Show I I RED CROSS PUTS P UP Years Year's Budget Stresses Relief Relie III r and Services at t Home Homa y and Overseas MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID fI Over Allotted to the the- Disabled Foreign Disabled Foreign Work uL Lessens t. t Expenditures Expenditures Expenditures- totaling for carrying through its program of at services and relief relic during the fiscal year lear In the United States and Ind overseas are authorized In the 1 budget of at the American Red Cross ef- ef fictive July 1 I 1022 This total Is 2 91 leas less than the expenditures Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the last lut fiscal year when disbursement disburse disburse- ment reached 1247 It Is announced an- an at National Headquarters In InA int A t statement emphasizing the necessity fl of Jt continued support of ot the organization It tion Uon by enrollment during the annual Roll Call Cau November ember November 11 30 Inclusive This total for the budget 1 Is la exclusive of at the large financial op I of at the active Red Cross Chapters which It is estimated will willmore wore more than double the tho total War Veterans Have First Call CallI I First call on Red Bed Cross funds Is for forthe the disabled ed service ex-service men of whom w were re receiving treatment from tram the Government on June 1 last lasU This work for veterans and their families In a wide variety of service that the Government Is not authorized to render render render ren ren- der and for tor which It has neither funds nor facilities facUlties has the call on during the current year or about more than was expended expended expended ex ex- last year for soldier service Adding the funds disbursed In this I humanitarian work of physical recon recon- following the World War by byE bythe t E the Chapters throughout the country will approximate a total for the current current current cur cur- curI I rent rent year approaching This Ihl work In the opinion of the Surgeon Sur Sur- leon geon Generals General's office will not reach Its peak before 1920 1020 Through Its lu Chapters the American Red Cross Is equipped to find the individual Individual In in- ual service ex-service man help him in III his problems and difficulties provide Immediately for tor his necessities and andopen andopen andopen open the way for him to the Government Government Govern Government Govern Govern- ment compensation and aid to which tie be e Is entitled The extension of this work to the families r of f such men proves to them that the Red Bed Cross has lost none of at its sympathy nor will to service manifested in wartime Similarly Sim Sim- Similarly I lady the service goes out to the men mentill till still In the Army and Navy of ot whom were under treatment In Government Gov Gov- h hospitals on June 1 1922 Greater Domestic Program This year year after after five years ears of constructive con can effort during the war and amI lifter the armistice brings armistice brings with It a greater responsibility for domestic service to the American Red Cros Cross The budget for foreign operations however totals but of this amount is for medical relief relief re re- lief lIer and hospital supplies for Russia Russin which is a part of the gift made b bythe by bythe the tile American Red Cross In 1921 to toI I the th Russian famine relief work of ot the American Relief AdminIstration Administration pro- pro glum The child health service In Eu- Eu lope Iove continues moreover and I GJ-I- Is appropriated for tor this work undertaken undertaken un In 1920 Other Items In tl the r stringently diminished foreign n pro gram gruin Include to support the League of Red Cross Societies 2000 22 2 for nurses' nurses training schools instituted toted by the Red Cross abroad and anti for liquidation of the general Red Ite Cross foreign relief program Prepared for Emergencies For disaster relief the Red lied Cross has bas set aside and for tor emergencies emergencies emer emer- in Chapter work to be available f for r domestic Insular and foreign demands This Is more than thun above last years year's en- en For service and assistance to tho the Chapters and their branches Is provided by the National organization I Other budget items of at Importance in the domestic program Include e OO- OO for tor assistance to other organizations organizations and education Institutions for training Red Cross Cross- nurses Cross nurses and worker work work- R er en j for tor Roll Call assistance furnished to Chapters j foi for unforeseen contingencies Of the total budget less than Is 11 allotted for tor management ement in the National organization No cash estimate esti- esti esti estimate mate of course is possible to to weigh the tiie value of the service by volunteers volunteer in to the Chapt Chapters rs THE RED CROSS SUPPLEMENTS SUPPLEMENTS' GOVERNMENT SERVICE BY MEETING THE PARTICULAR NEEDS OF OP THE INDIVIDUAL SERVICE EX-SERVICE MAN THIS WORK CANNOT GO ON UNLESS YOU SUPPORT IT WITH YOUR MEMBERSHIP DOLLAR PAY UP TODAY |