South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-05-26
SHINES Is Dominant Force
InGerman Merchant Marine
Poorest of Sailors Himself, German Financial Genius
Nevertheless Has Thirst for Ships-Family Asso-
ciaed With Shipbuiding.

MARIN on them ike that wasn't con
sidered chubby" There was an .m-
mediate conclave and SHINES. the
Millionaire .u German marks. was
flung out on his ear Nor. Of course,
literally and physically But his
name ceased 70 adorn the board ~
directors OF the Hapag as the great
shipping company is known all over
Germany Shines ret0rt was two
fold-he advertised and pushed HIS
south American lines more than
ever and be Immediately took some
81 his ever-ready cash and invested
il IN the North German Lloyd. the
great Bremen rival Of Hamburg.
T. was in connection with his
shipping interest that SHINES got
some OF the publicity he so much
shuns and hates
There were built for him three
new 10 .0oO-ton ships SunneS de-
rided 70 name them Ludendorff
Hindenburg and Tirpitz AS repre-
sentatives OF Germany were then
comforting with the allies the lat
ter took this action Of SHINES as a.
good sign that Germany was still
/ kaiserist. mihtarist and unrepentant.
I Inside Germany many II the Social
I Isl leaders went after SHINES with a
sharp stick
The whole furore surprised him
/ immensely A total misreader Of
popular and political psychology. he
+ had chosen the offensive names for
I MS ships thinking Of the men who
+ bore them as persons whom Ger
many once idolized and imagining
the people still did so When he
realized his error il was too late.
But that is about the only mis-
take that can be charged up, 20 Stin-
nes in the shipping game. One Of
his greatest strokes has been 70 plan
two fleets OF ships One is 10 consist
or 12.0C0-tonners and the other Of
30OO-tonners His experts have ad-
vised him that u OO0-ton ships are
not only much cheaper than the
titanic vessels. are not only run
I more economically but ton for ton
will perhaps earn more money and
give better service than the huge
floating hotels
Has fNc on RUSSIA.
The SHINES 3OOO-ton ships are be-
ing built for j specific purpose
SHINES. like every wideawake Ger
man business man. has his eyes on
Russia Some day and not very
long OF he expects that immense
\ country 10 be opened once more 20
\ the commerce OF the world with
the almost total breakdown and
ruin Of the Russian railways the
main m cans OF transport OF goods to
and from Russia for some years will
4 be by sea SHINES has an entire
department OF his executive branch
here in Berlin devoted 10 the study
OF Russia They are experts on
Russia.
Only recently the director OF this
department returned from person
al visit and reported 10 his chief
that eight years Of war. hlocka de
and neglect have put Russian har-
bors into a terrible state The big
freight ships that America and EGG
land have will probably not be able
to negotiate those harbors But
where they fail the SHINES 5000
tonners will glide in like ducks on a
mill pond. SO will the SHINES tank
ers built at Kiel
Already SHINES ships are busy at
work feeding other branches of the
SHINES business. They bring iron
ore from Sweden and timber from
Finland Thus they fetch raw ma
terial for SHINES blast furnaces and
SHINES paper pulp and cellulose
mills And they carry hack N Swe-
den and Finland. from SHINES
mills. some of the manufactured
materials those countries so badly
. need As they ply back and forth.
these vessels also pass another in
teresting set OF SHINES ships These
are mere smacks. hut they carry the
SHINES house flag and they are en-
saEed in the very important jon ~
helping 10 feed Germany They are
the SHINES herring fleets.
Copyright 1922 NEA Service, Incl
: SHINES control Of many German
newspapers and his successful com.
hinations even i'm this field are told
by Bronner I'm his next article