Williams news., 1921-10-21
RED CROSS GIVES
 ANNUAL BUDGET
$19,361 ,657 Allotted for Cur rent Program of Relief and Service.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Medical Aid for European ChiI- dren Will Cost $6,OOO,-
 GOO This Year.

Washington.-EXpe tOtalling
 $19,361, ,657 for carrying through its
 program of relief and services in the United States and overseas are out
 lined in the budget of the American
 Red Cross for the current fiscal year.
 This total is more than $5,OOO,00O low
 CT than the expenditure during the
 last fiscal year, when the diSburse-
 ments reached SPA, ,492, TAI, it is an-
 nounced at National Headquarters in
 a statement calling attention to the
 necessity of continued support of the
 organization by response to the An
 nual Roll Call, November Il to 24.
 if the vital work of the society is, to
 be effectively carried on.
 Outstanding among the items of the domestic budget is the appropriation of $3,669,256 for work in behalf of
 the disabled eX-service man and his
 family. This appropriation represents , the amount allotted to this work from National Headquarters only and does not take into consideration the mill lions being spent in chapters for re- lief of the World War veteran. It is in the chapter that the greater
  gation of the Red Cross, the announce ment continues, as manifested by fig ures of the fiscal year 192O-1921 when the total was approximately $9,OOO,- GOO, of which $2, 2,692, ,O94 represented the disbursement of National Head- quarters while the remainder was the chapters contribution to this field of Red Cross service.
 Vast Work for Disabled
 Chief among the subdivisions of the appropriation for work with vet erans is that which concerns itself with assistance to disabled men and women in government hospitals. This item of $1, ,79O, GOO, an increase of more than $5O0,OO0 over the appropriation for the same work in last years bud get, will provide those personal serv- 1 ices for the disabled and their families which are indispensable to supplement | those provided by the government. | The director of the Veterans Bureau has recently expressed his desire that the Red Cross should continue and extend these "humaniZing services" Other items of the appropriation for l veterans relief are proportionately in creased. An additional appropriation of $469, 500 has been made for Red Cross work in connection with regu- lar Army and Navy hospitals and with the regular Army and Navy.
 For disaster relief, the Red Cross has set aside for the current twelve an appropriation of S543,S76. doubling the appropriation for the same purpose for the fiscal year 192O-1921. {. A
 More than $2, 100000 is provided for service and assistance to the 3,G0 II Red Cross chapters by the national -
 Helping Destitute Children
 Other items of the domestic budget include $49S, ,546 for miscellaneous ac- -ivities, including contributions re- stricted for special purposes and $76S,- 800 for management. Each of these similar appropriations of the previous year.
 From a fund of S1O,OOOOOO, S5,OOO,- 100 of which was contributed through he European Relief Council campaign md $5,OOO,OOO allotted by the Red yross for child welfare work in r Europe, there remains $S,765, ,1O8 still f Ivailable, of which it is estimated , hat $6.OOO,OO0 will be required for z his work during the current year. . Tor Red Cross participation Tn tho OlHL cuoTl IO TcIlcNS COhu-l V ions in Russia, for final work in th9 II 'hina famine, for Junior Red Cross S nd other overseas activities including e he closing of the, old general relfef T. rogram in Europe $4 ,9TS,OOO is made n vailable, In announcing the national budget, II he Red Cross makes it clear that Q le figures do not include chapter ex- D enditureS place any cash estimate fl n the invaluable service of vOlun- i, eers in chapters. :,