The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-10-14
100000 AID
FOR VETERANS
Red Cross Provides Friendly
Service Of Many Kinds to
Army of Disabled.
BULK OF WORK BY CHAPTERS
1897 of These Are Helping Ex-
Service Men Obtain Bene-
fits u. S. Provides.

One field OF Red Cross service alone,
that OF assisting disabled veterans Of
the World War, entails expenditures
s4,000o00 greater than the aggregate
receipts of the Annual Roll Call OF
1920, the American Red Cross an
nounces in a statement urging wide
spread increase in membership at the
Annual Roll Call. November IL TO ii
At the present time National Head.
quarters and the nationwide chain OF
Chapters of the Red Cross is spend
ing approximately $4,000 600 annual
ly for the relief of disabled ex-service
men and their families, while the ag-
gregate receipts from last years Roll
Call were approximately 100000.
1t is in the 2,2S9 of the 5000 Red
Cross Chapters which still are helping
solve the veterans problem of adjust.
Ing himself TO 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 a to-
tai of more than $2,600000, while the
remaining disbursement of approx
mately $7,000,000 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 corresponding and
probably viii not reach the peak be-
fore 1928, is the assertion of well-in-
formed Government officials and thar
1887 Red Cross Chapters regard il
as their most important work is evil
dence that the expansion is in nowiSe
confined TO a particular section but is.
on the contrary, nationwide. At the
end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1927,
there were 26,300 disabled service men
I'm the 1,692 United States Public
Health Service, Contract and Govern /
ment Hospitals and Soldiers Homes, .
and that number is increasing at
rate of LOCO a month.
Thousands of these men receiving
medical treatment, compensation and
vocational training from the Govern
ment today, started their efforts Ia
obtain them through the Red Cross .
Chapter. The Chapter, acting as the
disabled mans agent in claims against
the Government, informs the man rs 20 (
the procedure necessary to gain for 1
him that which is provided him by
Federal statute. His applications for
compensation, medical treatment and .
training are properly filed with the aid
of the Red Cross Chapter
Many Forms of Assistance
If 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 gaining full
benefit from the Governments care is
keeping his mind free from worry about
his home Keeping the veterans fam
lily from hardship of every kind and
informing him of its welfare is an
other province of the Chapter Free
from fear on this score, the mans re-,
covery and advancement usually is
rapid
Every month during the last year,
the American Red Cross has given
service of one kind or another 10 an
average of 129,215 former service men
and their families. An indication of
the extent Of the faith reposed in the
Red Cross Chapter is to be found i'm
the fact that there were 356.544 re-
quests for friendly aid in the solution
of personal problems.
448 Workers in Hospitals