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Show RED CROSS SERVICES SHOW UPWARD TREND Disaster Relief, Veterans' Aid Foremost in Fiscal Year. Services All Vital. Expenditures by the American Red Cross for the last year showed a mounting curve as compared with those for the preceding year $11,S!K-Sj)9.35 $11,S!K-Sj)9.35 as against $10,321,679.80. The outstanding appropriations were for disaster relief and assistance to disabled dis-abled veterans For disaster relief the American Red Cross expended J3, 871, 827, of which the National Organisation Or-ganisation contributed $3,642,827. and the Red Cross Chapters $229,000. For disabled veterans, a total of $3,628,178 was called for, of which National Headquarters appropriated $1,641,178, and Chapters, $1,987,000. The disaster relief figures do not include the Florida operations, which occurred after the end of the fiscal" year, in addition to the work for disabled dis-abled veterans, the Red Cross continued con-tinued its work on behalf of men In the Regular Army and Navy aud Marine Corps, which called for a. total appropriation of $509,451. The enrolled nurses' reserve, from which nurses for disasters and other emergencies are called, cost I47.3S2. borne entirely by the National Headquarters. Head-quarters. Public Health Nursins, a part of the Red Cross program of national health work, cost SS66.S23: Instruction in home hygiene and care of the sick required $152,466 In nutrition nu-trition instruction. $164,107 was expended. ex-pended. The Red Cross campaign to reduce deaths from accidents and drowning conducted by the First Aid and Life-Saving Life-Saving Service, called for $352,385, and has shown tangible results In j lives saved annually. I The Junior Red Cross, one ot the foremost peace Influences In the ' wo:'.d. was carried c-n at a cost of ?."31.0"3 All local Chapter activities of the Red Cross cost $823,000. while other domestic operations of the Red Cress, boxfle tjy NaJlanaJ Hea4- |