Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-11-17
RED CROSS PUTS
 UP S9,739,872 Years Budget Stresses Relief and Servlces at Home
 and Overseas. MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID Over S3.OO0,OOO Allotted to the Disabled-Foreign Work
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MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AI[

Washington.-Expenditures totaling S9,739,S7247 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- fective July 1, 1922. This total is g. 735,975 less than the expenditures for the last fiscal year, when disburse- ,nents reached $12,475,s47.69, it is an nounced at National Headquarters in a statement emphasizing the necessity of continued support of the organiza- tion by enrolment during the annual Roll Call, November 11-November 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 for the disabled ex-service men, of whom 2I,487 were receiving treatment from the Government on June l last. This work for veterans and their families in wide variety of service that the Government is not authorized to ren- der and for which it has neither funds nor facilities has the call op $S,O30, ,692,90 during the current year. or about $366,0O0 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 a total for the cur rent year approaching $10,000,0O0 This work, in the opinion of the Sur geon Generals office, will not reach It's peak before 1926. -'H
 Through its Chapters the American Red Cross is equipped to find the in. dividual ex-service man, help him fin 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,OS7 of whom were under treatment in Gov ernment hospitals on June 1, 1922.
 Greater. Domestic Program
 This year-after five years of con- structive effort during the war and sfter the armistice-brings with 1t greater responsibility for domestic service to the American Red Cross. The budget for foreign operations, however, totals $3.4O4, ,OO0, but of this amount $1,S34,000 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 Flu rope continues, moreover, and $654,- GOO is appropriated for this work un- dertaken in 1920 Other items in the stringently diminished foreign pro gram include s2O0,OOO to support the League of Red Cross Societies, $22,- 600 for nurses training schools insti- tuted by the Red Cross abroad, and S600,0 for liquidation of the general Red Cross foreign relief program.
 Prepared for Emergencies
 For disaster relief the Red Cross has set aside $750,O0O, and for emer- gencies in Chapter work $50O,OOO to be available for domestic. insular and foreign demands. This is more than $395, ,00OI above last years expen- ditures. For service and assistance to tine $500 Chapters and their branches $1,293, ,O0O is provided by the National organization. .''5
 Other budget items of importance in the domestic program include $200,- poo for assistance to other organiza. liens and education institutions for trail-ing Red Cross nurses and work. ITS; $190,000 for Roll Call assistance furnished to Chapters; $100,O0O for unforeseen contingencies ....t
 Of the total budget less than $5Q0,- )00, is allotted for management in the National organization. No cash esti- nate, of course, is possible to weigh he value of the service by volunteers n the Chapters