The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1922-10-20
RED GnOS5PUTS
Up s2,739,S72
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
an5 Overseas.
MILLIONS. FOR VETERAN AID
Over. S3.000.U0o Allotted to the
DisabIed-Foreign Work
Lessons.

t3.I39,S12.47 for carrying through III
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
fecfive July 1, 1922. This total is 81,
135.915 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when dlsburse-
inents reached S12.475, SAT 90, 1t is an
nounced at National Headquarters in
q statement emphasizing the necessity
VI continued support of the organiza-
ton by enrolment during the annual
Roll Call, November 11-November 80
Inclusive. This total for the budget
Ia exclusive Of the large financial op.
eratlons of the $500 active Red Gross
Chapters, which, 1t is estimated, viii
more than double the total.
War Veterans Have First CALI
First call ON Red Cross funds is for
the disabled ex-service men, of whom
=, 4S7 were receiving treatment from
the Government on June last This
work for veterans and their families
In aawlde variety of service that the
Government Is not authorized to rem
der and for which IL has neither
funds nor facilities has the cal, Of
$3, OB0, $3.50 during the current year
Or about $366.OO0 more than was.ex.
pended last year for soldier service.
Adding the funds dlsbursed In this
work Of physical recon-
stitution following the World War by
the Chapters throughout the country
will approximate a total for the cur
rent year approaching sl0,O00,000
This work, In the opinion OF the Sur
geon Generals Office. will not reach
Us peak before log.
Through Its Chapters the American
Red Cross Is equipped to find the In
jlvidual ex-service man, help him In
his problems and difficulties, provide
for his necessities. and
open the way for him to the Govern
men, compensation and aid to which
,e IS entitled. TnE-ryters1Dn OF sthis !
work to the families of such MEN |,
proves to them laat the Red Cross |
has lost none Of Il sympathy nor viii |
o service manifested In wartime. Sim 1
larry the service goes out TO the men
till In the Army and Navy, li,0s7 Of
whom were under treatment In Gov
rnment hospitals on June /, 1922
Greater Domestic Program
This year-after FIVE years Of con-
tructlve effort during the war and
fter the armistice-brings with II II
rcater responsibility for domestic
crylce 10 the Arerican Red Cross
he budget for rogcign operations,
owever, totals s. $4,000. but of this
mount Sl,S3i,000 Is for medical re-
ef and hospital supplies For Russia.
hi Il Is a part of The gift made by
&C. American Red Cros, In 1921 to
ne Russian famine relief work of the
mcrican Relief Administration pro.
ram. The child health service In Eu.
,lc continues. moreover, and SG5i.H
NJ Is appropriated for this work un.
crtakcn In 1870. oner items In the
diminished foreign pro-
ram include S200OOO 70 support the
eague of Red Gross Societies, So.
M for nurses training schools insti-
ted Wy the Red ross abroad. and
10000 for liquidation of the general
led Cross foreign relief program.
Prepared for Emergencies
For disaster relief the Red Cross
as set aside s750.OOo. and for emer.
encies in Chapter work $4,000
, he available for domestic, insular
nj foreign demands. This Is more
Ian Ss95.eO above last years cxpen.
lures. For service and assistance
b tIv 7.3OO Chapters and their
Sl.:93,oo0 is provided by the
atiunal organization.
other budget items of Importance
! the domestic pr gram include s2OO,-
~ for assistance to other organiza-
ems and education institutions for
aiming Red Cross nurses and work.
:; Si:nDo0 for Roll Call assistance
ImishVd 10 Chapters: SlOOGOo for I
lfurr>crn contingencies.
az the total budgei less than 500
u is allotted for management In the
itlonal organization. M cash esii. :
ate. VI course. i possible 10 weigh q
? value of the service by volunteers