Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-11-18
RED CROSS FINANCES
SHOW wide SERVICES
Past Year Cost 21,67o.30;
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 30 1925. Expenditures by the
Red Cross (including both the Ma
tional Organization and the ChapterSe
during this period aggregated $1O.-
321,679.SO.
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 1857 1852, of
which $1,677,916.42 came fro.I the Ma
tional Organization. and $1,90000o
from the more than 5000 Chapters
and local branches of the society
Regular Army and Navy the past year
called for s647,37619. of which the
National Organization furnished $780,,
376.19. and the Chapters, $4,000.
Sharing in importance with this re-
sponsibility was the Red Cross work
of disaster relief during the year In
these operations there was absorbed
this year This represented 81 622,
1890 OF National Organization funds
and 100000 from the Chapters. Re
lief in foreign disasters amounted to
$2S5, $685.. 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 it's disas
ter relief, the National Organization
financed these other branches of for
eign work also, including $110,23s.72
for assistance to insular chapters
s177,450 for the League Of Red Cross
Societies. sS43S443 for Junior prof
ects abroad, and sS0,057.62 for other
insular 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 az
home through its national and chapter
funds, total of s1,029,61605 for its
Public Health Nursing Service; $l54,-
1876 90 for nutrition instruction; S314
42276 for First Aid and Life Saving;
$445, 70734 for Junior Red Cross;
$132,759SS 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 s45,
562.64; while other national oDera
tions at home amounted to 1902, 957.64
The chapters, in addition to the large
part they played in all Red Gross
activity. spent s67S.000 of their own
funds on general chapter services.
The broad humanity of the Ameri
can Red Cross can never be measure
by the money it costs, but even in
bare terms of dollars and cents, the
scope of its work is indicated \
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.