The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-11-16
RED CROSS '| S 5; PUTS IS !.
up $9,739,87i|'2
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over $1,000 70 1000 Allotted Il s'tth tie
Disabled FOREIGN: e j Work 4, o1 ~
Lessons. "a. ,ss.s7
Lessons

e N e Vt b.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. totaling
$9,7S9,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 Gross, eff
fective July l, 1922. This total is ST.
735,975 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when disburse-
1nents reached $12,475,s47.69; it is an
nounced at National Headquarters In
a statement emphasizing the necessity
Of continued support Of the organfza-
ton by enrolment during the annual
Roll Call, November 11-November 30
inclusive. This total for the budget
is exclusive of the large financial top-
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
27,487 were receiving treatment from
the Government on June 1 last. This
work for veterans and their families
in a 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, 1920 during the current year,
or about $366,OO 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 $10,0o0,O00
This work, in the opinion Of the Sur
geon Generals Office, will not reach
its peak before 1925.
Through its Chapters the=American
Red Cross Is equipped to find the in
dividual e1-service 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
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 rs sympathy nor VIII
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:
eminent hospitals on June 1, 1922. =:
Greater Domestic Program
This year-after five years Of con
structive effort during the war and
otter 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, 900, but Of this
amount $1,S34,0Oo 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 1854, ;
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 Cross Societies, $22,-
600 for nurses training schools insti7
tuted by, the Red Cross abroad, and
$500, 600 for liquidation of the general
Red Cross foreign relief program, !. l.
Prepared for Emergencies
For disaster relief the Red Cross
has set aside $75O,OO0, and for emer-
gencfes in Chapter work $5O0,000
to be available for domestic, insular
and foreign demands. This is more
than 1895, 900 above last years expen-
ditures. For service and assistance
to the $500 Chapters and g. their
branches 81 ,293, 900 is provided by the
National organization. ,--.-
Other budget items Of Importance
in the domestic program include $780,
GOO for assistance to other organizzasE,;
tions and education institutions for
training Red Cross nurses and work
ers; $4,000 for Roll Call assistance
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, is possible TO weigh
the value of the service BY volunteers
in the Chapters. +