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Show RED GROSS FECES SHOW WIDE SOTO Past Year Cost $10,321,079.80; Duty to Ex-Ssrvice Men Paramount. Washington. The nationi.1 and International In-ternational services 01" the American Red Cross are portrayed graphically in a statement ot the Red Cro: s Una ii cos for the past fiscal year ended June 30, 1925. Expenditures by the Red Cross (Including both tho National Na-tional Organization and the Chapters) during this period aggregated $10,-321, $10,-321, 679. SO The obligation ot the American Red Cross to the ex-service and service men is represented In this sum by a total expenditure of f 4.225 292. CI. In the interests of disabled veterans, the Red Cross expended $3,577,916.42, of which $1,677,916.42 came from the National Na-tional Organization, and Sl.900.000 from the more than 3.000 Chapters and local branches of the society. Rod Cross services to the men of the Regular Army and Navy the past year called for $047,376.19, of which the National Organization furnished 5310,-376.19, 5310,-376.19, and the Chapters. $337,000. Sharing in Importance with this responsibility re-sponsibility was the Red Cross work of disaster relief during tho year. In these operations there was absorbed a total of $1,922,7S2.90 up to June 3'). this year. This represented $1,622.-782.90 $1,622.-782.90 of National Organization funds end $300,000 from the Chapters. Roller Ro-ller In foreign disasters fmountcd to $285,579.35. This sum was appropriated appropri-ated altogether by the National Organization. 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, Junlon Red Cross Foreign Projects, assistance to insular Chapters and similar functions. Besidas Its disaster disas-ter relief, the National Organization financed these other branches of foreign for-eign work also, including SU0.23S.72 for assistance to insular chapters, $177,450 for the League of Red Cross Societies, $84,384.43 for Junior projects proj-ects abroad, and JS0.057.62 Tor 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 at home through its national and chapter funds, a total of $1,029,616.05 for its Public Health Nursing Service; $154,-135,09 $154,-135,09 for nutrition instruction; S314,-422.76 S314,-422.76 for First Aid and Life Saving; $445,707.34 for Junior Red Cross; $132,759. S8 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 National Na-tional Organization expended $45,-562.64; $45,-562.64; while other national operations opera-tions at home amounted to $302,937.64. The chapters, in addition to the large . part they played in all Red Cross ' activity, spent $673,000 of their own funds on general chapter services. The broad humanity of the American Ameri-can Red Cross can never be measured by the money it costs, but even in bare terms ot dollars and cents, the scope of its work is indicated. A |