Connecticut western news., 1919-09-25

l finance committee, have made pupllc a detailed statement of it's recelpts and expenditures for war work Ill this country and abroad in the perloo between April 26. 1917. and March 31, 1919. In a supplementary an nouncement the War Work Council explained that this is not final re- port. It's war service, having reached it's maximum in March of this year is being continued in the United States and foreign countries and the collection on all unpaid ohdteo War Work campaign pledges IS yitaIly necessary in order to com plete the work of the various organl- zations.
 The council received, in the period covered by the report, an aggregate l of s125, ,282,859. Of this amount s123,254,052 was contributed by the people of the United States 1n the three campaigns conducted to finance Y. M. c. A. war work
 A detailed statement of the AS sociation's expenditures for work m the home camps shows that 9oO buildings were constructed in the SIX military departments at cost oi s7 ,698,984. Tn maintaining ana oper- ating these buildings the Y. M. U. A. expended $3,s65,7S6.
 | The concerts, vaudeville ana otner entertainment provided the men on this side cost the Y. M. c. A. $1, ,Ioo'- 767. It's motion picture shows in the home camps cost $2,326,21l, IL provided athletic supplies and pnysl- cal directors to carry out its atnletlc program at an expense of $l,5O3'l'9 It expended $923,629 for writing ma terials and for financing camp news papers and publications.
 The religious work in the home camps was done at an expense or s2,1O5,S16. For educational literature lectures, French instruction and H. brary service the Association spent s1192,737, and for sex hygiene edu- cation and literature, $73,704. Other items include s260,634 for war Work in the Canal Zone, Porto Rico, the Philippines and other territories, s192,3S6 for work among the em- ployees 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. Tn this period, it is shown s4,SO1,271 was spent for huts and tents, $2,s50,4 for furniture, equip ment and motion picture outfits, and $1,O14,337 for operation of huts and field units. The Y. M. c. A further spent, for motor transport and mis- cellaneous equipment, $2,671,738; for motor transport devoted exclusively to its canteen services $50 ,296; and for operation and maintenance of its motor transport, sl.170,761.
 The statement shows that supplies worth $1,794,771 were distributed free to the doughboys, that Y. M. c. A. Christmas gifts and entertainments represented an expenditure of $651,- 963, and that it supplied writing ma terials, free newspapers, etc, to over seas men, to the value of $2,296,S sos. In operating the leave areas in vari- ous part of France, the Y. M. c. A. spent $S31, ,60l, and in managing a chain of hotels for the men on leave in the larger cities it expended $477,- 956.
 On it's overseas religious work the Y. M. c. A. spent $467,534, on its education and library work, $991, 932. It's concerts and entertainments were given at a cost of $850,969 and its motion picture shows at a cost of ST. O66, ,757. It's overseas athletic pro- gram cost it $1,957 ,301.
 Through the International Commit tee of the Y M. c. A., $16,042, ,695 was expended, from the beginning of operations in 1917 to the end of last March, in work with the Allied
 armies, and $1,05S,591 in work with prisoners of war. Of the sum of these
 two items the War Work Council contributed $l4,409,175.
 The expenditures with the Allied armies included $6,73S,744 for France ; $497 1869 for Great Britain; $3,139,- 951 for Italy, $4,8O5 1855 for Russia and $86O,69 for other Allied countries. For the prisoners of war in Ger , many the Y. M. c. A. spent $117 ,9SS in Denmark, $99,0S7; in Austria
 Hungary, $146,S12; in Switzerland
 $247 ,95O; in Turkey, s56,2O6, and in
 other countries, $390,545.
 The summary of the report shows that for it's work among the mer under arms in the United States the Y. M. c. A. spent in all, $30,1S7, ,1OS Its work among the men of the A F. F. cost $43, S9,242. The total ex.
 penditure for Allied armies and pris
 oners of war was $14,409,175. The
 cost of selecting, recruiting, training
 and paying the sustenance and trav 3 cling expenses of its secretaries wa 2 $3,056,502. Administrative, genera g activities, campaign and publicity ex [ penses disbursed in New York to