New Britain herald., 1922-11-10
3 MILLIONS TOBE
 SPENT FORsVETS
This Is Budget for Year Ending Next June

Washington, Nov. 10--Approxlmate H s9,ooo.o0o will be expended by the American Red Cross during the fiscal year ending next June, for the relief of former service men disabled dur ing the world war. Since the care Of former soldiers and their depend ents has the ,first call upon Red Cross services, the national b6dy will spend $a,030,G92 for such relief, and with every chapter practically adding 70 the relief the total will reach the estimated figure. These funds will be used for services the federal govern n,ent is not authorized to render and for which 1t has neither funds nor facilities.
 Care of the ex-service men and their families Is regarded as a prim- ary Red Cross responsibility, and that 1t should be neither indiscriminate nor niggardly requires patient study of an intricate problem and continual establishments to situations as they exist and develop.
 The function of the Red Cross" said John Barton Payne, national chairman fin this years annual report, fs not to usurp the governments re- sponsibilities, but to supplement off, cial activity; harmoniously cooperate with official plans and methods and seek out the individual in the stan dardized mass and his peculiar needs.
 Distributes Information
 The Red Cross acquires and dis tributes information among the men and their families; acquaints, the U. S.Veterans' g. bureau with the personal equation in individual cases; prepares and furnishes comforts, recreation and the many necessary services which the government, by it's very nature, can procure only from voluntary assist ance. These obligations and privi- leges fall primarily to the Red Cross are kept acquainted with the official situation through liaison Red Cross officers attached to the district offices the Veterans bureau"
 On Armistice Day, November II, when the American Red Cross opens its annual roll call for membership, there will be under treatment in gov- ernment hospitals more than 25,0Oo| veterans. In the opinion of the sur geon general of the army the peak of disabled men under reconstruction will not be reached until 1926.
 During the fiscal year ended last June, 2,679 Red Cross chapters in all sections of the country were recorded active in the soldier relief work. Dur ing that year they reported 1,665,O79 individual instances of services to such men and their dependents at a cost estimated at more than .$5,340,- 900. More than 1000 persons paid and volunteer, were engaged in Red Cross work in government .sl1 ospitals and the Veterans bureau district of- fees. More than 37,00o compensation and insurance claims were handled, A, 5609alfowance and allotment cases, and 9,700 miscellaneous claims. Since February 1919, when this service was established, 1t has disposed of 64,174 allotment checks payable to veterans which the postoff1ce reported unde- liverable.
 The1basis of this stupendous work, | isy the individual need, ard the Red | Cross is concentrated ul z. it to the end that the disabled ex-service man may obtain all his rights under the | law, and that his own and his family's situation may be rendered free from E care and worry