The Cordova daily times., 1919-06-25
WORLD WIDE
 GENEROSITY DURING WAR

NEW YORK, June 25 (by Associa
 ted Press). of the world
 wide generosity awakened by the wal
 is given by preliminary reports of the
 British and American Red Cross
 Young Mems Christian Association
 tbe Order of St. John of Jerls llem and
 similar organizations which during the past four years, have done service in alleviating distress and which are now taking part in the work of recon struction.
 A recent issue of London Truth, in commenting on the record of s75,. 100000 war contributions to the Red Cross by the British people during the period from 1915 to 1918, inclusive, says "this must easily be record col. lection for charitable purposes" Ad- mitting that the amount does not equal that raised for the American Red ! Cross, the Truth observes that the general total of voluntary giving for war purposes in England must have been something without precedent in that country's history"
 The British people, it is pointed out, were lavish in their private bene- factions, no record of which was kept. The first two years of the war. for in- stance, it is said, individual Britons fed and clothed more than 100000 Bel gian refugees and Belgian relief was only one of wide diversity of objects which included the rehabilitation of crippled soldiers, the Blue Cross for War Horses and numerous other charities. An interesting feature of the work of the British Red Cross, shown in the preliminary figures, is the low cost of administration. In 1915, this cost was less than three per cent and it fell progressively until, in 1918, it was about one and one quarter per cent.
 Contributions to the American Red Cross from the date of the entry of the United States into the war, on April 6, 1917 to the present are roughly estimated at about $35O, O,0OO,OOO This amount was raised mainly in two do- nation drives" which brought in $106,OOO,OOO and $1S0,OO0,OOO rdspect- ively and two membership "drives" in which 42,OO0,0OO membership sigma lures with minimum of onadlallar each (many were for much larger sums) were obtained.
 The cost of administration, it was stated by an official of the Atlantic division, was entirely defrayed by the Red Cross membership subscriptions and for every dollar contributed $102 was made available for actual relief by reason of bank interest L. J. Hunter, of the American Red Cross in Washington, is now at work on receipts and expenditures, 1t is said, and is expected to make an official report in June.
 Many millions of dollars already had been raised for the Young Mems Chris tian Association, Knights of Columbus, Jewish Welfare Board, War Camp Community Service, American Library Association. Young Women's Christian Association and the Salvation Army when the United War Work Drive' was undertaken last winter. The sub scriptions aggregated more than s2OO,- 100000.
 Vast sums were raised in France, Italy, Japan, Russia and other coun- tries, including neutral powers for "the amelioration of human want and woe" When all the figures are com piled charities statistician esti- mates, it will be shown that the most devastating war of history unloosed mankind's pursestrings in the most re- markable and prodigal manner.