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Charles Evans Hughes Jr.,* son of Charles K. Hughes, made a checked calculation. As Referee, he reported "correct."

He had been appointed to examine the financial accounts of the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. which carried on work among soldiers and sailors during the War.

He found that the council had collected $170,673,914, principally by a series of drives during the War. It spent $152,170,108--$40,896,248 in the U. S., $58,444,101 overseas, besides $29,674,192 spent on the Allies and war prisoners, $17,336,683 given to the Government for educational and recreation purposes, and $5,818,882 lost in the operation of canteens.

The balance left over--$18,503,805-- was turned over to the Trustees of the War Fund of the Y. M. C. A.

Young Mr. Hughes recommended that the accounting of the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. be approved and its members discharged from their responsibilities.

*Mr.'Hughes, age 35, was graduated from Brown University in 1909, Harvard Law School in 1912. He has been associated with the law firm of Byrne and Cutcheon; then Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft; and since 1917, he has been a member of the firm ot Hughes (Sr. and Jr.), Rounds, Schurman (brother of the now U. S. Ambassador to Berlin) and Dwight. All these firms are in Manhattan.