The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-31
RED CROSS GIVES
FULL ACCOUNTING
War Council Tells How Millions
Contributed by Public Were
Used For Relief.
BIG TASK is DESCRIBED
In Twenty Months $154,ooo,ooo Was
Spent Overseas and $1ts,ooo,oo
In the United States.

Washington. Especial. Through
complete report of the work of the
American Red Cross in the war by
Chairman Henry p Dawson, on be-
half of the war council, the organiZa-
ton on the eve of its annual enroll
ment of members during the Third
Red Cross Roll Call, November 2 to
IL, has rendered an accounting of the
many millions given 1t by the Ameri-
can people to help our fighting men
and our allies. The statement Ia, In
part, as follows:
1.-THE war council of the American
Red Cross is now prepared to make
complete accounting to the American
people of money contributed and ex-
pended, as well as the work done by
the American Red Cross during the
period in which the war council was
In control Of its affairs. The war
council was appointed May 49, 1919,
and went out of existence February
%, 1919.
at was the practice of the war
council to give complete publicity to
Its policies and finances, but 1t Is only
now that a picture of the war period
as a whole can be presented. 1t is
the feeling of the war council that
report In this summarized form should
be made directly to the public which
provided the money and gave the eff
fort which made the American Red
Cross a success
"a statement of the American Red
Gross effort and finances since the
war council relinquished It's control
will be made to the public through
the executive committee, and It Is i'm
portant, therefore, that the fact that
this report covers the period only until
March l, should be carefully noted"
Following are certain round figures
covering American Red Cross partici-
patton in the war, as revealed by the
war councils report:
Some Outstanding Figures.
Contributions received
(material and money!. $400,000,000
Red Cross members
Adults, 20,000000;
Children, 1l,00O,000 -. 31,000,00O
Red Cross workers. ..... 100000
Relief articles produced
by volunteer workers. 81 ,577 900
Families of soldiers aided
by Home Service in US. 100000
Refreshments served by
canteen workers In US. 40,0000O0
Nurses enrolled for serv-
Ice with army, navy or
Red Cross ........... 3,S22
Kinds of comfort articles
distributed TO soldiers
and sailors In U. s.. 200
Knitted articles given to
soldiers and sailors in
Tons Of relief supplies
shipped overseas 49,. 10000
Foreign countries in
which Red Cross oper-
Patient days in Red Gross
hospital in France. 80. 1,155,000
material AID .....e.... 1850
lean soldiers ......... $4,000
Gallons of nitrous oxide
and oxygen furnished
French hospitals -. 100000
Men served by Red Cross
canteens i'm France. -. 15.316.000
Refugees aided I'm France 1,T26,000
American convalesCent
soldiers attending Red
Cross movies in France 3,110,000
Soldiers carried by Red
Cross ambulances In
italy ................ $4,000
Children cared for by
Red Cross in Italy,. $4,000
OF the S400,0OO,0O0 In money and
supplies, contributed to the American
Red Cross during the twenty months
the war council was In existence,
S263, 600. 900 was allotted TO national
headquarters, while S197. 100000 went
to the chapters to finance their &C
tlvlties. Expenditures in the twenty
months totalled S2730O0,000, divided
rs follows: BY national headquarters
in France, S57, 100000 elsewhere over
seas, S64,0O0,000; in the United States
$4S,000,000; by chapters in the United
States. 100000 cost of chapter
produced articles distributed In
France. $25.000,000, elsewhere over
seas. SS,OO0,0O0 in the United States
SOS. 900 making total expenditures
in France. $S2,OOO,OOO, elsewhere over
seas, S72,0OO,O00; in the United States,
S119,0OO000.