The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, July 29, 1920, Image 6
"THE DIRTY OLD MAN E
WHO ALWAYS WINS" IS
SENSATION IN PARI I
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Paris, July 24.?The sensation ( ti
j the hour in smart Paris today is th story
of Father Cherry, "He Pere la i
Cerise.'* This is the nickname of a: b
old newspaper vendor whose startling fj
adventures have quite put into th jr
shade such back numbefs as the fa!! ti
of the president from his train. !t)
He is an old newspaper vendor who j(
leaped into fame by being ignomini- w
ously arrested while seated on i j w
bench in the Tulleries park and en
gaged in the usual but no dot. g
pleasant experience of counting wha V(
appeared to be innumerable bank S(
t notes into a greasy bag. li
Father Cherry was shabby, in !
credibly dirty, haggard, and lookei ! .
altogether the wrong person to be e I
gaged in such an occupation. At the
nnlice station he explained that the f(
money was legitimately his, that it (*'
amounts to something like $25,000; '
and?still more marvelous?that h 01
had won it by means of systematic J1
betting on races in the proceeding 11
three weeks. Sl
On inquiry this turned out to be ;?
true, and with profuse apoligies he "
was released. But bis troubles wert ?
by no means ended. The press go
hold of the story and at the races "
next day when Father Cherry turnea
up he was surrounded by a great 0
crowd of eager backets determine
to know his secret and which horse:. .
he fancied for the afternoon.
Leaving his hat in the clutches of
the laughing superstitious crowd, h fled
to the fashionable enclosure, only
to find the same annoying interest a.->
to his sporting intentions among the
top-hatted and the silk-gowned. Fuel
was added to the fire by the next
morning's announcement that he
I again backed three very comfortable
winners and won another $4,000.
Since t,hat time he has disappeared,
though enterprising young journalists
profess to have discovered him
again at the Lonchamps races yet
terday with his beard shaved an
his hair trimmed in disgpise. He h*.
turned into something lige legend
Paris has christened him "Le Pere 1Cerise,"
which in itself contains th
whole chapter of racing superstition.
Bad luck in French argot is called
guigne. signifying the small cherry
known as the black-heart. But it is
a word never used for fear of misfortune
by initiates who use as an
equivalent the less magic word of
cerise?-a short and sweet euphemism.
So Father Cherry V s come into
that short-lived, exuoerant thing.
Paris popularity and is more talked
about than Krassin or Lloyd George
?the dirty old man who always wins
and his infallible system.
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BIGGEST WAK PROFITEER.
Shrewd German Piled Up Half a Billion.
, Herr Hugo Stinnes, the German
coal king and billionaire, owner of
seventy newspapers and dictator ?f a
gigantic shain of industries, is the,
man of the hour in Europe and is
well worth watching in America, according
to an article in The Sun and
New York Herald. His power eclipses
that of generals or statesmen. He is
the kaiser's successor as the autocrat
of Central Europe and surpasses the
former emperor in th^ magnitude ot
his schemes.
For Wilhelm's dram of conquering
the planet, with cannon was child's
play compared with Herr Stinnes's
project of subjugating it by his financial
genius. Herr Stinnes is an unprepossessing
figure to tyhe eyes, according
to an American observer just
back from Germany. He has a close
cropped head and piercing dark eyes,
dresses in slovenly fashion and a.
ways looks down at heel. Moreover,
some of his exploits during the wh.
add emphasis to his sinster personality.
It was to Stinnes thaf the infamous
deportation of Belgians in .
was credited. And while these thousands
of expatriates were herded in
concentration laiups m uic iuuuoihu
centres of Germany, helping to create
wealth for Herr Stiunes, he was
making more millions by the exploitation
of property in the occupieu
part of Belgium.
The Greatest War Profiteer.
The most prodigious of war profiteers,
admired and envied by tne
kaiser, Stinnes can boast that his
country's failure was his success. The
latest estimate of his fortune is 2,000,000,000
marks, which is nominalequivalent
to $500,000,000. But Stinnes
has only just begun to make money.
He is not turned 50 yet. And he
aspires to be the coal and industrial
king, not only of Germany but of !
France as well. And why stop at |
France? Stinnes and his associates
bought a great English colliery of 22,- I
000 acres just before the war and I
were reaching out to pick up collier- I
ies here, in Virginia. They had already I
acquired coal fields in Turkey and I
other out of the way corners. And |
since the war their activities have I
multiplied enormously. S
Lloyd George may consider himself I
the leading figure at the Spa confer- I
ence, but Stinnes looms up as the I
dark horse. The German delegates, of I
whom he was one, were Stinners's I
delegates and the German bluff of be- I
ing unable to deliver $2,000,000'tons I
.of coal * month was Stinnes's bluff,
And the proposed compromise by
which the Allies would get the coal
and Germany a loan of $100,000,000
is Stinnes's idea
Germany needed a hero badly. It
hks swallOWed Stinnes. The shabby little
bearded person of Hebraic extraction,
for whose bank account Belgium
was bled white, is the idol, the savior,1
the divinity of post-war Germany. He
had himself elected to the Reichstag
last month, although he despises pol- ;
... . 1?oc miirh as he does
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the Hindenburgs and Ludendorfs of I
other days. But a seat in the Reich
stag may be useful for the further
ance of his business schemes and the I
guarding of his interests, which in- I
elude coal mines, steel mills, electri- I
cal and gas plants, river fleets deep I
sea fleets, paper mills, newsprint ftic- I
tories, coal by-products, celluloid, au- I
tomobiles, hotel and other industries. I
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[err Stinne? is quoted as saying.
Holds Coal as Trump Card. (
"Coal is the true king. From coal (
ou go on to iron and steel, and then >
j ships and forests, wood pulp, paper t
-everywhere!*' t
"Stinnes was born to the coal mine *
usiness. He inherited 9,000,000 I
ancs from his father. His dominat1 <
ig temperament could not brook con- ^
ol in youth and he broke away from
le paternal interests to lauch out 1
>? himself. His activities in the coal I
larket threw him into association t
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no me grtrai sicci tiiiu iuu uiue,ate
August Thyssen. Admirers of i
tinnes predicted that one day he
ould make as much money as Thys- ?
jn. Today the JThyssen fortune looks 1
ke 30 cents beside Stinnes's. ?
Stinnes was 34 when he bought up c
le coal and iron interests in the .
eutsch-Luxembourg regions. In this
blowing seven years their value rose
om 20,000.000 to <?ne -hundred^ mil- J
on marks, and in a year more it had
limbed to one hundred and thirty
larks. He built a fleet of ships vto
ransport his coal ^nd iron-ore and
[>on he was on his way to the control ]
f the biggest groups of the German i
itrchant marine, including the Ham- ]
urg-American line. Eleven competlg
street railways in the city of Maneim
were brought into his fold, not
o mention 25 miles of car lines in i
ther cities. c
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Such -were his operations in Belgium
Hitrinir the nccuttation that if
Sermany had won the war his profits
vould have been beyond belief. Even
vith a Geyman defeat the^ were coloslal.
In fact, Stinnes is said to have
?xpected a German defeat from the
>eginning, wherefore he played both
>nds against the middle and made hay
vhile the sun shone.
Stinnes has immense influence with
abor. Strikes may paralyze other people's
mines, but not this. Once, after
he revolution of 1918, a deputation
>f miners informed him that the
nines were now for the miners.
"All right, take the mines," shouted
stinnes. "I throw them at your heads
3ut in three months you'll come begging
me to return. And I'll come ?
>n my own terms."
His miners decided, to let tn/e mue
tearded man run his own mines. And
Jermans of all classes agree that Gerliany
will be safe from Bolshevism so
ong as Stinnes remains in the saddle.
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Lesesne Richbourg has gone .to
Hendersonville, N. C., to spend a
lionth in a boys' camp in Laurel
Park.
Hart Turner of Sellers has been adranced
to Gunner's Mate, second
:lass. He is attached to the Submarine
[J.- S. S. R.-12.
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