Milford chronicle., 1923-09-07
RED CROSS PUTS
UP SS,73S,S72
Years Budget Stresses Relief
and Services at Home
and Overseas.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID
Over $3.0OO,OOO Allotted to the
DiSabled-Foreign Work
Lessons.
MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID

LeSS6IlSs
Washington.-E&pe totallng
$9,739,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, ef-
fective July l, 1922. This total is ST.
T35,975 less than the expenditures for
the last fiscal year, when disburse-
Inents reached $12 ,475,S47.69, it is an
nOunced at National Headquarters in
a statement emphasizing the necessity
Of continued support of the Organiza
tiOn by enrolment during the annual
boil Call, November 11November 30
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
7,487 were receiving treatment from
the Government on June 1 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
$3,030,692.90 during the current year,
or about $366,000 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 $10,OOO,OOO.
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
his problems and difficulties, provide
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,OS7 of
whom were under treatment in Gov
ernment hospitals on June 1, 1922.
Greater Domestic Program
This year-after five years of con-
structive effort during the war and
otter the armistice- brings with it a
greater responsibility for domestic
service to the American Red Cross. |
The budget for foreign operations, |
however, totals $3,4O4,OO0, but of this
amount $1,834,O0O 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 iH Eu-
rope continues, moreover, and $654,-
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, $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,O0O, and for emer-
gencies in Chapter work $5000OO
to be available for domestic, insular
and foreign demands. This is more
than S395,OO0 above last years expen-
ditures. For service and assistance
to the $500 Chapters and their
branches $1,293,eOO is provided by the
National organization.
Other budget items of Importance
in the domestic program include $780,
600 for assistance to other organi2a-
tions and education institutions fo1
training Red Cross nurses and work
ers; $4,000 for Roll Call assistance
furnished to Chapters; 100000 foI
unforeseen contingencies
Of the total budget less than $780,,
600 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.