Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-27
OFFICIAL REPORT ON WHAT THEY"
 DID WITH MONEY
ae7,st7,oo5 Expended to March 31- SIPS, 3,254, ,o52 Contributed by
 Public.
UNcoLLEcTED FUNDS
 VITALLY NECESSARY.
Only Way Work Can Be Continued Until End of Year, When Elmer.
 geney Will Be Over.

al W9r Work Council of the Young
 Mems Christian association, through
 it's 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 26, 1917, and March S1, 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
 SIPS, ,282,85 Of this amount $123,- 254,O52 was contributed by the people of the United States in the three cam paigns conducted to finance '. Nj. c. A. war work.
 A statement of Y. NJ. c. A. expendi- lures for work in the home camps shows $50 buildings constructed in the six military departments at a cost of $7, 7,69S,9S4. In maintaining and oper- ating these buildings the '. NJ. c. A. expended $3,965, ,736.
 Concerts, vaudeville and other en- tertainment provided the men on this side cost the Y. NJ. c. A. $1 ,166, 767. Mo- tion picture shows in the home camps cost S2,326271. It provided athletic supplies and physical directors to car ry out its athletic program at an ex- pense of $1,503,179. It expended s923,- 62e for writing materials and for financing camp newspapers and pub lications.
 Religious work in home camps was done at an expense of $2,105,s16. Ed ucatiOnal literature, lectures, French instruction and library service cost $1 ,192, ,737; sex hygiene education and literature cost $T9,704 Other items include $26O,634 for war work in the canal zone, Porto Rico the Philippines and other territories, $192, ,3s6 for work among the employees of munitions plants and other war industries, and S442,061 for work with the Students Army Training corps.
 The Y. NJ. c. As work overseas with the A. E. F., from it's inception to the end of last March, also is stat ed in detail. In this period it is shown $4.SO1,2 ,271 was spent for huts and tents, s2,95O,421 for furniture, equipment and motion picture outfits, and $1,O14,337 for operation of huts and field units. The Y. M. c. A. fur ther spent, for motor transport and mis- .cellaneous equipment. $2,671, ,73S; for motor transport devoted exclusively to Its canteen service, $3O,296, and for operation and maintenance of its mo tor transport, $1,17O,761.
 Supplies worth S1,794,771 were dis tributed freefto the doughboys. Y. NJ. c. A. Christmas gifts and entertain ments represented an expenditure of S651 ,963. It supplied writing materials, newspapers, etc, to overseas men, to the value of $2,296, sos. In operating leave areas in France, the Y. NJ. c. A. spent $SS1 sol; in managing a chain of hotels for the men on leave in the larger cities, $477,956.
 On overseas religious work the r. NJ. c. A. spent $467,5S4; on education and library work, $991, ,932. Concerts and entertainments were given at a cost of $S5O,969, and motion picture shows at a cost of S1,066,757. Over seas athletics cost $1,957, ,301.
 Through the international commit tee of the '. NJ. c. A. $16,042 695 was expended in work with the allied ar mics, and $1O5s,591 in work with pris- oners of war. Of the sum of these two items the war work council con- tributed S14,4O9,175.
 Expenditures with the allied armies included S6.73s,744 for France: S497,- 369 for Great Britain; S3,139.951 for Italy; $4,S05, ,935 for Russia, and $S6O,- 694 for other allied countries.
 For the prisoners of war in Ger many the Y. NJ. c. A. spent $117.9SS; Ir Denmark, S99,OS7; in Austria-Hun- gary, S146S12; in Switzerland, $247,- 95O; in Turkey, s56,2O6, and in other countries S39O,545.
 The grand total of expenditures was S97, ,S17,O0 This left, on March 31, 1919, a balance of $27, ,465 ,S54, which. with the payment of pledges to the United War Work campaign still re- naining unpaid, is expected to be sui fcient to support the work from April 1, 1919, to December 31, 1919.
 In accounting for this balance the statement lists assets of the war work council on March 31, 1919, of S43. .233,- 166. These included Ss,s35,SS1 in cash on hand. and assets overseas amount ing to S1s,761,676. The Y. NJ. c. A also had on that date canteen supplies on hand and in transit to the value Of S5,992, ,591, and outstanding ac- counts totaling S9,7S5;366.
 On the same date it's current liabili- ties and reserves amounted to $15,- s67,912 including S2,792, ,964 in bills md salaries due in the United States. and S6,594.720 due overseas. There was charged against it S1,627, ,2S5 rep remittances received from the men of the A. E. F. for transfer to the United States It owed the British, French and United States govern