Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-08-09
Y. N. c. A. REPORT

| Emphasizing the vital necessity that
all unpaid pledges to the United War
| Campaign be redeemed at once, the
! National War Work Council Of the
Young Mems Christian Association,
though its finance committee made
public to-day detailed statement Of
its receipts and expenditures for war
in this country and abroad between
April 26, 1917 and March 81. 1919.
I'm supplementary announcement
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-
tinue in the United States and foreign
countries Every dollar pledged to
the Association will be required to
carry on this work.
!. The council received, in the period
covered by the report, an aggregate
OF $125.282,85o. OF this amount $123-
254,052 was contributed by the peo-
pie of the United States in the three
campaings conducted to finance the
Y. M. G. A. war work.
A detailed statement of the Assoc
iation's expenditures for work in the
home camps shows that $50 buildings
were constructed in the six military
| departments at cost of $7,698,984.
In maintaining and operating these
buildings the Y. M. c. A. expended
| $685. 36.
The concerts, vaudeville and other
entertainment provided the men on
this side cost the Y M. c. A $1,1o6,767.
It's motion picture shows in the home
camps cost $2.326,271. 1t provided
athletic supplies and physical direct
tors to carry out its athletic program
at an expense of $l,5O3,17o. 1t ex-
pended $o23,62o for writing materials
and for financing camp newspapers
and publications.
The religious work in the home
camps was done at an expense of ~
| 1O5,816 For educational literature
| lectures, French instruction and Ii
brary services the Association spent
] $1,1o2,737, and for sex hygiene educa-
ton and literature, $73,7O4. Other
items include $2oO,643 for war work
in the Canal Zone, Porto Rico, the
Philippines and other territories,
$lo2,386 for work among the en-
ployees of munitions plants and other
war industries; and $442,061 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 $480l.27l was spent for huts
and tents, $2,95O.421 dor furniture,
equipment and motion picture out
fits. and $1O14,337 for operation of
huts and field units. The Y.M.C.A.
further spent, for motor transport and
miscellaneous equipment $2.67l,738
ior motor transport devoted exclus-
ively to it's canteen service, 1920;
and for operation and maintenance OF
its motor transport, $l,l7O,7ol.
]
The statement shows that supplies
worth $1.7o4,771 were distributed free
to the doughboys, that the Y.M.C.A.
Christmas gifts and entertainments
represented an expenditure OF SOIL
936, and that it supplied writing ma
terials, free newspapers. etc, to over
seas men, to the value OF $2,29o,oOo.
In operating the leave areas in the
various parts of France. the Y.M.C.A.
spent $S3l.60l, and in managing a
chain OF holels for the men on leave
in larger cities it expended $477,956.
On its overseas religious work the
Y.M.C.A. spent $467, 584, on its edu-
cation and library work. 1921 1852.
Its concerts and entertainments were
given at a cost of $850.o6o, and its
motion picture shows at a cost OF
$l.O66757. It's overseas athletic pro-
gram cost it $l.957 ,3Ol.
Through the international COM
mittee of the Y.M.C.A.. $l6,O42,6o5
was expended, from the beginning OF
operations in 1917 to the end Of last
March, in work with the Allied armies
and $l.Os8,s9l in work with prisoners
of war. OF the sum of these two
items the War Work Council contrib
uted $l4,904,175.
The expenditures with the Allied
armies included $6,738,744 for France;
$4o7 1863 for Great Britain; $3,l39,95l
ior Italy; $4,805,ov5 for Russia; and
100000 for other Allied countries.
For the prisoners of war in German
the Y.M.C.A. spent $ll7,o88; in Den
mark. $oo,087; in Austria Hungary,
$146812; in Switzerland, $247. $50;
in Turkey, $56,206, and in other coun-
tries, $390.545.
The summary of the report shows
that for its work among the men un-
| that 70 its work among the men UNI