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be Let us have a new trial. Let us make it swift, clear, unexcep- ESTABLIEHMD BY JOSEPH PULITZER, by the Preas Publishing Company, Nos. 58 to Published Daily Bxoept Susday by the Prooe Padiiat RALPH PULITZER, President, J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘er. JOBEPH PULITZ! re an eee eendaearinde pairs r ti he Post-0: New York aw Second-Class Matter. @ebecriplinn hates +o Wine” Meehing Yor Prgiand and the Continent es@ World for the United States ‘All Countries in the International bd * and Canada, FOUR OUT OF FIVE. ECKER will have a new trial. The murder of Rosenthal and the myateries of the “System” must again be probed to the ond 4 The four gunmen go to the chair, There is no question of their guilt. On that point at least the opinion’ of the Court of Appeals 4 unanimous. The affirmation of their sentence posts a grim warn- ing to lawlessness and crime in this city. | There ought not to be question of any man’s guilt. If six judges out of seven believe that Becker should be retried, if the former trial is wes not convincing enough to stand the test of six judicial minds, * trained and matured, then what excuse is left for enep judgment, what ground for public discussion or dissent? tienable. A year and eight months after tho killing of Rosenthal no | one can cavil at the speed with which trial follows the crime, or | _ point to the inflamed estate of public opinion as exercising conceivable influence on Judge or jury. Tet us retry Becker in cool, second thought. Let us make the ‘trial in every way a model of procedure, and remember that what- ever the outcome, we owe it to the courts that four at least of thoze responsible for the murder of Rosenthal have been brought to justice. that justice may make no miatake that human care can avoid. | y i Whatever happens we are nearer to the “System” than we were. oy —_— be Gov. Giyan's new-fangled graft-locater doesn't seem Mkely “9 to crowd out the old Joha Doe patent. ———$ $= - WHY GIVE THE GROCER A GRIEVANCE? ITTER COMPLAINTS come from the grocery district to the effect that ice end snow left over from tho bliszand still Wook | . the streets and interfere with the handling of goods. ef, Any growl from the grocer just now makes New Yorkers shud- “Ger. Whatever goes wrong with him, he is quick to pounce upon as _ & pretest for' marking up prices, thereby prodding the cost of living ' to new feate in aviation. Presently we shall hear that butter is some cents dearer berause the grocer has to hoist it over the glaciers thal © tise before his tront door. \ %\ Commissioner Fetherston bed betier put on his rubber boots Again and wede forth in search of enow he has overlooked. He reskould ‘remember that the canyons of Menhattan are not like the sunny slopes of Staten Island, where he whiled away the happy daye ———_-¢ = ——_____ Rats have eaten the New York, New Haven end Hartford Railroad recerds in the Department of Justice Buflding at at ¢ Being blind herself, Justice ought to get a better house- keeper. eter eaten : THE CENTRE OF POVERTY. | @ PVE centre of business, the centre of amusement, the centre of _ Wealth—ell shift year by year further uptown. And now . it appears the centro of poverty grimly moves with the i “According to the report of the Charity. Orgenisation Society for ‘the year ending Sept. 30, 1913, At present the problems of overcrowding and dependency ' * with all their attendant difficulties are mest acute en the upper - @nst side of Manhattan. 3 The rapid growth of population in the Bronx goes far to account fer an eleven per cent, increare of poverty in that section from 1932 sto 1918. .” (On the other hand the lower east side, the most densely popu- lated area in the city, which formerly supplied the worst records of ) tee years an actual decrease in poverty of one per cent, + fo. tho tront where + localities whore it is densest. The lower cast side is not growing “ap to a plans of gregter stability and thrift To the Balter of The Brening World: Please tell me where to for my Goal naturalisation a ROBERT ‘ADAM. Be, Kind to Merces. To the Baditur of The Bresing World: Kindly say a few words for the . Ask all citisens to lend their to eliminate, to a certain extent least, the sufferings occasioned by this snow, And they can do much if they only will, if it Is only to asking the ald of policemen in preventing the usclons dling of the whip by drivers. B.C. REICHERT ‘To the hditur of The Fvening World: Would you kindly let me know how ‘zy Pereons who are Manding Siu! Z ing adout whet he'd ‘went and privation, shows by s comparison of figures for the same | Mision te Never Put Even Advertising can’t Bave the Bhop Destitution and dependence, even as weelth and luzury, crowd that enplexe the @ulky Seleemen! is newest, inatead of lingering in older| ‘rhe Heignt of incongruity te the Bpectacte of a Gan poorer and more squalid. On the contrary, it is steadily pulling iteolf |. “Do now wisn ean ae The Evesttng World Daily Magazine; Wedn Optimettes By Clarence L. Cullen Copyright, 1014, ty The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brentng World), Cud of Contentment te Masti: on the Narrow Reed that Leads to cated mainiy the Top! There'e @ Lot of] “Hitch your Wagon to a Star,” if you Difference ‘between | Like that Kisat of ClroumamMeat Circus Fieding the Happy | atug—dut don't Forget the Pads and Medium ané Liv- ing tm Ascoréance ‘Therewith' with Ne Feet the Lezicon of Procrastination! “The Ni Hive inform us! too many choke. | says a Memphis are a plunk for kee Sentinel. ing. ‘There long the new addition to the Pulitzer | bronue ¢| Building has been finished? U, B, saewite|of his chilblgin EMciency” te Gecoming a ‘Tiresome Phrase—so the Drones im the There ien't Much Room to Tengo Hits From Sharp Wits. Too many, cookbooks are as bad as ae “What ‘are the ne aska the Boston Globe. we have acquired the habit of want- r | You can't tell how brave a man te by the way he talks at a telephone. Albany Journal. ‘ thi | ‘The'ben ts mightier than the sword, two doveaaltwee: . ‘ ceenarien of life?” ‘The thin, ERY earty in the annals of New York ‘we begin to read of the \ Island Detween Manhattan. i nitying 1 CON Keeps sweet in spite erally.) Parachute! ‘When you Take the Glib Word of the “can be-| Towcher who Promises Patiy to Pay ‘Ambitious you Back et Tires o’Clook Sharp next! while. get-rich-quick men bave Thureday Afternoon 1h| 1s Called the Pathos of Faith! 1914, ty The Pres Prbtitstng 02, VHil.— BLOWING UP: ‘and dangere attending the approach to the city by water via 5-Minute stad . ’ Copyright, 1014, ty The Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening Worl®) on Zarzere peelnapageeher tm | Vels of their own particular offspring. many en uphol+ bra fidgeting, | Steam on me. They know you Exhibit what! pounded their “systems” to me. " ; emoked myself foolish, listening Ten Dramatic Chapters In the Story of New York Onarrigtn, (The Now Tort Brenig Wort), HELL GATE. narrow and -tortucus ‘s@hiripoel: etenit,” the tide and wind. The modera name of chant , me ‘the story of| But, when you're x A ects as D \66 an hoax. trott Ri in tte with th ing the great. men in throws eacapes aide. Fights With “Fate” By Alma Woodward. doting parents hold forth on the mar- | printed while} And when I want to talk, by gosh, fo one will listen to me. Not a soul! ie de, Shas, |O N r in a bunch of gab ita, you begia to chafe under the |... My friends take turns working off thy that will nerice to Ty sympathy m the Coe ep silent nods inarticulate, ‘ing eounds to] that I will bestow upon them. I am the target for their ora' torical effu- It used to flatter me—the way they rat, I tried to opinion of the question. jas never an opening. Then T crouched, tigerlike, to & word or two, when hot air mer- of ex. and nu ve | org can be Either my vis-a-vis @ moment” (7), eoday, February 25, 1914 Why Not? a4 cee, $4 «By Maurice Ketten i many a one of them from ever doing anything originat. - ~; When a youth comes to the conclus'on that he knows know about women, Cupid winks, Satan Jaughs and the is at the sight of the toboggan slide th: To a woman marriage is the beginning of Iife; to # man it ie the end jo “liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Avman's greatest cross in matrimony is the torture of baying & Werat around the house, forever picking up things and putting them fn thee right places where “nobody can find them.” a When a man shows any real, genuine sentiment nowadays he Wiays Every man must be something of s Turk at heart. There is nothing o. earth at which a whole crowd of them will stare with such poignant interest as at a closely veiled woman. Sooner or later cvery philanderer discovers that a whole wagon-low of cheap flirtations isn’t worth one good, honest love-affair any more tha: @ basketful of scraps {s worth one ¢ od yard of whole cloth. Love {s the stimulant which wakens a man to high aims ana " it resolves; marriage the narcotic which lulls him back to sleep again, “accomplice.” alive, yet vory much a part of the It was during a regatta on thy Do- that the spectators on both sides of the river were horrifiod to see a boat {n midstream suddenly appear, and gle between two men. forth they lunged at each other, each apparently seeking on advantage By this time tho excitoment was were hysterical. Suddenly one of the and stabs the other again and again, Favorite Recipes of Famous Women.’ Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. NE-HALF pint of sour milk, eight heaping tablespoons of sugar (Coffee A preferred), two one scant tablespoon butter, two and one-half teaspoons baking powder, scant half teaspoon of soda, pinch of salt. Flavor with cinnamon lard which has reached the bolling point until they are a golden brown. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Pattern No, 8200—Semi-Princesse Gown, 34 te 40 bust, with twe-piece skirt, with er without Copyright, 1916, by The Preis Pubiishing Co, (The New York Brening World), WOMAN'S last resort is henna—a man’s, Gehenna, The average man's harrowing fear of being lapgtied: ét' has of iting for him. though he felt guilty of immodest exposure of the Beart, ° eager env gt —_—_—. Anecdotes of the Old-Time Actors By Edw. Le Roy Rice Coprriadt, 1916, by The Press t’uliemng Co, (Ihe New York Frening World), Another Norton. Method in Bis Madness. ANGER" NORTON'S favor- HE late Charlee Hoyt, ite form of practical joke numerous farces all a was usually with the ald of Though not with the letter “A,” was partnership with Frank Mc ca years ugo Mr. McKoo was ay oe ver at Detroit some years ago terrific life-and-death strug- Back and} A few minutes later the turned again to toll Mr. Me! the man must see him; that a play he wanted read. MoKeo furious and said that that was m time to read a play.. He some more things, but ti matter now. Presently: urned for the third ti Mr, McKee that the man an interview, and that he would not only read his play Hoyt & McKee would be to produce it, This was too much for Mr. who jumped up, and, with the ia tention of annihilating his tosaenyer rushed to the door and met—! HOYT. Then Mr. McKee “purohased’ for all those assembied. @ evident intention of throw- other into the stream. Men were yelling and women the boat whips out a knife the body into the river and te Windsor, on the Canadian ‘appled for the corpse favorite recipes of famous Inited States are vening World on Miss Ellen Asby Fletcher. (Dangbter of Senator Fletchet.) ‘Miss Nell’s Mayonnaise.** U* double boiler. In under come Miss Claire Dixon, partment put ice water, Sn In- Good Doughnuts. partment make ‘hay- onnaise, Dover egg beat Yolks of ess", one each salt, sugar and mustard, » into eggs (about a teaspoon at a tli one cup of. olive oll—thinning: wit'.@ on juice—generally juice ‘of two lemons. Add inst one cup -eseaci (sw@et or sour) w! the Boon ¢ berm hecyh fm ‘1 aide itmeg. Add flour until dough rolled out and cut. Fry in RILLS and flounces that give « tuain gown that sbows thers treated most attrac- tively, The skirt is just a simple one ta two piece. style, but with the addition of tha - frille, with elbow or long