleased." Young Rumely's etay at Heidelberg was not much longer than had been his residence at Oxford. It was at about this time that he came to the definite determination not to become a priest A break with his family followed, remit tances from home ceased and he was thrown upon his own resources. He ap plied for and obtained a position as a school teacher. It is or was the custom in many of the German schools for the boys to make frequent long pilgrimages to different parts of the empire. These tramping trips sometimes lasted-Jor weeks. Thej young American teacher took parties of boys on many of these pilgrimages. thereby coming into the closest touch with the life and customs and point of view of the German people. Decides to Become Physician. It was during his teaching days that be decided to btcome a physician. At Freiburg, in the Black Forest, is the most progressive medical college ri Germany. It was here that the celebrated "twilight sleep" was originated and for many years exclusively practised. So lo Freiburg went Rumely. In the study of medicine, as in other lines, he showed the same brlliancy of intellect and quick and easy mastery of the subject in band that had won him the appellation of . "genius" .in his boyhood home. He was only twenty-four years old when the University of Freiburg conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The degree of M. D. was granted at Freiburg on tho presentation of a thesis,. much in the same way that the degree of h. D. and other academic degrees are conferred by American universities. Dr. Rumely's thesis was probably tha briefest on record. One of the professors nt Frei burg, a surgeou, had the habit, whenever, ,A. a'UMEtX- he performed an abdominal operation of any kind, of cutting out the patient'i appendix at the same time and preserving jit. He had several hundred of these canned appendices in his laboratory. , Young Rumely subjected them all to microscopic examination and found cer tain pathological conditions common to ali of them, tbe diseased and healthy alike His deductions and conclusions based on this research occupied in written form less than three pages of typewriting, bu cn this thesis he was awarded his coveted degree. , , T . . It was during his residence in Freiburg that young Rumely took an active part in German politics. Without going through the formality of renouncing his American citizenship he became an active member of the socialist party. The socialists of Freiburg, although in the minority, held the balance of power. In Freiburg lived Dr. von Schulze-Gaevernitz, one of the foremost scholars and students of state' craft in the German Empire. Active In German Politics. To a very considerable extent German opinion of England, the English people and their relative importance in the scheme of things is based upon the writ lugs of von Schulze-Gaevernitz, who spent several years in England and wrote voluminously of his observations there. In von hchulze-Uaevernitz s belief tbat the English were a decadent race and the British empire dying of dry rot, Dr. Rumely, as he has more than once assured me, thoroughly coincided as a result of his own observations while at Oxford. Dr. von Schulze-Gaevernitz had also travelled extensively in Russia and helped by his writings to form German opinion of Russia and the Russians. Of von Schulze- Gaevernitz in his role of defender of and apologist for Germany's world ambitions you shall hear more later, for the friend' ship that sprung up between the German scholar and the young American medical student proved an enduring one, at least up to a very short time before America drew the sword against Germany. I do not know that young Rumely was the- one who suggested to the socialists of Freiburg that they were throwing away their votes by nominating a third party ticket find thereby always insuring the election of a member of the Catholic party to the Reichstag from that district he tells with great gusto, however, of the adoption by the socialist party, of whicn he was a member, of the proposal to com bine with tho liberal party in nominating Dr. von Schulze-Gaevernitz, a plan which proved so successful that the eminent apostle of Kultur became the member oi the Reichstag from that particular sec tion of the Black Forest. It was not long after this excursion into German politics that a reconciliation with his family in America came about and young Rumely returned to Laporte, in September, 1000, bringing with him his. German degree of M. I. and unshakable belief in the ultimr.te destiuy of the Ger man nation to world domination. Young Rumely had not been back in America more than a few months before he set on foot his first venture in the in troduction of German Kultur into bls native land. This was t'.ie establishment of a school for boys which had for its principle and avowed purpose the train ing of rich men's sons to become masters of men and lords of tbe land. In Germany he had seen and studied at first hand the most highly socialized nation on the face of tbe globe. He had seen a country with every acre of tillable land under intensive cultivation a nation ruled by a governing class of landed pro prietors, whose vast estates were tilled for them by patient peasants and toiling tenant farmers. ! America ' had no such class of Junkers. There were schools in plenty to teach the trades and train boys into artisans, but there were no schools designed to take the boy destined to in herit the control of big business and man- facturing enterprises and teach him how to become a ruler of workmen. Dr. Rumely conceived a school that would take these boys from eight years old Upward and by a combination of scholastic and manual education' fit them to understand the fundamentals of indus try and agriculture while at the same time preparing for entrance to te university, "These are the boys who will be the rulers of America in the next genera tion," he said to me the first time I vis ited his school. "The future welfare ot America depends upon their fitness to rule and direct the destinies of the na don." The school was started in 1007 at La porte. An able young educator, Fatrick H. Riordan, waa employed as Dr. Rumely's chief assistant and the institu tion grew and flourished. Many wealthy men enrolled their sons as students and the boys liked the school and its methods. It was not long before it became neces sary for the institution to move into larger quarters and the doctor purchased a tract of several hundred acres of farm and wood land surrounding a beautiful little lake near the village of Rolling Prairie, a few miles east ot Laporte. Here the construction of school buildings on a huge scale by the boys themselves was undertaken. Trees were cut down in the forests surrounding the lake and great school buildings, dormitories and other structures built in rustic fashion out of the rough logs. Names School "Intorlakon." To the school thus built Dr. Rumely gave the German name of "Interlaken." Very early in the history of the Inter laken School marked differences of opin ion and point of view developed between Dr. Rumely and Mr. Riordan, resulting eventually in the latter's withdrawal and the establishment of a school of his own in New York State. With Mr. Riordan's departure Dr. Rumely found no further opposition to the execution of the educa tional ideas and methods he had brought from Germany and those which he had de veloped. Great attention was paid to the phys ical development of the boys. The lake furnished an ideal swimming pool, and the boys were taught and encouraged to swim, to row and fish, and in winter to skate. I sat on the bank of the lake one summer afternoon with Dr. Rumely watching a group of his pupils swim ming and diving and running along the shore, while the doctor commented on the grace and beauty of their naked bodies glistening in the sunshine. Extolled German Fayaleal Ideals. "One of the most hopeful things about Germany," he said, "is the way the young men of wealth and family are going in for physical development They are not doing this as the English do, merely for the sake of sport or to make themselves pleasing and attractive to women, but in the spirit of the aucient Greeks, realising that tbe rulers of the perfect state must be themselves per fectly developed." Tbe boys at Interlaken did all of the work of the school. Tbey not only built their own houses and school buildings, but took care of them. Each boy was required to make his own bed, clean his own room or his part of the dormitory, even wash his own clothes. The gen eral policing and cleaning up of build ings and grounds was assigned to the boys, each boy being in turn placed in command of other boys to perform spec ified parts of this work. Except for the Chinese cooks and one fireman in the central heating plant nud power house, all tho labor of the school proper was performed by the boys. They also did the bulk of the agricultural labor on the two hundred acre farm under the direction of a farm manager. One of the educational ideas which Dr. Rumely brought from Germany and put into effect nt Interlaken was that of taking groups of boys out on long tramps over the countryside. Some times these pilgrimages would cover only a couple of days, sometimes longer peri ods. With Dr. Rumely and about forty boys from Interlaken aehool I went on one of these walking trips. Took n Fifteen W1I Tramp. We tramped from Interlaken one Satur day afternoon to a point on the eastern hore of Lake Michigan, about fifteen miles distant, where we camped for the night amid the sand dunes, and the next day, after a plunge in the lake, tramped back to the school. As we marched along the dusty roadside Dr. Rumely talked enthusiastically about his tramps round Germany with parties of German school boys. On this, and other occasions too, ho told me of his dream of the de velopment in America of a class of great landed proprietors who would bo the leaders and rulers of America. "These boys, or most of them," he said will inherit fortunes and the control of great enterprises. If they are early given training in the fundamentals of agricult ure and the habit of outdoor life, are taught to work with their hands and so be able later to direct intelligently the work of others who labor with their hands, many , of them will buy large tracts of land and put it under cultivation with modern methods of scientific agriculture. American men of wealth are already be ginning to turn their eye back to the land. It is to these men that we must look for leadership and I hope to see the fathers of many of my boys here buying! great farms for them and starting them on a solid foundation. Day of Small Farmer Over. "The day of the small farmer is about over. Modern agriculture is a big buai ness operation and must be financed by men or wealth." If this sounds like strange doctrine for a socialist, remember tht Dr. Rume ly's socialism is the German State so cialism, the scheme of things under which a ruling class founded upon its landed estates and controllinc the wealth and capital of the nation provides, through its servants, the scholars and intellectuals, an exactly measured modi cum of comfort and happinoss for the individuals of the lower Classes, whom (t trains from childhood to the occupa tions of the artisan and tbe peasant This sort of socialism docs not ques tion tho right of the rich to rule the poor, of the strong to dictate to the weak. It is tbe socialism that cornea with Its hat in Its hand begging the rich and all powerful rolers of the State to grant as a privilege the things that are every human being's right. It wis on one of these hikes with Dr. Rumely nnd tbe boys of the Interlaken school that Dr. Rumely expressed him self to me on the subject of German mi itary effieiency. Savr Valoe tn Boys Waks. "There is wonderful educational value," he said, "for boys in tramps about the country like this. My friend, Har rington Emerson, the efficiency engineer, told me that his whole career was shaped by ft trip, when a boy, with his father in the wake of von Moltke's army. What impressed him was tho thoroughness snd completeness with which the German plans for the advance on Paris bad been developed and carried out" At one time tbe Interlaken school had nearly one hundred and fifty students. The list of Its patrons who sent their boy 8 there to be educated reads like a section of the Directory of Directors Through these boys Dr. R timely came in contact with many of their parents, men of large affairs, many of whom were greatly impressed with the brilliancy of the young pedagogue's mind, his enthu siasm and his energy. It was through the Interlaken school that Dr. Rumely met and gained the friendship of Mr. S. S. McClure, with whom he was later to be associated in the New York Evening MaiL Mr. Mc Clure was one of the first to respond to the doctor's announcement of tbe open ing of the school and enrolled his adopt ed son, Enrico, now serving with the Col ors in France, as one of the very first pupils. Enrico developed a special apti tnde for agriculture and for some time before his enlistment managed success fully the McClure farm in Connecticut School Not Propaganda Inspired. I want to make myself perfectly clear in pointing out that there is not the slightest ground for suspicion that the Interlaken school,, either as to its incep tion or its conduct, was any part of a conscious German propaganda in Amer ica. The German language and history were and are taught there, but so, too. are Jfrencn and fengusn. a Dumper of the teachers, at various times, espe cially those employed as instructors in tbe arts and crafts have been German born. I have told in some detail of the plan and programme of the school he cause it plays an important part in any attempt to analyze snd understand the man who founded it School teaching alone, however, pro vided no adequate outlet for the un bounded energies and unquenchable en thusiasm for new ideas which are Ed ward A. Rumely's dominont character istics. The development of American agri culture on big lines had taken possession of his fancy. It is characteristic of the man to think in bin terms. To whatever line of activity he directs his interest his confidence in himself and his ability to carry the project through ia not dimmed by the mere size of the enterprise. Here at hand l. y the nucleus of an en terprise that was not only directly con nectcd with agriculture, but which seemed to offer the opportunity to develop gigantic industrial enterprise as well the agricultural implement business that his grandfather had founded and his father and uncles had continued. "When I took over the management of the Rumely Company it was earning about thirty thousand dollars a year," Dr. Rumely once told me. "I made it earn one hundred thousand dollars in my first year, around half a million dollars the second year and above a million the third year. The Rumely Company business hod been growing rapidly while Edward A Rumely was abroad. When he came back he found the family enterprise was build ing a much larger line of agricultural implements than ever before. Among the other products of the company was a steam tractor for hauling ploughs, oper a ting threshing machiues and taking-the placo of horses generally in farm work. Among his other talents Dr. Rumely has a distinct bent for mechanics. In the course of his life in Germany he had wit nessed the astounding development in that country of the internal combustion engine. Ibe steam engine was to ms mind antiquated and crude. What the American fnrmer needed. he decided, was a tractor operated by an internal combustion engine. To compete with tbe steam engine it must bo simple and rugged in its construction and i:sc fuel readily obtainable anywhere nt rea sonable cost Gasolene was expensive and growing more so, but kerosene, ne, i longer the chief product of the oil re finer, but now an incidental by-product to the manufacture of gasolene, was cheap and getting cheaper. He con vinced the other members of his fam- ' lly, who were, with himself, the control ling owners of the Rumely Company. a fortune lay within their graspif""f2ey could develop a kerosene engine and a tractor operated by it Kerosene Encrlne Developed, " ' The first kerosene tractor built In tLs Rumely . plant was an object of tho greatest interest and curiosity to every one connected with the concern. It was affectionately nicknamed "Kerosene An nie," and great was the speculation in the shops and the offices as to whether Kerosene Annie would really work. At last the tractor was finished and it worked. Under Dr. Rumely's manage ment for he had now been made general manager cf tho M. Rumely Company, the organization at once entered upon a career of tremendous expansion. When the development work on Kerosene Ai nie was completed in 1910 the buiB4at represented perhaps $2,000,000 of iarZQh. ment " In a statement signed by Dr. IS. Al Rumely, general manager, issued in Janu ary, 1912, he pointed out that in fifteen months a million dollar plant had been constructed for the manufacture of tho new Oil-Pull Tractor, which was tho name by which "Kerosene Annie" had been officially christened; that the com pany's stock had been increased to ten million dollar of common stock and twelve million preferred; that the agri cultural implement businesses of Gear, Scott & Co of Richmond, Ind., and the Advance Thresher Company, of Battle Creek, Mich., had been acquired snd sb- sorbed, and tbat nothing but prosperity lay ahead. There was, apparently, ample ground to justify this optimism. Tho Oil-Pull Tractor had mads a big hit from the start Dr. Rumely had spent huge sums in advertising it to the farmers snd it was proving its superior efficiency wherever tractor trials snd ploughing contests were held. The new plant was a model factory in every sense of the word. I went through it soon after it was in fan operation. I had seen many big manufacturing plants, but never be fore one in which every process seemed to be so nearly automatic. "What did you think of the new plant?" Dr. Rumely asked me after I had in spected it Nobody Worfcod Hard at Plant. "It is the first plant I ever saw where -the men sat in rocking chairs and let the machines do the work." I replied. "The only men I saw doing any work were some fellows out in the shed chipping castings. : "We're putting in a pneumatic machine to do that also," replied Dr. Rumely. Other manufacturers came to see the new plant and to study the methods by which the business of the M. Rumely Company had multiplied so rapidly. On a of these visitors was Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer whose gigantic Success has been built on the application of the soundest methods of qusntity pro duction. Mr. Ford took a liking to tha enthusiastic young general manager of tho Rumely Company, but he shook his head after ha had looked into the general scheme of the business. "You are making too many different things," he told Dr. Rumely. "Besides, your tractor is too expensive. There are not enough farmers who can use or af ford to pay for tractors that cost from $1,000 to $3,000 each. What you want to do is to make one design of cheap tractor and reach the broader market" Mr. Ford's Forecast Fulfilled. "He wanted me to lend him $10,000.. 000," Mr. Ford told me recently, "but I didn't believe his methods were sound. snd I did not let him have it He said that if I did not lend it to him he -could get it in Wall street I told him if he did that it would not be long before Wall street owned his business, and that is exactly what happened." The first time I ever met Edward A. Rumely was the day he got back from bis successful visit to Wall street in search of additional working capital. X had stopped off at Laporte on my way West with a letter of introduction to him, in .une l'Ji-. tie got iu on ue next cram and we had hardly shaken hands before be began to tell me about the wonderful piece of financing ho had just put through for the Rumely Company. "I have just placed two billion dollars back of the Rumely Company!" he ex claimed. "I have got the backing of the United States Steel Corporation and tha Standard Oil!" He showed me documents in which New York private bankers agreed to dis count ten million dollars of tbe Rumely Company notes, secured by the deposit of farmers' notes to tho Rumely Company. He was as gay and ebullient as a school boy. His .troubles were over! There were unlimited millions yet available where these had . come from ard the Rumely Company, with the Oil-Pull Trac tor was going to show the International Harvester Company just where to head in! In the next instalment XXr. Stockbridge will tell the story of the Rumely Company's financial crash. 'He will also tell how Dr. Rumely disclosed to him tha whole German plan and purpose in the war as it has since been developed and proposed to educats tha American people to tie Ger man viewpoint. fi ryT re i