The New York herald., 1922-10-29
RED CROSS PLANS
$9,O00,OOO RELIEF
Estimates Years Expenditures
for Disabled Service Men
and Families.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2s.-Approximately
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 SOL
diers and their dependents has the first
call upon Red Cross services. the ma
tional body viii spend s3.03o.6s2 for
such relief. and with every chapter prac-
tically adding to the relief the total will
reach the estimated figure. These funds
will be used for services the Federal
Government 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 primary Red
Cross responsibility. and that 1t should
be neither indiscriminate 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 Barton Payne, national chairman
In this years annual report, lis not to
usurp the Governments responsibilities
but to supplement official activity: har.
moniously cooperate with OFFICIAL plans
and methods; and seek out the individ-
uai In the standardized mass and his
peculiar needs.
''The Red Cross acquires and distrib-
utes information among the men and
their families acqua.nts the United
States Veterans Bureau with the per-
eonal equation in individual cases: pre-
pares and furnishes comforts, recreation
and the many necessary services which
the Government. by Its very nature. can
procure only from voluntary assistance
These obligations and privileges fall pri-
marily to the Red Cross chapters. whose
volunteer members are kept acquainted
with the official situation through iIaison
Red Cross officers attached to the dis
trict Offices Of the Veterans Bureau"
On Armistice Day, November IL. when
the American Red Cross opens its an
nual roll call for membership. there will
be under treatment IN Government hos
pitals more than $4,000 veterans. Ir
the opinion of the Surgeon General d
the army the peak of disabled men un'
der reconstruction will not be reached
until 1925.
During the fiscal year ended las,
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 1.665,079 In
dividual instances OF services 10 sucn
men and their dependents at cost IS
timated at more than $S.340.000. More
than 1000 persons, paid and volunteer,
were engaged In Red Cross work In
Government hospitals and the Veteran
Bureau district offices. More than 81.
900 compensation and insurance claims
were handled. 1880 allowance and nj.
lotment cases and 0.7o0 miscellaneous
claims. Since February. 1919. when this
service was established. It has disposed
OF 6l.174 allotment checks payable Ia
veterans which the Post Office reported
unbelievable.
the individual need. and the Red Cross
is concentrated upon 1t to the end that
the disabled ex-service man may obtain
all his rights under the law. ard that
his own and his family's situation nay
be rendered free from care and worry.