Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-30

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those papers belonged to Lord North
cliffe and expressed his policies.
| There are many who say that Hugo
| SHINES, Germany's business king, is the
| German Northcliffe, only more SO. They
will tell you the time is rapidly ap-
preaching when it will be difficult to
! know whether one Is reading an indie
pendent opinion or SHINES opinion.
CONTROLS
NEWSPAPERS.
! People ordinarily we'll informed va
riously estimate SHINES owns twelve pa
| pers, forty papers, even 100 papers In
| Germany and still others In Austria.
| They bewail the growing loss Of free
newspaper comment in Germany.
Labor leaders tell ME Germany, since
| 1870, has always in this regard been
worse of than almost any big nation in
| the world.
I Bismarck had his press which told the
/ public what he wanted 1t to believe and
fought the causes and statesmen Bis
marck hated or feared. With the ire
mendous expansion of Germany as 8
business nation, labor leaders make the
| fiat assertion that coal, iron and stee1
interests openly or secretly secured con-
| troll Of many Of the big influential news
| paper Of Germany. Their object was t.
| support political PARTIES and leaders who
| would give them the kind of laws and
| tariffs best suited to their interests.
People who know SHINES well tell me
the ability to mold public opinion
| through ownership of newspapers was
/ probably only q secondary thought witt
him. For SHINES, business is always
business. He is a practical man Hs
came into the publishing game first of al
| because he owns coal mines. The bridge
| from coal mines to newspapers is made
| Of wood.
In his coal mines SHINES needed great
/ quantities Of wood for snoring up seams
and for many other kinds of construction
| in the pits. To assure hims a steady
| ample supply of cheap wood. he bought
I great forest tracts In East Prussia and
Finland. Then his restless brain got
! busy again. He had the timber and he
had the coal. Why not ship the coal te
where the timber stood and manufacture
valuable wood products--cellulose, pa
per pulp and parerl
SO one fine day Germany learned tina;
loads of SHINES coal were going across
| Germany to East Prussia, where, il
! SHINES mills, trees were converted into
I SHINES paper and pulp. Later he bough,
| big concern In Koenigsburg and an
! other IN North Germany. In his OWL
neighborhood Of Westphalin there was a
! mill which manufactured fine note pa
! rer, SO he bought that too.
BUYS THREE
/ BERLIN PAPERS.
| Then 1t struck SHINES 1t would be a
| grand idea TO manufacture Stinees paper
| into SHINES newspapers. So in quick
! succession he bought three Berlin jour
! pals. His first investment was the In
/ dustrie and Handleszeitune,' which, a:
| It's name indicates Is business paper. l,
was the best in Germany and so an i'm
portant acquisition for business king
| His next purchase was the smaller
| "Deutsche Warte."
| His third acquisition was the mos
| significant OF ALL He bought the "Deut
! sche Allgemmeine Zeitung," the paper
which in the old days Of the monarchy
/ was the semi official organ OF the Gov
eminent What it said represented wha,
| the rulers wanted known. Its readers are
| still very largely the once upon-a tins
| official classes who are true to the royal
| list cause and hope for an ultimate re-
storation Of the Hohenzollerns.
| SHINES SUPPORTS
PEOPLES PARTY.
| SHINES belongs to the German Peoples
party. In fact, he is Its chief financial
| hacker. He fills its campaign chest when
| an election Is fought. And the right
| wing of the party Is largely royalist. Ger
mans who belong to the democratic
parties which believe in republican tnsti-
| tutions tell you SHINES himself at heart
| is monarchist. However, that may oe
| he is too shrewd business man to come
| out in the open for the king business SO
| long as the republican wave lasts in Ger
many and so long as open espousal OF
royalty would throw him into conflict
with his workmen.
The fact is the Deutsche Augemelne
yeitung certainly watches its step. 1t
confines itself largely to giving the news.
IF the news is colored 10 suit the interests
Of SHINES. it is very cleverly done.
In a time when German papers are
almost a. small as those Of France be-