The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-15
NINE MILLIONS FOR RELIEF
 OF SOLDIERS

| WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, = Approx mately $a.000,000 will be expended by the Ameriran Red Cross during the fiscal year ending next June, for the relief of former service men dis abled during the World War. Since the care of fermer soldiers and their dependents has the first call upon 1 Red Corss services, the national body will spend $3,O30,692 for such re- lief, and with every chapter practi- cally adding to the relief, the total will reach the estimated figure These funds will be used for serv- ices the Federal Government is not authorized to render and for which I it has neither funds nor facilities. Care of the ex-service men and their families is regarded as pri- mary Red Cross responsibility, and 1 that it should be neither indiscrim- mate nor niggardly requires patient study of an intricate problem and continual readjustments to situations | as they exist and develop.
 "The function of the Red Cross," said John Marton Payne, national chairman, in this years annual re- port, 'is not to usurp the Govern ment's responsibilities, but to supple ment official activity; harmoniously cooperate with official plans and methods; and seek out the individ- ual in the standardized mass and his peculiar needs.
 "The Red Cross acquires and dis tributes information among the men and their families; acquaints the U. S. Veterans Bureau with the per sonal equation in individual cases; prepares and furnishes comforts, re- creation, and the many necessary services which the Government, by | it's very nature, can procure only from voluntary assistance These ob- ligations and privileges fall primar- lily to the Red Cross chapters, whose volunteer members are kept ac- uuainted with the official situation 1 through liaison Red Cross officers attached to the district offices of the Veterans Bureau" .....
 On Armistice Day, November Il, when the American Red Cross open ed it's annual Roll Call for member ship, there was under treatment in Government hospitals more tha.A 25,O0O veterans. In the opinion of the surgeon general of the army the peak of disabled men under recon struction will not be reached until 1926. .....s. t..-
 During the fiscal year ended last June, 2,679 Red Cross chapters in all sections of the country were re- corded active in the soldiers relief work. During that year they reported 1865 ,079 individual instances of serv- ices to such men and their depen- dents, at a cost estimated at more than $5,34O,oC0. More than 1000 persons, paid and volunteer, were engaged in Red Cross work in Gov ernment hospitals and the Veterans Bureau district offices. More than 37,O0O compensation and insurance claims were handled, 24,56O allow ance and allotment cases, and 9,7o0 miscellaneous claims. Since Febru' ary, 1919, when this service was established, it has disposed of 64,174 allotment checks payable to veterans which the post office reported un' deliverable.
 The basis of this stupendous work, is the individual need, and the Red Cross is concentrated upon it to the end that the disabled ex-service man may obtain all his rights under the law, and that his own and his fami- ly's situation may be rendered free from care and worry.