The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-23

great Yarns for them and starting them
on solid foundation.
Day Of Small Farmer over.
'The day of the small farmer is about
over. Modern agriculture IL 4 big bust.
ness operation and must be financed by
men Of wealth"
II this sounds like strange doctrine
for socialist. remember that DR.. Rune
ly's socialism is the German State so.
cialism. the scheme Of things under
which a ruling class founded upon it,
landed estates and controllIux the wealth
and capital Of the nation provides.
through its servants. the scholars and
intellectuals, an exactly measured uodi-
cum Of comfort and happiness for the
individuals Of the lower glasses, whom
L trains from childhood to tho occupa.
lions of the artisan and the peasant.
| This sort OF socialism does not cues
ton tho right Of the rich to rule the
poor, Of the strong to dictate to the weak.
1t is the socialism that comes with it,
hat in its hand begging the rich and all
powerful rulers Of the State to grant as
a privilege the things that are every
human beings right.
| It was OH one Of these hikes with DR..
Rumely and the boys of the Interlaken
school that DR.. Rumely expressed him
self to me on the subject Of German mil
itary efficiency.
Saw. Value in Boys' walks.
There is wonderful educational value, 7"
he said. "for boys in tramps about
the country like this. My friend, Har-
rington Emerson, the efficiency engineer,
by G trip, when boy, with his father
| in the wake Of Won Moltke's army. What
| impressed him was tho thoroughncss and
completeness with which the German
plans for the advance on Paris bad been
developed and carried out"
At one time the Interlaken school had
nearly one hundred and fifty students
The list of its patrons who sent their
boys there TO be educated reads like =
section of the Directory Of Directors
Through these boys DR.. Rnmely came
in contact with many Of their parents,
men Of large affairs, many Of whom were
greatly impressed with the brilliancy Of
the young pedagosue's mind, his enthu-
siasm and his energy.
1t was through the Interlaken school
that DR.. Rumely met and gained the
friendship of Mr.. s. S. Mcclure. with
whom ne was later to be associated In
the New York Evening Mail. Mr.. Nc
Clure was one of the first to respond to
the Doctors announcement Of the open.
ing Of the school and enrolled his adopt
ed son, Enrico, now serving with the coll
ors in France, as one Of the very first
pupils. Enrico developed special apti-
tude for agriculture and for some time
before his enlistment managed success
fully the Mcclure farm in Connecticut
School Not Propaganda InspireA.
want to make myself perfectE clear
slightest ground for suspicion that the
Interlaken school, either as to its incep-
ton or its conduct, was any part of
conscious German propaganda in Amer
lea. The German language and history
were and are taught there, but SO, too.
are French and English. A number
of the teachers, at various times, espe-
cially those employed as instructors III
the 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 and understand the
man who founded 1t.
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 dominant character.
istics.
The development Of American agri-
culture on big lines had taken possession
of his fancy. 1t is characteristic of the
man to think in big terms. To whatever
line of activity he directs his interest his
confidence in himself and his ability to|
carry the project through Is 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 al
gigantic industrial enterprise as well-the
agricultural implement business that his
grandfather had founded and his father
and uncles had continued.
when took over the management of
the Rumely Company it was Gaming
about thirty thousand dollars q year," Dr..
Rumely once told me- Il made it earnI
one hundred thousand dollars in my first
year, around half a million dollars the
second year and above million the third
year."
The Rumcly Company business had
been growing rapidly while Edward a.
Rumely was abroad. When he came back /
he found the family enterprise WINS 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 pioughs, oper-t
ating threshins machines and taking the
place of horses generally in farm work
Among his other talents DR.. Rumely
has distinct bent for mechanics. In the
course of his life in Germany he had wit
messed the astounding DEVELOPMENT in
that country of the internal combustion
engine. The steam engine was to his
mind antiquatcd and crude.
What the American farmer needed.