Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-12-27
CENT GIVEN
RED CROSS SPENT
: FOR RELIEF WORK
LIE CIRCULATED eY AGENTS OF
uNSPEAkAslE KAISER
Is NAILED.
HOW SOCIETY IS SUSTAINED
Halt Of Membership Fees Provides
Sufficient Funds for Adninis-
tra.ivc Purposes-Where
Subscriptions Go.

E;relings OF the unspeakable Kaiser
lave circulated more lies with refer.
ence to the American Red Cross than
any other American organization. One
OF these hes was to the effect that q
big percentage OF the millions OF dol
lars subscribed for Red Cross work
went to officials of the organization.
This statement has no basis in fact
whatever.
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 fer administrative work. When
a membership in the Red Cross Is is
sued. say for 81. 80 cents Of this
amount is sent to headquarters al
Washington for the administrative
fund and the remaining 50 cents is
kept by the chapter which issued the
membership.
Where tho Money Goes.
Not all Of the $t20, 600, 900 sub
scribed in June has been collected.
Collections on Nov. / totaled $685..
1865. OF this amount $9,129,3S9.2l
Is being returned to Red Cross chap
tiers for local relief work and the pur
chase of raw materials to be made
into hospital garments ard supplies.
In addition to this total. %appropria.
tons from the var fund up to Nov.
amounted to $40,S51.259.2o. Of which
$26, 934,4l6.S6 was for foreign relief.
These foreign relief appropriations;
were apportioned as follows: France,
SIS, 5S1.24o.47; Belgium. s720,001; Rus
sia, S1,43S. 040.S7; Seryia, s493. 203.7 Is;
iRoumania. s1.51S.3 1886; Italy. $2l4..
coo; Great Britain. $1,000. $50; miscel-
tlaneous foreign. $l13.ol2; Armenian
and Syrian relief, $l,sO0.000
There has been apportloned for sup.
plies, etc, for United States forces In
this country, $~3.4sS.72s: for hospital
work, $379.600; for sanitary service
about cantonments. camps. $lS3.5o0;
for miscellaneous items In United
States, $108.4S7.6 80. q total for the
United States army Of $4.12o.216.6o
Other appropriations advanced for
hospital funds amounted to 100000.
The sum of $7,65s,000 has been ex-
pended in the purchase Of raw ma.
tsrials to be worked into hospital gar
sments, 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 ID that American sailors
are sending word to friends that they
are receiving 80 many sweaters and
other knitted garments that they arr
using them for mops aboard ship.
The Red Cross, through George W
Simmons Of St. Louis. general man
ager Of the Southwest District, recent
~. xppealed for all knitted garments u
can possibly get. There Is q pitifu
shortage and winter is coming on. M
matter how many knitted articles
went aboard a ship, none Of then
would be used as mops.
SILL another lie is to the effect tbs
Mr. Frank v. Hammer, chairman o
thesSt. Louis Red Cross Chapter, re
ceives $4,000 year for her services
and that George W. Simmons, chair
man Of the Southwestern District, re
eeives 10000.
Both Mrs. Hammer and Simmons do
nate their services and pay their owl
travelling expenses. In addition, Sim
mons and Mrs. Hammer have eacl
made large personal subscriptions +
tho Red CROSS fund. y
Yarn for Sweaters 10 Fres.
Another baseless German lie ~ I
the effect that the Red Cross Is sell
Ing yarn to women who are kntttinI
sweaters and mufflers for the soldiers
The basis for this tale Is q rule 81
forced by the Red Cross. which n
qulyes q small deposit whoh yarn !
turned over 10 applicants. The deposl
10 refunded whom the knitted CO.
ments and leftover yarn are returned
That . sweater knit In 81. Louis 70
the soldiers In France was sold by Re
Cross workers and Identified By th
woman who knit II BY q piece Of Gu,
rency sewed into the fabric u anothe
German lie.
Heads Of the Red Cross Society l
81. Louis branded this a . bald fabr
cation. Nothing handled by the RI
Cross Society - sold.