The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-09-23
MAKING WAR ON
DISEASE MENACE
American Red Cross Announces
Budget OF s4s, 200. 900
For Current Year.
NEW DISASTER RELIEF PLAN
Continuance Of Heavy Work Abroad
Deemed Necessary TO Protect
United states-$ 21 .ooo, 600
Less Than Last Year.
NEW DISASTER RELIEF PLAN.

A programs Of relief and service to-
ward which appropriations Of $4S,-
zoo, 900 have been made has been out
lined for the American Red Cross for !
the fiscal year, July /, 1920. to July l.
1921, according to Official announce
ment by national headquarters Of the
organization at Washington. The Az :
ures for 1s20-21 are $21 GOO 600 below
those Of 1880, in which see. acc. ooe
was spent.
Important among the items Of the
budget for the present year Is the APP
preparation Of 81, SOC, 600 for relief In
foreign lands, which Includes $11 ,0OO.-
coo in purchased supplies On hand and
not distributed.
Must Protect United States.
This VIII enable the American Red
Cross to continue it's humanitarian ef-
fort to aid stricken peoples to re-estab-
lish themselves, to fight the disease cpl
denies which threaten many countries
and to eface largely the remaining
traces Of the blight left by the World
War. It 10 regarded 90 social as well
as physical sanitation On O large scale
that will have q direct bearing en- 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
it had It's greatest stronghold, but ply
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 win see q 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.
MIlIIena fer Work nc HOme.
| when the disease was sweeping Cen
trail Europe last winter the American
Red Cross, with the aid Of the govern
ments Of aHiicted nations. undertook the
hEht against It Hospitals were estaD-
nshed wherever possible and food and
/ |
dernourished populations, who BY rea'
SON Of their undernOurishment were
easy prey to the epidemics. Where
Discrimination 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 e.
tablished hospital ceHters, the Ameri-
can Red Cross this year will undertake
the work with O new confidence.
Including the @tal Of $1,000, 900 In
supplies left from the last fiscal year,
the $S1, SOC, 600 IL &21. 600 900 less than
the expenditures for $1,000.
Appropriations for domestic actdvi'
ties total SIC, 7OO, 600.
The largest item Of this home
budget is $500, 600 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
ten for civilian relief 100000 Il
held in reserve for the carrying out o.
actual disaster relief
III Reduced Overhead Expense.
The Red Cross Invariably Is the 6rs
I thought Of q community visited BY ca
lannity. With this in mind, It was de
terminea BY the Executive Committee
IN preparing the budget Of 1920 t
have o nxed reserve fund from whicl
to draw I'm these instances.
Fer assistance to soldiers. Sailor
and marines In hospitals and In camp
\ this year 81, 600, 900 has been set aside
-Four million TIVE hundred thousan'
dollars has been appropriated Tor I'm
provement Of health and preventiol
Of disease throughout the Units
: States during the current twelv
months. The Red Cross Is co-operat
ing fully with the United States Healt
Service In this work and through 1t
Junior Red Cross IL doing much {
spread among children. the principle
e Of sanitation. An appropriation Of II
:. GOO 600 has been made for develcpin
, the peace time program Of the Re
q Cross by service to it's chapters In a
4. regions.
The appropriation Of $4S,2oo,ooo
70 exclusive Of the local expenditures
70 the 5000 or more chapters.
,oI Administration expenses this yes
WIN be $780, coo. Last Year the
IL -arm go 200 600