Meade County news., 1917-12-06
EVERY CENT GIVEN
RED CROSS SPENT
FOR RELIEF WORK
LIE CIRCULATED BY AGENTS OF
UNsPEAKABLE KAISER
is NAILED.
HOW SOCIETY is SUSTAINED
Half OF Membership Fees Provides
Sufficient Funds for Admins
tratiVe PUrposes-Where
Subscriptions Go.

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Hirelings of the unspeakable Kaiser
have circulated more lies with refer
ence to the American RSd Cross than
any other American organization. One
OF these lies was to the effect that a
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 for administrative work. When
membership in the Red Cross is is
sued, say for 81, 50 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 all of the $120,OOO,0O0 sub
scribed in June has been collected.
Collections on Nov l totaled $685.
355.6S. OF this amount S9,129, ,3S9.2l
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, appropria-
tions from the war fund up to Nov. ]
amounted to $40,S51, ,25920, of which
$26, ,416.S6 was for foreign relief.
These foreign relief appropriations
were apportioned as follows: France,
S19,5S1, ,240.47; Belgium, $720,001; Rus
sia, $1,42S,040.S7; Servia, $493, ,20S.76;
Roumania, $1,518,39S76; Italy, $214.-
coo; Great Britain, $1,060,520; miscel-
ianeous foreign, $113,O12; Armenian
and Syrian relief, $1,S00,000.
There has been apportioned for sup
plies, ETC., for United States forces in
this country, $3,4SS,729; for hospital
work, $379,50O; for sanitary service
about cantonments, camps, $1S3,50O;
for miscellaneous items in United
States, $108, 8,4S760, a total for the
United States army of $4,120,216.6O.
Other appropriations advanced for
hospital funds amounted to $220,000.
The sum of $7,659,000 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 counEy. 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 10 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 il
can possibly get There is pitiful
shortage and winter is coming on. Nc
matter how many knitted articles
went aboard a ship. none of them
would be used as mops.
Still another lie is to the effect thai
Mrs. Frank V. Hammer, chairman ol
the st. Louis Red Cross Chapter, re
ceives $4,000 a year for her services
and that George w. Simmons, chair
man of the Southwestern District, re
ceives 100000
Both Mrs. Hammer and Simmons do
nate their services and pay their owl
travelling expenses. In addition, Sim
mons and Mrs. Hammer have eacf
made large personal subscriptions t
the Red Cross fund.
Yarn for Sweaters Is Free.
Another baseless German lie is t
the effect that the Red Cross is sell
ing yarn to women who are knittin:
sweaters and mufflers for the soldiers
The basis for this tale is a rule en-
forced by the Red Cross, which re
quires a small deposit when yarn il
turned over to applicants. The deposi
is refunded when the knitted gar
ments and leftover yarn are returned
That a sweater knit in st. Louis TO
the soldiers in France was sold by Re,
Cross workers and identified by tn
woman who knit it by piece of cur
rency sewed into the fabric is anothe
German lie.
Heads of the Red Cross Society il
ST. Louis branded this as bald fabr
cation. Nothing handled by the Re,
Cross Society is sold.