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Show RED GROSS GIVES REPORT WHERE iorasusED The people of ,Utahare not going to bo aBked to raise another $350,-000 $350,-000 for 'the" American Red Cross without being fully acquainted with jut how the big 1 mercy organization, organiza-tion, has expended the 177,721,918 of the 1100,000,000 entrusted to': Its care last June for war -work. - In ad- . vance of next week's war fund drive the state Red Cross executive com-" mittee has submitted a report from national headquarters. This report re-port shows that for relief in the United States' in establishing army base hospitals, navy base hospitals, for medical and hospital work, san- '. itary service, camp service and mis-? : cellaneous work $8,589,899.27 has. been expended. This includes the organizing and training of 45 ambulance' am-bulance' companies, totaling 5,58t men, the building and equipping of four laboratory cars for use in stamping out epidemics, the cornr. mencing of ; the work - of eradicating eradicat-ing malaria-bearing mosquitoes tn i zones , near cantonments, . the . estab-: lishment of camp service bureaus,, to look out for the comfort and welfare of : soldiers in training, the supplying supply-ing of 2,000,000 sweaters to enlisted enlist-ed men, the mobilizing of 14,000 nurses for the care of the enlisted men,' the establishment of civilian relief departments and training schools, the planning of recreation houses, the. increasing of the Res. Cross membership from a scant half million to approximately 23,000,000, Work Done in Europe ' The work done by the Red. Cross in France, Belgium, Russia, Rumania, Ruman-ia, Italy, Serbia, Great Britain and other foreign countries, the relief for prisoners, the equipment and expenses in the United States for the personnel for Europe totalled i -.n expense account of $47,325, 09.-38. 09.-38. This latter item included the establishment of infirmaries, and rest stations, the building of canteens, can-teens, the supplying of the American Ameri-can troops with comfort kits ana Christmas presents, the establishing of a hospital distributing service that supplies 3,423 French . military . hospitals and a surgical dressings service that supplies 2,000 the pro viding of an artificial limb factory, and special plants for the manufacture manufac-ture of splints and oxide gas, the-establishment the-establishment of a bureau for the gathering of information from the wounded and missing and the opening open-ing of children's refuge and hospital in the war zone, establishment of medical centers and traveling dispensaries, dis-pensaries, for reclamation work for the establishment of a large central warehouse In Paris, -for the operating operat-ing of 400 motor car vehicles and for nurses service. In Belgium alone the expenditures have amounted amount-ed to $2,086,131 and more $3,000 ; 000 has been spent in Italy. , . ... Henry Byrne, vice 'president 01 the local executive Red Cross committee, com-mittee, explained to the Rotary club T'esady the phases of the coming drive. He a6ked that foreign corporations cor-porations doing business here turn their subscriptions In through the -home office In order that the state may receive credit for them. It was also decided by those present that the corporation subscription should not cover the Individual subscription subscrip-tion of the stockholder, ... . t |
