Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-07-18

too, and with its growth the family
fortune of M. Rumely & Sons in
creased, for he had bought land in the
early days, and his sons had bought,
and now that land was in demand for
factories and for homes for people
worked in the factories. And M:
Rumely Il Sons added other agrlcul-
tural instruments to their line and
were the biggest factory of all in La
porte.
The names of Rumely and of La
porte almost mean 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 great
group of manufacturing plants, every
one of them bearing the Rumely
name. He drives up Main street.
which has lately changed its name to
Lincoln highway, past more factory
buildings carrying the Rumely name,
and he registers at the Rumely hotel
That is the background, the setting
Aloysius Rumely was born at Laporte,
on February 8, 1882. His father was
Joseph j. Rumely eldest son of Mein-
ran Rumely; mother, the daughter
of another pioneer German settler,
was Margaret Zimmerman. From his
earliest infancy the child was regard
ed by his admiring family as a prod
ICY.
Learned to Talk German Early.
He learned to talk both in German
and the English language much ear
lier than children usually learn even
one language; in German, for even af-
ter thirty-five years in America Ger
man was still the language of the
home circle in Meinrad Rumely's fam
ily. The sentimental attachment to
the fatherland, which was shared un-
til lately by the majority of the Ger
man-born citizens of the United
States, and which the kaiser fatuously
believed he could capitalize and ma
n1pulate to serve his own ends in
America, was nowhere found more
deeply rooted than here in Laporte.
Edward A. Rumely grew IN in
l.aporte amid an ever widening circle
of friends and acquaintances. who
marvelled at his ready mastery of
DOCKS and proclaimed him a genius,
Few boys in this Or any other country
ever displayed the precocity and facil-
ity for absorbing information and
knowledge on every conceivable sub
Ject that young Rumely showed.
Everything interested him-every-
thing interests him still He read ev-
cry book he could lay his hands on
from agricultural department reports
to the latest exposition of the canons
of fArt Nouveau. Such brilliancy and
versatility in the eyes of his family
destined him for professional 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?
Sent to NOtre Dame University.
They sent him to the great Catholic
college, the University of Notre Dame
| at Notre Dame, Ind
How much influence Notre Dame
had upon his future career is difficult
to appraise. 1t was at this university
however that he met and became the
friend of John Dewey, a brilliant Irish
lad. Dewey is editor and publisher of
weekly paper, the Gaelic American,
recently barred from the United
States mails for anti-British utter
ances. Part of the money with which
the Gaelic American was financed
Dewey obtained as a loan from his
prosperous old university mate,
Rumely.
The more young Rumely contem-
plated the idea of becoming a priest,
the lest 1t appealed to him. He did
not complete his course at Notre
Dame, but persuaded his parents to
let him go abroad; he wanted taste
of Europe, he wanted to see what
great universities of foreign lands
could offer him.
He was still boy in his teens when
he marticulated at oxford. Some
where in America, perhaps, he had
picked up the germ, of socialism, per-
haps it was through the associations
he formed at oxford that he became
inoculated with the socialistic virus,
for he lived while at Oxford in Ruskin
House, the center Of Fabian socialism
founded by another American, Frank
B. vrooman.
At Oxford for Year.
| He remained at Oxford a year. Il
got all that Oxford university had to
offer me in one year. he told after
wards. From Oxford he went to Heidi