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Show Y. M. C. A. Statement Shows Scope of Its Operations FIRST detailed accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the Young Men's Christian association show that $125,282,859 was received by it between April 26, 1917, and March 31, 1919. Total expenditures aggregated "iffi i i 'if' r 1 1 ni rf- $97,817,005, in the period named, leaving a balance of $27,465,854, a sum estimated to be sufficient to carry on the work here and abroad until December De-cember 31 next. Slightly more than 2 per cent of the total funds contributed by the American public were expended for religious purposes in the United States and overseas, while approximately 80 per cent was devoted to the purchase, transportation and distribution of canteen can-teen supplies and to entertainments, euucauon aim atntetic sports. In addition to the provision of free athletic supplies, which included, among other things, in the United States camps, alone, r.7.006 baseballs and 20,000 sets of boxing gloves, the Y. M. C. A. distributed dis-tributed overseas $30,S32,4-19 worth of merchandise. Of this merchandise .$1,704,771 worth, or approximately 5 per cent, was given free to the soldiers. This does not include overseas Christmas gifts and entertainment work, $651,-963. $651,-963. Of the $07,S17,0O5 expended, more than $30,000,000 was spent In the home camps, more than $43,000,000 with the American expeditionary forces abroad, and $14,-100.175 for work with the allied armies and prisoners of war. More than 07,000 concerts, vaudeville performances and other entertainments entertain-ments were staged by the "Y" in American cantonments to an aggregate audience of 43.500.000, at a cost of $1,160,707. IS addition, free motion picture shows in the home camps necessitated an outlay of $2,328,271. Erection of 950 huts for men in training camps on this side cost $7,098,984 aud the outlay for maintenance was $3,965,7.10. The 1.9(H) or more "Y" huts aud tents built or leased for the use of the American expeditionary forces cost $4,801,271. |