The Winslow mail., 1922-11-10
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
DisabIed-Foreign Work
Lessons.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID

Westinghouse totaling
S9,739,S72.47 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 1, 1922. This total is S..
13o.915 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when disburse-
ments reached S12,475,s47 SO, it is an
Heunced at National Headquarters in
statement emphasizing the necessity
OF continued support of the organiza.
ton by enrolment during the annual
Roll Call, November 11-November SO
Inclusive. This total for the budget
IN 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
2,,487 were 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
Ger and for which it has neither
funds nor facilities has the call on
5000. .692.90 during the current year.
or about S366,000 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. S10,000000
This work, in the opinion of the Sur
geon Generals office, will not reach
it's peak before 1926.
Through it's Chapters the American
Red Cross is equipped to find the in
dividual ex-seryice 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
be is entitled. The extension of this
work to the families of such men
proves to them that the Red Cross
has lost none of it's sympathy nor will
to service manifested in wartime. Sim
ilarly the service goes out to the men
still in the Army and Navy, 11,087 of
ernment hospitals on June l, 1922.
Greater Domestic Program
THIS year after five years of con-
structive effort during the war and
after the armistice--hrings with it
greater responsibility for domestic
service to the American Red Cross.
The budget for foreign operations.
however, totals $3,404,000, but of this
amount 81, $4,000 is for medical re-
lief and hospital supplies for Russia,
which is part of the gift made by
the American Red Cross in 1921 to
the Russian famine relief work of the
American Relief Administration pro-
gam. The child health service in Eu-
rope continues. moreover, and $6o4,-
600 is appropriated for this work un-
dertaken in 1920 Other items in the
stringently diminished foreign pro
gram include 100000 to support the
League of Red Cross Societies, S22.-
900 for nurses training schools insti-
tuted by the Red Cross abroad and
S600.000 for liquidation of the general
Red Cross foreign relief program.
Prepared fer Emergencies
For disaster relief the Red Cross
has set aside S75O.000, and for emer-
gencies in Chapter work 100000
to be available for domestic insulsr
and foreign demands. This is more
than $395,000 above last years eypen-
ditures. For service and assistance
tc tine 1900 Chapters and their
branches S1.293o0O is provided by the
National organization
Other budget items of Importance
III the domestic program include $780,
900 for assistance to other organiza-
items and education institutions for
raining Red Cross nurses and work
ars; $4,000 for Roll Call assistance
furnished to Chapters 100000 for
unforeseen contingencies
Of the total budget less than $780,
100 is allotted for anagement in the
National organization. No cash esti-
mate. of course. is possible to weigh