, 1925-10-21
REDcRoSsFlNAAN!e('E;s|;, IS,
SH0WsiMaDE SERVICES
Past Year Cost $3.50;
Duty to Ex-Service Men
Paramount.

Washington.-The national and in
ternational services Of the American
Red Cross are portrayed graphically
in a statement of the Red Cross
finances for the past fiscal yea ended
June 80, 1925. Expenditures by the
Red Cross Qncluding both the Ma
tional Organization and the Chapters)
during this period aggregated $780,
321, 679.S0.
The obligation of the American Red
Cross to the ex-service and service
men is represented in this sum by a
total expenditure of s4,225, 292.61. In
the interests of disabled veterans, the
Red Cross expended S3,577, 916.42, of
which s1,677, 916.42 came from he Ma
tional Organization. and s1.900,000
from the more than 5000 Chapters
and local branches of the society.
Red Cross services to the men of he
Regular Army and Navy the past veal
called for S647, 376.19, of which the
National Organization furnished $780,
376.19, and the Chapters, s337,00
Sharing in Importance with this re-
sponsibility vas the Red Cross work
of disaster relief during the year. In
these operations there was absorbed
a total of S1,922. 1890 up to June 30.
this year. This represented S1,622,-
7S2. 30 of National Organization funds
and $1,000 900 from the Chapters. Re-
lief in foreign disasters amounted to
S2S5,579.35. This sum was appropri-
ated altogether by the National Or
ganization.
Insular and foreign operations of the
American Red Cross during the year
included relief in foreign disasters,
the League of Red Cross Societies.
junior Red Cross Foreign Projects,
assistance to insular Chapters and
similar functions. Besides its disas
financed these other branches Of for
eign work also, including $~11o,23s.72
for assistance to- insular, chapters,
$177,450 for the League Of Red Cross
Societies. o$s4,3s4.43g for Junior prob
ects abroad, and asO.0s7. So for other
insular and, foreign operations, ast-
In addition to rs paramount duty to
assist veterans and other service men
and their families. and its disaster
relief, the nod Gross expended At
home through ~ national and cheptes
funds, a total Of &1.o3s. s1s.ob fos:its
Public Health Nursing, Ssrvice; s1sl,s
135. 90 for nutrition i~pstsucton;, s3l4,-
422.76 for First Aid and. Life Saving:
$445 .70Z34 for Junior Red Cross;
$3.50, 1885 Tor instruction in Home
Hygiene and Care Of ne Sick; and
carried on similarly importantf home
duties. 1ncludedf IN the latter were
such valuable services as the Enrolled
NuFses, Reserve, for which the Ma
ttonal Organization expended &45,-
562.64; while other national opera
tions at home amounted to 1901. 957. "a.
The chapters. IN addition I'd the large
part they played In all RED Cross
activity, spent ee7s,OO0 of their own
funds on general chapter services.
The broad humanity Of the Ameri-
can Red Cross can never be measured
by the money 1t costs, but even in
bare terms of dollars and cents, the
scope OF Its work Il indicated. A
study OF these facts also shows the
necessity for the largest possible en-
rollment, since Red Cross service is
maintained almost entirely by IT'S
membership. The annual invitation
to participate in this work through
membership In the American Red
Cross, is extended from Armistice
Day, November IL. to Thanksgiving,
November 2s.
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