Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1917-12-14
HOW SOCIETY rs SUSTAINED
Hall Of Membership Fees Provides
Sufficient Funds for Admins
trative purpoaes-Where
Subscriptions Co.


have circulated more lies with refer.
pnce to the American Red Cross than
| any other American organization. One
4 OF these lies 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 for administrative work When
q membership In the Red Cross is To-
sued, say for 81, 80 cents of this
amount is sent to headquarters at
| Washington for the administrative
fund and the remaining 80 cents Ii
kept by the chapter which issued the
membership.
Where the Money Goes.
Not all OF the $l20.000,00o sub
scribed in June has been collected.
| Collections on Nov. / totaled $685.
1855. OF this amount s9,12s,389.21
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 and supplies
| In addition to this total, appropria-
tons from the war fund up to Nov l
amounted to s40S5l. 25s.20. OF which
| S26.934. 416.S6 was for foreign relief.
These foreign relief appropriations
were apportioned as follows: France,
| SlS,5Sl .240.47; Belgium, S720.00l; Rus
STA, $l.42S.04O.s7; Servia, s4s3,20S.76;
Roumania. s1.51S.39S7s; Italy. S214.-
| 600; Great Britain, SlO60, $50; miscel.
ianeous foreign. S1l3,0l2; Armenian
and Syrian relief. $500 900.
There has been apporuoned for sup
| plies. etc. for United States forces in
this country, s3,iSs.72s; for hospital
work. s379.500: for sanitary service
about cantonments. camps. slS3.500;
| for miscellaneous items in United
| States, sos. 1880. a total for the
United States army OF $4,120,2166O.
Other appropriations advanced for
hospital funds amounted to 100000.
The sum of S7.659.000 has been ex-
1 III thC VI INV
terials to be worked into hospital gar
nlents, 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 q 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 V. Hammer chairman OF
the st. Louis Red Cross Chapter, re.
| CelNtS slo,UOu year LOT neT seTFlCesi
and that George W. Simmons, chair.
man of the Southwestern District. re-
ceives $4,000.
Both Mrs. Hammer and Simmons do
nate their services and pay their own
travelling expenses. In addition. Sim
mons and Mrs. Hammer have each
made-large personal subscriptions to
the Red Cross fund.
Yarn for Sweaters 10 Free.
Another baseless German lie is to
the effect that the Red Cross is sell.
ing yarn to women who are knitting
sweaters ard mufflers for the soldiers
The bssis for this tale is a rule en-,
forced by the Red Cross. which re
quires small deposit when yarn Ia
! turned over to applicants. The deposit
Ia refunded when the knitted gar.
ments and leftover yarn are returned
Il That sweater knit In st. Louis for
the soldiers in France was sold by Red
Cross workers and identified BY the
woman who knit 1t BY a piece Of cur
: rency sewed into the fabric 10 another
German lie.
Heads OF the Red Cross Society in
81. Louis branded this as q bald fabri