The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-08-30
OFFICIAL REPORT
ON WHAT They"
DID With MONEY
Ss7,e17,0 Expended to March 81
$123,254,o52 Contributed by
Public.
UNcoLLEcTEo FUNDS
VITALITY NECESSARY.
Only Way Work Can Be Continued
Until End of Year, When Emer-
gency Will Be Over.

New York.--(Special) The Nation
al War Work Council Of the Young
Mems Christian association, through
its finance committee has made public
detailed statement of its receipts
and expenditures for war work in this
country and abroad in the period be-
tween April 20, 1917. and March 81.
1919. In a supplementary announce
ment the war work council explained
that this Is not final report. Its war
service, having reached its maximum
In March of this year, is being con-
tinued In the United States and for
eign countries.
The council received in the period
covered by the report. an aggregate OF
| $125, 2S2, S59. OF this amount $123.-
54,O52 was contributed by the people
| of the United States in the three cam
paigns conducted to finance Y. NJ. c. A.
war work.
A statement of Y. NJ. G. A. eKpendf-
lures for work in the home camps
shows $50 buildings constructed in the
| six military departments at a cost OF
$7,698, 1884. In maintaining and oper-
ating these buildings the Y. NJ. G. A.
| expended $3,965, 736.
Concerts, vaudeville and other en-
tertainment provided the men on this
side cost the Y. M. G. A. 81, 166, 1871. Mo
ton picture shows in the home camps
cost S2.326,271. 1t provided athletic
supplies and physical directors to car
~ out its athletic program at an ex-
pense of 81, 503,179 1t expended $685.
62o for writing materials and for
financing camp newspapers and pub
locations.
Religious work In home camps was
done at an expense Of 50, los, S16. Ed
ucational literature, lectures, Frepch
instruction and library service cost
81, 49,, 1877; sex hygiene education and
literature cost $73,7O4 Other items
include $260,634 for war work in the
canal zone, Porto Rico, the Philippines
and other territories, s192, 1886 for work
among the employees of munitions
plants and other war industries, and
$4,000 for work with the Students
Army Training corps.
The Y. M. C. AS work overseas
with the A. e. F., from its inception
to the end of last March, also Is stat
ed in detail. In this period it is
shown $4,S01,271 was spent for huts
and tents, $2,950,421 for furniture,
equipment and motion picture outfits.
and $1,014,337 for operation of huts
and field units. The Y. NJ. G. A. fur
Their spent, for motor transport and mis-
cellaneous equipment, $2.671,7 8S; for
motor transport devoted exclusively
to its canteen service, $50, 296, and for
operation and maintenance Of its mo-
tor transport, $1,170,761.
| Supplies worth S1,794,771 were dis
tributed free to the doughboys. Y. M.
G. A. Christmas gifts and entertain
ments represented an expenditure of
1851 1858. 1t supplied writing materials,
: newspapers, ETC.. to overseas men, to
the value Of 1885, 0S. In operating
leave areas in France, the Y. M. c. A.
spent 1881 601; In managing chain
Of hotels for the men on leave In the
larger cities, $477,956
On overseas religious work the Y,
NJ. c. A. spent $467, 5S4; on education
and library work, 1891 1892. Concerts
and entertainments We're given at a
cost of $S50,969, and motion picture
shows at cost Of S1,O66,757. Over.
: seas athletics cost $1,957, 301.
, Through the international commit.
tee Of the Y. M. c. A. $1,000. sos was
expended in work with the allied ar.
mics, and 81, 058,5 91 in work with pris-
{ oDers of war. OF the sum of these
. two items the war work council con.
tributed $14,409,175.
Expenditures with the allied armies
: included $6,73S,744 for France; S497,.
800 for Great Britain; $3,139,951 for
Italy: $4,S05, 1886 for Russia, and $780,,
1914 for other allied countries.
IL For the prisoners of war in Ger.
!. many the Y. M. G. A. spent Sill, 9SS;
in Denmark, s99,OS7; in Austria Hun.
) gary, $148,S12; in Switzerland, $247,.
e $50; in Turkey. $56,2O6, and in other
countries $39O,545.
The grand total of expenditures was
$97.S17, 0O5. This left. on March 81
1919. balance Of S27, 465, 854, which
with the payment of pledges to the
United War Work campaign still re
h naming unpaid. is expected to be suf
flcient to support the work from April
1, 1919, to December 81, 1919.
: In accounting for this balance the
h statement lists assets of the war worn
!, council on March 81. 1919, of s43. $685.
166. These included $S,S35,SS1 in cash
Z on hand. and assets overseas amount
: ing to $1S,761.676 The Y. NJ. G. A
also had on that date canteen supple.
. on hand and in transit to the valus
!, OF S5,992,591. and outstanding ac
d counts totaling S9,735, 1865.