The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-11-02
RED CROSS PUTS
UP $9,739,S72
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over S3.OOO.OOO Allotted to the
Disabled-Foreign Work
Lessons.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID

Shington.-EXpenditur totallng
739,SI247 for carrying through it's
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 af.
fective July l, 1922. This total is ST.
735.975 less than the expenditures for
Che last fiscal year, when disburse-
Nents reached $12,475,S4T go, it is an
nounced at National Headquarters In
q statement emphasizing the necessity
Of continued support OF the organiza-
uon by enrolment during the annual
Roll Call, November 1l-November 30
Inclusive. This total for the budget
Is exclusive Of the large financial op-
erat.ons q: 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
q T,487 were receiving treatment from
the Government on June l last. This
work for veterans and their families
n 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
$3,030,692.9 during the current year.
or about $3G6,000 more than was ex-
pended last year for soldier service.
Adding the funds discussed in this
humanitarian work Of physical recon
stitdtion following the World War by
the Chapters throughout the country
will approximate a total for the cur
rent year approaching Sl0,00O,000
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
dividual exservice man, help him In
his problems and difficulties, provide
Immediately for his necessities, and
open the way for him to the Govern
ment compensation and aid to which
ne Is entitled. The extension Of this
work to the families Of such men
proves to them that the Red Cross
has lost none Of It's sympathy nor will
70 service manifested in wartime Sim
ilarly the service goes out to the men
still in the Army and Navy, 11,O87 Of
whom were under treatment in Gov
ernment hospitals on June /, 1922.
Greater Domestic Program
This year-after five years Of con
structive effort during the war and
otter the armistice-brings with il a
greater responsibility for domestic
service to the American Red Cross.
The budget for foreign operations,
however, totals So ,4O4 900 but Of this
amount Sl,S34.OO0 is for medical re.
lief and hospital supplies for Russia,
which Is part OF the gift made by
tile 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 S654,
600 is appropriated for this work uD.
dertaken In 1920. Other items in the
stringently diminished foreign pro
gram include 100000 to support the
League OF Red Cross Societies, S22,.
600 for nurses training schools insti.
tuted by the Red Cross abroad, and
e6O0.000 for liquidation Of the general
:: Red Cross foreign relief program.
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