The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-12-21
100000 AID
FOR VIE:TE:RANS
Fed Cross Provides Friendly
Service Of Many Kinds to
Army Of Disabled.
BULK OF WORK. BY CHAPTERS
2,3e7 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.OOO.OOO 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 II to 24
At the present time National Head
! quarters aud the nationwide chain OF
Chapters of the Red Cross Is spend
ing approximately $10,000O00 annual
ly for the relief of disabled eyservice
men and their families, while the as
gregate receipts from last years Roll
Call were approximately $6,000,00O.
1t is in the 2,2S9 Of the $500 Red
Cross Chapters Which still are helping
solve the veterans problem of adjust.
ing himself to normal civilian status
that the greater part. Of the cost Of this
service is borne. OF the total sum
spent for veterans relief last year,
National Headquarters expended to-
tai of more than 100000, while the
remaining disbursement of approx
mately 100000 represents the con-
tributior of Chapters in this country
wide effort to- assist the Government
In providing the aid sorely needed by
these men and their families.
An Ever Expanding Problem
That the problem of the disabled
service man is ever-expanding and
probably will not reach the peak be-
fore 1925, is the assertion of well-in-
formed Government officials and that
1887 Red Cross Chapters regard it
as their most important work is evil
dence that the expansion is in nowise
confined to a particular section but is,
on the contrary, nationwide. At the
end of the fiscal year, June so, 1921.
there were 2G,300 disabled service men
in the 1862 United States Public
Health Service, Contract and Govern.
ment Hospitals and Soldiers Homes,
end that number is increasing at a
rate of 1000 a month.
Thousands of these men receiving
medical treatment, compensation and
Vocational training from the Govern.
E!ent today, started their efforts to
obtain them through the Red Cross
napier. The Chapter, acting as the
disabled mans agent in claims against
the Government, informs the man rs 70
the procedure necessary to gain for
lin that which is provided him by
Federal statute. His applications for
compensation, medical treatment and
Training are properly filed with the aid
Of the Red Cross Chapter. e$r..
Many Forms of Assistance
If there is delay before the mans
cialm is acted upon, the Red Cross
Chapter lends the man money to meet
the imperative needs of himself and
his dependents. -. a.
Most vital to the mans caininc, FIN
benefit from the Governments caro- 80
Keeping his mind free from worry anon,
his home Keeping the veterans fam.
lily from hardship of every Kind and
informing him Of its welfare is an.
othe' province of the Chapter. Free
from fear on this score, the mans ,o
rapid. -
Every month during the last war
the American Red Cross has given 1
service Of one kind OF another to on
average of 1925 former service mon
ana their families An indicotio, -
me extent of the faith,reposea IN tbo |
hea cross Chapter is to be found in |
the fact that there were 356 All IN
quests FOR friendly aid in the solution
OF personal problems.
448 Workers in HOSPITALS
r. WINE the man prior to enterino I
Government care deals largely wifi tho .
ohaplaf alterWard he comes into oou.
tact with the service provided NV Na
nonal Headquarters. There are 4ls
Ateu cross Workers in the Tn;tb,, !
states. 81 Public Health Service and con
tract hospitals and other institr.ia O
IN which these. men are beinr oauh,
1or' whose duty is to provide for ~, /
recreation, help him with his -connn,
saelon claims, keep him in torch r.i.n
MS iamlly; in short, mectlng,bis evar,.
neeu outside of that provided bv IN.
government. While tlfrse arc -, ei,,:
OF me; responsibilities OF the Notinn5,t.
organization they are by m ,no,nI,.,
an Among other Red Cross orcna,
pnslApehtsr fdr the year are ~.
1T landed 70,73o allotment ana =,
iowance, claims. '' "i'@
H'.deiVered throaph' its Chontar =. ;
= Ration G},G55 allotment cho,r. ~
= rams who. had moved from NV, ~
o ,,. furnished 10 the Burcan !,
NHr Rlsk Insurance. :, u
!" provided special fund of s,o oco