The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
CENT GIVEN
RED CROSS SPENT
FOR RELIEF WORK
LIE CIRCULATED BY AGENTS or
UNSPEAKABLE KAISER
IS NAILED.
HOW SOCIETY is SUSTAINED
Half of Membership Fees Provides
Sufficient Funds for AdmInIs-
tratiVe PurPoses-Where
subscriptions Go.

Hire1ings OF the unspeakable Kaiser
have circulated more lies with refer
ence to the American Red Cross than
any other American organization. One
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 organisation
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
a membership in the Red Cross is Is
sued, say for 81, so cents OF this
amount is sent 10 headquarters 1t
Washington for the administrative
fund and the remaining so cents is
kept by the chapter which issued the
membership.
Where the Money Gees.
Not all of the S120.00O.OO0 sub
scribed in June has been collected.
Collections on Nov. / totaIed SIS, $685.
1865. OF this amount 1928. 1921
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-
lions from the war fund up to Nov.
amounted to $4O.S51, 25s-2o. of which
S26, 934, 1855 was for foreign relief
These foreign relief appropriations
were apportioned as follows: France.
SIS, 5s1, 240.47; Belgium, $720,e01; Rus
STA. S1,42S, 040.s7; Servia, S493. 20S.76;
Roumania, $1,51S,39s-76; Italy. S214s-
/ coo; Great Britain, $I.05O. $50; insect
| ianeous OBJ; Armenian
and Syrian relief. $1.S00.00O-
There has been appOrtioned for sup
plies, etc, for United States forces in
this country, s.. ass. 72s; for hospital
| work, S379. 800; for sanitary service
about cantonments, camps. S1S3. 800;
for miscellaneous items in United
States, Sos, 4S7.6O, a total for the
United States army Of S4,120, 1850
Other appropriations advanced for
hospital funds amounted to 500, 900.
The sum of S7,659, 600 has been ex-
pended in the purchase Of raw ma
teriaIs 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
viii 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
Iy appealed FOR all knitted garments It
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-
ceives $4,000 year for her services.
and that George ". Simmons, chair
man of the Southwestern District, re-
ceives $50,
Both Mrs. Hammer and Simmons do
nate their services aud pay their oWn
travelling expenses. In addition 63n-
mons and Mrs. Hammer have eSch
made large personal subscriptions TO
the Red Cross fund
I Yarn for Sweaters 10 Free.
Another baseless German lie Il 70
the effect that the Red Cross e sal
ing yarn to women who are knitting
sweaters and muff1ers for the sol63srS
The basis for this tale Is . Tuls -
forced by the Red Cross which -
quIres a small deposit when ysfn Il
turned over to applicants. The deposit
Is refunded when the knitted sAr
ments and Leftover yarn are returned
That a sweater knit IN St Louis fo1
the soldiers In France was sold BY Red
Cross workers and identified by the
woman who knit II by piece Of cur
rency seved into the fabric is anothel
German lie
> Heads OF the Red Cross gociety h
St. Louis branded this as bald fshri
: cation. Nothing handled By the ReC
Cross Society Is sold