Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-28

I owing TO the depreciation IN ValueS
of French and English currency and
| conversion of the overseas figures at
market rates, resulted in a book loss
of $2.432,0S9.
| The report, the committee makes
clear, is not final because the war
service of the Y. NJ. c., A, which
| reached it's maximum in March of this
year. is being continued in the United
States and foreign countries. Three
war work campaigns for funds, it
points out, brought from the Ameri-
can public $123.254,052. and this
amount, the report states, was
augmented to $125,2S2,S59 by sums
from other sources.
07.cOO Concerts
Some idea of the magnitude of
the work accomplished by the or
ganization is shown by the state
ment that more than $1,000 concerts,
vaudeville performances and other
entertainments were staged by the
"Y" in American cantonments to an
aggregate audience of 43,500,000 at
cost of $1,166,767. In additioa,
free motion picture shows in the
home camps necessitated an outlay
of $2,32S,271.
Erection of $50 hats for men in
training camps on this side cost ST.
69S,9S4 and the outlay for mainte-
nance was $3,965,736. These build
ings," says the report, were centers
of religious, educational, entertain
ment and athletic activities for all
men who passed through the camps
on their way overseas or who used
the centers through the period COW
cred by the report and are still
using them."
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of even "a vaster scope" was accom-
plished. The 1900 or more "Y"
huts and tents built or leased for
the use of the A. E. F., cost $4,-
S01,271, were equipped at a cost of
$2,950,421 and operated and main
tanned at further expense of ST.
014,337.
Big Hut Facilities
Writing materials and newspapers
for the overseas men, including 400,-
100000 sheets of letter paper, half
as many envelopes and 100000
postcards. cost $2,296,SS. For mo-
tion picture shows, in which 13,000,-
600 feet of films were used in France
alone. and spectators aggregated 5O,-
100000, the "Y" paid $1,066,757.
More than $4,000 concerts and en-
tertainments increased the expendi-
ture by $S50,969.
The cost of the "Y's" overseas re-
ligious program was $467,5S4, or ap-
proximately, two-fifths of one per
cent of the entire operating funds.
Educational plants, literature and
library work cost S991,932 and the
A. E. F., athletics cost $1,957,301.
The organization also operated, it is
explained, more than 25 leave
areas" in various parts of France,
at an expense of $S31,601 and
chain of hotels for men on leave at
a cost of $477,956.
In the United States, 1t is shown,
the organization expended $2,105,-
S16 upon its religious program in the
six military departments, which in
cluded the holding of meetings and
Bible classes, the distribution of
literature and the maintenance of
religious secretaries and musical di-
rectors. Educational literature, to-
gether with lectures, instruction in
the French language, and library
service, was provided at home by
an expenditure of $1,192,737 and for
sex hygiene education and literature
the "Y" spent s73,704.
Y. M. c. A. stationery for the
home huts, together with the finan-
cling of camp publications, resulted
in further expense of $923,629, in
cluding the purchase of 100000, 900
envelopes and twice as many sheets
of writing paper. The "Y," it is
said, also spent for it's territorial
war work, in the Canal Zone, Porto
Rico, the Philippines and other ter
ritories, s260,634; in the munitions
and war industries, $192,3S8, and
in the Students Army Training
Corps, S442,461.
OF the $16,042,695 spent for the
armies of the Allied countries, it is
shown, France received $6,73S,744,
Russia $4,S05,9S5 and Italy $3,139,-
95l. Work among war prisoners
cost S1,058,591. The latter sum was
divided as follows: Germany, $117,-
9SS; Denmark, $99,0S7; Austria
Hungary. $146,S12; Switzerland,
$247,950; Turkey, s56,206. and in
other countries $390,545.
Motor Truck Service
transportation of comforts and
luxuries to the canteens and SOL
diers in the field, it is shown, repre-
sented considerable item, the in
stallation of a motor truck service
cost $2,702,034 and its operating ex-
pense $1,170,761. This included the
WV
and the conveyance of entertainers.
The cost of selecting, recruiting,
training and paying the sustenance
and travelling expenses of all the "Y"
secretaries was $3,056.502. Admin
istrative. general activities, cam
paign and publicity expenses dis
bursed in New York were said to
have totaled $3.164,802.
In accounting for the balance of
$27, 1854 as of March 81, 1919, the
statement lists asserts of the War
Work Council on that date as $43,-
333,166. These included, it is said,
$S,43S,SS1 cash on hand; and assets
overseas amounting to $1S,761,676.
Canteen supplies on hand and in
transit on that date also included,
it is said. goods to the value of $5,-
992,591. Outstanding accounts, in
Guiding unpaid pledges to the United
War Work Fund. were said to ag-
gregate $9,735,366.
"On the same date" the statement
concludes, current liabilities and
reserves amounted to $15,S67,312,
including $2,792,964 in bills and
salaries due in the United States and
4,720 due overseas. There was
charged against the Y. M. c. A. ST.
627,2S5 representing remittances re-
ceived from the men of the A. e. F.,
for transfer to the United States. 1t
owed the British, French and United
States governments, for transporta-
ton and supplies $3,022,53S."
Rodman Wanamaker, OF