Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-01-08

| Christian Association, through lts
finance committee, have made public
4 detailed statement Of its receipts
and expenditures for war work IN
This country and abroad in the period
between April 26, 1917, and March
81, 1919. In supplementary an
aouncement the War Work Council
explained that this is not a 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 ana the
collection on all unpaid United
War Work campaign pledges is
vitality necessary in order to com
plete the work of the various organ1-
cations.
The council receiver, in the period
covered by the report, an aggregate
Of $125,282S59. OF this amount
$123.254,O52 was contributed by the
people of the United States IN the
three campaigns conducted to hnance
Y. M. c. A. war work.
A detailed statement OF the AS
sociation's expenditures for WORK IN
the home camps shows that 9oo
buildings were constructed IN the SIX
military departments at cost OF
37,698,984 In maintaining and oper
sting these buildings the Y. M Z. A.
expended $3,965,736. -.-
The concerts, vaudeville and other
entertainment provided the men on
this side cost the Y. M. G. A. 81, 1866
767. It's motion picture shows in the
home camps cost $2,326,271. 1t
provided athletic supplies and physi-
cal directors to carry out its athletic
program at an expense of $l,5O3,17s.
1t 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 OF
s2,105,S16. For educational literature,
lectures, French instruction and IL
brary service the Association spent
s1,192.737, and for sex hygiene edu-
cation and literature, s73,7o4. Other
items include $260,634 for war work
In the Canal Zone, Porto Itico, the
Philippines and other territories,
y192,3Se for work among the en-
ployees Of munitions plants and other
war industries; and s442.0S1 for work
With the Students Army Training
| Corps.
The Y. M. c. AS work overseas
with the A. E. F., from its inception
to the end of last March, also is stat
ed in detail. In this period, it is shown
s4,801,271 was spent for huts and
tents, $2,s50,421, for furniture, equip
ment and motion picture outfits and
$1,014,337 for operation of huts and
field units. The Y M. c. A. further
spent, for motor transport and mis-
cellaneous equipment, $2,671,73S; for
motor transport devoted exclusively
to its canteen service, $30,296; 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. {. A.
!
represented an expenditure of $751;
s63, and that it supplied writing ma
terials, free newspapers, etc, to over
seas men, to the value of $2,296,S0S.
In operating the leave areas in vari-
GUS part Of France, the Y. NJ c. A.
spent ,S31,601. and in managing a
chain Of hotels for the men on leave
in the larger cities it expended $477,-
95s.
On its overseas religious work the
Y. NJ. c. A. spent $467,5s4, on it's
education and library work, 1891 1872.
Its concerts and entertainments were
given at cost Of $S50,969 and it's
motion picture shows at cost Of ST.
o66,757. Its overseas athletic pro-
gram cost it s1,957 ,5O1.
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,O5S,591 in work with
prisoners of war. OF the sum of these
! two MEMS the War Work Council
contributed $14,4091 IT'S.
The expenditures with the Allied
armies included $6,73S,744 for France;
$497 1863 for Great Britain; s3,139,'
951 for Italy, $4,S05,S3 for Russia and
sS6O,694 for other Allied countries.
For the prisoners Of war in Ger
many the Y. M. c. A. spent SILT 1888,
in Denmark, $99,0S7 in Austria
Hungary, $l46.S12; in Switzerland,
$247 $50; in Turkey, $56,206, and in
other countries, $39O,545.
The summary of the report shows
that for its work among the men
under arms in the United States the
Y. M. C. A. spent in all, $50, ,10S.
Its work among the men of the A.
E. F. cost $43,OS9,242. 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-
cling expenses of its secretaries was
$3,O56,502 Administrative, general
activities, campaign and publicity ex-