The Nevada County picayune., 1917-12-20
EVERY CENT GIVEN RED CROSS SPENT
 FOR RELIEF WORK
LIE CIRCULATED DY A0ENTe oF UNSPgAkA6le kAIe9R
 10 NAILED.
HOW SOCIETY N SUSTAIltEt
hah a Membership Fsss pssvsSss evfesstsnt Punds Nsr AArstssso traetSs purpsseo-ttAere
 oubseeiptsons Go.

Hirelings of the unspeskabls Kaiser have circulated more lies with rsfere enoe to the American Red C1o0 than any other American orgAntsathoa Ono of these Mes was to the Afec4 that a big percentage Of the millions of dol went to officials of the organization. This statement has no basis in fsct whatever.
 One hundred and twenty milton dollars was subscribed for the Red Cross by Americans last June, end not one penny of this money hes been spent for administrative work. When a membership in the Red Gross is is- sued. say for S1, 50 cents of thts amount is sent to headquarters 1t Washington for the administrative fund and the remaining 50 csnts Is kept by the chapter which issued the membership.
 Where the Money Goes.
 Not all of the $120.00o.00o sub- scribed in June has been collected. Collections on Nov. 1 totaled $7s,S95, 35568. Of this amount $9,129, ,3S0.31 is being returned to Red Cross chap ters for local relief work and the pur- chase of raw materials to be made into hospital garments and supplies. In addition to this total, appropris- tions from the war fund up to Nov. mounted to $40.S5l, ,26s 20. of which $26,934, ,416s6 was for foreign relief These foreign relief appropriations were apporttoned as follows: France, 519,581 ,24047; Belgium, S720, ,001; Rus sia, $1,428,0 8,040S7. Servia, s493, ,20S76; Roumania, s1,518,398.T6; Italy. s214. a00: Great Britain, $l ,06o,520; miscel ianeous foreign, $113,012; Armenian md Syrian relief, S1,S00.000,
 There has been apportioaed for sup plies, etc, for United States forces in ihis country, S3,4SS.729: for hospital work. s379,500; for sanitary service about cantonments, camps, S1SS,s0O; for miscellaneous items in United states, sl0S,43760, total for the United Sesses army of s4,120,216.s0. Ctfer appropriations advanced for hospital funds amounted to s220,000.
 The sum of $7,659. 900 has been ex- pended in the purchase of raw ma terials to be worked into hospital gar ments, bandages. surgical dressings, etc, by various lay workers through out the country. As local chapters purchased this material at cost from the national organization, this sum will eventually be returned to the war fund.
 Other German Lies.
 Another lie is that American sailors are sending word to friends that they are receiving so many sweaters and other knitted garments that they are using them for mops aboard ship
 The Red Cross, through George w. Simmons of St. Louis, general man ager of the Southwest District, recent ly appealed for all knitted garments 1t can possibly get There is pitiful shortage and winter IS coming on. No matter how many knitted articles went aboard a ship, none of them would be used as mops.
 Still another lie is to the effect that Mrs Frank Y. Hammer, chairman Of the St Louis Red Cross Chapter, re ceives $15,000 d year for her services. and that George w. Simmons, chair man Of the Southwestern District, re- ceiy>s S30,000.
 Both Mrs Hammer and Simmons do- nate their services and pay their own travelling expenses In addition, Sim mons and Mrs. Hammer have each
 de large personal subscriptions to ne Red Cross fund.
 Y-rr ~ Sweaters Is Free.
 hH..- aless German lie is to th effect ! the Red Cross is sell ne y,,.4. 'o men who are knitting sws=.tcrs ats, buffers for the soldiers.
 |ac ht,aN this tale Is rule en- iorceG l tne Ped Cross, which re- quires a small L. osit when yarn Is turned over 9 app"v an's. The deposit is refunded ".lsa e k9'''ed gar ments and l, t.over ., ase teturned
 That a sweater knit in St Louis for the soldiers in France was sold by Red Cross workers and identified by the woman who knit it by piece Of cur rency sewed into the fabric is another German lie.
 Heads of the Red Cross Society in St. Louis branded this as bald fabr cation. Nothing handled by the Red Cross Society IS sold.
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 In Arcola, H., fond parents are buying Red Cross memberships for children of all ages, including new. born babies.
 Everyone cannot "go across" and