River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-11-12
RED CROSS FINANCES
SHOW WIDE SERVICES
Past Year Cost $10,321, $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 year ended
June 80, 1926. Expenditures by the
Red Cross (including both the Ma
tional Organization and the Chapters)
during this period aggregated $10,-
321,679.S0.
The obligation of the American Red
Cross to the ex-service and service
men is represented in this sum by
total expenditure of $4,225, 292.61 In
the interests of disabled veterans, the
Red Cross expended $3,577, 916.42, of
which $1,677916.42 came from the Ma
tional Organization, and $1,900,000
from the more than 5000 Chapters
and local branches of the society.
Red Cross services to the men of the
Regular Army and Navy the past year
called for $647 ,37619, of which the
National Organization furnished $780,
376.19, and the Chapters, 1897 900.
Sharing in Importance with this re-
sponsibility was the Red Cross work
Of disaster relief during the year. In
these operations there was absorbed
a total of $1,922,7s290 up to June 80,
this year. This represented 1892
1890 of National Organization funds
and 100000 from the Chapters. Re-
lief in foreign disasters amounted to
$2S5,57935. 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-
ter relief, the National Organization
financed these other branches Of for
eign work also, including $110,23S.72
for assistance to insular chapters,
$177, 45O for the League of Red Cross
Societies, $S4,384.43 for Junior prof.
ects abroad, and s80,057.62 for other
anu lOlSlSn OPCl
In addition to its paramount duty to
assist veterans and other service men
and their families, and its disaster
relief, the Red Cross expended at
home through It's national and chapter
funds, a total of $1.029, 616.05 for its
Public Health Nursing Service; $154,-
1865 for nutrition instruction; $314,-
42276 for First Aid and Life Saving;
$445,707.34 for Junior Red Cross;
$132,759.S8 for instruction in Home
Hygiene and Care of the Sick; and
carried on similarly important home
duties. Included in the latter were
such valuable services as the Enrolled
! Nurses Reserve, for which the Ma
tional Organization expended $45,-
56264; while other national opera
tions at home amounted to $302,957.64.
The chapters, in addition to the large
part they played in all Red Cross
activity, spent S67S,000 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 is 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 its
membership. The annual invitation
to participate in this work through
membership in the American Red
Cross, is extended from Armistice
Day, November II, to Thanksgiving,
November 26.