The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
Secretary's Annual Report Is
Made Public Today.
Fiscal Years Receipts in To-
peka Were S59,7SS.9S.
ON HAND NOW S3,337.33
More Than $4,000 Due Ma
tiOnal Chapter as Dues.
Only S4O3 Spent for Great
Work Canteen Service.

The secretary's report of the finan-
cial affairs and status of the Topeka
chapter of the American Red Cross
submitted at the annual meeting of
the chapter this afternoon shows that
the total eceipts of the local chapter
between April l, 1917, and July l,
1918, were s59,7S898. OF this amour;
$12,4SS.9S was due the national chap
ter as dues of members.
The expenditures of the local chao-
ter@ for the same period as certified in
the secretary's report was $56,451.63.
The total fund now on hand in the
bank is s3,337.S3.
The relief fund administered by the
local chapter is the fund in which
the public is most vitality touched
Secretary T. D. Hamnatt in his re-
port shows that the relief fund was
divided principally in two forms of
relief-military relief accounting for
an expenditure of s35.656.61 and
home service relief for $1,9T6.S7.
B.. Only S4O3 for Cantcen.
The canteeu service, which is re-
sponsible- for. the last impression the
boys goin > overseas get of the SYM
pathy of the nation, is represented on
the expense sheet of the relief fund of
the local chapter with an amount
equal to s4O3.45.
In the report the "canteen service is
credited with having received but
S644.99 in ,donations--in spite of the
fact that the rose tag day was re-
ported as netting more than $4,000
for the canteen fund alone.
Secretary Hammatt, in a notation
appended to his report says: 1T will
be noted that the total receipts and
expenditures here reported exceed the
receipts AID expenditures reported by
the treasurer. This is accounted for
by certain receipts and expenditures of
committees that did not pass thru the
hands of the treasurer"
Details of Report.
other items of. amount in the ex-
pense sheet of Secretary Hammatt
are: the expenses attendant on the
two war fund drives and the Christ
mas membership drive totalling
s3,631.32; the refund to the Junior
Red Cross, s762: and the dues paid
the national chapter, $12,4SS.25.
Secretary Hammatts financial re-
port is divided into three parts under
separate heads.
The general fund of the local chap
ter shows that the annual dues from
membership amount to $12,117.50 and
the ma gazine dues from the member
ship total s17S. Fees from the vari-
Gus instruction classes bring in total
come. sS,177.77. added in brings the
total receipts in the general fund to
$21,09S.83.
The items of expenditure in the gen
eraI fund are: Instruction class ex-
penses. S24O.S2; postage, printing and
stationery. s33O.74; telegraph and tel
epnone bills, S66.77: Christmas mem
b ship drive. s69S.41; insurance on
stock. S61.1S; Christmas packets,
S174.42; mis-, nlneous, $12S.4o; sec
ond war fund 1mpaisn. 81. O92.34; re-
fund to Junior Red Cross. 1852, and
transferred to the relief fund, S14.G00.
A balance of $2,94320 is shown n the
general fund.
From Relief Fund.
In the relief fund, Secretary Ham
mats. report shows S40.S01.90 re-
ceived during the fourteen month
period as follows: From the general
fund, s14.600; apportionment of first
war fu-d, $23,006.91; from donations
and miscellaneous sources, S2,120:
from repaid loans in the home service
section, S430; and from donations to
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