Newark post., 1922-11-22
RED CROSS PUTS
UP S9,739,072
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services al Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over S2.C0O.OO0 Allotted to the
Disabled-Foreiyn Work
Lessons.

tOn.-EXpenditures totaling
50, 1,739, ,ST2.47 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
T35,9I5 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when disburse-
ments reached $12, ,475,S47.69, it is an
nounced at National Headquarters in
statement emphasizing the necessity
Of continued support of the Organiza-
lion by enrolment during the annual
Roll Call, November 11-NOvember 80
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
21,4ST We're receiving treatment from
the Government on June last. This
work for veterans and their families
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
S3,O3O,G02.90 during the current year,
or about $366,O0O 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 total for the cur
rent year approaching $10O00,000.
This work, in the opinion of the Sur
gcon Generals office, will not reach
its peak before 1926.
Through its Chapters the American
led Cross is equipped to find the in
dividua! 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
to service manifested in wartime. Sim
ilarly the service goes out to the men
still in the Army and Navy, 11,0S7 of
whom We're 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
after the armistice-brings with it
greater responsibility for domestic
service to the American Red Cross.
The budget for foreign operations,
however, totals $3,404,0O0, but of this
amount 81 ,S34,O 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
stringentIy diminished foreign pro-
gram include 100000 to support the
League of Red Cross Societies, $22,-
! 900 for nurses training schools insti-
| 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 $75O,000, and for emer-
| gencies in Chapter work $500,000
to be available for domestic, insular
and foreign demands. This is more
than $395,00O above last years eXpen-
| ditures. For service and assistance
to. the $500 Chapters and theii
| branches $1,2H3,O0O is provided by the
| National organization.
Other budget items of importance
in the domestic program include 5000,
| OOO for assistance TO other Organiza
tiCns and education institutions fol
! training Red Cross nurses and work
crs; Sl00,000 for Roll Call assistance
furnished to Chapters; 100000 fol
Unforeseen contingencies.
or the total budget less than $500,
600 is allotted for management in the
National organization. No cash est
mate, Of course, is possible TO Weigl
the value of the service by volunteers
in the Chapters.