The Connecticut labor press., 1920-09-18
MAKING WAR ON
 DISEASE MENACE
American Red Cross Announces ] Budget of S48,2OO,OOO
 For Current Year.
NEW DISASTER RELIEF PLAN
Continuance of Heavy Work Abroad Deemed Necessary. to Protect United States-$21 ,0oo, 900 Less Than Last Year.

A program of relief and servIce to- ward which appropriations of $4S.. 100000 have been made has been out. lined for the American Red Gross for the fiscal year, July 1, 1920. to July | 1921, according to official announce ment by national headquarters of the organization at Washington. The fig ures for 192o-21 are $21, 100000 below those of 1919-2O. in which $69. 100000 was spent.
 Important among the items of the budget for the present year is the ap- propriation of $31, ,5OO, 900 for relief in foreign lands, which includes $11 ,O00,- 900 in purchased supplies on hand and not distributed.
 Must Protect United States.>
 This will enable the American Red Cross to continue It's humanitarian ef- X fort to aid stricken peoples to re-estab- fish themselves, to fight the disease epi- 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 large scale that will have a direct bearing on fu- 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 1t 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 recurrence on an un- precedented scale. The Red Cross feels 1t 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 Cen 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 estab lished wherever possible and food and clothing were distributed to the un- dernourished populations, who by rea- son of their undernourishment were easy prey to the epidemics. Where disorganizafon contributed last year to the great inroads made by the dis ease, by virtue of its knowledge of the disease and the presence of well es- tablished hospital centers, the Ameri- can Red Cross this year will undertake the work with a new confidence.
 Including the total of $11, ,000, 900 in supplies left from the last fiscal year, the $31, ,50O, 900 is $21, 600 900 less than the expenditures for 1019-20.
 Appropriations for domestic activi- ties total $16,700,000. The largest item of this 'home" budget is $7,SOO,0O0 for civilian relief work. This includes service and as- sistance for families of soldiers, sail- ors and marines, and work incidental to disaster. Of the total appropria- tion for civilian relief, $5,000,0O0 is held in reserve for the carrying out of actual disaster relief.
 Reduced Overhead Expense. The Red Cross invariably is the first thought of community visited by ca lamity. With this in mind, 1t was de- termined by the Executive Committee in preparing the budget of 1919-20 to | have a fixed reserve fund from which | to draw in these instances