Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-10-23
RED CROSS FINANCES
SHOW WIDE SERVICES
Past Year Cost $1o,321, 679.80;
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. 1925. Expenditures by the
Red Cross (including both the Ma
tional Organization and the Chapters)
during this period aggregated S1O,-
321, $3.50.
The obligation OF the American Red
Cross to the exSerYice and service
men is represented In this sum by a
total expenditure of $4,2s5 ,292.61. In
the interests OF disabled veterans, the
Red Cross expended 77916.42, Of
which $1,677,916.42 came from the Ma
tional Organization. and $1,900,0O0
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 s647 ,37619, Of which the
National Organization furnished $780,
s7619, and the Chapters, S337000.
Sharing in Importance with this re-
sponsibility was the Red Cross work
Of disaster relief during the year. In
these operations there was absorbed
total OF $1.s22,7S2.eO up to June 80,
this year. This represented 81, 622,-
1890 OF National Organization funds
and 100000 from the Chapters. Re
lief in foreign disasters amounted to
$685. 79.35. 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
ter relief the National Organization
financed these other branches Of for
eign work also, including $110,238.72
for assistance to insular chapters,
$177. 450 for the LEAGUE of Red Cross
Societies, sS4,3844s for Junior prob
ects abroad, and $SO,05762 for other
insulGr and foreign operations.
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 $1.0z9 ,61605 for its |
Public Health Nursing Service; $154,- |
1876. 90 for nutrition instruction; S314,- |
42276 for First Aid and Life Saving; |
S445, 707.34 for Junior Red Cross; /
S132,75 for instruction in Home
and Care of the Sick; and |
carried on similarly important home !
iuties. Included in the latter were
,uch valuable services as the Enrolled
Nurses Reserve, for which the Ma
ional Organization expended $45,-
1894; while other national opera
ions at home amounted to 1902, 957.64.
The chapters, In addition to the large
,art they played in all Red Cross
lctivity, spent $67S,0OO of their own
unds on general chapter services.
The broad humanity OF the Ameri-
an Red Cross can never be measured
ARE terms of dollars and cents. the
cope OF its work is indicated A
tudy of these facts also shows the
for the largest possible en-
since Red Cross service is
Maintained almost entirely by It's
membership. The annual invitation
0 participate in this work through
in the American Red
ross, is extended from Armistice
'ay November IL, to Thanksgiving,
November 26.