Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 48, 25 February 1922 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND.. SATURDAY, FEB. 25, 1922.

An Art Threatened With Extinction By FREDERICK J. HASKIN

WASHINGTON D. C. Feb. 25. Probably one of the most highly paid classes of workmen In the world are employed In an Industry of which the

were killed or disabled la the war. The restrictions of the new Immigration law prevent others from coming to this country. Hence the difficulties

public knows almost nothing that of!0' the modern manufacturing jeweler.

making high grade jewelry by hand

ine racts about this trade were brought out at a conference held by the Jewelry Crafts association in New York. The leading topic of discussion among the jewelers present was the

enormous wages which their workmen are demanding and receiving, and the difficulty which they experience in getting new men. Think of a workman making as high at $150 to $200 a week! Yet some of the jewelry workers and diamond setters get that much, while weekly earnings of a hundred or more are not uncommon. A good workman gets about $2 an hour, while an exceptional one may make $3. The standard week Is 44 hours, and time and a half is paid for overtime. As there is always a shortage of competent workmen, most of the men work overtime during a great part- of the year and so pile up their enviable earnings. During the war conditions were even better for the workmen and worse for iheir employers. Some of them during that period were making as high as $5 an hour and double time for overtime. The employers objected to the demands for more money and less working hours and a long strike took

place. The result was the establish-1

ment of the open shop principle. This was not as great a victory for the employer as It usually is, because the shortage of first-class workmen enabled them still to successfully demand very high wages. There men are interesting, not so much on account of their spectacular earnings as because upon them defends the survival of an ancient art which is threatened with extermination, or at least great injury, as are so many other arts, by the modern domination of machinery. Machine-Made Jewelry Cheaper Certain lines of machine-made Jewelry may be beautiful and often are. Some materials can be worked very successfully by machinery, and of course machine-made jewelry is much cheaper than that made by hand, and ho within the reach of persons who could not otherwise afford jewelry at all. The place df machine-made jewelry is secure and not to be criticized; but the fate of jewelry-making as an art is in the hands of those jewelers and their workmen who do fine hand work. This art is threatened by the scarcity of workmen. In this country, especially, few young men care to go into a trade in which it takes 10 to 15 years to become fairly proficient. As a result ot this, the United States has been getting many of its high grade jewelers from Europe, a preponderance of them from Germany and France. Many of the skilled workmen

These makers of hand-wrought jew

elry truly have behind them a great I artistic tradition. The making of jew-! elry has always been recognized as a ! high art, and in the Italian Rennais-j sance it attained its highest dignity. Jewelers in the Italian cities1 of that perod were often sculptors and painters as well, and were often quite as famous for their work in jewelry as for that in other arts. Botticelli heads

a group of such artists. Benvenuto Cellini is another celebrated Italian of the sixteenth century who was a jeweler and goldsmith and made beautiful ornaments for the gorgeous potentates of that day. (. Fine Handicraft Formerly Until the introduction of machinery

the making of jewelry remained a fine :

handicraft. In colonial days in this country, and in the early days of the republic, there were many goldsmiths, some of whom enjoyed considerable reputations, although they were not to be compared with the great - artists of rennaissance Italy. The making of cheap jewelry by machinery was a blow to fine work by hand, just as machine work was to the making of pottery, fabrics and many other things.

It is true, the designer still was necessary, but long series of articles were made on a single design, and both the execution of designs and the materials to be used were limited by machine processes. Modern designers of jewelry do not seem to achieve reputations outside of their own trade. It Is characteristic of modern industrialism that the artists are buried under the business, so that an especially beautiful piece of work is known by the name of the firm that sold it but never by that of the man who created it.

Furthermore, the designer and the workmen are now distinct, where once they were the same person. Sometimes the Jewelry manufacturer himself is the designer, while he employs the highly skilled workmen to carry out his ideas. The designer is an artist possessed with a thorough knowledge of jewelry construction and usually one who has grown up in the business. How Jewels Are Designed When a customer desires a brooch or pendant or ring mounting, the designer paints in water colors on celluloid or paper an exact picture of the article as it will look when finished. Perhaps several" designs will be submitted before one is accepted by the customer. In the cage of very expensive and elaborate pieces of work, a wax model is sometimes made. This is extremely difficult work which only a few of the- designers are able to do artistically. In this wax model the

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These girls, part of two hundred Ukrainians in New York, staged a demonstration before the French consulate as a protest against French support of Poland. Pickets distributed circulars alleging 9,000,000 Ukrainians in Poland are being persecuted -and gradually exterminated by the government.

I metals and jewels are shown in their i

natural colors as nearly as possible. According to a jewelry manufacturer who also designs Jewelry for fashionable folks in the national capital, there Is a constantly increasing demand for well designed, well made, hand-wrought jewelry. As he explained it, it gives discerning people an opportunity to express their individuality and taste. Everybody likes something different. People are now going to makers of jewelry, he said, in much the same way that they go to their tailors to have something distinctive made to meet certain conditions of purpose, fitness and personal taste. As the designs for handwrought Jewels are seldom, if ever, repeated, the product 13 unique. One thing which has worked for the survival of hand work against machine competition is the popularity "of platinum. Fine platinum jewelfy is very hard to stamp by machinery, without

losing the fine and artistic execution. This, however, is now done, and some designs can be reproduced in that way, but platinum lacks the fine malleability which makes gold so easy to work by machinery. Platinum, on the othcT hand, has distinct advantages over gold for the hand worker. It is possible to do much finer work with it, and it is more enduring. ; Hence the making, of platinum jewelry promises to remain, what all jew

elry once was and probably still should be one of the fine arts.

West River, Ind. WEST RIVER, Ind. Mr. and Mrs.

Ira McCallisier and family moved

from their farm near here to a farm

east of Modoc owned by Olia Naylor.. Miss Garnett Vorhives called on Miss Elsie Davis Sunday afternoon. . . . Mrs. Clell Moisner and two daughters of Anderson visited her daughter,

Mrs. Orval Troy and family last week ....Emmerson Benson and daughter,

Miss Claircie and son, Charles, were

in Newcastle Saturday Several

from this community attended the sale

of S. S. Sisk, north of Losantville last week.... Miss Florence Logan who is

working south of Cambridge spent the

week-end with Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hanson and Miss Garnett Vorhlve3

Miss Sara Smith spent Thursday night with Miss Mary Catherine Beeson Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. King

and daughter, Mae, called on Mr. and

Mrs. Ashbury Wood and daughter, Cora, Tuesday night .... Paul Lumpkin

celebrated his 17th birthday Tuesday

night hy his boyfriends surprising

him. ' Those present: Gene Pierce, Brook Wiggins, Lowell Beson. Harold Beeson and Gus Medsker and Mary Ann Lumpkin and Eva Raffe. A dainty supper was served of which all enjoyed Several men from this township were in Richmond Wednesday on business. They were U.' M.

Stewart, Joe Davis, Robert Beckerdite and Frank Hanson, and Harry Macey ....Miss Delia Macey of near Modoc is in a critical condition There will be a box supper at the Dalton school Saturday night, Feb. 25. A good program and several contests will be offered Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Kuhn and daughter, Elizabeth, and Mary Alice spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Newton Koons of near Mooreland. . . . Mr. and Mrs. John Patterson and children, Walter and Maxine, of Modoc and Ray Driscoll called on Mr. and Mrs. Emmerson Benson and children, Clarcie and Charles Friday night.... There will he preaching services at West River. Sunday and Sunday night Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lumpkins and daughter, Margaret, of Losantville

spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John

Lumpkins and daughter,. Mary Ann. . ..Miss Mary Alice Kuhn is spending

PAGE ELEVEN i this week with her grandparents, Mr.' and Mrs. Newton Koons. ::. Miss "Bernice Smith spent Thursday night with Miss Mary Louise Beeson. ... .Miss Mary Ann Lumpkins spent Friday night and - Saturday .'with Miss Eva Raffe.... Guy Wilkinson spent Sunday evening with Miss Ruth Wiggins north Of Losantville... Miss Cora Wood was in Losantville Monday... .". .Grandma Paul went to Muncle Saturday to visit relatives. . Miss. Lucile Stewart rpent Monday evening with Miss Mae King Miss Eva Raffe.' Dalton school

teacher spent Tuesday night with Miss Mary Ann Lumpkins.... U. B. Stewart vistied in Richmond Monday.... 31Jah Allred hauled wood Tuesday. SEEKS CHECKER HONORS. LOGANSPORT, Ind.,Dibby Brown, of this city, for many years checker champion of Cass county. Is seeking more honors. He has Issued a challenge . to all checker players of the state. . . . .. ..

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