Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-11-24
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
$4,OO0oO0 greater than the aggregate
receipts Of the Annual Roll Call OF
1920, the American Red Cross an
nounces In Il statement urging wide
spread increase in membership at the
Annual Roll Call, November II to "a.
At the present time National Head
quarters and the nationwide cham Of
Chapters of the Red Cross Is spend
ing approximately $10,0000O0 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 $6000,OO0.
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 S26OO,0O0, while the
remaining disbursement of approx
mately 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
2,397 Red Cross Chapters regard it
as their most important work is evil
dence that the expansion 10 In Aowlso
confined to a particular section but is,
on the contrary, nationwide. At the
end Of the fiscal year, June 80, 1921,
there were 26,300 disabled service men
in the 1902 United States Public
AlealIu oelNlCS, SonllaCl anu NVNeII-
ment Hospitals and Soldiers Homes,
and that number is increasing at
rate of 1000 a month.
Thousands Of these men receiving
medical treatment, compensation and
vocational training from the Govern,
ment today, started their efforts to
obtain them through the Red Cross
Chapter. The Chapter, acting as the
disabled mans agent in claims against
the Government, informs the man as to
the procedure necessary to gain for
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
borof+ from, tho covernmon+,s ooro is
,,.,.-h,a .,,.,', &c..
P-'
his home. Keeping the veterans fam
lily from haruSillp oI every hlhu anu
informing him OF It's welfare is an
other province of the Chapter. Free
from fear on this score, the mans re
coverv and advancement usually IS
rand
E,,or,, month drr;r, +bo lost ,,oor
A., ,...,;a.. D., Tn,a, ,,.. ..,,..,,
-. - ~, I.irs - s . -, -.
eei '''' VI v,IS N'l'u VI "'''''''' " an
average Vi i-''-'' i"'ll'' service men
and their fanJlies' An indication OF
the extent OF the faith r"NoSed in the
Red Cross Chapter is to he found in
the fact that there We're ?16,544 re-
quests for friendly aid IN the solution
OF personal problems.
44a Workers in Hospitals
While the man Drior 70 entering
Government care deals largely with the
Chapter, afterward he comes into con-
tact with the service provided by Ma.
tionaI Headquarters. There are As
Red Cross workers in the United