The Monmouth inquirer., 1919-09-25
S07,817,OO5 COST
OF Y WAR WORK
$3O.OOO,O00 Spent in Home
Camps and $43,000,000
Abroad.
DETAIL OF EXPENDITURES.
UnfuIfilIed Pledges Must Be
Paid to Continue Work Till
December 81, 1919.
DETAIL OF EXPENDITURES.

NEW YORK, August 26.-The first de-
~ tailed account of the receipts ana
expenditures of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association. made public recently by
the ORGANIZATIONS National War Work
Council finance committee. showed that
$125, 2S2. $50 was received by it between
April 26. 1877, and March 81 1919 The
total expenditures aggregated $9hSl IOoS
in the period named
The officials of the National War Work
Council state that it is essential that the
unpaid pledges be paid Immediately. as
the must have these funds 10 carry on
its work. which has been increased ana
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 Cleve-
land H. Dodge treasurer Of the War
Work Council and II w Wilmot, comp
troller 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-
ton and distribution of canteen supplies
and to entertainments. education and
athletic sports
In addition 10 the provisions of free
athletic supplies, which included, among
other things, in the United States camps
alone, 557 096 baseballs and 20 600 sets of
boxing gloves the report says. the Y M.
C. A distributed s36. 1872. 449 worth Of
merchandise. OF this merchandise ST.
7947 worth, or approximately per
cent, was given free to the soldiers.
OF the s97817, O05 expended, it is shown.
more than $50, 900, 900 was spent in the
home camps. more than s4S.OOo.OOO with
the American expeditionary forces abroad
and $14 400, IT'S for work with the Allied
armies and prisoners of war. The bal
ance went for transportation and other
expenses. The statement explains that
the Y suffered a loss of S1,47S,0S4 in the
operation of army post exchanges and
eanteens, which, owing to the deprecia-
tion in values of French and English cur
rency and conversions of the overseas
figures at market rates, resulted in
book loss of s2.432eS9.
The report the committee makes clear,
is not final, because the war service OF
the Y NJ. C. A, which reached its maxi
mum in March of this year, is being con
tinued in the United States and foreign
countries. Three war work campaigns
for funds, 1T points out, brought from the
American public 1923. 254.052. and this
amount, the report states was augment
ed to SIZE, 2S2.S5 by sums from other
sources.
Some idea OF the magnitude of the
work accomplished by the organization Is
shown by the statement that more than
$1,000 concerts, vaudeville performances
and other entertainments We're staged by
the Y in American environments to an
aggregate audience of 4S, 100000 at cost
of s1,166. 1871 In addition. free motion
picture shows in the home camps neces-
STATED an outlay of 81 1928 27l
Erection of $50 huts for men in train
ing camps on this side cost 81, SOS 9S4. and
the outlay for maintenance was 1885,
1856. These buildings" says the report
were centers of religious. educational,
entertainment and athletic activities for
all men who passed through the camps
ON their way overseas or who used the
centers through the period covered by
- 80 =. and are still using theEA..-