The Washington times., 1920-08-04
SHINES SGERMANY'S
7 INDUSTRIAL BOSS
Press Also in Grasp of Dictator
Who Planned Belgian
0utrageS.

NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-Since the war
one man has emerged like a peak
above the German Industrial flood
Herr Hugo SHINES, whose insolence
at the Spa conference has reawaken-
ed the curiosity with which for some
months he has been regarded. Yet IT
became increasingly clear that II more
had been known OF him. the world
would not have awaited the armistice
before recognizing the growth or a
new and dangerous force.
In February, 1919. the name of
SHINES was heard in the Reichstag,
when Herr Erzberger told the house
how he had removed the great indus
trial leader from the sphere OF the
armistice commission because SHINES
was mainly responsible for the rob
berry OF Belgian workshops. and be-
cause his influence at headquarters
had induced the military authorities
to undertake the deportation of Bel
gian workers.. In June OF this year
Herr Breitscheldt, one of the leaders
of the Independent Socialists, was
more informative still. 1t was SHINES.
he said, who advocated the deporta-
ton of Belgian laborers, carried out
by Won Bissing, then governor general
Of Belgium; 1t was SHINES, the po-
tent voice of the German captains OF
industry, who was responsible for the
destruction of workshops in Belgium
and northern France and the trans
portation OF stolen machinery into
Germany. Today II is an open Sc
cret in that country that SHINES
drew up the plan for the destruction
of the French coal mines.
So much is known OF the SHINES
AAh nd hn MI fn tn
tions of great general staff during
the war. The post-armistice SHINES
is the same ruthless being, working
now without a military screen. This
Titan among the German minnows is
not yet fifty. When he was twenty,
IL is related, he might have mai
partnership in the family firm, but
his thirst for mastery, his unbreak-
able belief in his own vision OF sue
cess. pushed him to independence. To-
day he Is drawing in riches from
greater variety of enterprises spread
more widely over Germany than any
merchant of them all, and he is ready
for the day when the world beyond
Germany shall be open to him again.
He has control of fifteen groups CT
coal mines, extending even into
France: his ore and metal interests
colossal: six wholesale coal distribu-
tion enterprises are his: paper and
pulp mills. score OF large shop
ping concerns, a celluloid manufac-
tory, hotel, textile and motor-car
factories, dockyards, forest areas
how much more is not known.
AS for the German press, II has been
falling into his net since January last,
when he and a certain Herr IIugon-
berg founded the Nerita5 Publishing
Company with a view TO securing as
many newspapers as possible, to sub
serve other interests. SHINES bought
up the printing Arm which owned the
semi i-officiaf German Gazette, which
at the time of the revolution changed
it's name from Norddeutsche Allie
meine Zietungs to Deutsche Allgemeine
Zeitung. Then he reached out into
South Germany and took the Munich
and Augsburg Abend Zeitung, and one
by one other publications were drawn
in, until today he Is believed to own
or control nearly seventy. Ownership
Is not always necessary to him for he
can dictate through the printing busi-
nesses he possesses. When he gave
20, 100000 marks for the great Buxen-
stein printing business he acquired
the right to command the policy of
a dozen newspapers. There is no Sec
ton OF Germany which today does not
contain a publication scdulously prop
agating the ideas which Hugo SHINES
thinks well to support.
These ideas are utterly and stub
bornly reactionsry. In the vision Of
new Germany which has come to
Stinnes the place of authority is no
longer held by the landholdlng mobiles,
with their hold upon the leadership
OF army and civil service. but by the
Industrial captains. the controllers of
big business" men who bring n
hcrce and unhsgEinE energy to the
service OF inordinatc ambition. II is
still r. Germany controlled by few
that Stinncs secs, and chief among
tho few himself Tho German rco-
plc'S party, which Is the party Of re-
action. tho party OF revenge. Knows
Stinncs as It's most important mem.
her. Tho ideas OF that party. which
arc his ideas, arc echoed and re-
echoed by the newspapers he con-
trolls. The recovery, by whatsoever
means. of German supremacy in tho
realm Of commerce, as the certain
preliminary to supremacy In all else
this Is the force that moves the man.
In the shameless destruction OF
French and Belgian factories, in the
wanton laying waste OF French coal
mines. he played his part during tho
war toward tho weakening Of compcti.
trrs--the arrogant insolercc Of his
behavior at Spa is the measure Of tho
kidney would see this damage re-