Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1922-11-02
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.

WasblngtOn.-Expe totalinG
50, 739, 872.47 for carrying through Its
program Of services and relief during
she fiscal year in the United States
and overseas are authorized in the
budget Of the American Red Cross, eff
fecfive July /, 1922. This total is 81
735,975 less than the expenditures fOF
the last fiscal year, when disburse-
1nents reached $12 475, 647.69, it is an
nOunced at National Headquarters in
ii 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 OPP
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
q, 487 were receiving treatment from
the Government on June l 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
$1,000, 1920 during the edrrent year,
or about 100000 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
tile Chapters throughout the country
will approximate a total for the cur
rent year approaching $1O,OOO,OOO.
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
.Jividual ex-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 its sympathy nor will
90 service manifested in wartime. Sim
llarly the service goes out to the men
still in the Army and Navy, 11,087 Of
whom were under treatment in Gov
,ernment hospitals on June l, 1922.
Greater Domestic Program
This year-after FIVE years Of con-
sBtructive effort during the war and
-sfter the armistice-brings with 1t a
greater responsibility for domestic
service to the American Red CrOSS
The budget for foreign operations,
however, totals $3,4O4,OOO, but of Shis
amount $1,S34,OOO is for medical re-
9lef and hospital supplies for Russia,
which is a part of the gift made by
tie American Red Cross in 1921 to
the Russian famine relief work Of the
American Relief Administration pro-
Yram. The child health service in Eu-
EOPe continues, moreover, and 1884,
900 is appropriated for this work I'M
dertaken In 1920. Other items in the
strlngently diminished foreign pro-
gram include 100000 to support the
League Of Red Cross Societies, $22,-
60.
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
has set aside $75OOOO, and for emer-
gencies in Chapter work 100000
to be available for domestic, insular
and foreign demands. This is more
than $395,0O0 above last years expen-
ditureS. For service and assistance
TO the 1890 Chapters and their
branches $1,293.OOO is provided by the
National organization.
Other budget items Of Importance
In the domestic program include $780,
900 for assistance to other organiZa-
tions and education institutions for
training Red Cross nurses and work
ers; $4,000 for Roll Call assistance
furnished to Chapters; 100000 for
unforeseen contingencies.
OF the total budget less than $780,
900 is allotted for management in the
National organization. No cash esti-
mate. of course, is possible to weigh !
she value Of the service by volunteers
in the Chapters.