Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-09-04
S97,6if,0G5 cost
OF Y WAR WORK
$30.0OO,O0O Spent in Ho n
Camps and $4,000, 900
Abroad.
DETAIL or EXPENDITURES.
UnfuIfilIed Pledges Must Be
Paid to Continue Work Till
December 81, 1919.

II
~ tailed account of the receipts and
expenditures Of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association. made public recently ny
the organizations National war work
council finance committee. showed that
fi25, zs2. SIS was received by II between
April Is. 1917. and March 81. 1919 The
total expenditures aggregated S9I.SiI.eoS
In the period named
The officials of the national War WORK
Council state that 1t IS essential that the
unpaid pledges be paid Immediately. as
the Y must have these funds 20 carry on
It's work. which has been increased and
not diminished since the armistice was
declared
According to the figures. which appear
over the signatures OF George w. Per-
kins. chairman OF the committee: Cieve-
land H. Dodge treasurer of the War
Work Council, and H. w. Wilmot comp
etroller. slightly more than per cent OF
the total funds contributed by the Amer
lean public were expended for religious
purposes In the United States and over
seas. while approximately so per cent
was devoted TO the purchase. transporta-
tion and disti ibutiou of canteen supplies
and to entertainments education and
athletic Sports
In addition to the provisions of free
athletic supplies. which included among
other things, in the United States camps
alone, 557 e96 basebalis and 10000 sets OF
boxing gloves the report says. the I. III.
c. A. distributed $50. a32,449 worth of
merchandise. y OF this merchandise ST.
79i.77l worth, or approximately per
cent, was given free TO the soldiers
OF the $gf,e17 COS expended. II is shown.
more than $50 U0g, GEO was spent In the
home camps. more than s4S,000.00O with
the American expeditionaiy forces abroad
and $1f.4o9175 for work with the Allied
armies and prisoners OF war The bal
ance went for transportation and other
expenses. The statement explains that
the suffered a loss Of s1.4Ts.0S4 in the
operation OF army post exchanges and
canteens, which. owing to the deprecla-
Ntion in values of French and English cur
rency and conversions of the overseas
figures at market rates. resulted in
book loss of So. 1872 0S9.
The report. the committee makes cleAr,
is Lot final. because the war service of
the Y NJ G. A. which reached it's maxi
mum In March of this year. is being con
tnued in the United States and foreign
countries. Three war work campaigns
for funds II points out brought from the
American public $i23 254,052. and this
amount, the report states. was augment
ed to SIPS. $3.50 by sums from other
sources.
Some idea Of the magnitude OF the
shown by the statement that more than
$4,000 concerts. vaudeville performances
and other entertainments were staged by
the in American environments to an
aggregate audience of 43. 500. 600 at cost
Of 1,166. 1877. In addition. free motion
picture shows in the home camps neces
STATED an outlay of $2.323.2i1.
Erection of $50 huts for men in train
Ing camps on this side cost s7.69s.9S4. nd
the outlay for maintenance was 1885,
73f. These buildings" says the report
''were centers of religious. educational
entertainment and athletic activities for
al men who passed through the camps
on their way overseas or who used the
centers through the period covered bv
the report and are stili using theni.''
Overseas. the statement says. work OF
even "a yaster scope was accomplished
The 1900 more huts and tents built
or leased for the use of the A. L. f. cost
$4,S01. I'll, were equipped at a cost OF
So, 950,42l and operated and maintained
at further expense of s1014.337.
Writing materials and newspapers for
the overseas men. including 0.000 0O9
sheets of letter paper half as many en-
veiopes and 10000, 900 post cards cost
s2.296 sos. For motion picture shows. in
which $4,000. 600 feet OF films were used In
France alone and spectators aggregated
so. 100000. the Y paid 81 06S, 757. More
than 81 600 concerts and entertainments
increased the expenditure by ss50.969.
The cost of the rs overseas religious
program was $i67 .5Sa, or Approximately
two fifths Of" one per cent OF the entire
operating funds Educational plants. lit.
erature and library work cost 1891 932
anu the A. Il. + athletics cost $1.95T.331
The organization also operated. II is OK
plained.~ more than twenty-five leave
areas in various parts of France at an
expense of 1891. COL and a chain of hotels
for men on leave at a cost of $477.956
In the United States. II is shown. the
organization expended &2105.Sl6 upon IT.
religious program In the six military de
partments. which included the holding 81
meetings and Bible classes. the distrbu
ton of literature and the maintenance oil
religious secretaries and musical dIrec-
tors. Educational literature, together with
lectures instruction In the French Ian.
guage and library service was provided
al home by an expenditure of 81 1872. 73f
y. M. c. A. stationery for the home
huts. together with the financing of camp
publications. resulted in further ex-
pense OF 1923 $40. including the purchase
OF 270 000. 600 envelopes and twice as naaI
sheets of writing paper. The Y. it Il
said, also spent for its territorial wal
work In the Canal Zone. Porto Rico. the
philippines and other territories $a60. 634
OF the S16042.695 spent for the armies
of the Allied countries, it is shown
France received SIS. 73S 7s4, Russia $4.SOS..
9S5 and Italy S3.lS995i Work among wal
prisoners cost $105S,591 The latter sum
was divided as follows: Germany. Silt.
sSs: Denmark. ss9.0s7: Austria Hungary
$li6Sl2; Switzerland. $24Ie5O; Turket
$ss,206. and in other countries s390,545.
Transportation of comforts and iuxu-
rieS 10 the canteel.s and soldiers in the
fte&d represented considerable item
the installation of a motor truck service
costing $27o2.p34 and its operating ex
pense Si.l70.76i. This included the COS,
of distributing Christmas gifts and The
conveyance of entertainers.
The cost Of selecting. recruiting. train
ing and paying the lstenance and tray
cling expenses of All the secretaries
was S3.o56. 502- Administrative, genera
activities campaign and publicity ex
penses disburscd in New York were saic
to have totalcd S3.l64 S02
AT the end of last March the curren,
assets OF the totaied S@S. 333.i6j Its Tia
biiities and eserses we're $i5.S6 73I2 leay
ing balance on March 81, 1919. OF SCI
s65.S54. which. with a payment OF pledge.
To the United War Work Campaign sta
remaining i9nDaiS *