The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1918-12-20
HOW THE RED CROSS MAKES
ITS DOLLARS WORK.

OF striking interest o. everyone In
Carbon county and throughout East
ern Utah. a great majority 81 whom
are contributing to the Red Cross this
present week. IN the statement con-
talned In the financial report Of the
order for the first half ~ 1918. To the
effect that u costs but two cents uf
every dollar contributed 20 the cause
70 operate the administrative bureaus
In the United States Moro interest
ing stiil IL the fact that for every dol
lar contributed hY tho American peo-
ple FOR war relief work. more than
one dollar aud one cent N expended
for that purpose. the extra cent be-
ina provided 10y interest on the funds.
The operating expenses OF the national
headquarters aud the fourteen diyi-
sions In the. United States are ~ paid
uut ~ fund arising from member
ship duss. not dollar 81 tho funds
contributed for relief work being
used for overhead expense. The total
operating expenses Tor the whole
country were hut s2.iGt.sG5 for the
fiucai year At the time the report
was prepared. there were about
olghty-fivc hundred persons employed
In tho work of the He'd Cross In the
United States and more than thirty
five hundred workers oversees IA
H. we'll known, the heads OF the de-
partmcntH ~ the Red Cross organiza-
lions are al volunteer workers. many
men aud women pf great ability hav-
ing given ~ lucrative businesses Co
Join In the work. Of the siS thousand
two hundred aud thirty-four paid
workers. morc than five thousand re-
rcive fifteen hundred dollars year
or less. the majority receiving less
than one thousand dollars.
"Of course these figures cover only
the workers In the national and di-
visionai headquarters. They are not
TO be confused with the eight million
women workers who volunteer their
services In the workrooma OF the four
thousand chapters of the He'd Crufs
all over the country. These WORKERS
turned out over forty-f0ur miliioa
dollars worth of finished articles last
year Thus II will be seen that the
American He'd Cross conducts one OF
the largest merchandising businesses
IN tho world. During the year ended
june 10th. the He'd Cross appropri-
ated tt0T.7iG.3tS to carry on IL work
abroad aud nt home. OF this over
tBe. zoe. 900 went for relief IN foreign
countries. nearly $4,000. 900 for work
In the United States. about 5000. 600
for relief work IN various countries
on the work specified By contributors.
tab. 000.O 900 set aside for working
capital and the balance for other ac.
tivitiea In less than eleven months
the American people gave more than
ts0o. 000. 900 10 the lied Crosby FAR
the greatest sum ever contributed By
any nation FOR humanitarian work.
Tho report concludes with "a state
mcnt OF the precautions taken Co safe
guard He'd Cross funds. saying There
Ia provision In our charter which
requires that We shall make each
year 10 the secretary of war fun re-
port of all receipts expenditures,
which report shall be duly audited by
the war department BAD y copy OF aald
report shall ho transmitted To con-
grens by the war department. Under
this provision. auditors under the di-
rection OF tho Inspector general 90 the
war department are constantly en-
gagged In checking our receipts and
expenditures. Such "A check. made by
public authorities. adds materially a.
the safeguards which we ourselves
place around our funda"