The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-10-25
RED CROSS PUTS
UP $9,739,872
Years Budget Stresses Relief
ana Services at Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over So 900. 1000 Allotted to tho
NjsabIed--Fereis Work Il
/, Lessons.
MILLI0Ns FOR VETERAN AID

Observation-Disclosures totalfnR
@7a9,s72.47 for carrying through. its
program OF services md relief during
the hscai year In the United States
ana overseas are authorized In the
budget OF the American Red Cross, Of.
fective July 1. 1922. This total Is 81
7S5,975 less than the expenditures for
Che last fscal year, when dlsburse-
ments reached $l3,4Tb,s47.e9, it 10 an
nounced ct National Headquarters In
statement enphasizing tho necessity
e1 continued support Of the organiEa-
Ton by enrolment during the annual
Roll Call, MovensSe1 11-Eovenber 80
inclusive. This fetal for the budget
as exclusive Of the large financial op-
genhtions Of tho $500, active Red Cross
Chapters, which, 1t Is estimated, viii
more than double the total
War Veterans Have Flrst Call
First call on Rod Cross funds is for
the disabled ex-service men, Of whom
N,As7 were receiving trestmeat from
the Government on Jun ! 5t This
work for veterans ard .nelr families
IN wide variety ef service that the
Government Ia not authorized to, rem
der and for which it has neither
funds nor facilities has the call on
$3,090,8e2.o0 during the current year,
or aboht $4,000 more than was ex-
pended last year for soldier service.
Adding the funds disburYed 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 $4,000, ,oO0
This work, In the opinion Of the Sur
geon Generals office, will not reach
Its peak before 1925
Through it's Chapters the American
Red Cross Is equipped to fnd the In.
Slvidual ex-service man, help him in
his problems and diGaculties, provide
Immediately for his necessities, and
open the way for h4m to the Govern
Eaext compensation ana aid to which
ne is entitled. Tho extension Of this
work to the families Of such men
P1S~es 10 thesa that the Red Cqoss
has lost neae Of Ito sympathy nor will
90 service manifested In wartime. Sim-
Aarly the service goes out to the men
atill in the Array and Navy, 1887 Of
whSaa were uader treatsaent In Gov
ernnaent hoGsttaIs on Juno 1, 1922.
Greater Domestic Program
This year-after Ave years Of con-
structtve effort during the war and
otter the armistiee-Sr' cs with It q
greater responsibility ~ denest
service to the American Red Cross
.Mfe budget for foreign operations,
eewever, tetala 2s,AoA, 900, bat Of this
amount S1,aS4. 900 Is for medical re-
lief and hospital suPpfies Sor Russia
which rs a part Of the g4ft made by
Gfi6 American Red Cross In 1921 to
aho Russian famine relief werk OF the
American Relief Administration pre-
8rasa. TAe child health service in Eu-
rope continues, moreover, and 1884,
600 10 appropriated fer this werk un-
dertaken In 1920 Other items In tho
atrtnsently diminished foreign pro.
grana include SOC, 600 10 support the
League Of R@d Cross Societies, $22,-
600 FOR nurses training schools insti-
tuted by the Red Cross abroad, ana
9g00, 900 for llquidatisa Of the general
Red Cross foreign relief 7resram.
Prepared for Emergencies
Fer disaster relief the Red GROSS
has set aside $75o.00o, and for emer-
geneias In Chapter work $500 900
to be available for domestic, insular
and foreign demands. This Is more
fhan $780,, 900 above last years expen-
diturss For service and assistance o
10 the 1900 Chapters and their
branches 81 ,293, 900 is provided by the
Rational erganizatien.
Other budget items Of importance
ln the domestic program include $780,
900 fer assistance to ether organiga.
tions and education Institutions for
6saiatng Red Cross nurses and work
ers; 100000 for Roll Call assistance
eurnished to Chapters; 100000 for
anforeseea contingencies.
OF the total budget less than $780,
600 Is allotted for management In the
Nat&oRal organization. No cash esti-
mate. Of ceurae, Is pogsible to weigh
the value Of the service by voluntee ea,s
In the Chapters ''