The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-10-27
RED CROSS PUTS
UP ss;739,872'|
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over 100000 Allotted to the
DisabIed-Foreign Work
Lessons.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN All

90, oS,C %.3S AVI carrying tIIOu6A as
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, ct.
fective July l, 1922. This total Is g.
735,975 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when disbur1e-
lnents reached $12,475,S47.60. it Ii an
nounced at National Headquarters In
\ statement emphasizing the necessity
" continued support Of the organiza-
zion by enrolment during the annual
Roll Call. November 11-November 30
inclusive. This total for the budget
u exclusive Of the large financial dp-
srations Of the $500 active Red Cross
Chapters, which. it 10 estimated. VIII
more than double the total.
War vstsrans Have First Call
First call ON Red Cross funds 10 FER
the disabled ex-service men, of whom
27,487 were receiving treatment from
the Government on June l last. This
work for veterans and their families
In q wide variety Of service that the
Government 10 not authorized to rem
|, der and for which It has neither
funds nor facilities has the call on
$S,000. oo2.o0 during the current year,
or about $685. 900 more than was ex-
pended last year for soldier service.
Adding the funds disbursed In this
= 81 Nf vNhvCfR0l
stitution following the World War by
| the Chapters throughout the country
4 will approximate a total for the cur
rent year approaching $10,Oo0OOO'
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 10 equipped to md the n;
diyidual ex-service man, help him ri
HE problems and liaculttss, provide
Immediately Ter his necessities. and
open the way far him to, the Govern
ment compensation and aid ito wh!fA
he Is entitled. The extension Of this
work to the families Of such men
proves to them that the Red CrOSl
has lost none Of it, sympathy mol. wiz
to service manifested In wartime. Sim.
ilarly the service goes out to the men
still in the Army and Navy, 11,O87 pi
whom were under treatment In Gov
eminent hospitals on June /, 1922. n
Greater Domestic Program
This year-after five years of con.
structive effort during the war and
fter the armistice-brings with it q
greater responsibility for domestic
service to the American Red Cross,
The budget for foreign operations
however, totals 81. 404, 900, but Of this
amOunt $1,834,OO0 is for medical re-
i lief and hospital supplies for Russia,
which Is a part Of the gift made BY
the American Red Cross in 1921 Il
the Russian famine relief work Of the
American Relief Administration pro
gram. The child health service in Eu
rope continues, moreover, and 1854,
coo 10 appropriated for this work un
dertaken In 1920. Other items in thu
stringently diminished foreign pro
gram include 100000 to support thu
League Of Red Cross Societies, $22,
600 for nurses training schools insti
tuted by the Red Cross abroad, an
100000 for liquidation of the genera
Red Cross foreign relief program.
Prepared for Emergencies
For disaster relief the Red eros
has set aside $75O,OOO and for emer
gencies in Chapter work $4,000
to be available for domestic, insula
and foreign demands. This is NOR
than $685., 900 above last years exper
ditures For service and assistanc
to the 1890 Chapters and thei
branches 81, 293. 600 is provided by tn
National organization.
) Other budget items Of impOrtanc
) in the domestic program include 5000
600 for assistance to other Organiz'
ticns and education institutions Il
training Red Cross nurses and worl
ers; $4,000 for Roll Call assistanc
furnished to Chapters; 100000 II
I unforeseen contingencies.
I. OF the total budget less than $500
u 900 is allotted for management in II
National organization. No cash est
}. mate. of course, is possible to wee
e 'he value Of the service by voluntee
5, in the Chapters.