The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-12-14
100000 AID
Fur VETERANS
Red Cross Provides Friendly
Service Of Many Kinds to
Army Of Disabled
BULK OF WORK BY CHAPTERS
1887 Of These Are Helping Ex'
Service Men Obtain Bene'
fits j. S. Provides.

One field of Red Cross service alone,
TINT Of assisting disabled veterans OF
the World War, entails expenditures
100000 greater than the aggregate
receipts of the Annual Roll Call OF
1920 the American Red Cross an.
nounces in a statement urging a wide
spread increase in membership at the
Annual Roll Call, November II to "a.
At the present time National Head.
quarters aud the nationwide chain OF
Chapters of the Red Cross Is spend.
ing approximately $1000O,000 annual
ly for the relief Of disabled eX-service
men and their families, While the ag-
gregate receipts from lust years Roll
Call were approximately 100000.
1t is in the $3.50 of the 5000 Red
Cross Chapters which still are helping
solve the veterans problem of adjust.
Ing himself to a normal civilian status
that the greater part of the cost of this
service is borne. Of the total sum
spent for veterans relief last year.
National Headquarters expended to-
tai Of more than s2G00,000. While the
remaining disbursement Of approx.
matcly 100000 represents the con.
tribution of Chapters in this country.
wide effort to assist the Government
in providing the aid sorely needed by
these men and their families.
An Ever Expanding Problem
That the problem of the disabled
service man is ever-expanding and
probably will not reach the peak be.
fore 1925, is the assertion Of well-in.
formed Government officials and that
1887 Red Cross Chapters regard 1t
as their most important work is evil
dence that the expansion is in nowise
confined to particular section but is.
on the contrary, nationwide. At the
end of the fiscal year, June 80, 1921,
there were $4,000 disabled service men
In the 1852 United States Public
Health Service, Contract and Govern.
ment Hospitals and Soldiers Homes,
cnd that number is increasing at a
rate of 1,00O a month.
Thousands Of these men receiving
medical treatment, compensation and
vocational training from the Govern.
nent today, started their efforts to
obtain them through the Red Cross
Chapter. The Chapter, acting as the
disabled mans agent in claims against
'he Government, Informs the man rs 70
tae procedure necessary to gain for
Inn that which is provided him bv
FEDERAL statute. His applications for
compensation, medical treatment and
framing are properly filed with the aid
OF the Red Cross Chapter.
Many Forms Of Assistance
II there is delay before the mans
Claim is acted upon, the Red Cross
Chapter lends the man money to meet
The imperative needs of himself and
his dependents.
Most vital to the mans Canine full
benefit from the Governments care 10
keeping his mind free from worry abop,
MS home. Keeping the veterans fam.
ly from hardship of every kind and
informing him Of its welfare is an.
o'her province of the Chapter. Free
rom fear on this score, the mans re-.
covery and advancement usually 10
'apid.
Every month during the last vesr
ne american Red Cross has given
service OF one kind or another to IN
'verage of 1925 former service mon
ma their families. An indication of
ne extent of the faith reposed IN tho
ted Cross Chapter is to be fonnd n
he fact that there were 35G544 70.
quests Tor friendly aid in the solution
u personal problems.
44a Workers in Hospitals |
"''l'e the man prior to entering
government care deals largely with tle
napier, afterward he comes into oon
ACT with the service provided hv M
tohal headquarters. There ors 40
sea Cross workers IN the r,,.a1
,''teS fubilc Health Service and ron.
'"Vt hospitals ana other inct;.,,,,.
n which these men are being c,r"d
o. whose duty is to provide for III,
help him with his com,an
aOoh claims, keep him in tourh with
MS FAMILY; in Short, meeting his o,a.''
,eed outside of that provided hv ,n,
'.'e'aineht' While these arc san,
u Tue responsibilities OF tho N.t,nna,
-, they are by M moam.
w. A'hohE other Red Cross occon,
for the year are:
1t landed 7o,132 allotment mn, =,
oWance claims. ''' al
It delivered throus, its cho,,.. -,
'E"''on G3,G55 allotment checrs a.
-NF'hs Who had mryed from ,,,n ~. "
,reSses furnished to the B,,roa ,r "u IA
: lr Risk Insurance. s'u VI
II provided a special fund If s,ooc,
'or medical assistance to mo,, 1870
'ocatlunal training "''"er