The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-07-29
BIGGEST WAR PROFITEER.
Shrewd German Piled Up Half Bill
lion.

Herr Hugo SHINES, the German
coal king and Millionaire, owner Of
seventy newspapers and dictator 0f a
gigantic chain Of industries, is the
man of the hour in Europe and is
we'll worth watching in America, ac-
,cording to an article in The Sun and
New York Herald. His power eclipses
that of generals or statesmen. He Is
the kaiser's successor as the autocrat
I of Central Europe and surpasses the
former emperor in the magnitude OF
his schemes.
For Wilhelm's dram Of conquering
the planet. with cannon was child S
play compared with Herr Stinnes's
project of subjugattng it by his finan-
cial genius. Herr SStinnes is an un-
prepossessing figure to the eyes, ac-
cording to an American observer just
back from Germany. He has a close
cropped head and piercing dark eyes,
dresses in slovenly fashion and a.
ways looks down at heel. Moreover,
some of his exploits during the Wa.
add emphasis to his sinister personal
ity. 1t was to SHINES that the infam-
Gus deportation Of BelgianS i'll
was credited. And while these thous-
ands of expatriates were herded in
concentration camps in the industria
centres of Germany, helping to ere
ate wealth for Herr SHINES, he was
making more millions by the exploit
tation of property in the occupied
part of Belgium.
The Greatest War Profiteer.
g nrnfi-
teers, admired and envied by the
kaiser, SHINES can boast that his
country's failure was his success. The
latest estimate of his fortune is q
100000 marks, which is nominal
equivalent to $500,000,000. But Stin-
mes has only just begun to make mon
ey. He is not turned so yet. And he
aspires to be the coal and industrial
king, not only OF Germany but OF
France as well. And why stop at
France? SHINES and his associates
bought a great English colliery Of 22,-
900 acres just before the war and
were reaching out to pick up collier
les here, in Virginia. They had already
acquired coal fields in Turkey and
other out Of the way corners. And
since the war their activities have
multiplied enormously.
Lloyd George may consider himself
the leading figure at the Spa confer
enee, but SHINES looms up as the
dark horse. The German delegates, OF
whom he was one, were Stinners's
delegates and the German bluff Of be-
ing unable to deliver $2,000,000' tons
of coal a month was Stinpes's bluff,
And the proposed compromise byI
which the Allies would get the coal
and germany a loan Of S10O,OO0,00O
is Stinnes's idea, -.
Germany needed a hero badly. 1t
has swallowed SHINES. The shabby ht-
tie bearded person Of Hebraic eXtrac-
tion. for whose bank account Belgium
was bled white, is the idol, the SAVIOR
tha divinity of postwar Germany. he
had himself elected to the Reienstas
last month, although he despises pol
iticians almost as much as ne ooes
the Hindenburgs and Ludendorts Oh
other DAYS. But seat in the Relch-
stag may Be useful for the further-
ance of his business schemes and the
guarding of his interests, when IN
c,ude coal mines, steel mills, electrl-
cal and gas plants, river fleets. deep
saa fleets, paper mills, newsprlnt lac-
tories. coal by-products, cellulold' au-
tomobiles, hotel and other INDUSTRIES