Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
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UGO SHINES, Financial
Kaiser! Germany ap-
pears to have exchanged
IxA political and military
~SzAS kaiser for financial and
STSNNsS industrial kaiser.
~ The Hotel Adlon on
WALIEa the famous Unter den
Linden Is literally the
new Imperial Palace in Berlin. On the
third floor Is the SHINES suite anu
here sits the man who gives orders
to Germany-and to other countries.
A glimpse Of the corridors Is sufti.
cient to suggest the extent Of SHINES
operations. Here, day after day,
crowd Of business men wait patiently
to be summoned to the presence and
be given their orders. Each has a
portfolio. Each has come, from far
or near, to report. They are the di.
rectors. aud executives of the many
and far-reaching enterprises owned
and controlled by Germany's new finan-
Is endless-newspaper editors, bank
presidents, coal miners, shipping Off
cials. politicians, statesmen and what
not.
When SHINES appears in the corri-
dor 1t Is to rush through; he Is al
ways In hurry; those with him are
put to 1t to keep up. He acknowledges
no salutations. He brushes interviews
ers and photographers aside. Awe
falls upon all as he passes. THAT was
Stinnes!" they say, after he has
passed.
SHINES poses as a sphinx. But his
power is very real. 1t seems literally
true that the fall Of the house Of Ho-
henzollern brought about the rise of
the House Of SHINES. Under clOuk
Of the new republic SHINES hides
sovereignty that Is not the less abso-
lutte because financial and Industrial
instead Of political and military.
Those who protest against Shines
power in Germany also declare that
he is working toward consolidated
Central Europe to be created through
economic domination instead of mill
tary means. His general plan Is said
to be first to secure economic re-
sources and the newspapers In the
various countries bordering on Ger
many. A chorus of protest Is heard
from the press Of Central Europe.
Control Of newspapers, not only In
Germany but also in Austria. Czecho-
slovakia and Hungary, makes SHINES
a newspaper king, says this press,
which charges that he Is now nego-
tiating with the owners of scores Of
well-known publications all through
Central Europe. For instance, the
Kassai-Hirlap Of Koscia. says he be-
gan by gaining control Of the Deutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung, after which he
formel kind of amalgamation of the
following Berlin publications: Die
Post, Deutsche Tageszeitung, Deutsche
Zeitung and the Taglische Rundschau
This newspaper then continues:
ne DOIlSll lHe deTIUuH News HPeIl-
cy, known as the Telegrafenunion, and
then one newspaper after the other
in large provincial towns came under
the control Of the greatest financial
juggler Germany ever produced. He
bought the Munchen Augsburger Tag
eszeitung, and threescore of other
smaller and larger newspapers, and in
order to be able to feed them with
news. he purchased the Rammert tele-
graph agency, supplying news items
to 400 other than SHINES concerns.
Several paper and pulp factories were
secured in consequence of the news
paper Purchases, among these being
the Henckell-Donnersmarck paper
mills"
Another Czechoslovak newspaper,
The Nep, advises Its readers that Mr..
SHINES has got the controlling inter-
est in the most popular morning and