Graham guardian., 1919-08-15
OFF!c',.L REPORT
ON WHAT THEY"
Did WITH MONEY
$s7,817,o ,oo5 Expended to March a.
$123,254,052 Contributed by
Public.
UNcoLLEcTED FUNDS
VlTALLY 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
o detailed statement of It's receipts
and expenditures for war work in this
country and abroad in the period be-
tween April &c, 1917, and March 81,
1919 In supplementary announce.
n,ent 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
S125, ,2S2. $50. OF this amount Sl23-
254,052 was contributed by the people
of the United States In the three cam
paigns conducted to finance Y. NJ. G. 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 cost of
$7,69S,9S4 In maintaining and oper-
ating these buildings the Y. 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. 81, ,166. 767 Mo-
tion picture shows In the home cnmps
cost $2,326,271. 1t provided athletic
supplies and physical directors to car
ry out its athletic program at an ex-
pense of $1,503,179. 1t expended $685.
62e for writing materials and for
financing camp newspapers and pub
locations. ~
Religious work in home camps was
done at an expense of 50, ,105S16. Ed
ucational literature, lectures, French
instruction and library service cost
81 1872, 1877; sex hygiene education and
literature cost $73,704. Other items
include S260,634 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
$442,061 for work with the Students
Army Training corps.
The Y NJ. C. AS work overseas
with the A. f. 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, S2.950,421 for furniture,
equipment and motion picture outfits,
and S1014,337 for operation of huts
and field units. The Y. NJ. C. A. fur
ther spent, for motor transport and mis-
cellaneous equipment, $2,671, ,73S: for
motor transport devoted exclusively
to- its canteen service. S30,296, and for
operation and maintenance of its mo-
tor transport, S1,170,761.
Supplies worth S1,794,771 were dis
tributed free TO the doughboys. Y. NJ.
G. A. Christmas gifts and entertain
ments represented an expenditure of
1851 1853. It supplied writing materials.
newspapers, etc. TO overseas men, to
the value Of S2,296S0S. In operating
leave areas in France, the Y. NJ. C. A.
spent 1891 ,601 in managing chain
Of hotels for the men on leave in the
larger cities, SAT- 1856.
On overseas religious work the Y.
NJ. G. A. spent S467,5S4; on education
and library work, 1901 ,9S2. Concerts
and entertainments We're given at
cost of SS50,969, snd motion picture
shows at cost of Sl,066,T57. Over
seas athletics cost $1,957,301
Through the international commit
tee of the Y. M. C. A. S16042,695 was
expended in work with the allied ar
mics, and S1,05S,591 in work with pris-
oners OF war. OF the sum of these
two items the war work council con-
tributed, $14, ,409,1T5.
Expenditures with the allied armies
included S6,73S,744 for France; S497,-
369 for Great Britain: S3139,951 for
Italy; 81, 4,S05,935 for Russia, and $780,
GOA for other allied countries.
For the prisoners of war In Ger
many the Y.fM. G. A. spent S117,9SS;
In Denmark, S99,0sT; in Austria-Hun-
gary, S146,S12 in Switzerland, S247,-
$50; in Turkey, $56,206, and in other
countries s39O,545.
The grand total of expenditures was
s9T, ,S17.005. This left. on March 81.
1919, balance of S27, ,S54, which.
with the payment of pledges to the
United War Work campaign still re-
naming unpaid, is expected to he suf.
fcient to support the work from April
l, 1919, to December 81 1919.
In accounting for this balance the
statement lists assets of the war work
council on March 81, 1919, of S43333.-
166 These included SS,S35, ,SS1 in cash
on hand, and assets overseas amount
ing to $1S,761,6 ,676 The Y. NJ. G. A.
also had on that date canteen supplies
on hand and in transit to the value
OF S5,992, ,59l, and outstanding ac- |
counts tttaling S9135,366.
On the same date its current liabili- !
ties and reserves amounted ITO S15,- |
S67,312 including $2,792,964 in bills
and salaries due in the United States.
and S6,594,720 due overseas. There
was charged against It 81 ,627, ,2S5 rep
rcsenting remittances received from the
men of the A. +, F. Tor transfer to the
United States. II owed the British.
French and United States govern |
mentS for TRANSFORMATION and cun- |