The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-07
Run1ely, by Secret Links
with Huns, First to Know
Deutschland Was Coming
Also Had knowledge of Bremens Leaving German Port
Long in Advance of Any Other News Agency IN America
His Propaganda Efforts Complete Failure

furniture about the composing room as
the foreman's desk.
I can't tell, either, how many times
Germany was declared to have won the
war, France and England to have been
actually defeated, in the editorial columns
of the Mail. These were moral vic
tories,' of course, but DR.. Rumely was
perfectly sure they had been won. That
Germany was right and the others wrong
was his sincere belief As have said be-
FORE he did no violence to his conscience
in espousing the German cause-he had
become German. And up to very late in
1916 the war was long way off from
America as whole. We We're, as a peo-
pie, looking at it from a perfectly de-
tached viewpoint and mostly hoping we
would never have to look at it any moro
closely.
Entirely apart from any question OF
taking sioes III the war. DR.. Rumely ex
hibited great interest IN municipal affairs
as every German does. If there is cne
thing above all others in which Germans
take pride it is in their belief that they
have the most efficient city governments
in the world. One of DR.. Rumely's frs,
acts after assuming control of the Evening
Mail was to display at the head of the
editorial page the Oath of the Young
Men of Athens" 1t was a favorite with
him. I had seen copies of it printed OF
cards by the boys at the Interlaken' school
1t reads -
eve will never bring disgrace to this
our city, by any act of dishonesty or COW
ardice, or ever desert our suffering com
rades in the ranks. We will fight for the
ideals and sacred things of the city, both
alone and with many: we will revere ant
obey the city's laws and do our best K
incite like respect and reverence in thos.
above us who are prone to annul or SCI
them at naught; We will strive unceasins
ly to quicken the publics sense of GIVE
duty. Thus in all these ways we vii
transmit this city not only not less bu
greater, better and more beautiful than il
was transmitted to u.s."
Had Hun socialistic Views.
! I do not believe that any one who eve!
talked with DR.. Rumely about city gov
eminent will disagree with the assertion
that this conception of good city govern
ment was distinctly the German state so
cialism conception. He would have thu
city do things" for the common people
he loved to talk about the way the city
of Freiburg provided entertainment ant
Happiness" for its working classes.
! Once when these things were under dis
cussion reminded him of the ''panem e
circenses," with which the Caesars uset
to appease the Roman populace while the,
went on their imperial way unchecked
ventured the opinion that bread ant
circuses" were not exactly the sort o.
pab-l um with which > satisfy the Ameri
can desire to be let alone in the pursu:
of happiness.
You are nothing but an individualist:;
..merican" he exclaimed. The scheme O.
making the city's p.-rks into somethin,
1 between a schuetzenpark and Coney Isl
and appealed to him strongly. He wou.t
j have the city provide every form Of enter
tainment, recreation ant "uplift," as the.
d. il Germany. In Freiburg there is
rluricipal theatre, supported by the tax
payers for the benefit of the workin;
classes; New York ought to have mun-c
i ipal theatre. The poor should have tn
advantage of seeing the best Plays.
There are plenty of neighborhood the