Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-26
RED CROSS PUTS
UP S9,739,672
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over 100000 Allotted to the
DisabIed-Foreign Work
Lessons.

4 Washington totallnG
4 50, 739, S72,47 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
fective July /, 1922. This total is ST.
1885, less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when disburse-
nents reached $12, ,S47.69, it is an
nounced at National Headquarters In
q statement emphasizing the necessity
OF continued support of the organiza-
ton by enrolment during the annual
Roll Call, November 11-November 80
Exclusive. 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 for
the disabled ex-seryice men, of whom
p ,4S7 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 it has neither
funds nor facilities has the call on
So ,030, 1920 during the current year,
DR. about $366000 more than was ex-
pended last year for soldier service.
Adding the funds disbursed in this
humanitarian work of physical recon-
stitution following the World War by
he Chapters throughout the country
will approximate total for the cur
tent year approaching $1O,00O,OOO.
This work, in the opinion Of the Sur
seon Generals Office, will not reach
is peak before 1926.
Through its Chapters the American
Red Cross is equipped to find the in
5ividual ex-service man, help him IN
ais problems and difficulties, provide
Immediately for his necessities, and
open the way for him to the Govern
nent compensation and aid to which
e is entitled The extension of this
york to the families of such men
Groves to them that the Red Cross
as lost none Of its sympathy nor will
o service manifested in wartime. Sim
arly the service goes out to the men
till in the Army and Navy, 11,OS7 of
yhom were under treatment in Gov
rnment hospitals on June l, 1922.
Greater Domestic Program
This year-after five years of con-
tructive effort during the war and
fter the armistice-brings with it a
reater responsibility for domestic
eryice to the American Red Cross
he budget for foreign operations
oweyer, totals So, 4O4, 900, but Of this
mount s1.S34OOO is for medical re-
lief and hospital supplies for Russia,
vhich is a part of the gift made by
he American Red Cross in 1921 to
he Russian famine relief work OF the
american Relief Administration pro-
1am. The child health service in Eu-
one continues, moreover, and S6o4,-
100 is appropriated for this work un-
iertaken in 1920, Other items in the
tringently diminished foreign pro
ram include 100000 to support the
league of Red Cross Societies, ST.
100 for nurses training schools insti-
uted by the Red Cross abroad, and
600 900 for liquidation of the general
Red Cross foreign relief program.
Prepared for Emergencies
For disaster relief the Red Cross
as set aside $750,000, and for emer-
encies in Chapter work $50O,0OC
ii, be available for domestic, insular
md foreign demands. This is more
IAN 1896, 900 above last years expen-
lures. For service and assistance
) the $500 Chapters and their
ranches $1,293,0OO is provided by the
.ational organization.
Other budget items of importance
the domestic program include $500,
90 for assistance to other organlza-
ions and education institutions fol
raining Red Cross nurses and work
RS F.: $4,000 for Roll Call assistance
furnished to Chapters; 100000 fol
Unforeseen contingencies.
OF the total budget less than $500,
90 is allotted for management in the
Rational organization. No cash esti
nate. of course, is possible to weigl
he value of the service by volunteer
i the Chapters.