Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27

TIMES.
the Ruhr. Cities sprang up like
magic.
Unaffected by War
Today even-with Germany de-
feated, Lorraine back in French
hands and world business in the
doldrums-there are, few scenes like
those to be witnessed in the SHINES
home country. Take all the towns
around Pittsburg in America and
Birmingham in England. multiply
them by five and you have the
Ruhr.
1t was amid such surroundings
that Hugo SHINES grew up. The
coal and smoke seem to have enter
ed his blood and colored his hair
That's why DIR. Herman Brinckmey-
err, a noted. German publicists called
SHINES an animated lump of coal
and a German newspaper called him
an Assyrian king. His black hair,
his dead white face, his curved nose
make many think him of Jewish
blood. But he isn't. Back to Luther
the Stinneses have been Evangelical
Professionals.
Started Early
In his early years SHINES had a
career similar to that Of many sons
Of American business men. He went
to a commercial school in Coblenz,
got some practical work in coal
mine and completed his education at
a mining academy in Essen.
AT nineteen he entered the SHINES
firm. and at twenty-three, enulating
his grandfather, he struck out for
himself. Enthusiastically he called
his firm Hugo SHINES, Incorpor-
ated." His capital was $4,000 marks.
Even Twenty-Five years ago that
wasn't a large sum in the Ruhr, but
it sufficed,
SHINES went forward from sue
cess to success. He did not excite
the public imagination, nor stir it
to fear, anger or admiration. He,
was just one of many German bust
coin. He lived plainly and simply
in his native Mulheim. His office
was and still is just a little room
with desk and few chairs. The
same simplicity rules today in his
offices in Berlin.
The war both gave SHINES his op-
portunities and made him well
known. SHINES had in his hands
the things a war-making nation
needs the most.
Monarchist circles became aware
of Shines existence. He was often
called to Berlin for consultation. He
became a valued adviser on indus
trial mobilization of German re-
sources. And what is remembered
against him most bitterly today in
Germany, and especially in radical
circles, is that he advocated policies
that gave Germany such a black
name.
Many Changes
They say he urged the subma-
rine war to the limit. They say he
advocated the dismantling of Bel
gian mills. And finally they say he
advocated the wholesale deportation
Of Belgian men and women who were
carried into Germany to replace the
labor Germany lost when she sent
her last sons to the war.
Since the armistice Shines has
played an even larger part in Ger
manys life. He has brought about
combination after combination i'm big
business. He has formed both hori-
Zontal trusts-in which one con1mod-
| ity like coal is dealt with-and YER.
teal trusts in which, for instance.
iron ore is taken and put through
every process from pig iron up to
and including a thousand articles
manufactured of steel or of cast
| iron.
Shines name appears in the edi-
torials and news columns of the Ger
man papers and is heard on the lips
of political speakers as much as
that Of the eX-kaiser in former days.
Indeed he has accomplished some
thing no Hohenzollern ever achieved
He has added new word to the die
| tionary. When an editor writes that
business has been "Stinnesiert,"
everybody in Germany knows it
means the business has been gobbled
up by one of the SHINES trusts. He
has been called hard names such as
vampire of the proletariat" and Tim
moral opportunist."
Ambition Unknown
Nobody knows what his real am
bltion is. Some time ago a German
labor leader, after a somewhat heat
ed conference with him, bluntly
| N0fACt' w Hy w you WOFk so ndr0
to pile up the money!" Shines an
sWer was: For my children" There
are six of them and the boys are in
business with him.
SHINES has never revealed his
real self. When he speaks in the
| Reichstag, where he is one of the
representatives of the German Peo-
pies party, it is with a high reedy
voice which is unimpressive. And
his utterances are mainly about
! business matters.
l was specially interested to find
| out how he got along with the near
ly million men who work for SHINES
or the enterprises in which he is
! a large shareholder.
He himself is quoted in a labor
| pamphlet as saying: when we
want to undertake a big business
proposition we ask two questions
first of all. First, who is the man
to direct it? Second. where are the
thorough workmen? If one can't
| find both, one let's the thing alone.
We must have this division of work
! in the future, too. We must leave
| to the undertaken of the enterprise