The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-04
Henry p. Davidson. Executive chasr
man Of This Organization, Tolls
What Crest Work There 10
Yet - be Oona.
HAS MONEY ON HANDS
Duo to Careful Management Of Funds
There 10 Some Of IL Left TO Add
to That Which ls Raised In
Third Drive.

A resume Of the financial opera
lions Of the American Red Cross dur
Ing the war, and summary OF the
work to be accomplished at homo and
abroad for which $15, 100000 will be
raised during the third roll call, NOV.
2 to IL, has been issued by Henry r.
Dawson, Of the executive committee
Of the Red Cross.
His statement follows:
"As former chairman of the war
council OF the American Red cross
and now as q member OF its executive
committee address this statement
to the American people concerning
the financial basis of the appeal OF
the Red Gross during the next week
for, members and for a new fund OF
fifteen million dollars.
when the war council on February
twenty eighth last turned over the
management Of the Red Cross to the
permanent executive committee tho
records showed book balance Of one
hundred twenty-seven million dollars
still remaining out of the two war
fund drives. OF this amount thirty
three million dollars was in the hands
OF the four thousand odd chapters TOT
their local work and fifty-three MIL
lion dollars was represented by gocds
for relief abroad either already IN
Europe or in process Of shipment.
Some forty-one million dollars re-
NAMED available for new purposes.
ION February twenty-eigh the
expenses Of the Red Cross were al
their peak, this peak continuing Tor
some ninety days subsequently. Dur
ing that period practically our whole
army was under arms or in process OF
disqualification and relatively few men
had been discharged from our hospi-
tails. The work for families OF sol
diers did not attain its peak until the
first of April These situations en-.
tailed very great expense to the Red
Cross.
ABROAD the coming of peace opened
ND areas unbelievably devastated, par
ticularly In the countries in eastern
Europe. Such was the magnitude of
the task Of administering relief thai
for awhile the Red Cross feared that
the funds on hand would be insuffi-
cient to last until this November. me
effective work of those directly IN
charge Of the activities enabled the
Red Cross to wind up more rapidly
than had been anticipated that por
ton OF the work which was susceptf
BILE Of being terminated and for which
appropriations had been made on
wartime scale. AS result there
were many savings from appropr1a-
lions made and the reports for the
month of September show that for the
coming year approximately fourteen
million five hundred thousand dollars
will remain and be available out OF
the forty-one million dollars turned
over by the war council on February
twenty eighth. This sum OF fourteen
million five hundred thousand dollars
will be added to the proceeds OF the
campaign which began this week.
THE Red Cross must now complete
It's work for our soldiers and their
families and round out its wartime
program. In Europe the needs for
aid are simply without limit. The
larger needs can only be met by the
governments but there is an impera.
tive call for emergency relief where
the processes of government are too
slow to aid those suffering acute at
Fiction. The sum now asked for by
the Red Cross will enable this great
organization to do well proportioned
niece OF relief work abroad, carry out
at home its activities planned for the
new year and furnish proper reserves
TO provide for emergencies or disas-
tiers.
'sThe American people who have
responded so whole heartedly and
upon such a magnificent scale to past
appeals of the Red Cross will am
sure be eager again to avail them
selves during the coming week of OPP
portunity to enlist themselves on the
rolls Of the Red Cross and therehq
rededicate the efforts Of this great or
SANITATION to the service Of human
ity."