The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-10-30
Red Cross to Expend Nine
Million in Soldier Relief

Washington, Oct. 28.-Approxi-
mately S9,OO0OOO will be expended
by the American Red Cross during the
fiscal year ending next June, for the
relief Of former service man disabled
during the world war. Since the care
of former soldiers and their depend
ents has the first call upon Red Cross
services, the national body will spend
S3,O30,692 for such relief, and with
every chapter practically adding to
the relief, the total will reach the es-
timatei figure. These funds will be
used for services the federal govern
ment Is not authorized to render and
for watch it has neither funds nor
facilities.
Care of the ex-service men and
their families is regarded as a pri-
mary Red Cross responsibility, and
that It should be neither indiscrimi-
nate nor niggardly requires patient
study Of an intricate problem and con-
tinual readjustments to situations as
they exist and develop.
"The function of the Red Cross -
said John Barton Payne, national
chairman, in this years annual re-
port, "is not to usurp the govern
ment's responsibilities, but to supple
ment official activity; har,noniously
cooperate with official plans and
methods; and seek out the individual
In the standardized mass and his pc
culiar 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,
recreation, and the many necessary
services which the government, by its
very nature, can procuhe only from
voluntary assistance. These obliga-
tions and privileges fall primarily to
the Red Cross chapters, whose voiur-
teer members are kept acquainted
with the official situation through Ha-
ison Red Cross officers attached to the
District Offices of the Veterans Bu-
reau."
On Armistice Day, November II,
when the American Red Cross opens
it's annual roll call for membership.
there will be under treatment In gov.
ernment hospitals more than $4,000
veterans. In the opinion of the sur.
geon general Of the army the peak
OF disabled men, under reconstruction
will not be reached until. 1925.
During the fiscal year ended last
June, Z,679 Red Cross chapters in all
sections of the country were recorded
active IN the soldier relief work, Dur.
ing that year they reported 1866, ,O7e
individual instances of services to
such men and their dependents, at a
cost estimated at more than S5,340,.
600. More than 1000 persons, paid
and volunteer, were engaged in Red
Cross sscrk !n government hoapitals
and the Veterans Bureau district of.
fees. More than $1,000 compensation
and insurance claims were handled.
24,560 allowance and allotment cases,
and 800 miscellaneous claims. Since
February, 1919, when this service was
established, it has disposed Of s4,174
allotment checks, payable to veterans
which the postofRce reported undeliv-
cradle. j
The basis Of this stupendous work,
is 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, and that his own and his family's
situation may be rendered free from
care and worry.