The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
THE RED CROSS
ANNUAL REPORT
OF FINANCE FOR FISCAL YEAR
ENDING JUNE 60, 1918.
TWO CENTS or EACH DOLLAR
OF the Millions Appropriated Was Used
To Operate Administrative Bureaus
In V. s.-s,512 Persons Employed
+ 1000 Volunteers; $500 Overseas.

In U. s.-s,512 Persons Employed
-2ooo Volunteers; $500 Overseas.
Washington, d. c., Dec. 16.-The
following is authorized by the war
Council of the American Red Cross:
1t cost the American Red Cross but
two cents of each dollar of the millions
appropriated to operate the admins
tratiye bureaus in the United States
which took vital part in the manage
ment of the greatest relief program
the world has ever known. For each
dollar contributed by the American
people for war relief work more than
one dollar and one cent is expended
for that purpose, the extra cent being
lprovided by interest on the funds.
These are two of the striking state
ments in the annual financial report
of the Red Cross covering the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1918.
Fiscal Year Expenses.
All the expenses of operating the
national and divisional headquarters
lof the organization, whose sheltering
arm has embraced large part of the
earth in the last eighteen months,
Icome from fund provided by mem.
bership dues, the war fund not being
drawn upon for any but relief expend'
lures. The total management eX'
pense of the organization for the fis-
!, cal year was $2,164,S65 Included in
this total was the amount necessary
!, to maintain the organization at ma
, tional headquarters in Washington
the heart and brain of the Red Cross
and the fourteen divisional headquar
ters, the arteries of the organization
running through continental and terri
torial United States. These diyis
ions have immediate supervision over
some 1854 Chapters which in turn di
vide themselves into many thousands
: of branches.
Division of Expenditure.
The above total expenditure for the
administrative bureaus at headquar
ters was divided as follows: War Coun
Gil staff, which includes advisory
committees and clerical forces report
ing to the War Council, the latter body
directing all Red Cross activities
$5S,537; general managers office
Sill $40; department of development
E office, which directs the money rails
ing and membership campaigns anC
J the work of the chapter organizations
$197 1876; department of publicity in
! Guiding costs of printing. postage
, ETC., S197,S12; department of accounts
$7G,222; Office of treasurer, $22,34S
Office of secretary, $17,9S0; bureau ot
standards, $36,329; department of for
eign relief, $5,685; bureau of cables
\ $3,463; bureau of insurance, $940;
{ administrative supplies. $4O,S16; op
!. GRAFTON of buildings and grounds, $92,
v 05S. All the foregoing items refer
to the national headquarters organiza
!, ton. The expenditure for maintain
ing the fourteen divisional headquar
:, tiers was $1.3O3,91O.
G,5t2 Persons Employed.
At the time the report was com
piled there were 8,512 persons employ
ed in various capacities at national
divisional and the different foreign
headquarters of the organization
close to 1000 of this number being
volunteer workers More than $500
workers are employed overseas.
OF the 1924 paid workers, more thar
4. 5000 receive $500 a year or less, &
majority, in fact. getting between $500
and $1,000 year.
There are 723 employees receiving
salaries of from $500 to $4,000 6
> year, PA from $4,000 to $4,000, 81
from $4,000 to $4,000, seventy-sever
; from $4,000 to $4,000, twenty-eight
from $4,000 to $4,000, sixteen from
$4,000 to $4,000, twelve from $4,000 tc
$4,000, six for $500 to $500, and
one $4,000. The Red Cross is g
, great business as we'll as relief or
ganization and requires specialists in
many lines. Many of the executives
are volunteers who gave up high sal
aries in private life to work for the
Red Cross, not as "doIlar-a-year-men, >
but absolutely without salary recog
nition -"'s,
The unpaid workers on the roster
are not to be confounded with the
more than 100000 volunteer women
workers who perform Red Cross Ia
bors in the work rooms of the organ
ization. The fact that these patriotic
women give their services free, turn,
ing out last year alone finished arti
cles with value of $4,000. 900, makes
1t possible for the Red Cross to keen
its operating expenses at such low
level.
{ b. Big Business Conducted. r,s.
In commenting on the volunteer la.
Dor of these 100000 women the re-
port calls attention to the fact that
the American Red Cross has been
conducting one of the largest mer.
Ichandising businesses In the world.
During the year, its supplies bureaus
sold to chapters raw materials valued
at $16,500.000. Local purchases at
various points of essential relief sup
plies aggregated s20.O0O,000. These
huraaus also nurcho cod ral;af ounnl;ac