Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1922-10-18
RED CROSS PUTS
UP S9,73S,S71
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over 100000 Allotted to the
DlsabIed-Foreign Work
Lessons.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID

Washington. -Expendltures totullng
S9,730,sT2.fT 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. ef.
fectiye July /, 1922 This total is 81
735,9I5 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when dlsburse-
ineuts reached S12475, s47.69, It is an
nounced at National Headquarters in
statement emphasizing the necessity
Of continued support OF the organiza-
ton by enrolment during the annual
Roll Call, November 1-November 80
Inclusive. This total for the budget
Is exclusive Of the large financial OPP
erations of the 1900 active Red Cross
Chapters, which, it is estimated, win
more than double the total.
War Veterans Have First Call
First call on Red Cross funds is for
the disabled ex-servlce men, of whom
,4S7 were receiving treatment from
tie Government on June 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
5000 ,G9290 during the current year
or about $3G600O 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
the Chapters throughout the country
will approximate II total for the cur
rent year approaching Sl0,0D0,0OO.
This work. in the opinion of the Sur
geon Generals Office, will not reach
It's peak before 1896
Through its Chapters the American
Red Gross is equipped TO find the in.
dividual ex-service man, help him in
his problems and difficulties, provide
I 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, 1l,0S7 Of
| whom were under treatment in Gov
eminent hospitals on June 1, 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 $3,404,0O0, but of this
amount $tS34000 is for medical re
lief and hospital supplies for Russia,
which is 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 $65l,-
600 is appropriated for this work un'
dtrtaken in 1920. Other items in the
stringently diminished foreign pro
gram include 100000 to support the
League of Red Cross Societies, SO,
600 for nurses training schools instl
tuted by the Red Cross abroad ant
100000 for liquidation of the general
Red Cross foreign relief program.
Prepared for Emergencies
For disaster relief the Red Cross
has set aside $750,0O0, and for emer
gencies in Chapter work $50O,0OS
TO be available for domestic, insulat
and foreign demands\ This is more
than 1895, 600 above last years expen
ditures. For service and assistanc,
to the 1890 Chapters and thei
branches 81 ,293,O 900 is provided by thu
National organization.
Other budget items of importance
in the domestic program include $500
900 for assistance to other organiza
items and education institutions TO
training Red Cross nurses and work
ers; $4,000 for Roll Call assistanc,
furnished to Chapters; 100000 TO
unforeseen contingencies.
OF the total budget less than $500
900 is allotted for management in tn
National organization. No cash est
mate, of course, is possible to weig
the value Of the service by volunteer