The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-08-01
NATIONAL WAR WORKERS REM
DER FINANCIAL REPORT

tailed accounts of the receipts and
expenditures of the Young Mems
Christian Association, made public
Sunday by the Finance Committee
of the National War Work Council
of the Organization, show that $125,--
282.859 was received between April
26, 1917 and March 81, 1919.
Expenditures aggregated $97,817,-
OO5 in the period named, it is stat
ed, leaving balance of SGT ,465, 1854,
a sum estimated, to be, sufficient to
carry on the work in America and
abroad until January l.
According to the, figures, which
appear over the signatures of George
w. Perkins, Chairman Of the commit
tee Cleveland H.HDodge,, Treasurer
of the War Work Council, and H.
w. Wilmot, Comptroller, slightly
more than 2 per cent of the total
funds contributed by the American
public were expended for religious
purposes in the United States and
overseas, while approximately 80
per cent was devoted to the pur-
chase, transportation and distribu-
ton of canteen supplies and to enter
tainments, education and athletic
sports. aItt 81.
In addition to providing free ath-
letic supplies, which included, among
other things, in the United States
camps alone 557,O96 baseballs and
10000 sets of boxing gloves, the re-
port says, the Y. M. C. A. distributed
overseas $36,832, 449 worth of mer
chandise. Of this merchandise ST.
194,771 worth, or approximately 5
per cent, was given to the soldiers
free. This does not include
overseas Christmas gifts and enter
tainments worth $651,963.
Ut the $97,817,O05 expended, it is
shown, more than $3O,0OO,OOO was
spent in the home camps, more than
S43,OOO,OOO with the American Ex-
pedltlonary Force abroad and s14.-
4O9,l75 for work with the allied
armies and prisoners of war.
The balance was used for other
expenses. The statement explains
that the "Y" suffered a loss Of ST.
478,O84 in the operation of army
post exchanges and canteens. Also.
on account of the depreciation in
values OF French and English cur
rency the conversion of the overseas
figures at market rates resulted in
book loss of $2,432,O89.
The report, the committee makes
clear, is not final because the war
service of the Y. M. C. A., which
reached its 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 American public $123,254.O52.
and this amount, thee report stated
was augmented to $125,282,85 by
sums from other sources,
Some idea of the magnitude of the
work accompanied by the organiza-
ton Is shown by the statement that
more than $4,000 concerts, vaude-
VILE performances and other enter
talnments were given by the ."Y"
In American environments to an ag-
gregate audience of 100000, at a
cost of $1,166,767. In addition.
free motion picture shows in the
nome camps necessitated an outlay
Of s2,32S,271. '
Erection of $50 huts for men in
training camps on this side cost
$H698,9S4, and the outlay for main
tenance was $3,965,736. "These
buildings says the report, "were
centers of religious, educational. en-
tertainment 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 the report and still are
using them"
Overseas the statement says, work
of even ga vaster scope" was accom-
plished. The 1000 or more 'Y" huts
and tents built or leased for the use
OF the America expeditionary force
cost $4,sOl,271, were equipped at a
cost of $2,95O,421 and maintained
at further expense of $1,014,337. !
Writing. materials and newspa-
pers Tor the overseas men, including
4O0,OOO,OOO sheets of letter paper,
half as many envelopes and 10000
600 postcards, cost 1926, 1903. For
motion picture shows, in which 49,
100000 feet of films were used in
IahCe dlOHe, ana spectators aggre-
gated 100000, the "Y" paid ST.
O66,757. More than $4,000 concerts
and entertainments increased the ex-
penditures by $85O,969.
In accounting for the balance of
SIT ,465,S54 March 81, 1919, the
statement lists assets of the War
Work Council on that date as s43.-
333, 166. These included, it is said.
$685., 1881 cash on hand and assets
overseas amounting to $18,761, 676.
Canteen supplies on hand included
goods worth $5,992,591. Outstand-
ing accounts were said to aggregate
$9,736,366.
"On the same date" the state
ment concludes, current liabilities
and reserves amounted to S15.867.-
312, including $2,792,964 in bills
and salaries due in the United States
was charged against the Y. M. C. A.
and $6,594,720 due overseas. There
S1,627,285, representing remittances
received from the men of the Ameri-
can expeditionary force for transfer
to the United States. It owed the
British, French and United States