Sioux County pioneer., 1922-10-05
RED CROSS PUTS
UP $9,739,872
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS Foa VETERAN AID
Over s3.ooo.ooo Allotted to the
Disabled-Foreign Work
Lessons.
MILLIONS FCa VETERAN AID

n.-EXpenditures totaling
$9,T39, ,S72.47 for carrying through its
program of services and relief during
the fiscal year in theN United States
and overseas are authorized in the
budget of the American Red Cross, eff,
fective July 1, 1922. This total is ST.
135,975 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when disburse:
lnents reached S12,475, ,S47. go, it is an
louncel ut National Headquarters in
astatement emphasizing the necessity
Of continued support of the organiza-
tion by enrolment during the annual
Roll Call, November 11-November 80
Inclusive. This total for the budget
is exclusive, of the large financial op.
erations Of the $500 active Red Gross
Chapters, which, it is estimated. will
more than double the total.
1 War Veterans Have First Call
First call on Red Cross funds is for
the disabled ex-service men, of whom
27,4S7 were receiving treatment from
the Governments on June 1 last. This
work for veterans and their families
In wide variety of service that the
Government is not authorized to rem
Ger and for which it has neither
funds nor facilities has the call on
$3,030,692.90 during the current year,
or about $366,000 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
file Chapters throughout the country
will approximate u total for the cur
rent year approaching $10,0o0,O00.
This work, in the opinion of the Sur
geon Generals office, will not reach
Its peak before 1926.
Through its Chapters the American
Red Cross is equipped to find the in.
dividua! ex-service man, help him i'll
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 its sympathy nor will
to service manifested in wartime. Sim
ilarly the service goes out to the men
still in the Army and Navy, 11,0S7 Of
whom were under treatment in Gov
ernment hospitals on June. l, 1922.
Il Greater Domestic Program
This year-after five years of con-
structive effort during the war and
efter the armistice-brings with it a
greater responsibility for domestic
service to the American Red Cross.
The budget for foreign operations,
however, totals So, 100000, but Of this
amount $1,S34OOO is for medical re.
lief and hospital supplies for Russia,
which is a part of the gift made by
tLe American Red Cross in 1921 to
the Russian famine relief work Of the
American Relief Administration pro-
gram. The child health service in Eu.
roEe continues, moreover, and $654,
600 is appropriated for this work un.
dertaken in 1920. Other items in the
stringently diminished foreign pro,
gram include 100000 to support the
League Of Red Gross Societies, $22,
600 for nurses training schools insti-
tuted by the Red Cross abroad, ana
100000 for liquidation of the general
Red Cross foreign relief program. =
Prepared for Emergencies
For disaster relief the Red Gross
has set aside $75O,O0O. and for emer-
gencies in Chapter work $500, ,00C
to be available for domestic, insular
and foreign demands: This is more
than 1896, 700 above last, years expen.
ditures. For service and assistance
to the /. 5000 Chapters and their
branches $1,293, 900 is provided by the
National organization.
J. Other budget items Of importance
in the domestic program include $780,,
| QUO for assistance to other organiza.
| ticns and education institutions fol
training Red Cross nurses and work
! ers $4,000 for Roll Call assistance
I furnished to Chapters; 100000 fol
unforeseen contingencies
OF the total budget less than $780,:
600 is allotted for management In the
National organization. No cash esti.
/ mate, OF course, ie possible to weigh
t,le value of the service by volunteers
in the Chapters.