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GERMANY’S NEW BOSS, MIGHTIER THAN KAISER Combination of Rockefeller, i Northcliffe and Morgan Made Huge Fortunes as Profiteer During and Since War—Owns 57 Newspapers, Has Monopoly of Steel and Iron Resources—As Member of Reichs- tag Dictates Many of Nation’s Policies. ° By Roger Batchelder. Het, 1021, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Ryening World. UGO STINNES! H A composite Rockefeller, Northcliffe, Morgan. A German octopus, to whom defeat meant victory; a sinister thing that has embedded itself in the heart of Germany, whose writhing tentacles spread on and on, to West- phalia, to England, and even to New York and Virginia, And as they spread, and drink the life of all things which they enmesh, marks—millions i and millions of marks—fall into the coffers of Europe's “master mind Here is a man whose fortune was built on his country's defeat, who shrieked with joy when the armies , of the Kaiser gained a league, and came nearer to Paris, yet who smiled even when the British, the French, | the Belgians and the Yanks took (rench after trench, when London, Paris, Brussels and Washington tolled the knell of imperialistic de- feat. Here ig a man who urged the abduction of Belgian labor, who cried with theatrical anguish when the armistice came, and snarled when the terms of peace were established, while in that same country whioh he claimed was impoverished, down- trodden, economically annihilated, he 4 had hundreds of millions—billions, even, of hoarded marks And to-day that man _ controls Germany. He controls 70 per cent, of the country’s iron and steel pro- duction, a considerable part of the = ‘onl output, owns many ships, cellu- User factories, paper factories, clec- trical plants, ojl-fields, directs the policy of his fifty-seven newspapers, ard has a seat in the Reichstag. Herr Stinnes controls German labor, Germany's cconomic situation, its pol ‘ictes, and has more ready money than ny person in the country——possibly ore than any person in Burope. An article in the Sunday World of February, 1911, which tells of the ex- tent of German fortunes, merely m it tions Huy Stinne "In 1904 his in was not more than $100,000; in 1908 he was we seven millions Tiven then he could not take rank with Germany's richest men. Yet he had made his mark, and had quietly planned the development of that power which he knew would be his. Before the war one had to go to the coal regions to learn of Hugo Stinnes, Tie had come from an old ing family and had inherited nine-own- small é n THE EVENING ‘WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL, 16, 192f.5%: ies norris. 100 ‘The Pree Tiblinting Oo, New York Brening corny By Maurice Ketten A FIRE GONG TO CALL MY SECRETARY Your SECRETARY - ce Two RINGS, Pieit, KNOW YOu HAD A SECRETARY , ro fortune. When he was thirty he began to buy up all the mines whic! ‘eon the market; then fol- to furnish an out. “VCO SUNNES Orie put for his mines, He had long ¢: side his family fortune, because he ould not stand interfe from any merly fought against his own; he is satistying his lust for power—not the HEAR THE €a)\ BELL SHE WEARS BUNS OVER HER EARS WANT TO _) c SEE HER? nr. f \ SHE CAN'T ) ) CANO0 ) BEAT IT! i\ / mr 1 . His new acquisitions belonged lst that cries out for blood and men » Hugo Stinnes, and no one else. and tre and towns, but the lust From stee) and iron went to Which aces everything, crushes forest and ships, With which he coula ¢verything | to f and she port his iron and coal. Then from it the las “ne, shi | ar lines and other means of °F dollar, Hu nes has ation for his products. started. nally the war ke out, and See = prophets said that Stinnes, 1 every One else, would fer Hugo L Stinnes didn nffer, Ho allied GOING DOW sel 2 iee with the Krupps Nike other, |, iustrial, monarehs * BY SOPHIE IRENE LOEB « FI Gan See vith stock ppanies and s down South re- a luxury ting more learning than THOUGHTS and jess to profited every h his brothers 101 Sand i * pnt to Hug It was pag omen Vonticgetl “It was this very 8 were made enemies and Seandinavia rospective victory d that materia “T wish you would write an article and use my son as an example, I can do nothing with him. Many times I for the Fath cnt to them th To Stinnes the of Germany did not mean new terri- Sclaseneve a = ny for Germany; ie meant more beside myself with distress about voal mines, more fron mines, mor dT. factories and ships for Stinnes, If “I feel often he will never amount Germany. Nudes he vote ein. Sat to anything. I cannot get him to many lost, he would st yin—=tn stick to 2 5 any was bis reasoning, To help Ger- Stick to any one thing for any length many’s industries, he urged that thou- of time. And the big trouble of all sands of Belgian factory workers be is that he is my son—and knows It, wbducted and interned in Germany. «fe has an {dea that T will never expected It is said that Stinn man defeat from the beginning and !¢t him fail, Me has never known that he planned to “cash in” on it. what it is to worry about anything, By anticipating the Geteat. ce his and has never had a struggle in his country was able to make $50%- tivo. In a word, he ne dnoantive 400,000—at least those were his profits rd, incentiv to do anything or } rom the tim: ythin during the war 7 a8 a child until Stinnes had evad- wor end Ww | he incoine taxes by Byne to Get he was out of college, everything Wits any: “Lake my mines and properly gone for him by pwefeothe anne nd them yourselves.” Germany him by perfectly arranged Jew that she could not run them and Plans, His welfare was of paramount wmtol about the taxes which would importance to us and knew it vave crippled her financier, That was the big trouble. He never Trouble developed gn the mines jecrned to rely on himse! “Take them all and run them," Stinne y on hims He al- vd his worke You know you W@¥s realized that whatever he can’t do It in three months you'll wanted would be forthcoming, king me to come and help, 1 “In his college days all he had to do t my own terms, and you k was 10 say a word and he was pro- y'll be, Now take them—ar vided wit ythi he wanted peace came Stinnes went to "I did not study my boy and there- the conference, eS th other fore did not dream what this would wane gata ‘and would not pa mean. Had I foreseen what is ap- He forget his billion mar . rent now, I should have acted en- thou: s of workers who c¢ tirely differe du coal tht France deman Hed. Maanok y what to do, ANT wale ana SHEA Of hiuas Binies is that my boy has a great was that of Germany. 1 life- -Deing a rich man's At Berlin there was opposition son, He will never do anything but toward Hugo Stinnes, Newspapers gnend my money Pere Tle Gite Tei bhitice I do not believe this is the way fs bodies rebelled again c y], men muld be made these days. 1 Did Hugo Stinnes remonst ® idly? should have liked him to have He did not. He bought hostile news- complished s i } jets promaganda compl mething, but I believe through he got him- be ish sult electec chstag so that This is a common story and a pa- ; uld openly 1d dircet. thetic one Howeve I belt this fe went to the peace conf ind futh a t Suhel ! divected He told the world why Anes an nalt He should Germany vould not, cou not pay, Place his son on his own resoure: He made Germany M 1 boy is taught to swim by Hugo st thr him int the water and He has just nined th leaving him to suve himself uistery niste I would like to t « father and © at er nil, w n I know AS not ve 1 " an lawyer, gradually ows of his Matherland © climbing to the top of feseion. ark i plercing; irc n ”v VV vent to em ve that nly fashion and Jook. nat the the ) man's son attended; but h 1 is net unilk: that his domina on tha, but as the chief sup- ‘ion may continue for a sc of ay J mother, he had to “or mo He is buyin ing, devise wa and means to help her, t wtrla, in countries which for- while he enjoyed what to him seemed \\ \ i ‘ we ’ > ence that spurred m told me knew J. hh get lost in the shuffle. on whem to lean. “f realized the big world was before me and that I had to pave my own path, Of course, it was not easy, and many a time the burden see than 1 could bear. Yet as I look back on it now, I believe it was the very making of me “The t i$ and tribulations through which I passed have stood me in good 4 in working out and settling the questions, that I daily am called upon to answer in the course of my work. “1 don't believe anyone can succeed 1 to r I had no onc unless he ships, Most people, men, can't stand p luded ADV UNWEL COME AS HE LADDER O CLIMB ON You cannot stop tt but you cin « cting. What we are all aceking ts PEACE, and you cannot get It by running hither and thither, Keep still! Shutting thoughts is it has been a habit of the ages, yet it can be accomplished by practice and practice mukes perfect. Spend as much time thinking about how to improve your Job as you do thinking about losing und all will be well Sincerely, ALFALFA SMITH out an disagreea y. not THE Al plied any"— “| don't worry wpe.” “wh “It way Mr pr Copyrteht. hay money | Jarr, really e, of course you n u want, Jarr, ‘but w ask for fon't you try * faltered Mr. Jarr elther about say should ke mply imp es are a WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THEM? HE ahove photographs dis. play the facial charms of three women eyes consider beautify Gladys Cooper, who is the daughter-in- European , se RS SLAD YS COUPER Cy Keveroue law of Lord Buckmaster, is called the most beautiful Englishwoman on the stage. Mme, Claude, one than ev I'm n the EUROPEANS CALL THESE WOMEN “BEAUTIES ” beats of hearts all’over France, the German singer and actre a lebrated beauty. ° poh RR Fé IM¢ CARD’ for a littl honey,” r¢ and g more to save “You d ng or 1 Mrs, et than ud Mrs. "a few dollars will do me.” n't old of the cinema stars of Paris, has increased mascotine Claire Dux, 0, “and I'm n aver, either “That's thering your and not having is going to won't have time does com “You're Mr. Jarr, “Well, I ¢ Mrs, Jar. woman doesn't comes, quite while a Oh, well, we the use to wor “Somebody's retting tting getting saying a know rep only ps ur children are rer ecuuse t ness sake stop “Do you k ills and we are worry at all if Tb hair this morning ow don't beg hittle gray h thingly. Ye ind yo Mr rr sharply want On, 1 1 do if I get gre having wrinkle next!” feeling anise any » who 1 they don’t ni etling bieg come, Ty w m rot un ric ger IL be able ad anyway, any money, eo I think it's enough to worr and the money is sone philosopher, one ory un ent.” M ve rowlin edin’t foun ur thing always Neither is anybody r6. elves the sooner n't claim to be ti to we 1 Mr dd educate; anon not to bother we the and cost und we (Pan New York Prening World) t you're al about oli money, Ole an when old "re tL thy then he p it! w m else t Jarr, y mone vbout t to take ear > for worry) I and suppose 1M Ww double IMILY~ way 1 1 ag awe “ne spliced sure, a time worries says, What's around We ear children hat said ure OFA MODERN MAID a* BY MARGUERITE MOCERS MARSHALL « r In the female magazines a woman used to find advice on how to keep her husband at home, but after a year or two of the evening plaint, ‘Do we HAVE to go out to-night?”—she yearns for counsel as to how to make him leave home! Copyright, 19%, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) IRLS used to count their proposals as Indians did their soaips—on their fingers, but the girl of to-day uses her thumbs, and she's lucky if sffe can use both, As a virtue, sincerity seems to be well spoken of, but if I may have *ONLY WOMAN FEDERAL COURT COMMISSIONER IN THE UNITED STATES a few hypocritically pleasant friends, T can dispense easily with the dig agreeably honest, Even ff fashion does pull the hair away from the ears, one of them still will be modestly draped by the (rail ing trimmings of this season’s tats. Why marries: the self-supporting woman In order to have someone mentally and linguistically compe tent to make out her income tax, Of all the virtues that pay no diyte dends, unselfishness is chief, When a woman tells her husband that she is “sick of this life,” the proper treatment for her case con- sists of a box of chocolates, a dozen if American Beauty roses and several v3 distinctly undutiful kisses, eS MRS _™ VAN O- Once girls used to wonder if the : BELL 4 Gane see compliments of men were “sincere,” but nowadays we are so surprised and touched when one of them makes a pretty speech that we don't even think of asking if he means ft. RSM. VAN D. RELL Is the only woman Bederal Court Commis- sioner in America, She is as- signed to the Bastern District of Ker icky, with offices at Covington, in that State. Rank defaulters, emibez- xler shiners especially the lat tee ‘nt month have all come Judging from their tactics of de» before and these cases have been r % ranled expel tienaly. Healdes being '@%- evasion and obstruction, any Vederal Comn oner, Mra, Bell is 4l- body would think the Germans had deputy elerk in M. J been sentenced to pay allmony in» stead of indemnity. United time Coehran's still Music as Antidote To Social Unrest One Concern ‘Conducts Singing Exercises During Rest Periods —Other Firms Keep Employees Happy With Pianolas, Talking Machines, Bands and Orchestras. Copyrteht, 1021, by The Presa Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) URRAH It has come at last. of concerns all over the United State: H King Jazz has syncopated and the movement is spreading rap- himself {nto the ‘dusiness tdly in every class of business. It world. Long live the King! has passed the conjecture stage. It Now you can have your own Httle has brought results Practical men vietrola at the office, Above the rat- are beginning to realize that some- i-tat of the faithful old typewriter thing more than a place to work in Will be heard the intermittent, shoul- js necessary in carrying on business lor-shaking strains of some stimu- to-day.” ating melody, such as “Bright Ey Just think of ft! A dress salesman or “Honolulu ¥ for the “Ayes” will come toddling into the office t: t that music is an incentive to the tune of “Look for the Silver Lin- working conditions. ing’ and—presto—he makes a bir ‘Pulling music Into the industries commision and goes away to tue is one big factor in curing the wide- mirthful intonations of “Smiles. spread feeling of unrest which grips According to Mr. Morton, the be ank ot oficial influence of music has b; demonstrated in more than one place tn the United States. In Boston ihere is a concern where singing exercises are held at several intervals durin the duy and 20 per cent in dec engineer the world to-day, E, Morton, the American Steel & Wire Company and of the convention chairmen ar- Music Trades Convention, whieh 1s to bring 20,000 to the big con- nooustic one ranging the increase clave to be held at the Dmke Hotel output Is the result, A Chicago cou- May 9 to 12, cern has ten minutes of chorus sing- ‘ ve put talking machines, ing at 10 A, M, and again at 3 P, Mi player pianos, bands, orchestras and Music in many Detroit factories has chorumes into the American Steel & brought @ 10 per sent, increase in Wire Company plants, ond the remults output. During the lunch hour thera are that we have climinuted strikes | Beneral choral singing at a factory’ ind unrest, Our muterial output hag #9 Lyon, Mags. where several pianos Increased thereby and the men Dave been installed, yet out your latest records a work, What has been done in our the Oftce” crusade, for King Janae being done now by hundreds seems destined for a long reign. HOW TO TEACH A DOG TRICKS No, 1—-The Kind That Learn Easily Goravigit, 1¢ «Pom Mwlehing eyes than through any other thing, ‘ea caya are tt {8 Well to remember, in trainin G ine Heathers * 08 to do tricks, to make th a ' ; \_ e* command and the motion aceompany- Barnum & Taiey's Cir ing it in exactly the same mannef 4, who has done just that all DIS one gine. i Ms De ag It doesn't make much difference Lows ima what breed of dog one has,” sa Loyal haa written some a * Loyal, who has trained every vin ox vd ainin a ‘and now ts particularly fond of his 1 1 Ww 1, and yal Poodles. worl 0 c , wi hox and Seotch terriers ure es b < pecially nd small dogs. Boston t ured, “are marvels tulls are good middle-sized ones and don! {those that larger ones. If you live in a city a easiest to teach, apartment, perhaps it would be bet- 5 a od iy the most in- ter to have a large, short-haired dog. t a best to teach a dog that They are more easily broken to H {in playing houses and their shedding is not so ‘ t sa ne annoying : we best time to train a dox ts : hime and tetch him when fa between one and tw rtolt to me. Lteach him to Years old. Hoe has then passod the : ‘| : bey in lo puppy period and keep and to It Ttry hasn't any fixed habits to have to te him an and Tal- troken, Always ba kind, [f you waya every command t um. punish him, try to do ft by pa tee Oa ta ne 55 peli erply, Ho can tell by w nd I Xl your eyes wat’ you are displeaged, Your dog knows your d and if he veally Ikes you ne will Oey, mere through the expression in your to do what you command,” 25 theese t { | , | i 1 a