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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02
MISSISSIPPI SEEKS TO DENY
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.


FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
Washington, D. C.-The Washington
Daily Herald tells of Mississippi IS
farce in trying to keep information
from White and Colored people alike
in the expression which follows:
Prohibition in Mississippi has taken
queer turn. The only real and simon
pure prohibition in the State now is
against the freedom of the press in
publishing advertisements. The legis-
lature which has just adjourned enacted
law which prohibits the sale or cir
culation of any newspaper or periodical
which carries an advertisement of any
alcoholic liquors. The prohibition of
the sale and use of liquors does not
go so far. That law permits the i'm
portation of two quarts of whiskey or
twelve quarts of beer for each adult cit
izen every four weeks. The people may
buy and use liquors but they may not
read advertisements to guide them in
how and where to buy, or what should be
the market price. They may send to
New York or New Orleans an order for
these goods which are not eontraband
in the State, but they may not read
an advertisement giving them informa-
tion about what they are to order or
what price they are to pay.
The people of Mississippi have long
resented the old history of that State
written by Northern men to the effect
that they prohibited the circulation of
knowledge among the slaves; but the
new law against advertising of law.
full goods is a prohibition of the cir
culation of information to the White
people as well as to the Negroes of the
State. There might be some consist
eney in the laws of Mississippi if the
prohibition of the liquor traffic went
as far as does the prohibition of ad-
, vertising. But as these laws now stand
they are absolutely inconsistent, and
more against the freedom of the press
than the prohibition of the liquor traf.
fic. With such legislation it may not
be surprising that the cities in Missis.
sippi have the highest record of crime
in the country.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

ACCESSIBILITY OF HUMAN HEART AS
DEMoNsTRATIvE EvIDENCE.-In an in
teresting case arising in Maine,
namely, Thompson .. Columbian Nat.
L. Ins. Co., (Me.) 95 Att. 229, the &C
ton was on an accident insurance
policy, and the question in issue was
whether or not the insured met his
death by accident so as to entitle the
plaintiff to recover on the policy. The
plaintiff claimed that the death was
due to an accident, to wit, rupture
of the heart, whereas the defendant
claimed that it was due to bloodpois-
oning and that there was no rupture
of the heart. There was evidence that
autopsies showed a slit or rupture Of
heart muscles, and there was a dispute
as to whether the slit was due to q
rupture before death or as contended
by the defendant to cut after death.
At the trial, which occurred over a
year after the death of the insured,
the defendant offered the heart as
demonstrative evidence so that the
jury might see for itself that there
was no rupture, but cut after death.
The trial Judge refused to allow the
heart to be received in evidence and
his ruling was sustained by the law
court. Chief Justice Savage said:
THE defendant contends that as the
prime question at the trial was
whether there was a rupture Of the
heart before death, or a cut upon the
heart after death, the heart itself would
be the best evidence Of the truth. 1t
would be good evidence, 1t must be
conceded, II the heart remained In
the same condition as 1t was at death,
and would be properly admissible II
the jurors, who were non-experts,
were competent to judge Of question
the answer to which must depend to
considerable degree upon expert
knowledge. Whether demonstrative
evidence Of this character should be
admitted depends, within well-de-
fined limits, upon the discretion Of
the presiding justice. And, unless
the discretion Is abused, exceptions do
not lie. Ordinarily . preliminary
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02
NATIONAL NEWS NOTES.
Brief Bits Of News and Comment o.
Men and Women.
NEGRO STUDENTS SAVE ONION
CROP.

Amherst, Mass.-A force of 800
Negro students from the Hampton In
stitute, Va, and 500 other Negroes
from the South farmed and harvested
the onion crop in a portion of Con-
neeticut this year, when the regular
farm hands left the fields for higher
wages in the munition factories of the
state, according to statement OF J.
W. Alsop, of Avon, Conn, before the
Onion Growers of Hampshire and
Franklin counties yesterday.
Mr.. Alsop said: "When our laborers
went to the factories we raised $4,000
and sent to employment agents In the
cities. The men provided were worse
than useless. Then we sent to the
South and got 800 students from Hamp-
ton Institute and other schools and
500 other Negroes.
"These students went to church,
sang well and by their gentlemanly
conduct won the good will of the COM
munity and the praise of their en-
ployers.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

question is whether the thing offered
is in substantially the same condition
it was at the time in question. The
determination of this fact is for the
justice, and to his finding exceptions
do not lie. This is so well settled
that the citation of authorities is IN
necessary. In this case the justice in
excluding the heart gave no reason.
We must therefore inquire whether
there was any good reason. We think
there was. 1t is complained that he
excluded the heart without examining
it himself. But he had listened to
reams of testimony about it 1t is
evident that there was bona fide dis
pute as to whether the heart was In
the same condition as to the rupture
or cut at the time of the trial as it
was at the first autopsy. If the JUS
tice believed the witnesses for the
plaintiff, he was authorized to find
that the condition was changed. And
we cannot revise his finding on excep-
lions. Besides, the length Of time
that had elapsed since the body was
exhumed and the susceptibility of mat
ter of that kind to decay and degen-
Grafton may have led him in the exer.
else of wise discretion to withhold 1t
from the jury, even though there was
testimony that 1t had been 'scientif-
cally preserved and had not degen-
Grated. Again, it admits of serious
doubt whether nonexperts are in
condition to Judge year and half
after death whether a slit in a human
heart was caused by a rupture before
death or by cutting after death. If
not, then such demonstrative evidence
is not proper to be submitted to
jury of nonexperts. We suggest this
question. We have no occasion now
to decide it. We think the exceptions
are not sustainable. Loo Notes.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02
DIRTY MILK.

About seventeen per cent of the av-
erage dietary in the United States
consists of milk and its products.
Dirty milk causes more city sickness
and death than any other foodstuf.
Whyi
1st-Beeause germs grow in it read
lily.
2nd-Because milk is more difficult
to obtain, handle, transport and deliver
in a clean, fresh, wholesome condition.
3rd-It spoils more quickly than
most other foods.
Carelessness in the home is all
too common.
shit is the only article of diet de-
rived from animal sources that is COM
monty consumed in its raw state.
The hot weather may still give US a
run for our ice money. While the De-
partment of Health is seeking to guard
the purity of the milk supply of this
city, delivered to your door, see that
it is kept cool and not allowed to
stand uncovered, exposed to flies and
dirt.
The health and life Of the bottle-fed
baby is especially involved in this
question of clean versus contaminated
milk. The housewife has q very i'm
portant part to I'LL.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

Mr.. Leopold Pfaelzer, Democratic
candidate to fill out the unexpired term
of his brother, the late David M. Pfael.
ger, as a member of the Board of Asses
sors of Cook County was born in Laud.
enbach, Baden, Germany, Nov. II, 1858,
and received his education in its COM
mon high school and business college in
Laudenbach, Weinheim and Biblis by
Worms am Rhein, Germany,
He has resided in this city for more
than SO years and is one of its first or
high class business men with reputa-
ton for straightforward business meth
DDS that can not successfully be assailed,
for many years he was more than sue
cessfully associated with his brother
David M. Pfaelzer, in the wholesale
clothing business, at the present time he
is engaged in the insurance business
with offices in the Insurance Exchange
Building, 175 Jackson Blvd, he resides
in an elegant home with his highly in
teresting family, 1922 Drexel Blvd; he
is a big hearted liberal minded gentle
men and one of his characteristics is his
love for doing something for others and
he is one of the big contributors to the
Associated Jewish Charity. He belongs
to a number of fraternal benevolent So
cieties
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02
JEWS OPPOSE DISCRIMINATION
OF RACE.
Movement to Better Condition of He
brews.


The Jews of the United States are
moving forward along the lines of a
program which demands full rights for
their race in all lines, and the abroga-
tion of all laws discriminating against
them. In recent conference a reso-
luton was passed favoring the idea of
a Congress, which should seek full re-
ligious, civil and political freedom for
Jews. The activities of the Congress
will be restricted to these particular
lines Of endeavor. Justice Louis D.
Brandeis, of the United States Su-
preme Court, is one of the leading
champions of the movement, which
has taken concrete form, and through
his efforts and those of Oscar 8.
Strauss and other prominent Jews, a
permanent Conference Of National
Jewish Organization" has been
formed. There has been a great deal
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

Mrs. sylvia Warfeld of Bethesda
Baptist church and Mrs. Martin of
Salem sung two beautiful duets at
Walters Chapel last Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. R. West of Alb W..
Seth ST., returned last week from a
visit to friends and relatives in Cora
opolis, Pa. and other points east.
Miss Mayme Vineyard of Knoxville,
Tenn, left Thursday evening for her
home after spending a few weeks very
pleasantly with her grandmother Mrs
Louise Bostic of 5O4S S. Dearborn st.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

Among those most active in getting
Mr.. Pfaelzer to be candidate for mem
Der of the Board of Assessors are Judge
Henry Horner, Jacob M. Loeb, presi-
dent of the School Board, Edward Hill
man, president of Hillman's Depart
ment store, Chas. Harder, president of
the Harder's Storage Company, Louis
Kuppenheimer of B. Kuppenheimer Co.,
Geist Brothers, w. R. Mumford of w.
R. Mumford G. Co., John Magnus & Co.,
Albert Hoefeld, August Gatzert of
Rosenwald & We'll, John P. Marsh &
Co., Geo. B. Currier, Jos Beifeld, John
S. Perry of Janeway & Carpenter.
For years Mr.. Pfaelzer and his
late brother David M. Pfaelzer have
employed three Colored men in their
building on Van Buren, St., near Market
street; his brother Louis Pfaelzer,
president of Louis Pfaelzer & Sons,
packers at the Union Stock Yards also
give steady employment to large num-
Der of Colored men.
Proving far beyond a doubt that the
Pfaelzers are friendly disposed towards
Colored people, that they will have a
good friend at court by aiding him to
become one of the members of the
Board of Assessors of Cook County.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Bradley IS
guest, Mrs. Lula E. Fugett left Tues
DAY evening for Shelbyville, Ind,
where she will spend few days as the
guest of Mrs. Jeanett Rhyme. Her
friend, Miss Anna B. Davis, will join
her Saturday at Shelbyville, thsnce
they will journey on to their homes in
Knoxville, Tenn, to take up their
school work.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02
WHITE ILLITERATES INCREAS.
ING

Washington, D. C.-Illiterates are in
creasing in numbers in New England
and in New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, and in the Far West
Iliiterates are decreasing in numbers
in the Southern States. The South is
meeting its problem of the Illiterate
Negro: the North and West are not
meeting their problem of the illiterate
White man.
White immigration explains the in,
crease in the number of illiterates
Every other class of illiterates has de,
creased-Negroes, Cinnamon, japanese.
poor Whites, moonshiners, native-born
Whites of native parents, native-born
White of foreign parents, native-born
Whites of mixed native and foreign
parentage. Only the foreign-born illit-
crates have increased.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

Monday afternoon, the 2Sth, Mrs.
Hattie Vaughn of 1862 Ellis ave.,
served a six O'Clock dinner in honor of
Mrs. Sallie Luttrell Of Knoxville,
Tenn. Mrs. NJ. E. Carmichael and
daughter little Miss Carmichael were
also present.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

Mrs. Ada C. La Prade of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, is visiting her cousin,
Mrs. Ellen Washington of $50 Wa
bash ave., and friends, having been in
attendance at the o. E. s. Convention.
She has the distinction of being the
G. R. NJ. Tennessee Jurisdiction.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

Mrs. E. V. Green IS many friends at
the church are delighted to know she
has returned from her visit to relatives
and friends in New York and other
points in the east and will fill her place
in the choir which has been very much
missed.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02
WALTERS A. M e. ZION CHURCH
AND LOCAL NOTES BY WIN. J.
BURDINE.

Rev. T. J. Moppius, DID,, pastor Of
the A. M. E. Zion Church, Birmingham,
Ala, filed the pulpit last Sunday
morning and preached a most eloquent
sermon which was highly enjoyed. DR..
Blackwell, the pastor, delivered one of
the ablest sermons of his Passionate
Sunday eve.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02
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Entered % Second Class Matter Aus'
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Illinois, under Act Of March ., 1879
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

Sunday service as follows:' the pas
tor will preach at the morning and eve
ming services. Sunday school at 1:30
p. m. Rev. G. w. Rivers Supt. The
Stewardess board No. l and deserves
credit for the grand reception which
they tendeded the pastor and his wife,
Rev. and Mrs. w. A. Blackwell, last
Monday evening. Mrs. India Smith
and Mrs. NJ. C. Green, the president,
certainly knows how to do things.
The Varick Christian Endeavor So
ciety will start holding their regular
Sunday evening services, Sunday 6
D. M, DR.. E. E. Middleton, president.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

THE AFRo-AMERICAN OF BALTI-
MORE, MD, CELEBRATED ITS
TWENTY-FIVE BIRTHDAY AU-
GUST 18th. BROTHER MURPHY
PRODUCED ONE OF THE FINEST
ANNIVERSARY EDITIONS so
FAR BROUGHT FORTH BY AN
FRo-AMERICAN EDITOR IN
THIS COUNTRY.
It Consisted of Sixteen Pages Well
Filled with Good Reading Matter
and Advertisements.
Last Saturday, August 26th, Brother
John H. Murphy, who has been the I'M
firing editor of The Afro-American,
Baltimore, Nd. for the past % years,
put forth the 25th anniversary edition
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

of that publication, which was a hum
mer in every respect.
1t consisted of 16 pages, well filled
with good reading matter, illustrated
with cuts and sketches of many of the
most progressive men and women in
that section of the country; also sew
eral prominent White gentlemen felt
highly honored to have their pictures
in that number of the Afro-Ameriean.
1t was also chuck full of good ad-
vertisements from the front to the last
page of that issue of the paper, plain
ly shows that there is a strong force or
power behind it-that brother Murphy
is live wire in the newspaper world
and that the Afro-American is one of
the best and most enterprising news
papers in this country.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

Miss Pearle Bruce, after spending a
pleasant vacation as the guest of Mrs.
J. W. L. of SAL Wabash ave., has re-
turned to her home in Knoxville,
Tenn, where she will resume her school
work, being a teacher in the Maynard
school of which Prof. w. ]. Causler is
principal.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

Mr.. VIM. Heath of 1921 Prairie ave.
has been confined to his bed for severa
weeks. We hope for him a speedy re
covery.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02

Rev. H. J. Calls, DID,, the former
pastor of Walters Chapel, is in the
city and will return to Washington
about the sth of August with his fam
lily. He is the pastor of the Metropol-
itan A. NJ. E. Zion Church in that city
and reports the work in fine condition.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-09-02
PHONE WNfvon1K s6s7.

JULIUS ?. TAYLOR Editor and Pst
HShr.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-21
COLLEGE DEBATES
TO Be IN RALEIGH
WAKE FOREST WILL CONTEST
WITH RANDOLPH-MACON EAS-
TER MONDAY.
Debate Council Announces Queries
and Respective Sides For the Two
intercollegiate Debates.

Wake FOrest.-The debate council
of Wake Forest College has announc
ed the queries and the respective
sides for the two intercollegiate de
bates which have been arranged fo1
next year with Randolph-Macon Col
lege of Ashland, Va, and Baylor Uni
versity of Waco, Texas.
The debate with Randolph-MacOn
College will be held in Raleigh Easter
Monday night at the Academy OF
Music. Wake Forest will defend the
negative side of the question, RE.
solved, That our Federal Constitution
should be so amended as to prohibit
the manufacture and sale of intoxi-
eating liquors." while the Virginians
will uphold the affirmative side of the
question.
Baylor University will be debated
in Waco, Texas, on April 2, 1917. The
query selected is, Resolved, That the
United States Government should
own and control all railroads in the
United States, constitutionality waiv-
ed" Baylor has chosen to speak on
the negative side of the question.
and Wake Forest will uphold the af-
firmative.
OF last years six intercollegiate
debaters, E. B. Cox, I. l.. Bennett, J.
G. Boone, r. H. Taylor, B. M. Boyd
and J. B. Rucker, only three are back
il college. Messrs. Boyd, Rucker and
Booze. In addition to these three de-
baters there are a number of other
experienced speakers that will enter
the preliminaries. among them being
A G. Reid, D. c. Hughes, II. E. Olive,
l. E. Carlyle J. B. Edwards, G. P.
Herring, e. d. Banks.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-21
ANTi-LIOuOR BILLS FLOOD
. TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS
Webb Sure Nationwide Prohibition
Will Win at Next Session.

WaShin gton@Legislative measures
aimed at destruction of the liquor traf-
fic continue to accumulate in Congress
as both houses are de!uged with pc
tons from all parts of the country
urging adoption of the national prohi-
bition constitutional amendment and
passage of other anti-liouor measures
including the Sheppard bill to prohib-
it the manufacture and sale of liquor
in the District of Columbia.
The House Postoffice Committee
onened the door to another phase Of
the problem in reporting favorably a
bill designed to close the mails abso-
lutely to advertising of any intoxi-
eating liquors and to deny mail order
houses the right to go into either wet
or drv" territory to si!icit sales
through the medium Of the mails.
No move was made by prohibition
leaders in the House regarding the con-
stitutional amendment reported from
the judiciary comm ttee, but Repre-
sentative Webb, chairman of the COM
miftee, plans to ask the rules com
mittee for a special rule to get the
rsOlution before the House soon after
the holidays
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-21
CONFIDENT OF VICTORY.
PEACE OFFER is MADE,

London.-"Ccnfdent that we are
completely the victors, I yesterday
made a proposal to the enmey to dis
cuss the question of further war or
peace" said the Germany Emperor
in addressing the troops in Alsace re-
Gently, according to a despatch pub
lished in The Cologne Gazette, says a
Reuters dispatch from Amsterdam.
What will come of it, do not yet
know" the Empeor is reported to
have continued. ut is a matter for
the enemy now to decide if the fight
ing is still to go on. If the enemy
still thinks he has not had enough,
then I know you will'-here the En-
peror. says the correspondent. made a
"warlike" gesture. which produced a
fierce smile on the faces of all his
men"
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-21
$500, se2 Balance in Treasury.

Notwithstanding their signatures
to their endorsements on the books
of the state treasurey as found in or
der and correct the legislative com
mit'ee for the examination of the
books and vouchers of the treasury
and the state auditor made the follow
ing entry showing status of state fin
ancial affairs at the \close of this ifs
cal year.
Balance general fund last year
$130,00S; receipts to December 1 this
year, $4.97O.S7S; total receipts S.
1OO,887; disbursements $4,879,965;
balance December /, s22O.922.
Board of education fund total re-
ceipts $126,343; disbursements 1922
662; balance $3,701 Grand total all
funds in treasury s224,62S.
The committee report is signed by
Chairman Laughinghouse Of Pitt, Rep
resentative Greer of Iredell, Senator
Thompson Of Iredell. Representa-
tive Harry Stubs and Senator Fair
cloth are absent.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-21
ANTl-LIQUOR BILL GIVEN
FIRST PLACE ON CALENDAR
Sheppard Bill Gets First Place on
Senate Calendar by Margin
of One Vote


Washington By a margin of one
vote the Sheppard bill to prohibit the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors in the District of Columbia
was put into first place on the Senate
calendar to be taken up this week and
debate until it is disposed Of Senator
Townsend sought without success to
keep the volunteer officers retirement
bill before the Senate as unfinished
business.
Senator MARITIME of New Jersey, op-
posing the bill, said the saloon should
not be abolished until some other
form of club for the poor man could
be established.
The Senate Commerce Committee
deferred action on the $5OOOO.OOO
food control bill for the Mississippi
land Sacramento rivers.
Debate was then resumed in the
District of Columbia prohibition bill.
ana Senator Sheppard finally succeed
ed, by margin of one vote, in having
it given first place on the calendar for
this week.
In the House, Chairman AdamsOn.
of the Interstate Commerce Commit
tee. introduced a joint resolution ex-
tending the time for the railroad in
vestigatiOn until January IA, 1918