The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-11
SHINES MADE
FORTUNE IN
WAR
German Commercial Colossus
Was Hated by Working Class
of His Country.
Rv CosmopoIItan News servlce.

NEW YORK, April 11.-"Bags of
dollars and pounds make German
God SHINES. "-headline in New
York American.
''Hugo SHINES, exploiter of ma
ton. headline m New York
Times,
"Stinnes, the new shadow on the
world'-headlineN in New York
Tribune.
These page-wide streamers ap-
peared during the last few months,
prior to the German Industrial
baron's fatal illness.
They deity characterize the
worldly Impressions of the modern
commercial colossus who built up
enterprises which still dominate a
great portion of Europe.
Hugo SHINES first doomed up on
the horizon as an important world
figure during the war. Much has
been said about him in the press.
The headlines above quoted are
| representative. Below are impress
sions of the life and activities of
the German Rockefeller"-a com
posite of what has been said about
him by writer's and men who knew
| him WELL
Typical Prussian Junker.
]. A. Tillman was associated with
Hugo SHINES for eight months as
! adviser and confidential business
/ man. He wrote:
| Hugo SHINES is a new appari-
ton in the field of politics, but
this does, not prevent him from
looming immense and powerful. He
is the perfect incarnation of the
| Prussian junker. Hugo SHINES
would not recoil at anything, and
/ be would not hesitate at anything
! If, by the sacrifice of all that man
| generally holds dear in the domain
of conscience and self respect, he
could avenge himself as we'll as
his country for the punishment in
flicted by the Treaty of Versailles
SHINES is as relentless as fate
itself, implacable as few have been,
! and apart from all this, he is
clever-keenly, terribly clever-and
not at all cultured in the ordinary
sense, he has made a very deep
study of business and has learned
how to use his knowledge for the
furtherance Of his own personal
schemes.
His wealth is said to be more
than two billions of dollars. He
owns most of the industrial con-
cessions in his own country; to keep
these concerns going he can use his
own coal, steel and timber. He is
building now in Sweden, where he
has erected immense wharves with
out any outside help, a mercantile
fleet which will be twice the size
OF the pre-war fleet of the Ham
burg American line, and which will
be entirely outside of the control of
the allies; he has agents, official
and secret, all over the world.
No Pity for Weak.
Most of the foreign governments
are indirectly and, without suspect
ing it. under his thumb. He never
hesitates at bribing. He has no pity
for the weak and nothing but con-
tempt for the vanquished. He recog-
niZes no restraint outside his own
will"
George Bernhard, editor in chief
of the Vossische Zeitung, a Berlin
newspaper writes in an article in
the Times:
To-day, after the war the Ger
man people have no more prince.
Instead they have billionaires made
in Germany, and the country raises
them to a higher degree than it's
former kings. And Hugo Shines,
the much admired and much re-
viled, sits on the highest throne of
all.
when the World War broke out
SHINES became one of the greatest
suppliers of war materials. He
turned out shells; he delivered ship
sheathings, he sold benzol, coal and
coke, and he built submarines. From
the first day the war was an i'm
mense business proposition to him,
He was one of the principal origina-
tors OF these peculiar methods of
transplanting Belgian laborers to
Germany that aroused so much in
dignation throughout the world
Prepared For Collapse.
The war brought enormous
profits to SHINES. During the last
year or the war he prepared for
the collapse.
"Stinnes knew how to use to the
fullest extent the conditions in after
war Germany. The system of i'm
hcASo jain lodns was even more
valuable after the war than before
THE owner of all this wealth
the guiding hand of all these under
taklngs, is one of the most un-
assuming men you can imagine.
There is nothing pleasing about
him; neither the MUSES. or the
Graces ever stood beside his cradle,
He knows nothing of music or arts:
for him everything is business
but in the higher sense of the word
II Is not the heaping up of money,
but the making of fanciful com.
binations that fascinates him.
Power is the good toward which he