Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-10-29
8 MILLIONS To
BE EXPENDED ON
EX-SERv|CE MEN
Red Cross Program for SOL
dier Relief During Fiscal
Year Is Announced by
the National Body.

Washington, Oct. 28.-ApproXi-
mately s9,000,000 will be expended
by the American Red Cross during
the fiscal year ending next June,
for the relief of former service men
disabled during the world war,
Since the care of former soldiers
and their dependents has the first
call upon Red Cross services, the
national body will spend $1,000
692 for such relief, and with every
chapter practically adding to the
relief, the total will reach the es-
timated figure. These funds will
be used for services the Federal
government is not authorized to
render and for which it has neither
funds nor facilities.
An Intricate Problem.
Care Of the eX-service men and
their families is regarded as a
primary Red Cross responsibility,
and that it should he neither in
discriminate nor niggardly requires
patient study of an intricate prob
lem and continual readjustments to
situations as they exist and devel-
op.
"The function of the Red Cross, !"
said John Barton Payne, national
chairman, in this y2ar's annual re-
port, "is not to usurp the govern
ments re- ponsibilities, but to
supplement official activity; har-
moniously cooperate with official
plans and methods; and seek out
the individual in the standardized
mass and his peculiar needs.
THE Red Cross acquires and
distributes information amons
the men and their families; ac-
quaints the L. S. Veterans Bureau
with the personal equation in IN
di 'idual cases; prepares and fur-
nishes comforts, recreation, ana
the many necessary services which
the government, by it's very nature,
can procure only from voluntary
assistance. These obligations and
privileges fall primarily to the Red
Cross chapters, whose volunteer
members are k It acquainted with
the official situation through liai'
son Red Cross officers attached TO
the District offices of the veterans
Bureau"
on Armistice Day, November IL,
when the American Red Cross
opens its annual Roll Call for mem
bership. there will be under treat
ment in government hospitals more
than $4,000 veterans. In the
opinion of the surgeon general or
the army the peak of disabled men
under reconstruction Will not be
/ reachsd tpntfi t92f
Active in Relief Work.
During the fiscal year ended last
June 2,679 Red Cross chapters in
all section of the country were
recorded active in the soldier re-
lief work. During that year they
reported t,665,079 individual IN,
stances of services to such men ana
their dependents, at cost esti-
mated at more than S5,340, o0V.
More than 1000 persons, paid ana
volunteer, were engaged In Red
Cross work in government hospl-
falls and the Veterans Bureau DIS
trict offices. More than 37,0O0
compensation and insurance claims
were handled, 24560 allowance
and allotment eases, and " W
miscellaneous claims. Since Feo-
ruary, 1919, when this service was
esta blished, it has disposed OF
64.174 allotment checks payable
to veterans which the post Office
reported unbelievable.
The basis of this stupendous
work, is the individual need, ana
the Red Cross is concentrated upon
it to the end that the disabled eX-
service man may obtain all ms
rights under the law, and that ms
own and his family's situation
may be rendered free from care
and worry,