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THE OMAHA SUNDAY EEE: JULY 21, 1918.
CRIPPLES TOM
TAUGHT TO MAKE
LIMB AND LIVING
Red Cross Plans to Help the
Wounded Soldiers and Sail
: ors to Find Useful Place
in Life.
New York, Ju'y 20. American io!
diers and sailors crippled in the war
re to be Riven every opportunity, in
addition to war risk insurance indent-j
nity and pensions, to learn new trades
or professions in order that they
may resume their place of usefulness
in civil life without the handicaps
that ordinarily surround a man de
prived of arms, legs, sight pr hear
ing. One of the most interesting institu
tions that has been established here
as a result of the war is the Red Cross
Institute for Crippled and Disabled
Men at 311 Fourth avenue, where four
schools, the nuclei of others that are,
it is said, to be organized in Chicago,
St. Louis and other places, are now
under way teaching cripples tne man
ufacture of artificial limbs, linotype
and monotype operating, mechanical
drafting and oxynce'eline welding.
These four local schools have a
teaching capacity of 400 men. f ,
To Spend Two Million.
' The recent passage by congress of
the Smith-Sears bill, providing an ap
propriation of $2,000,000 to be usea in
the discretion of the federal board of
vocational education contemplated it
is said, the elaboration of the plans
which are now being worked out in
this cfty. Soon, it is thought, there
will be additional schools in many
other parts of the United States and
other studies and trades will be added
to thejist. The new law authorizes
the commandeering of private and
public institutions for the re-educations
of crippled soldiers and sailors
and. where necessary, the building of
, new schools.
Four trades were selected for .he
New York school because they were
in fields that were not overcrowded.
A soldier or sailor, for instance, in
stead of having to pay $150 to $200
for an artificial limb may secure t.ie
for $30 and, if he desires, be taught
how to make it himself, at the same
time acquiring a trade that will pay
, him $4 to $8 a day. .
Cripple Heads, Work,
' Frank R, Bigler, a cripple for 31
years and minus a leg and an arm, is
the industrial agent of the institute,
. which was founded about a year ago
- by Jeremiah Milbank, with an initial
' endowment of $50,000 and a building
f in which to carry on its work. Mr.
r Bigler came .from Kansas City, Mb.,
'his services being loaned by an in
i dustrial corporation there, to instill
optimism and good cheer Into the
morale of all returninar war cripples.
,t , Douglas C, McMurtrie, director
t of the institute, a graduate of the
i Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy and in charge of the department
- of printing at Columbia ' university,'
I ha made a study of the social and
t economic reconstruction of cripples
for more than eight years. !
f. Mr. McMurtrie made it clear that
while the institute has no official ar
rangement with the government
- relative to the utilization of its facili
ties in the rehabilitation of war crip
ples, that department being in charge
of Surgeon General William C. Gor
gas, when soldiers and sailors are dis
charged from army and navy hospi
' tals then the institute will offer them
I every chance to "come back." Fosi
' ttons will be found for the men and,
'where they are unable to pay expenses-while
learning their new trade,
''funds will be advanced them as a loan
.to. enable them to continue their
'training until competent to take a
job. ' .
, Is Red Crost Activity.
The institute, however, is a national
activity of the American Red Cross,
responsible to . the war council
' through the director general , of mili
jUry relief, Jesse H. Jones. It is
the only noncommercial institution of
..the . kind in the United States, says
Mr. McMurtrie, and its purpose is
broadly humanitarian, taking in civ
' ilian as well as military cripples. It
is not a charitable institution, but in
tended to be self-supporting.
, "Already the national authorities
have gone on record," said Mr. Mc
Murtrie, "as ; accepting without
'reservation responsibility for the
after care of men injured in the serv
ice. The surgeon general's office of
.tht War department is now preparing
'to provide for wounded men, not only
medical and surgical care, but also the
curative advances afforded by the sim
pler forms of occupation. The gov
ernment is further inaugurating voca
tional training, having as its object
rehabilitation . for self-support. The
government, however, is disposed to
make use of, tinder due supervision,
such private assistance as may be of
fered and found of value."
Crosby and His Staff
r v. Arrive Safely in London
- Washington, July 20. Arthur T.
Crosby, assistant secretary of the
treasury and president of the inter-allied
council, has arrived safely in Lon
don from the United States and Here
after wi'l be known as United States
commissioner of finance in Europe.
Mr. Crosby was accompanied by Nor
man Davis, president of a trust com-
, pany of Havana, Cuba, and Robert F.
iLoree. an adviser of the treasure de
partment. They will be members of
Mr. Crosby's staff.' t ! ;
: Mounted Chilean Bandits
Raiding in Argentina
Buenos Aires, July 20. Citizens of
.Santa Cruz territory. In southern
Argentina, have asked . President
Irigoyen for military protection from
a band of 300 mounted bandits who
have entered Argentina from Chile.
Chilean police have entered Argen
tine territory, in pursuit of the bandits.
Details of tne situation are lacking
because of poor telegraphic facilities.
Nevada Rail Employees ;
' Strike for Wage Boost
Reno, Nev,' July 20. A strike In
ihe shops of the Nevada Northern
railroad has thrown over 3.500 men
out of work at Ely, a copper mining
ramp in , eastern Nevada.: State
Labor Commissioner Cole has gone
, to Ely to endeavor to make an ad
. justment The men are asking a 20
oer cent increase in wages.
Life.
Story-
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EDWARD A. BUMELY
-
Man Who Bought the New York Mail for the Kaiser
(A series el article! iketchln the
career of Or. Edward A. Romely, who
dm beca arretted oa a charge of bav
in bough the New York Evening Mall
with money furnished by the German '
government and of having need it for
German propaganda.)
By FRANK STOCKBRIDGE
(Former Managing Editor of tbo Evening
Hell.)
The name of Rumely still stands
over the big plants at Laporte, but
the name is the only interest the
Rumely family has left in the business
that was founded by Meinrad Rumely
in 1853. Today it is the Advance
Rumely company. Its president, Fin.
ley P. Mount, is also receiver of the
assets of the defunct M. Rumely com
pany. Rapid as was the expansion
and balloon-like growth of the M.
Kumely company, under the manage
ment of Edward A Rumely. its col
lapse was even more sudden and
spectaculaY.
At the time the company s capital
stock was increased, the preferred and
common issues were both listed on
the New York Stock exchange. In
dustrials were particularly popular
just at that time, the report to the
governors 01 tne aiocic exenange 01
the compay's condition and prospects
were satisfactory as to the former and
optimistic as to the latter. The new
common stock, particularly, was act
ively traded in from the beginning,
with an opening quotation cf 101.
This was in November, 1911. The
company's report for 1911 showed net
earnings of more than 8 per cent on
the outstanding common stock for
the year, after taking care ot the pre
ferred, and a surplus of $750,000. The
private banking houses of William
Salomon & Co. and Hallgarten &
Co.. who underwrote the $10,000,000
note of 1912, had every reason for con.
hdence in these securities.
' Business Steadily Expands.
In the meantime, the company's
business expanded and expanded. To
facilitate the handling of added lines
of agricultural implements and to sep
arate the distributing end from the
manufacturing there was formed dur
ing 1912 the Rumely Products com
pany, with Leo M. Rumely, a brother
of Edward A Rumely, as president.
During the year also the M. Rumely
company acquired the Northwest
Thresher company, '
Before the end of 1912, however, ru
mors began to circulate in financial
circles that all was not well with the
M.- Rumely company, Perhaps some
one interested had seen those rows of
red threshing machines and tractors
alongside the railroad tracks at La
porte and wondered why they were
not being moved, Perhaps well, it
is hardly important to run down an
cient rumor, but whatever the cause,
investors in Rumely stock began to
get nervous and toward the end of
the year a selling wave began that
carried the common stock down 58
points in less than five months.
On April 3, 1913, however, the com
pany's annual report for 1912 was is
sued and the common stock lumned
from 3&'A on the Stock Exchange to
44J4. The report showed net nrofits
of the three allied companies for 1912
ot si.tU4.3UU. or at the rate ot better
than 10 per cent on the outstanding
common stock. The gross sales for
tne year, ot 517.W.4J1, were more
than 4U per cent, greater than in the
previous vear. while the comnanv'i
figures showed a surplus of almost
$600,000. Still the reports that all
was not well with the M. Rumely
company persisted and stockholders
continued , to sell. . Certain of them
went so far as to complain to the
governors of the Stock Exchange
that the facts about the company had
( Copyright, 1I1S. TJ. i. aa Canada, the X. T. Herald Ce,
been misreoresented to them bv the
bankers who had floated the original
issue.
Bankers Make Report
The bankers had not been idle in the
face of the unsatisfactory rumors, and
on Mav 9. 1913. thev we reable to re
port that the board of directors of
the M. Rumley company had been
completely reorganized; that Clarence
S. Funk, previously general mana
ger of the International Harvester
corporation, had been elected presi
dent; that John H. Guy had been
elected vice president in charge of
finances, and that all of the former
executives of the company, including
General Manager Edward A Rumley
and his uncle, A. J. Rumley, presi
dent, had tendered their resignations,
which had been accepted. A para
graph or two from the report of .the
bankers to the governors of the stock
exchange, on May 9, 1913, seemed to
throw light on a situation that is
otherwise somewhat obscure. The
bankers said:
"It is impossible at present to make
any accurate forecast of the earnings
for the year. The profits will, un
doubtedly, suffer from the mistakes
of the late management. For these
reasons, and to maintain as strong a
cash position as possible, the direc
tors have determined to take no action
in respect to dividends on the pre
ferred stock until the outcome of the
business for the present year is
known.
"As late as December, 1912, the
company furnished a balance sheet
as of September 30, 1912, showing
upward of $2,100,000 earned for the
first nine months of the year. In re
liance upon these and subsequent
statements and feeling that we had
every reason to believe that the com
pany's business, while expanding rap
idly, was actually showing liberal
profits, and in ordeV that the com
pany might be in a position to han
dle its increased volume of business,
we purchased from it in February
last $10,000,000 of two-year 6 per cent
notes, convertible into common stock
at par. We were then assured that
with the proceeds of these no'es and
moderate seasonal borrowing from
the banks the company would have
sufficient funds to handle the volume
of business then contemplated. Sub
sequently we were led to believe that
neither we nor the accountants whom
we had employed had received full
or reliable information from the offi
cers of the company regarding its
true manufacturing and financial po
sition." Reorganization Does Not Save It.
The reorganization did not save the
M. Rumely Company from bankrupt
cy, even though production was cut
down and the selling force increased
under the new management. On Jan
uary 15, 1915, Finley P. Mount was
appointed receiver and later, with the
sanction of the court, sold
the remaining assets to the Advance
Rumely company, of which 'he is
president, and which is doing a large
and profitable business. The receiver
ship still continues. With Dr. Rume
ly out of the management and the
Rumely interests in the company that
bears the family name entirely wiped
out, the affairs of the agricultural im
plement , business have no further
bearing on the present narrative. It
is of interest, however, to inquire
into the nature of the "mistakes" to
which the bankers attributed the
crash.
I have referred to Dr. Rumely as an
enthusiast He is all of that. When he
becomes possessed of a new idea
nothing will suit him but to see it put
into execution at once. I have re-
AJI right marred.)
ferred to the activity and scope of his
mental processes. He fairly bubbles
with new ideas. The kindest and at
the same time the fairest explanation.
I believe, of the demise of the M.
Rumely company is that Dr. Rumely
choked it to death by trying to force
too many new ideas down its throat
at one time. They may all have been
good ideas and if they 'had been ad
ministered in homeopthetic doses
perhaps the M. Rumely cdmpany
might have developed such an appe
tite for them that they could all have
been assimilated, and it would sit up
and beg for more.
Ideals from Germany.
Perhaps Dr. Rumely called in too
many consultants. One of the fixed
beliefs he brought back from Germany
with him was the belief in the trained
expert. It is typical of the German
mind to believe in the trained expert
The whole German system is a sys
tem of trained experts in government,
in military science, in the arts, in the
industries and in affairs generally,
imposing their methodically worked
out rules and systems upon a popu
lace' trained through generations to
supine and credulous submission to
the distation of the expert Any stu
dent of the German character must at
times be puzzled to determine which
is its most amazing manifestation, the
overbearing arrogance of its experts
or the cringing credulity of the rest
of the population. -Even the German
expert is credulous where another ex
pert's specialty is under consideration.
He is a German scientist and, there
fore, he must be right, is the apparent
formula.
So Dr. Rumely called in experts of
all sorts and every kind. There were
expert engineers ana cxyen oitu.i
expert accoutants and . expert office
boys, expert publicity men and expert
letter writers. Early in his career is
the Rumely company's management,
he formulated this definition of man
agement: ,- , .
"Get a' good man, give htm s
definite job, let him alone." .
I have no knowledge of the extent to
which this formula was ever put into
effect in the affairs of the M. Rumely
company. Perhaps the Doctor attri
buted the company's failure to thi
rule. .'At any rate, he had definitely
abandoned it when he took over the
Evening Mail.
(To Be Continued.)
t1 I if f:'M
War Upsets Uniformity
In Styles of Door Knobs
The day and generation of nearly
every home is known from the style,
or lack of style, of its building hard
ware. ' i
The early Victorian era produced
the china door knob and the "pull"
door bell. .
After the 'civil war, when the man
sard roof was the badge of aristocracy
for any home, came the large door
plate with an aperture for the big
key to the spring lock, and it was
this keyhole and the lack of porch il
lumination, except for the moon, when1
it was full, that gave rise to the joke
on the convivial man, equally full
when he tried to find the keyhole in
the door after a night at the club.
Then came the Queen Anne era,
with more ornamental locks and later
the Colonial era with even more elab
orate revivals of door knockers, locks,
door plates and other fittings.
Today, in the reign of , bungalow
and a renaissance of the Venetian
palace, Elizabethan country home,
Doric and Ionian adaptations, build
ing hardware has been fabricated
which artistically fit! every period of
architecture and is in harmony with
any era. ', i. : .. .
But the stocks of building hardware
are perilously low in the city at the
present time and a contractor the
other day, when he went to purchase
the hardware -for a mission bungalow,
found he had to go up against brok
en stocks. He could find just one
set for a mission front door and he
had to fit all the other parts of the
house with building hardware and
netal furnishings from a nondescript
collection of Venetian, Elizabethan,
Doric, Ionic and Louis Quinze de
signs. ' Like the high cost of living the
war is responsible for a famine in
building hardware and it is the cause
of many bizarre effects in hardware
finish of interiors of home in Omaha
at the present time.
Britishers Destroy Zeppelins.
Copenhagen, July 20. German air
ship sheds at Tondern were bombed
recently by three British airmen, and
two Zeppelins were destroyed, accord
Ing to the Stifts Tinde .of Ribe, Denmark.
Vote for the author of the
Direct Primary and Honest
Election Law.
N. P. DODGE for Congress
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William R. Adair, Secretary-Treasurer. .
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