The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-01-11
Sto,0O0,OOO AID
FOR We Grams
Fed Cross Provides Friendly
Service Of Many Kinds to
Army OF Disabled.
BULK OF WORK by CHAPTERS
2,3s7 Of These Are Helping Ex-
Service Men Obtain Bene.
fits u. S. Provides.

the World War, entails; expenditures
SLO0OCC0 greater than the aggregate
receipts Of the Annual Roll Call OF
1920, the American Red Cross an
nounces in statement urging wide
spread increase in membership ut the
Annual Roll Call, November II to "A.
At the present time National Head
quarters aud the nationwide chain OF
Chapters of the Red Cross IS spend
ing approximately $10,Q00,00O annual
ly for the relief of disabled eX-service
men and their families, while the az
gregate receipts from last years Roll
Call were approximately $60oo.0oo.
1t is in the $3.50 OF the 5000 Red
Cross Chapters which sill are helping
solve the veterans problem of adjust.
Ing himself to a normal civilian status
that the greater part Of the cost of this
service is borne. OF the total sum
spent for veterans relief last year,
National Headquarters expended to-
tai of more than 100000, while the
remaining disbursement of approx
mately 100000 represents the con-
tribution of Chapters in this country
wide effort to assist the Government
in providing the aid sorely needed by
these men and their families.
An Ever Expanding Problem
That the problem Of the disabled
service man is ever-eXpanding and
probably will not reach the peak be-
fore 1925, is the assertion Of well.in-
formed Government officials and that
1887 Red Cross Chapters regard 1t
as their most important work is evil
dence that the expansion is in nowise
confined to a particular section but is,
on the contrary, nationwide. At the
end Of the fiscal year, June 80, 1921,
there were 2G,300 disabled service men
in the 1902 United States Public
Health Service, Contract and Govern
mont Hospitals and Soldiers Homes,
and that number is increasing at a
rate Of 1,000 a month
Thousands of these men receiving
medical treatment, compensation and
vocational training from the Govern.
ment today, started their efforts to
obtain them through the Red Cross
Chapter. The Chapter, acting as the
disabled mans agent in claims against
the Government, Informs the man as 70
the procedure necessary to gain for
him that which is provided him by
Federal statute. His applications for
compensation, medical treatment and
training are properly filed with the aid
ct the Red Cross Chapter.
Many Forms Of Assistance
If there is delay before the mans
cI&ih is acted upon, the Red Cross
Chapter lends the man money to meet
the imperative needs of himself and
his anpendents.
Most vital to the mans gaining full
benefit from the Governments care ia
keeping his mind free from worry about
his home. Keeping the veterans fam.
lily from hardship of every kind and
Informing him of its welfare Is an.
other province Of the, Chapter. Free
from rear on this score, the mans re.
covery and advancement usually ia
rapid.
Every month during the last wear
the American Red Cross has given
service OF one kind or another 70 nm
average of l2o,2l5 former service men
ana their families. An indication, Of
the extent of the faith reposed In Tho
Red Cross Chapter is TO be fopnd IN
the fact that there We're 356,5H re.
guests for friendly aid In "a solution
OF personal problems,
fjo Workers in Hospitals
While the man prior to enter,n,
government care deals largely with the
chapter "lterward he comes into cop,
tact VITA the service provided bv No.
tional Headquarters. There ora ala
yea Cross workers in the United
States Public Health Service and con.
.'"Nt ho@iItals and ether institutions
N Which these men are being cor.1
1or' whose duty is to provide for his
recreation, help Lin with his compor.
snt'oh claims, keep him In touch with
his faH'ily; in short, meeting his evorv
noe1 outside cf that provided by thr
Governmont,~ While thrse arc n fa,r
OF The responsibilities OF the Nutlono,
orsanl""t'er, they are by no means
OIL Ai1cn% ot!!er Fed Cross accom-.
p!ishMtn'& far the year arc.
1t la"c!el 7o,T&2 allotment and =,
loWapoH claims. '' III
II '".''frcd throuc'l It's Chan,er or
M "'ah G'f1l ;AtI0ant cba,ts =,
80 his '.he haA moved from tha NJ ~
crosses furnished to the Burean w,
"pf i,is'; Insurance. ''
II p"af!ded special fund Of sloooo
~ medical assistance to men un,,o.
vocational tfalnlug. 'e'
','i1''e '2,i9j laans totallne si5o ooo
- heh tating vocational trnln,,n ~
'@'''a 90 pef cent has been repuld.