The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-11-08
RED CROSS PUTS
UP S9,739,872
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over 100000 Allotted to the
DisabIed-Foreign Work
Lessons.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID

PioSi dAi VI SeINICeS anu TelloI during
the fiscal year in the United States
and overseas are authorized in the
budget of the American Red Cross, eff
fective July 1, 1922. This total is S.
135,975 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when disburse-
nents reached $12,475, SAT so, it is an
nouncel at National Headquarters In
statement emphasizing the necessity
OF continued support of the organiza-
lion by enrolment during the annual
i Roll Call, November 11-November 80
Inclusive. This total for the budget
Is exclusive of the large financial op-
erations of the $500 active Red Cross
! Chapters, which, it is estimated, will
more than double the total.
I War Veterans Have First Call
First call on Red Cross funds is for
| the disabled ex-service men, of whom
! p ,4S7 were receiving treatment from
/ the Government ON June l last. This
work for veterans and their. families
in wide. variety of service that the
| Government is not authorized to rem
| der and for which it has neither
! funds nor facilities has the call on
5000, 692 80 during the current year,
or about $3660OO more than was ex-
! pended last year for. soldier service.
Adding the funds disbursed in this
| hun a ii vi prly Of nhv
! stitution, following the World War by
the Chapters throughout the country
will approximate a total for the cur
rent. year. approaching $l0,000,OOO
This work, in the opinion of the Sur
geon Generals office, will not reach
!. its peak before 1926.
Through its Chapters the American
Red Cross is equipped to find the in
dividual ex-service man, help him in
his problems and difficulties, provide
Immediately for his necessities, and
open the way for him to the Govern
ment compensation and aid to which
he is entitled. The extension of this
work to the families of such men
proves to them that. the Red Cross
has lost none of its sympathy nor will
to service manifested in wartime. SIM
ilarly the service goes out to the men
still in the Army and Navy, 11,Os7 of
whom were under treatment in Gov
eminent hospitals on June /, 1922.
Greater Domestic Program
This year-after five years of con-
structive effort during the war and
after the armistice- brings with it a
greater responsibility for domestic
service to the American Red Cross.
The budget for foreign operations,
however, totals $3,404,O00, but Of this
amount S1.S34,OO0 is for medical re-
lief and hospital supplies for Russia,
which is part of the giftJmade by
the American Red Cross in 1921 to
the Russian famine relief work of the
American Relief Administration PRO-
gram. The child health service in Eu-
r0pe continues, moreover, and $654,-
900 is appropriated for this work I'M
dertaken in 1920. Other items in the
stringently diminished foreign pro-
gram include 100000 to, support the
League of Red Cross Societies, $22,-
900 for nurses training schools insti-
tuted by the Red Cross abroad, and
100000 for liquidation of the general
Red Cross foreign relief program.
Prepared for Emergencies
For disaster relief the Red Cross
has set aside $4,000, and for emer- j..
gencies in Chapter work 100000
TO be available for domestic, insular
and foreign demands This is more
than 1896, 900 above last years expen-
ditures For service and assistance
to the $500 Chapters and their
branches s1,293,OO is provided by the
National organization. &c.,.
Other budget items of Importance
in the domestic program include $780,
600 for assistance to other organiZa-
items and education institutions for
training Red Cross nurses and work
ers; $4,000 for Roll Call assistance
furnished to Chapters; 100000 for
unforeseen contingencies
OF the total budget less than $780,
900 is allotted for management in the
National organization. No cash esti-
mate of course, is possible to weigh
the value of the service by volunteers
in the Chapters.