The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-09-17
MAKING WAR ON
 DISEASE MENACE
American Red Cross Announces Budget of $48,20O,O00
 For Current Year.
NEW DISASTER RELIEF PLAN
Deemed Necessary to Protect United States-S21 900 900
 Less Than Last Year.

A program of relief and servIce to. ward which appropriations of $4S,. 100000 have been made has been out the fiscal year, July l, 1920. to July l. 1921. according to official announce ment by national headquarters of the organization at Washington. The fig ures for 1920-21 are $21, 100000 below those of 1e1e-20, in which $e9, 400, ,oO0 was spent.
 Important among the items of the budget for the present year is the ap- propriation of S31, 100000 for relief in foreign lands. which includes $11, ,Ooo,- 900 in purchased supplies on hand and not distributed.
 Must Protect United States.
 This will enable the American Red Cross to continue its humanitarian ef- fort to aid stricken peoples to re-estab- fish themselves, to fight the disease cpl denies which threaten many countries and to efface largely the remaining traces of the blight left by the World War. It is regarded as social as well as physical sanitation on a large scale that will have a direct bearing on flu ture conditions in America.
 Central Europe, the chief sufferer from the conflict, today is facing an other winter of famine, pestilence and ruin. .Typhus decreased much during the summer months where last winter it had its greatest stronghold, but phy- sicians who investigated the situation at the behest of the League of Red Cross Societies have given their un- qualified opinion that this coming win ter will see a recurrence on an un- precedented scale. The Red Cross feels it must continue preventive meas ures abroad to keep this and other deadly maladies from the United States.
 Millions for Work at Home.
 When the disease was sweeping Gen. tral Europe last winter the American Red Cross, with the aid of the govern ments of afflicted nations, undertook the fight against it. Hospitals were estabe lfshed wherever possible and food and clothing were distributed ts the un- dernourished populations, who by req son of their undernourishmelt were easy prey to the ePidemics. Where Reorganization contributed last year to the great inroads made by the dis ~-f- -a tk- n% %kn disease and the presence of well es- abolished hospital centers, the Ameri- can Red Cross this year will undertake the work with a new confidence.
 Including the total of $11, ,ooe, ,e0o in supplies left from the last fiscal year, the $31, 50 ,ooe is $21, ,eo0, ,ooo less than the expenditures for 1e19-20. Appropriatiens for domestic activi-
 des total $16,7oo, ,o0o. The largest Item of this nome budget is $7,soe. e.oo0 for civilian relief work. This includes service and as. sistance for families sf soldiers, sail to disaster. Of the total &ppr0pria- ton fer civilian relief. $5o0o, 600 is held in reserve for the carrying out of actual disaster reI1ef
 Reauess ovs~sieaa Expsass. The Red Cross invariably is the hrst thought of q community visited by ca Iamity. With this in mind, fty was de termined by the Executive Committee in preparing the budget of 1919-20 to have fixed reserve fund frem which to draw in these Instances.
 For assistance to soldiers. sailors and marines in hospitals and in camps this year $1 ,9ee,seo has been set aside. Four million tive hundred thousand dollars has been appropriated for inn prevement of health and prevention | of disease throughout the United States during the current twelve months. The Red Gross Is eo-operat- ing fully with the URihed States Health Service in this work and through it's Junior Red Gross is doing much ta | spread among children the principles of sanitat ten. An appropriation of $1,. 100000 has been made for developing the peace time program of the Red l Cross by service ts its chapters in all regions.
 The. appropriation of S4s2O0,O 900 Is exclusive of the local expenditures of I the 3, 900 or more chapters. Administration expenses this year
 will be S1,so0.e0o. Last year. they
 were s2,3O0,0oO.
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