Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-09
RED CROSS PUTS
UP SS,73S,872
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas,
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over 100000 Allotted TO the
DisabIed-FoTeign Work
Lessons.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID

Washlngton-ExpenaSdres totGllng
s9,T50,S12.4T for carrying through its
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
fectlye July l, 1922 This total Is 81
T350T5 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when dlsburSe-
ments reached Sl2,4I5,S47.G9, it is an
nOunced nj National Headquarters in
q statement emphasizing the necessity
Of continued support of the Organiza
ton by enrolment during the annual
Roll Call, November 1l-NOyembcr 30
Inclusive. This total for the budget
Is exclusive Of the large financial op
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 fol
che disabled ex-service men, Of whom
q .4ST were receiving treatment from
the Government on June l last This
work for veterans and their families
in a wide variety of service that the
Government Is not authorized to rem
der and for which ii has neither
funds nor facilities has the call on
5000, 6929O during the current year.
or about $3G8,O00 more than was ex'
pended last year for soldier service
Adding the fuEds dishursed in this
humanitarian work of physical recon
stitutlon following the World War by
the Chapters throughout the country
will approximate tOta! for the cur
rent year approaching $lO,OOO,0Oo
This work, In the opinion OF the Sur
germ Generals Office. will not reach
ats peak before 1896.
Through It's Chapters the American
Red Cross is equipped to find the in
divldua! 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 It's sympathy nor will
to service manifested IN wartime. Sim
aarly the service goes ont to the men
still in the Army and Navy, Host of
whom were under treatment in Gov
eminent hospitals on June |, 1922.
Greater Domestic Program
This year-after five years Of con
structlve effort during the war and
otter the armistice- brings with II q
greater responsibility for domestic
service to the American Red Cross.
The budget for foreign operations,
however, totals $3,40+000, but Of this
amount $lS3+.OOO Is for medical re
lief and hospital supplies for Russia
which is u part of the gift made by
the American Red Cross in 1921 TO
che Russian famine relief work of the
American Relief Administration pro-
gram. The child health service in Eu-
rope continues, moreover, and $61+,-
900 is appropriated Cor this work un-
dertaken in 1920 Other items in the
stringently diminished foreign pro
gram include 100000 to support the
League of Red Cross Societies, 3d.
OO0 for nurses training schools inSti-
tuted by the Red Cross abroad, and
$500, zoo for liquidation of the general
BED Cross foreign relief program.
Prepared for Emergencies
For disaster relief the Red Cross
has set aside SI50000, and for emer-
gencles in Chapter work 100000
10 be available for domestic, inSular
and foreign demands. This is more
than $395,000 above last years eXpen-
ditureS. For service and assistance
TO the $500 Chapters and their
branches $l,293,OOo is provided by the
National organization.
Other budget items NJ Importance
in the domestic program include $780,
600 for assistance 20 other orgIniza-
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 $500,
600 is allotted for management In the
National organization Ne cash eSti-
mate, Of course, IS possible to weigh
the value Of the service by volunteers
IN the Chapters.