Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-11-16
RED CROSS PUTS
UP S9,739,872
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services al Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over 100000 Allotted to the
Disabled-Foreign Work
Lessons.

Washington. Expenditures totaling
S9,739, 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
fective July /, 1922. This total Is ST.
T35,975 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when disburse-
ments reached $12,475,S4 90, 1t is an
nounced at National Headquarters in
a statement emphasizing the necessity
Of continued support of the organlza-
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 ,4s7 were receiving treatment from
the Government on June l 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 cali on
$1,000, 1920 during the current year,
or about $366000 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 $l0,000000.
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 ex-service man, help him in
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
lttl in the Army and Navy, 11,0S7 Of
lshom we're under treatment in GOV
ranSnl hospitals on June l, 1922
Greater Domestic Program
This wear after five years of con
trneiive effort during the. war an,
3rr ac amistice brings with it {
raf.r responsibility for domesti,
~ ice is The American Red Cross
Fine midget for foreign operations
however, TOTALS So, 404 900, but Of thii
mouat 81 $4,000 is for medical re
Lief and hospital supplies for Russia
tie American Red Cross in 1927 L
the Russian famine relief work Of TIA.
American Relief Administration pro
gram. The child health service in Flu
600 is appropriated for this work I'm
dertaken in 1929 Other items in th
stringently diminished foreign pre-
gram include 100000 70 support flu
League Of Red Cross Societies, SD
600 for nurses training schools inst
tuted by the Red Cross abroad, AN
100000 for liquidation Of the genera
Red Cross foreign relief program
Prepared for Emergencies
For disaster relief the Red eros
has set aside $75O,O00, and for emei
gencies in Chapter work $4,000
to be available for domestic, insula
, and foreign demands. This is NOR
I than S395 600 above last years exper
ditures. For service ana assisiane
: to the 1900 Chapters and thei
branches 81 .293,000 is provided by I'll
S National organization.
Other budget items Of importanc
4 in the domestic program include $500
:, 600 for assistance to other organize
Z, tions and education institutions fc
e training Red Cross nurses and worl
$ ers; $4,000 for Roll Call assistanc
: furnished to Chapters; 100000 f
! ! unforeseen contingencies
! OF the total budget less than $500
600 is allotted for management in tn
! National organization. No cash est
mate, Of course, is possible to weig
she value Of the service by volunteer