Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1920-10-21
MAKING WAR ON
DISEASE MENACE
American Red Cross Announces
Budget Of S4s,200,000
For Current Year.
NEW DISASTER RELIEF PLAN
Continuance Of Heavy Work Abroad
Deemed Necessary to Protect
United Statss-S2t ,ooo, 900
Lees Than Last Year.

A program Of relief and service to
ward which appropriations Of 49,
10000 have been made has been out
lined for the American Red Cross for
the fiscal year, July l. 1920, to July !,
1921, according to official announce
ment by national headquarters OF the
organization at Washington. The hg-
ures for 1e2o-21 are s21, 200, 900 below
those Of 1920, In which SOS, 100000
was spent.
Important among the items Of the
budget for the present year is the ap-
preparation of $31, 800, 600 fer relief In
foreign lands, which includes S11, Ooo,-
600 In purchased supplies on hand and
net distributed.
Must Protect United States.
This will enable the American Red
Crsss to continue Its humanitarian ef-
fort to aid stricken peoples to re-estab-
lish themselves, to Eight the disease cpl
denies which threaten many countries
and to efface largely the remaining
traces of the blight left by the wsrld
War. II Is regarded 40 social as well
AZ physical sanitation on large scale
that will have a direct bearing on fu-
ture conditions In America.
Central Europe, the chief sufferer
fren the conflict, today Is facing an
other winter Of famine, pestileace and
ruin. Typhus decreased much during
the summer months where last winter
1t had Its greatest stronghold, but ply
sicians whs 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 IN
precedented scale. The Red Cross
feels 1t must csntinue preventive meas
ures abroad to keep this and other
deadly nalRdies from the Unitsd
States.
Mliiiens fer Work at hsms.
When the disease was sweeping Cen
trial Europe last winter the American
Red Cross, with the aid Of the govern
ments of AFFLICTED nations, undertook the
hght against It. Hospitals were estab-
lished wherever possible and food and
clothing We're distributed TO the I'M
dernourshed populations, who by rea-
son of their undernourlshment were
easy prey to the epdemlcs. 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 es-
tabllshed hospital centers, the Amerl-
can Red Cross this year will undertake
the work with a new confidence
Including the total Of 81 100000 In
supplies left from the last fiscal year,
the S31 100000 Is $21 100000 less than
the expenditures for 1920.
Appropriations for domestic actlvi-
ties total s16,700,00)
The largest item of this "home"
budget is $7,S00000 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-
ton for civilian relief, $5,000,000 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, II was de-
termined by the Executive Committee
In preparing the budget of 1920 to
have fixed reserve fund from which
to draw in these instances.
For assistance to soldiers, sailors
and marines In hospitals and In camps
this year 81. 800, 900 has been set aside
Four million tive hundred thousand
dollars has been appropriated for i'm
provement of health and prevention
Of disease throughout the United
States during the current twelve
months. The Red Cross is ce-sperat-
ing fully with the United States Health
Service in this work and through Its
Junior Red Cross Is doing much to
spread among children the principles
Of sanitation. An appropriation Of ST.
100000 has been made for developing
the peace time program Of the Red
Cross by service to Its chapters in all
regions
The appropriation Of s4s,2oo, 900 is
exclusive of the local expenditures Of
the 5000 or more chapters.
Administration expenses this year
will be sl.s00,0oo. Last year they
were S2.300.0oo.