Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-12-06
EVERY CEN7-G|VEK
RED CROSS SPENT
FOR RELIEF WORK
LIE CIRCULATED BY AGENTS OF
UHSPEAkAELE KAISER
IS NAILED.
HOW SOCIETY IS SUSTAINED
Half Of Membership Fees Provides
Sufficient Funds for Admins
trative .Purposes-Where
Subscriptions Go.
Hire''rgs of the unspeakable I.

Htre'!Tgs OF the unspeakable fa's'
have culnted r0re lies VIII a.,.s
eDce ~ 'le A44- -...ail i.ed Cross lIal
any other American organization. One
of these lies was to the effect that g
big per- rtentage Of the millions OF dol
lars subscribed for Red Cross work
went to officials Of the organization
This stytement has no basis in fact
whatsver.
One hundred and twenty million
dollars was subscribed for the Red
] Cross by Americans last June, and
not one penny OF this money has been
spent for administrative work. When
membership in the Red Cross is is
sued. say for 81, so cents of this
amount is sent to headquarters at
Washington for the administrative
fund and the remaining SO cents is
kept by the chapter which issued the
membership.
Where the Money Goes.
Not I'll of the $12O,0O0,000 sub
scribed in June has been collected.
Collections on Nov. l totaled $685..
1858. OF this amount S9,129,3S9.21
is being returned to Red Cross chap
ters for ocal relief work and the pur.
chase o. raw materials to be made
into hos pital garments and supplies.
In addition to this total, approprla.
tions finn the war fund up to Nov. ]
amount d to $40 $751; $50 90 Of which
.S26. e34 1886 was .og foreign relief.
'rhese oreign relief appropriations
were az. ortioned as follows: Francs.
s19.5S1,: io.47; Belgium. S72o,OO1: Rus.
sia, $1,4as .040.s7; Servia, s49S.2O3.76;
Rouman a, $l.51S,39S76; Italy. $214..
600; Great Britain. $,.060.520: piscel.
ianeous foreign, $113.012; Armenian
and Syr an relief. $1,sO2O0O.
There has been apportioned for sup
plies, e =, for United States forces in
this &C! ntry. $3,4ss.729; for hospital
work, s;79,500; for sanitary service
about c-ntonments, camps. $1S3.50O;
for miscellaneous items in United
States, $10S,4S76O, a total for the
United States army of $4.120.216,60.
Other appropriations advanced for
hospital funds amounted to $220,0O0.
The SIM of S7,659,000 has been ex.
pended in the purchase of raw ma
terialS t, be worked into hospital gar
nlents, oandages.> surgical dressings.
ETC., by various lay workers through
out the country. AS local chapters
purchas d this material at cost from
the national organization, this sum
will eventually be returned to the
war funi.
Other German Lies.
Another lie Is that American sailors
are senGing word to friends that they
are receiving SO many sweaters and
other knitted garments that they are
using them for mops aboard ship.
The Hed Cr0ss, through George w.
Simmons Of St. Louis. general man
ager of he Southwest district, recent
ly appe; led for all knitred garments it
can pos iibly get. There Is a pitiful
shortage and winter Is coming on. No
matter how many knitted articles
went aboard ship. none Of them
would be used as mops.
Still another lie is to the effect that
Mrs. Frank v. Hammer, chairman OF !
the st. Louis Red Cross Chapter. re
ceives $4,000 a year for her setyjts I
and thri George X. Summons ta +
nan of ire Southwestern District, re- |!
,eives 100000.
Both Mrs. Hammer and Simmons do. .
late the II services and pay their own
expenses. In addition, Sim.
mons and Mrs. Hammer have each
made ls:ge personal subscriptions to
he Red Cross fund.
Yarn for Sweaters 10 Free.
Another baseless German lie is to
he effect that the Red Cross is sell.
ng yarn to women who are knitting
'weaters and muftlers for the soldiers.
The basis for this tale II rule en-.
orced by the Red Cross. which re-
'uires small deposit when yarn is
urned over to applicants. The deposit
8 refunded whom the knitted gar.
nents and leftover yarn are returned.
That Il sweater knit In st. Louis for
he soldiers In France was sold by Red
Cross workers and identified by the
woman who knit it by q piece Of cur.
ENJOY sewed into the fabric is another
asrMan lie.
Heads of the Red Gross Society in
X. Louis branded this as a bald fabri.
.ation. Nothing handled by the Red
Cross Society 10 sold.
In Al cola, ILL.,, fond parents are