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Show 110 DISASTERS IN YEAR ENLIST RED CROSS AID Nearly $4-00,000 Spent in United States Greek Refugee Work Completed. For Its preparedness to render relief re-lief through effective and generous aid to the sufferers from disaster the American Red Cross is universally regarded re-garded as the one organization from which response to appeal for help is immediate. In the last year, according accord-ing to the annual report of the Red Cros3, its disaster relief operations were carried out In 110 localities in the United States. This work, with activities carried over from the previous previ-ous year, required the expenditure in the United States of $397,468.04 by the American Red Cross, its Chapters end Branches. In the emergency following fol-lowing the defeat of the Greek forces In Turkey and the burning of the city of Smyrna, which entailed the relief of nearly 900,000 men, women and children, Red Cross National Headquarters Head-quarters expended $2,605,696.09. The food distributed in Greece aggregated 25,000 tons; garments, 809,000; blankets, blan-kets, 48,550; new shoes, 5,000 pairs; medical, hospital and sanitary supplies, sup-plies, 804 tons. In the feeding of the refugees there was listed upwards of 22,000 children under three years of age. The disasters in the United States during the past year reported 240 persons per-sons killed, 991 injured, 12,691 rendered ren-dered homeless. The total property loss was estimated at $20,710,000. Relief of suffering caused by disasters disas-ters of such magnitude as to overwhelm over-whelm the resources of the communities communi-ties in which they occur is fundamental fundamen-tal to the charter of the American Red Cross. In addition to making appropriations ap-propriations from its treasury and assigning as-signing trained personnel to relief work, the Red Cross in disaster centralizes cen-tralizes and makes more effective relief re-lief funds and supplies contributed by the country at large. Slnoe 1881 the Red Cross has administered ad-ministered more than $20,000,000 for the single purpose of disaster relief. ! That it may continue to accept the re- j sponslbilitles which grave emergencies emergen-cies place upon the American Red Cross appeal is made for a nationwide nation-wide renewal of membership during the annual roll call, which opens on Armistice Day, November 11, and closes on Thanksgiving Day, November Novem-ber 2. |