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Show OBSCENE BOOKS , DEALWITH VICE I Chicago, SepL 15. On thousand V H copies of tho report of tho Chicago t H vice commission have been seized by ' H the postal authorities pending a de- rl clsion from Washington -whether tho lllH m.uch discussed volume 1? fit matter i''H tp be carried through tho mall. ilH The order barring tho report of the rH commission Iromthe mails, on the olH ground that it Is obscene, was Issued lH yesterday -after a wagon load of the lH books was delivered at the postoffico HH by the commission for transportation fl to sociologists, physicians and scien- ill tists in other cities. iH Postmaster Dan Campbell last night ! M gave out this statement: ' M "The books were barred from the ifilH mails 'because. tho law requires that Tl they should be barred. The report, of j l course, was made by high grade men ' and would be of great value If placed tM in the proper hands, but the law does- , not allow us 'o take Into consideration jf either the authorship or tho purpose '1 of a book of this kind." |