Mountain advocate., 1922-10-20
RED CROSS PUTS
UP S9,739,872
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas,
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over 100000 Allotted to the
0isabIed-Foreig Work
Lessons.


S9,739ys72,47 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 tuly 1, 1922. This total Is ST.
T35,075 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when dlsburse-
inents reached S12,475,s47.69, 1t is an
nounced at National Headquarters in
a statement emphasizing the necessity
Of continued support Of the organlza.
tlon 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, 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
27,4S7 were receiving treatment from
the Government ON June l last. This
work for veterans and theft 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
S3,030,692.90 during the current year.
or about S3e6000 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 $10,000,000.
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.
dividuai 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 were under treatment in Gov
ernment hospitals on June l, 1922.
Greater Domestic Program
This year-after five years of con-
structive effort during the war and
otter the armistice-brlngs with il a
greater responsibility for domestic
service to the American Red Cross.
The budget for foreign operations,
however, totals S3S04, 1000, but of this
amount $1,S34,00O 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,-
600 is appropriated for this work un-
dertaken In 1929. 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 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 $750,000, and for emer-
gencieS in Chapter work $500,000
to be available for domestic, insular
and foreign demands. This is more
than $395,OOO above last years expen-
ditures For service and assistance
to the 1890 Chapters and their
branches S1,293,OO0 is provided by the
National organization.
Other budget items of Importance |
in the domestic program include $780,
600 for assistance to other organiza- |
ticns and education institutions for |
training Red Cross nurses and work |
ers; Sl0O,OOO 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
the value Of the service by volunteers
in the Chapters.