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"TRADE BALANCE OF AMERICA 15 LARGE :Since War Ended, ]United States ais Balance of Seventeen Blllio Dol. lars. Washington, June 22.-'Sinco the be 'ginning of the world war In 1914, the United States -has rolled up a trade balance of approximately seventeen billion dollars against the world. This exceeds by several billion of dol lars the total balanco in favor of the United States from 1875 to 1914. , IDepartment of commerce figures to ,day show that the trade balance made in favor of the United States in the fiscal years ending in 1914 one month bqfore the war began, was only $470, 000,000. During the first year of the war it was $1,095,419,000, and in the next year ending June 30, 1916, it was $2,135,599,375. During the suc ceeding Year the total was $3,530, 193,209. Meantime the.. United States had entered the struggle and in the year ending June 30, 1918-the first fl.Acal year of America's particlipation-the Riepair 7 Hard Work Often Breaks and Creates a Need EN and women who do hard labor, such as building, farm ing or housekeeping, and those ,who do exhaustive brain work of vari -us kinds, often feel the need of some tb ing to help renew fagged forces and tone up the system. -To help repair the wear caused by Var-work, to gain renewed strength qnd energy, many have obtained good 'results from taking Ziron Iron Tonic. Ziron is a perfected preparation of pure medicinal Iron salts, combined ,with other valuable strength-giving Confi More than 13 22,000 men mali the owners of Sw Every state i represented. Of this great thAn 10,000 aj Swift & Compan, in the business. An additional are buying sha Dayments. These men a confidence in the -cies, its integrit That is why ti savings in shares Swift & Col paying dividend years. The preser Swift & Comn bought and sold * and Boston stock The compan shares for sale. The shares: * tangible values. I Anybody retailer, or cone them and thus be< of Swift & Comp No one mari owns as much as This advertisemen of acquainting yor Swift & Company poration," and ti participate in the the risks and r becoming a shareh Swift & Comn balance was only $2,974,055,973. 'In the next year ending last June 30, however, it was $4,136,562,618. 'During the first 11 months of this fiscal year the balance was $2,788,602, 000 .but exports ivere larger in those 1 months than in any other full fiscal year in the nation's history, total ling $7,474,193,349 as against the pre vious 12 months record of $7,232, 282,686, made during, the last flscal year. At the same time that Amerlca's export trade began to advance by leaps and bounds, the Import trade also showed an enormous increase, totalling $2,917,993,510 in' the year ending June 30, 1916 and advancing steadily each year to a new high re cord of $4,585,741,747 during the i1 mnonths of the present (fyscal year. rho previous high record was $3,095, 120,068 last year. Most of the favorable trado bal Ance of the United States has been igainst the allied and neutral coun lries of Europe. Many of the South American and North American coun tries and some of the. far east have i balance against the Un!ted States. 'he Wear Down a Person's Health for Ziron Iron Tonic. tonic ingredients, which are recom. mended by leading physicians. Mr. H. B. Converse, of McEwon, Tenn., writes: "I had been working very hard, and was getting weak and run-down from hard work. When I commenced taking Ziron, in a few days I felt stronger, and now I have taken two bottles I feel as strong as ever, although I have kept at work all the ti.nie.' You cannot lose anything by giving Ziron a trial, but very likely will gain much. Your druggist will sell you the first bottle on a money-back guarantee. dence ,000 women and e up the list of ift & Company. n the Uniok is enrollment more -e employes of r who own shares 13,000 employes res on deferredI nd women have company's poli y and purposes. iey invest their apany has been regularly for 34 it rate is 8 per cent. pany 'shares are or the Chicago ~changes. y itself has no represent actual, ['here is no water. livestock man, ;umer--may buy ~ome a part owner any. ,no one family, half of the stock. t is for the purpose with the fact that Is not a "close cor at any one may profits--and Bhare espdnsibilities --by ~ older. pany, U. S. A. AtDDIIIAL DEOKEEE ATTACKS DANIELS Also Asasils Assistant Secretary Roosevelt. Letter to Chairman aile of Senate ComminkitteO Published in Army and Navy Rtegister. Washington, June 26.-Attacks on .Seorotary Daniels and Assistant See rotary Roosevelt are made by Rear Admiral 'Benton C. Decker, cdmmander of the Seventh naval district, Florida, in letters to Chairman Halo, of the senate fiaval investigating committee, which were published today in the Army and Navy Register, a service Journal. Tie ofllcer charges that the naval secretary in his- recent testimony be fore the committee "intentionally and deliberately" misrepresented certain acts of Ilar Admiral Sims, Fullam and Fiske, and that ile had determined to "b.reak" these officers because "they would not follow him to the limit of demoralizing and degrading the navy." Admiral Decker asserts that in this effort, NIr. Daniels had used "all the power of his high office, the power of ridicule, sarcasm and 'half-truths, the strength of publicity secured through his newspaper connections-all the weapons which Prussianism used to stroy its enemies and autocracy has used through the ages to maintain its power." The admiral declared that to him, as to other high officers of the navy, "it has come that if we would how down and do the wishes of Mr. Daniels, w would receive the rewards therefor intimations that come by circuitous routes and underhanded, sneaking ways, so that no one can take hold of them." , . in any reorganization of the navy, the admiral continued, the best inter ests of the country denmanded that there would be placed in the depart ament an officer "big enough and broad enough and of sufficient ability td maintain tihe standards of the navy against the encroachments of the ci vilian secretaries, who seek to make of the navy a political organization." Admiral Decker assailed Assistant S'eretary Roosevelt for his reference in a recent communication to a mem ber of congress to "a holier-than thou" group 6f officers at the Navy War 'College at Newport. He declared that this was a group of officers who had stood out against the introduction of politics into the navy and to whom the assistant secretary had scornfully referred to as "gold flaced gentlemen" when Ie "sought to ingratiate himaif with the -workingmen." Ho added that Mir. Roosevelt did not scorn these of ficers when he met them in "rich clubs in New York and Washington." iBoth Secretary Daniels and Assist ant Secretary Roosevelt are at San Francisco to attend tihe Democratic na tional convention. Senator Halo is in New York, and at his office, it was said that there was no record of Admiral .Decker's letters, which were dated June 17. Attaches of the office recalled that Senator Halo received a letter from Admiral D~ecker ear'ly in the sen ate investigation of the award of naval decorations. At this investlgation it was dlevelop ed that Admiral (Decker had been rec movced as naval attache at Aladrid fol lowing reprei'sentationis to the state de pam'tment bmy Ambassador Willard that the admiral in his work theire wvas en croaching on diplomatic functions. EDUCATION OF GIRLS WILL STOP POLYGAMY Retiring Governor of Department of 3Mindlanno and4 Sulni Tells of Phiy., pine Campaign. Manila, P. 1., M1ay 26.-Practice of polygamy in the Philippine ialands is bueing reduced through educatilon of girls of the leading families of the outlying provinces, according to Frank W. Carpenter, retiring governor of time department of 'Mindanao and Sului. Mir. Carpentei' is here to turn oveir administration of his oflle to (lie see retary of the inter'ior' who wvill act through mime bureau of non-Christian tribes in accordance with a new tei' ritorial law. This law leaves in effect a lmeaty under' which the sultan of .Sulu renmouncedl all pretensions to tem poral sovereignty but gainedi recogni tion as ecclesiastical head of the Mlo hammedan chur'c'h in the Sulu archmi p~eligo. 'rho treaty guarantees to the sultan and his people "the same re ligious freedom had hby all adhier'ents of all other' religious creeds, the prac tice of wvhicih is not in violation of the basic principles of theO laws of the United States." "It is imiportant to note," said (1ar-: penter' in ond of his messages written as gover'nor, "that this includes a lim itation as to religious Jpractie .which necessar'ily includes the abandonment of polygamy. There can be0 no ques tion that it wili disappear as the rel ative numb~er of persons of the two sexes reach an apprIoximate naturmai equality. "An effort to impose upon time ,peo 1)1e of the sultan at this time the in validation of polygamouts marriages heretofore contranted. the np-ohibiinn at this time of polygakmy or the discon tinuance of divorce, must unavoidably result in tlle active resistance of a Pi)ople imbued with fanatic deternina tion to die rather than submit to a pri vation of their -religious liberty in mat ters they believe to be fundamental and sanctioned by divine authority." Mr. Carpenter said that girls of Prominent families in Mindanao and Suiu are being sent to Manila public schools where they associate with Christian girls and graoually become imbued with the monogramous ideas held by the Christians. The girls are advised to adhere strictly to their own Mohammedan religion as their influ ence, It is said, would .be destroyed if they abandoned it. When they return to their own people, their influence tends to eliminate plural marriages, according to Carpenter, who predicted that the practied will be vfrt'ually wiped out in the course of a fow years. WOMEN'S CLUBIS AGAIN ENDORSE PROHIBITION ies Moines, Ia., June 22.-The Gen eral Federation of Women's clubs in biennial convention, was called up on today to reaffirm its endorsmnent of prohibition and its opposition to any attempt to nullify the prohibition enforcement act. Resolutions to this effect was introduced by M\rs. .'H. S. Prentiss Nichols, chairman of the resolutions committee. They will come up for final action tomorrow. Among other resolutions introduced today Were: To surround the American home with decorative art. To ask establishment of federal de partment of art, .with the object of fostering nativo American art and artists. To prevent erection .of billboards along public highways. ' To support national library service. To agitate an eight hour (lay for women in industry in'every state and secure minimum wage commission for To work for legislation furthering Americanism. To endorse work of the United States department of Justice in com batting the high cost of living. YOU1N(O FAIDIERl IfEIAD ON SEIMOUS UIHAIRE Warren C. Yonce, of Lexington County Alleged to have Committd. Criminal Assault. Lexington, June 26.---Warren C. Yonce, a young white farmer of the Pellon section of this county, was udged In the 'Texington jail at noon today charged with having criminally assaulted a young white married wo mnan. Yonce is said to have been asked to carry the young woman In his auto mobile to her father's home. Upon reaching the home of her parents the woman, it Is said, told them of the The Zig-Zag Tread Meehaenieaily and scientifleaily correct fot areatest seurity under alt road conditions. The and shaped cups alernate on bath sides at iha extra wide. heavy tread. skidding is minim7.e~i. 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