The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-23
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he performed an abdominal operation OF
any kind, of cutting out the patients
appendix at the same time and preserving
! it. He had several hundred of these
canned appendices in his laboratory.
| Young Rumely subjected them all to
microscopic examination and found Ger.
tain pathological conditions common to ali
of them, the diseased and healthy alike
His deductions and conclusions based on
this research occupied in written form
less than three pages of typewriting, but
degree --,---- .--
| 1t was during his residence in Freiburs
that young Rumely took an active part in
German politics. Without going through
| the formally 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.. Won Schulze-Gaevernitz, one of the
foremost scholars and students OF state.
craft in the German Empire.
Active in German Politics.
To very considerable extent German
opinion of England, the English people
and their relative importance in the
scheme of things is based upon the writ.
ngs Of Won Schulze- Gaevernitz, who spent
several years in England and wrote
unanimously of his observations there. In
Won SchulzeGaevernitzs belief that 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 conceded as a result of his
own observations while at Oxford.
DR.. Won Schulze-Gaevernitz had also
travelled extensively in Russia and helped
by his writings to form German opinion Of
Russia and the Russians. OF Won 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 very short time before America
drew the sword against Germany
/ 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 and 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 which
he was a member, of the proposal to COM
DR.. Won Schulze-Gaevernitz a plan which
proved so successful that the eminent
apostle of Kultur became the member of
the Reichstag from that particular Sec
ton of the Black Forest.
1t was not long after this excursion into
German politics that reconciliation with
his family in America came about and
young Rumely returned to Laportc, in
September 1906, bringing with him his
German degree of NJ. y. and unsuitable
belief in the ultimate destiny of the Ger
man nation to world domination.
Young Rumely had not been back in
America more than few months before
he set on foot his first venture in the in
PRODUCTION of German Kultur into bis
native land. This was the establishment
of school for boys which had for its
PiihNiPiC shu aNo"Su pun oSC Ihe ~ oAh
ing OF rich mems sons to become masters
of men and lords Of the land.
In Germany he had seen and studied
at first hand the most highly socialized
nation on the face of the globe. He had
seen country with every acre OF tillable
land under intensive cultivation-a nation
ruled by governing class of landed pro-
prietors, whose vast estates were titled
for them by patient peasants and toiling