The evening world. Newspaper, July 21, 1919, Page 14

— Be 6 ee See ee eee : ' : 92) MONDAY, JULY 21, 1919 EY fou Had All the Diamonds ‘Thi the Whole World— How Much Would It Have Cost Them All? °How Big a Strong Box Would You Need to ’*) Keep Them? ‘This Story Tells—and the Answer Will || (Surprise You. By Walter Noble Bums 2h} Gaspiteht, 1019, by The Prom Publishing Co. (The Now York Brening World) all the @iamonds mined in history and existing in the world to-day as em: and polished gems were gathered from the ends of the earth, their akgregute bulk would be—well, how great would you say? What would ’ - be your gucss? eX pile as Ligh a2 the Washington Monument? As vast as the pyramid a ip aie As-coloesa) as Pike's Reak—a great resplendent mountain tower- 4 © the heavens and burying its dazzling summit in the clouds? Strung together, would they form a girdle that Old Mother Earth might ‘bind -@f° around ber? Would there be enough to build an airy, shining bridge that “Would epan the ocean between Burope and America? Be good,enough to hold your breath for one corruscating moment. Taere are, it is estimated, 46,355,474 carats of cut and polished dia- ig In existence. Translated into | ees of avolrdupois, they would| Mines in cut and polished gems. Weigh 101-2 tons. The total inctudes| This ie 47,355,474 carats, Possibly the first diamond ever found| Still the lost diamonds of the world | ©0 earth—who knows?—and the last| ™ust be taken into account. Dia- jgem picked from the chimneys of] ™onds, s0 far as time and the ele- Bouth Africa; the little twinkler that | ents are concerned, are practically! the stiop-girl wears on her finger and | !"destructible. The gem that sparkles the Koh-!-Noor that blazes in| the finger of a woman in New Britain's crown. York or Chicago to-day may hate , All the diamonds in the world could | “dorned some beauty in the train of be packed in alilady's clothes cioset, | Hadrian watching a combat of gladi- They could ‘be stored in & kitchen| *°# at Rome; or have shimmered pantry, whire, in the dim tight, the cook might mistake them for aavy and attempt a puree. A vault f P palace at Samarcand. The same diamond in aeons to come may reflect the glare of earth's final i 5% by 4 by 4 toot would contala| onnagration, But man: le iy he been a sa Gig. eee rapomnpag about! iost in fire, floods, volcanic inunda- tions, shipwreck and great disasters that have overwhelmed men by thousands at a time. How many lio! buried under accumuletions of soll and debris or lie scattered at the bottom of the wea, no man may com- | pute. An estimate of the lost dia- can never be anything but a Suess but perhaps 1,000,000 seo I i the sidewalk at the apart- i a g would be @ reasonable guess. Deducting this figure for lost »atones, the sum total of diamonds cut as jewels in existence in thé world to-day is 46,965,474 @mrats or 101-2 tons avoirdupoisat it .° One hundred ‘diiirs @ carat, used! BUILD ReE| ** 4 daris in th8 estimate, 1s perhaps! AROUND BA’ below the averaie'of what all the dia- v1 * | monds of histo: have cost. How- except as man's vanity! over, the vast rity of diamonds them, worthiegs tm the] in use are undefa carat in weight | ~apoecd cone and such smali“éténes can be bought, i ; iil } : 4 fi even at present prices, at a rate tle pile ol Gamends, which '& g004| iy tran S100" E carat. Diamond tn cor Snap at a running jump, prices have lubject to wide woe & cost greater than tuations, The Wht advanced the price: ‘Yhat of a dosen of the tallest modern about one-t! | Present prices are! or the mightiest struc- ever erected since the world be- something lik than those dealers say will, go still higher in the next few years, But every diamond is more or lesq.an individual problem as far as price is concerned. To classify diamonds under such trade Srades at jaegers, rivers, wessais, top-crystals, crystals, top silver capes, silver capes, capes and by- waters does not solve the question. ‘The price must always depend upon 7 the diamond Itself, ite color, compar- * eben eg tye peetar mg ative flawiessness, inherent brilliancy British Guiana, China, Australia, 3j- | M4 cutting, feria und the United Staten The|HOW DIAMONDS ARE PRICED output of, the Brazilian and South AND HOW THEY DIFFER. mines: can be determined] 4 one-eighth carat stone sells at “with an approach ,t0 aocuracy bY! present from $12.50 to $20; one-fourth Government statistics, No figures! carat from $87.60 to $62.50; one-half been kept, except in recent] carat trom $100 to'$200; three-fourths et the Indian production,’ Bs-| carat trom 187.80 to $3370; ohe carat tes of the Indian yield must bel trom $300 to $800. Im, a porters buy «based purely on deductions from in- rough diamonds in foreign cs i tntae “reearding the axtont ef! tor about $00 4 carat, A ough oryetal oo mining peonciens ia te Country, |! of 31.3 carata, which will cut to « oa the quan yo a, a v4 * the | gem of one carat, costs $225, Import Eemmaressuries of native princes, and the! airy is 10 per cont; 1 per cent. ts to Berreeinien 106 the etbnes ta the! 4, vadeg tor insurance and brokerage © ‘@nclent world. . ting b Here are some carefully tomputed pier oon s bore may be arremtnecsoey. $0 easrted 89 081 cre tsk, reresssia, an crttin nt tion of the total output of] ou: eam, If ine ainond teas ps to be a gem of first quality it will re- tall at current rates at from §500 to 3550, But such quotations are not wholly dependable, Some blue-white one- carat stones sell for $2,500, while you can buy @ one-carat by-water for $160, Blue-white diamonds bring the highest price in the market. But many connoisseurs Prefer, as more beautiful, the snow-white gems’ often found among river diamonds, whose sharp, cold brilliancy is like that of clear ice gleaming in winter sunghine. Top-crystals and crystals, which are the “white” stones of fashionable Jewellers, have a glint of yellow, The leas yellow they have the more val- uable they are. Top silver capes, ail- ver capes and capes are sold as “com- ‘mn ba . the total is re-|Mercial whites" but are more yellow > Baas, te caskets, still, The yellow by-water is the this does not end the equation,|Pleblan of the diamond family, A ds in being transformed into|@00d by-water mAy be a pretty gem ©) ‘fewels in the cutting and polishing] and seem quite dazzling when viewed 7 : lose about 60 per cent. of/ alone, but place it beside a blue-white weight, There remains then|stone and it looks like an embarrassed GRA AD per cent. of 118,384,678 carats | rue’ a has blundered among 4 output the world’s courtiers, Ma ii : , 00 per cent, higher! wetty, years ago and) the construction of a aingle-trhck railway three times around the earth at the equator. It would build ten Panama ‘The three great sources of the [ | + 296,777,374 The carat weight of rough ‘diamonds is 63 3-5 tons avoirdupois. But only about 50 per cent, of rough m, @iamonds are cut into jewels, The ‘\Femainder of the output of the mines Ddort. of carbonado—crystalized uged for mechanicc! and in- purpo: With only 50 per , Of rough diamonds employed 4 Sea s By Magguerite Mooers Marshall Coppright, 1910, by ‘The Prem Publishing Os, (Tee New York Evening World), ETAW KALLUNTUCHY, In- dian princess, direct descen- dant of Chief Sequoyah, him- self the greatest man of the great Indian tribe of Cherokee; poet, educator, singer and | ot her people # that is how the young woman now Mrs. Richard Croker was known to her friends in New York months be- ’ fore she became the bride ofthe former Tammany chieftain. In view of the fact that some ques- tion has been raised as to Mrs, Croker’s origin, it is interesting to recall the romantic story of the former Bula Benton Edmonson, who} with her black eyes, heavy biack | raids and picturesque Indian buck- ekins and beads waa an admired feq-|Was the greatest man of his tribe, | ture of the big Suffrage parade as far anti perhaps the only great red man back As diamonds differ in color they! differ algo in their crystalline quality, | Some are intrinsically more brilliant of eighty-six sounds, and taught his than others and differ from stones | less brilliant as clear water in sun- light differs from the same water in shadow. Diamonds owe their. bril-| ancy, in a very marked degree, to their gutting, but no cutter’s art can make a dull stone the equal of one of naturally greater purity. Flaws are| frequent—few ‘diamonds, in fact, are absolutely flawless, Carbon spots, | “glasses,” white specks and bubbles | are the most common disfigurements, If the stone 1s not closely scrutinized | these flaws are sometimes lost to the | eye in the twinkling scintillations of | markable legends, songs and dane: the gem. Difference in quality is so subtle! road that a mere nuance of tint may make = of $1,000, one of our most beautiful women of Son lived at that delightful haven for girls interested in the arts, the Studio Club, No, 35 East 65th Street. There 1918, and who has been called| Whose fame depends solely on the | and with thirsty souls uni = arts “Ames Pn GQOaZ fv sees croner, ¢ Trele @. CheraRea Srincess, Descendant of Sequoyah, Tribe’s Greatest Chief, Was Educated at an Indian School in Oklahoma, Speaks Cherokee, Wrote Poetry About Tribe, Translated Its Songs and Worked for Its Education Years Before Her Marriage, Through Which She Achieved “‘the Dearest Ambition of Every Indian Girl’s Heart—~—to Win a Chief.’’ quah, Okla, later at the University ,of Chicago and a school of expres- jsion in Boston, She continued her art in New York. She has written a good deal, trans- lating the picturesque songs of her people—songs with such titles as “I Will Start Before Noon," “Song of the Flying Feather,” “In Her Canoe,” “The Sky Replies” and “Scalp Dance.” “Every phase of Cherokee life is expressed in the music,” she says. “Lf I can make people know the songs of my people, they will know my peo- ple. There is nothing in earth or heaven which the Indian cannot ex- plain by legend.” This is the “Story of the Cherokee Women by One of Them,” as Mrs Croker has written it—presumably a though I am only a quarter-blood| description of the opening of a new Indian, Through my mother, who| School for Indian girls: was @ halt-breed, I am directly de-|‘Then from all parts of the nation, seended from Sequoyah, who in-|From humblest homes and richest, vented the Cherokee alphabet.” Came the bright-faced Indian maidens, Maidens fair and maidens dusky, And Chief Sequoyah unquestionably | sraigens short and tall and willowy, |Came they to this seat of learning; Drank from this sparkling fountain, ed of peace, Sequoyah never|Longed for more of Hebe's potion— lifted his hand against the white|Longed, and all thelr lives kept longing; man, But he invented an alphabet |And in time sent back their daughters, ‘That their lives might be so sweetened And their days and deeds be fruitful” A keen interest in women has the pure American type. Before her marriage Miss Edmon- she told of her descent. “Yes, I am really a princess," she said, “al- people to read and write it. He has been called “the Cadmus of the In-| diuns," after the legendary hero who | characterized this American princes gave an alphabet to the Greeks. She was a member of the Equal Fran- It Is also said that Mrs, Croker’s|chise Soctety, and In native costume Scotch father is a descendant of Lord|rode horseback not only in New Montgomery, Earl of Eglinton, who| York's Suffrage parades but at the was one of the leaders of the Nor- | head of the New York division of the man conquerors of England at the Woman Suffrage inaugural parade in Battle of Hastings. If 1 were she,, Washington, however, Chief Sequoyah would be| “Indian men,” she says, “lack the the pride of my family tree, ambition and energy which the As a child in Muskogee, Okla,|women have, The girls’ school at | Tahlequah is always filled—the boys’ ‘rarely so, Girls ride on horseback of her tribe, She never saw a rail- fifty miles for an education.” train till after her sixteenth In her own home at Muskogee, birthday. But she was well educated, Okla, she worked constantly before Ores at an Indian sobogi at Table. her marriage fox the education and she was keenly interested in the re- study of singing and the dramatic! Me War Department is utilising ali possible agencies, govern- ‘ Mental welfare and others, in ite work of getting a job for overy man who is discharged trom the Gov- ernment service, It does not feel that its task has been completed until these ends have been served. ‘This interest shown by the Govern- ment in the welfare of the ex-soldier is @nexampled in the history of after- war conditions, In this new departure the United States is not alone. In England, France and Italy the respective War Departments have taken up the new work of placing the demobilized sol- dier back into civil life. The reasons for this are to be found first in the fact that the Eu- ropean war was unexampled in its magnitude, It involved nearly a bill- fon people. More than 7,000,000 pco- ple He buried in Europe as a result of It, and over 20,000,000 soldiers are maimed for life. The total cost in life and material exceeds tehfold the seost of all the other wars, from the Napoleonic ones to the Balkan wars of 1912-13, The destruction wrought by this war was so vast that only a concerted organized effort will be able to restore, even in part, what was so deeply shaken. Tho disabled man must be given work of such a kind that he can perform it in spite of his disability. The man whose ability in a certain field of human endeavor was developed through war must be given an opportunity to use this ability to the last ounce, Unemployment after the Civil War did not form an acute problem. The United States was largely an agri- cultural country and each man te- jturned to his farm or small trade without creating more than a slight ripple im the life of the country. In MONDAY, JULY .21, Other Wars and Other J a few weeks or a few days the re- obs This War Has Produced New and Bigger Problems Which the Government Is Working to Solve— 300,000 Men Who Have Performed Their Duty Are Being Discharged Every Month—The Gov- |, erment Has a Duty to Perform Toward Them. By Col. Arthur Woods Assistant to the Secretary of War. (Written especially for The Evening World.) turned soldiers caught up with the step of life, The total number of People employed industrially then did not exceed the number of soldiers that the War Department is now de- mobilizing in one month. The three hundred thousand men the War Department discharges every month, If left completely to their owa devices to shift for themselves with- out the help or guidance of the Gow- éroment, would glut the labor market tremendously, It must not be forgot- ten that, to carry on the war suc- cessfully and to furnish food and ammunition to our allies, our indus- tries have opened new fields for wemen, and so temporarily increased the unemployment of men. But more than anything else, the magnitude of the European calamity has awakened the spirit of responsi- bility in which the words of Cain, “Am I my brother's keeper?” have no place. Each Government now feels that it has @ duty to perform toward the men who performed their duty to their governments. The very same problems we are facing here are being faced and met by all of our allies in Europe. They are new problems,'met in a now spirit. After previous wars Governments considered that in granting a small yearly pension ¢o the widow and orphans or some privilege to the wounded their duty to the ex-soldier was discharged. This war has taught the Gogern- ment an invaluable lesson in regard to ts personal responsibility toward the men-who have fought—a lesson that bids fair to help in the solution of many peace time problems. What the Government is doing in seeking to help ex-service possible employment will be ut vaiue in the building up of peace-time em- ployment service, ELL, boys, we can en- W dure the summer heat as long as the summer styles for women endure. | We get it’ straight that some of these dresses are made on Fifth Avenue, around 23d Street. And some of ‘em lower than that. * Summer dresses used to puz- zle us, but now we can see through ‘em. Wife claims some of the waists are just an excuse to show off. All we can say is, it's a very flimsy excuse. Wife also claims that men do most of the women's designing. Easy enough to believe that. This year's bathing suits aren't so bad. Especially when they're occupied. Two-piece bathing suit for a girl is just two bits. But it costs $15 or $20. Bathing suits are like all other | commodities this year—the less you get, the more you pay. That $35,000,000 aero appro- priation certainly gives a little credit to the navy. Umpire at home plate should always remember a man may be | Seneral betterment of her tribe. she owns there a big ranch of 640 acres, with 1,000 apple trees. An allotment of ; Cherokee tribal land stands in her name. She was Principal of the pub- {lc schools of Tahlequah. She has been much interested in the Indian dances, “There are dif- ferent dances for different seasons,” she says, “May for the Marriage Dance, and so on, Of course, all the dances were originally war dances, but now they have developed other meanings.” Last spring at Palm Beach Mra Croker trained thirty Seminole Indians in a Cherokee war dance. ‘ That the Indian skill in handling weapons has descended to her, Mrs. Croker proved at Palm Beach shortly A Few Flying Chips By Neal R. O'Hara Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) > down but he’s never out. Every time we start a spree on near-beer we fee) like Willard. One round is plenty. Jazz foundries on 46th Street are getting ready for the fall season. Understand “moon” and “spoon” will stil! rhyme. Beauty of song writing is, you don't even have to know the English language. Wicki-wacki- woo, oo-la-la and jada make swell lyric. And sensible, too, Yep, the guy that said he'd dis- covered the monkey language was eight years late. Song writers beat him to it, Next edition of the Bartenders’ Guide should give directions on how to get a new job. ‘Cafes now serve kickless champagne for $3.75 a quart Call it sham-pagne. Anybody that'll pay $3.75 for @ quart of tame stuff is near crazy himself, Understand there are certain places you can still get hard whirkey if you wink the right way. That ought to make cin- ders worth more than snake bites. after her marfiage. She and her seventy-one-year-old husband were ‘TWO MINUTES By Herma hunting in the woods near their home, the Wigwam, when they heard a snarl and, looking up, saw a wildcat about to spring upon them from the OF OPTIMISM n J. Stich limb of a tree. Mrs. Croker instantly raised her rifle and fired and the animal fell dead almost at her feet. Even am Indian princess, however, may be very much a woman. Two highly feminine utterances are re- corded of Mrs, Croker, On her wed- ding day she made this statement to reporters; “It is, the dearest ambition of every Indian girl's heart to win a chief and (she turned to Mr. Croker) “I have won the chief of men.” ‘ Copyri | aes was a newsboy and rolled his way into the stellarship of electrical wizardry. Faraday was a poor apothecary’s assistant and de- veloped into the world’s fore- most physicist and chemist. Franklin was the son of @ can- diemaker and discovered elec- During her honeymoon at Palm tricity, edited a newspaper, Beach she asked a correction of the wrote books, became United printed statement that she was an| States Ambassador to France Indian squaw, “An Indian squaw,"| and outshone the leading she said, “is an Indian mother. 1 am not yet @ equaw, but I trust that | shall be. Motherhood is the highest ambition that a woman can look for- ward to.” “There 1s no doubt whatever about my niece being of Cherokee blood.” Congressman William W. Hastings of Oklahoma, said in Washington the other day. He ts the uncle of Mrs Croker, and, like der, speaks the Cher- kee Longue Mucntly, statesmen of his time, “Stick” cry the wiseacres and mossbacks. “Stick” croak the | know-it-alls and know-nothings. “Stick” creak selfish and short- sighted employers, who would rather check and wreck a hu- man being than compete with him, Had Edison “stuck” he would no doubt Aave made a first-rate , 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) train crier, Faraday would have grown into a full-fledged drug clerk, Franklin would have pro- duced good wax candles—and civilization would have been about 400 years behind time, Progress would long since have been staled and stultified, the twentieth century would. have beet a huge, lumbering, lazy, lifeless grind of monotony and ignorance. The wortd is mighty glad that Edison and Faraday and Frank- lin and Lincoln and Bell and Field and thousands more— ROLLED—and didn't “stick!” Human rolling stones DO gather moss—the long green variety. That old saw “Rolling stones gather no moss” is as un- true as it’s ancient, Any farmer will tell you that a change of pasture fattens his calves