The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1922-10-26
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over 100000 Allotted to the
Disabled-Foreign Work
Lessons.

| $9,739,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 1, 1922. This total is 81.
735,915 less than the expenditures foI
the last fiscal year, when disburse-
ments reached $12,475,S4I69, it is an
nounced at National Headquarters in
a statement emphasizing the necessity
of continued support of the organiza-
ton 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, it 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
2T,487 were receiving treatment from
the Government on June l last. This
in 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, ,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-
stltution following the World War by
the Chapters throughout the country
will approximate total for the cur
rent year approaching $10,O00,O00
This work, in the opinion of the Sur
geon Generals office, will not reach
it's peak before 1926.
Through its Chapters the American
Red Cross is equipped to find the in
dividual ex-service man, help him in
his problems and difficulties, provide
Immediately for his necessities, and
open the way for him to the Govern
menr compensation and aid to. which
he Is entitled. The extension of this
work to the families of such men
proves 10 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
ernment hospitals on June /, 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 $3,404,000, but of this
amount $1,S34,000 is for medical re-
lief and hospital supplies for Russia,
which Is a 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 $654,- |
300 is appropriated for this work un-
dertaken in 1920. Other items in the
diminished foreign pro-
gram include 100000 to support the
League of Red Cross Societies, $780,
300 for nurses training schools nsti-
tuted by the Red Cross abroad and
100000 for liquidation of the general
Red Cross foreign relief program.
Prepared for Emergencies
For disaster relief the Red Cross
las set aside S750,000, and for emer-
yencies in Chapter work $500000
% be available for domestic, insular
md foreign demands. This is more
han 1896, 900 above last years expen- :,
1itures For service and assistance
10 the $500 Chapters and their
branches l,293,0 900 is provided by the
National organization.
Other budget items Of Importance
n the domestic program include $780,,
100 for assistance to other organiza.
ions and education institutions for
raining Red Cross nurses and work
RS 100000 for Roll Call assistance
furnished to Chapters; 100000 for
Unforeseen contingencies.
or the total budget less than $780,
90 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