New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17

moners and captains OF industry. The
old aristocracy has been stripped of it's
power and prestige. Hindenburg, Luden-
dorf and the other military chieftains
are only shadows. Leadership, eco
nomic as we'll as intellectual. has passed
10 the industrials whom the Hohenzol-
fern regime was willing to attach to
its fortunes, but whom it at heart de-
spised.
There are many similarities between
these two "uncrowned kings" of the
rev German state, but there are greater
dissmilarities. Both are men of affairs
in the broadest sense, organizers and
administrators of vast enterprises.
Neither rose from the ranks. If they
had been born in free city, like Ham
burg or Bremen, they might be classed
as belonging to the patrician caste.
They both inherited wealth and the Oh.
portunity to devlop as masters of in
Gustry.
Both are trying to give new direc-
ton to German policy. But SHINES
approaches the problem entirely from
the materialistic side, while Rathenau
approaches it somewhat more from the
viewpoint of the idealist and philoso.
pher. 10Th have entered politics and
sccep ID public Office. SHINES is a
Dep, in the Reichstag and the
founder and hacker of the new Peo-
piss Party. Rathenau has taken a
place in the Wirth Cabinet as Minister
Of Reconstruction. Both, too, are pub
licists and propagandists. SHINES has
acquired as his personal organ the
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, long
under the name of the Norddeutsche
Aligemeine Zeitung, the semi official
ergan of the Kaisers government. He is
now credited with owning more than
sixty other German newspapers. Rattle
nau is a writer of books and pamphlets,
all Of which have had huge popular
success. One of them is now in its
sixty-hfth edition, another in its sew
enteenth and another in its twelfth.
His political message has found mil
lions of readers.
SHINES is Germany's
Arch War Profiteer
Shines is the arch war profteer of
Germany. He is a Millionaire, reckon
ing in the deprecated marx Accord
ing to a dispatch from Germany on
July last, The Metal Workers Gazette
announced that the industrial and COM
mercial enterprises controlled by
SHINES, or in which he is interested,
represent a total capital of 5000, 900, 900
marks. He doesn't know what his in
come is. Recently, when required to
make out an income tax statement, he
said that neither he nor his lawyers
we're able TO prepare one, and invited
the tax officials to go to work on his
hooks and submit for him calculation
of their own.
Stinnes's father was g coal magnate
in the Ruhr district. But early in life
the son set out for himself and became
an associate of Thyssen, then the
super-magnate of the Westphalian in
dustrial region. His power of organiza-
ton and acquisition was phenomenal.
He started with coal. Then he went
nto steel, iron ore, street railroads,
electrical plants, shipping, timber lands,
hotels and newspapers. 1t would take
half column of type to set down the
names of the chief concerns in which
ne has a controlling hand. He has
made large investments in Austria, Hol-
land, Scandinavia and Russia. He was
one Of the chief exploiters of Belgium
during the German occupation, and has
recently tried to get foothold in
France, Italy and the United States. He
got into the Hamburg American direc-
sorate for time, but was dropped by
the board few weeks ago, and is now
preparing to operate a world shipping
service in opposition to the Hamburg
American, with it's New York connec-
tons. His irreconcilable attitude on
the war was aptly illustrated when he
named three of his largest new vessels
the Hindenburg, the Ludendorff and the
Iirpit2 and announced that he was go
ing to name two others the Boche and
the Hun.
kathenau's father was one of the
conspicuous figures in German indus
eial development after the Franco
russian War. The son grew up in
an atmosphere of scientific manage
ment and research. He studied
chemistry and physics and made some
important discoveries in electrolysis.
eventually, he succeeded his father as
mead of the A. E. G-the Allgemeine
Mectrlzitats Geseleschaft-pr probably
'ne largest concern of its sort in the
"ofia Rathenaus bent, however, is
"Ve Toward mere money making. He
aas remained scholar and thinker. an
,n'eiiectusl liberal, standing apart
1'om the Grass materialism and cheap
Vaauvlnism of the William IFS reign.
N personal appearance and mental
'auoox SHINES and Rathenau are
so''~ apart. AS the richest man in
Nefmany the former can afford to dis
"'a ostentation. But he carries per-
,Vnai uncouthness to an extreme. A
'esia correspondent wrote of i'm re-