Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-07-18

for England, the English people, their
government and their customs that he
has not hesitated freely and frequent
ly to express.
1t was at this time that he first be-
gan to affect the long hair, the
starchless collar and general un-
kemptness which the juvenile socialist
finds so satisfying to his yearnings
for equality.
At Heidelberg, especially the uni
versity of the aristocratic junkers,
young Rumely found but little sym
pathy for his socialistic viewpoint at
first His German was perfect, his
manners were perfectly German, as
they still are. As German sociafst
he was quickly made to feel that his
presence in the university was unwel-
come to his fellow students.
when l 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 happened and the
next. The third time the other men,
bers of the class began shuffling their
feet upon the floor, which IS Ger
man student way of expressing dis
approval.
Asked II He Is q jew.
After the lecture / was waited on
by committee of the class who de-
anded to know il were Jew told
them no. I was an American, where
upon they apologized. They had as
sumed from my dress that ] must be
socialist and therefore, Jew, but,
of course, as an American, was priv
ileged to dress as I pleased
Young Rumely's stay at Heldel-
berg was not much longer than had
been his rsidence at Oxford. 1t was
at about this time that he came to
the definite determination not to be-
IGome a priest. A break with his family
followed, remittances from home
ceased and he was thrown upon his
own resources He applied for and
obtained a position as a school teach
er..
1t is or was the custom in many or
make frequent long pilgrlmages TO
different parts of the empire These
tramping trips sometimes lasted Tor
weeks. The young American teacher
took parties of boys on many of these
pilgrimages, thereby coming INTO the
closest touch with the life and Gus
toms and point of view of the German
| people.
Decides to Become Physician.
1t was during his teaching days that
| he decided to become physician. AT
Freiburg, in the Black Forest. is the
most progressive medical college IN
! Germany. 1t was here that the ceie-
brated twilight sleep was originated
| and for many years exclusively prac-
ticed. So to Freiburg went Rumely.
| In the study of medicine, as in oth-
er lines, he showed the same bril-
| liancy of intellect and quick and easy
mastery of the subject in hand that
had won for him the appellation oi
genius" in his boyhood home. lie
| was only "a years old when the Uni
versity of Freiburg conferred upon
him the degree of Doctor of Medi-
! cine.
The degree of M. D. was granted
at Freburg on the presentation of
thesis much in the same way that the
degree of Phi. d. and other academic
| degrees are conferred by American
universities. DR.. Rumely's thesis was
probably the briefest on record. One
of the professors at Freiburg "a sur
| geon had the habit, whenever he per-
| formed an abdominal operation of any
| kind, of cutting out the patients APP
pendix at the same time and preserv-
ing it, He had several hundred OF
these canned appendices in his labora-
| tory.
Young Rumely subjected them all
! to microscopic examination and found
certain pathological conditions, COM
mon to all of them, the diseased and
the healthy alike. His deductions and
conclusions based on this research oc-
oupied in written form less than three
pages of typewriting, but on this the
sis he was awarded his coveted degree
Active i'm German Politics.
Tt was during his residence in Frei-
burg that young Rumely took an ac-
tive part in German politics. Without
going through the formality of re-
nouncing his American citizenship he
became an active member of the so.
cialist party The socialists of Frei
burg, although in the minority, held
the balance of power In Freiburs
lived DR.. von Schultze- -Gaevernitz one
of the foremost scholars and student:
of statecraft in the German empire
To very considerable extent Ger
man opinion in England, the English
people and their relative Importance
in the scheme is based upon the writ
ings of Won Schultze- -Gavernitz, wht
spent several years in England anc
wrote voluminously of his writing
there. In Won Schultze Gaevernitz
belief that the English were a deca
dent race and the British empire dy'
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