The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-11-07
RED CROSS PUTS
up ss,73s,S72
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over 100000 Allotted to the
Disabled--Foreign Work
Lessons.

Washlngton.-Ex totallng
S9,739,S72.47 for carrying through It's
program of services and relief during
the fiscal year in the United States
and overseas are authorized in the
budget Of the American Red Cross, eff
fectiye July I, 1922. This total Is So,
735,975 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when disburse-
inents reached $12,475,S47 80, 1t is an
nounced at National Headquarters In
u statement emphasizing the necessity
OF continued support of the organlza-
ton by enrolment during the annual
Roll Call, November 11-Noyember 30
Inclusive. This total for the budget
Is exclusive Of the large financial OPP
erations Of the $500 active Red Cross
Chapters, which, 1t Is estimated, will
more than double the total.
War Veterans Have First Call
First call on Red Cross funds is for
the disabled ex-service men, OF whom
21,4S7 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 1t has neither
|. funds nor facilities has the call on
$1,000, So 80 during the current year,
or about $4,000 more than was ex-
pended last year for soldier service.
Adding the funds disbursed in this
humanitarian work of physical recon-
stiution following the World War by
the Chapters throughout the country
will approximate Il total for the cur
rent year approaching $10,000000
This work, in the opinion Of the Sur
geon Generals Office. will not reach
lis peak before 1926.
Through its Chapters the American
Red Cross is equipped to find the in
diyidual ex-seryice 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 10 which
he IS entitled. The extension OF this
work 10 the families OF such men
proves TO them that the Red Cross
J,S rte, ,opat - ~ s,,.,,,,,.,, FI,,. ,,nr ,.il
TO service manifested in wartime. Sim
Harry the service goes out to the men
still in the Army md Navy, ll,0S7 OF
/ whom were under treatment in Gov
eminent hospitals on June /, 1922.
Greater Domestic Program
This year after five years of con
/ structivc Cfort 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 S3,i0i,000, but OF this
amount 81, S34,000 lis for medical re.
lief and hospital supplies for Russia,
which is a part of the gift made 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-
rope continues. moreover, and $654,-
coo is appropriated for this work un-
dcrtakeg In 1920 Other items in the
strngently diminished foreign pro.
gram include 100000 TO support the
League of Red Cross Societies, S22,-
600 for nurses training schools insti.
tLted by the Red Cross abroad. and
S6Oo,00O for liquidation Of the general
Red Cross foreign relief program.
Prepared for Emergencies
For disaster relief the Red Cross
has set aside. $7500 900, and for emer-
\ gencIes in Chapter work 100000
to be available for domestic, insular
and foreign demands. This Is more
than $4,000 above last years expen-
ditures, For service and assistance
to the $500 Chapters and their
branches Sl,293,000 is provided by the
National organization.
Other budget items Of importance
in the domestic program include $500,
900 for assistance to other organl2a'
items and education Institutions fol
training Red Cross nurses and work.
crS; $1,000 for Roll Call assistance
furnished to Chapters; 100000 fol
unforeseen contingencies.
OF the total budget less than $500.
600 IS allotted for management in the
National organization. No cash esti
mate. of course, is possible 10 weigh
The value OF the service by volunteer.