The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-10-31
$4,000. 900 FOR SOLDIER RELIEF.
American Red Cross EXpending that
Sum This Year.

sum inns hedf.
Approximately 100000 will be ex
pended BY the American Red Cross dur
ing 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 Serv-
ices the national body viii spend 3d.
030.G92 for such relief. and with every
chapter practically adding to the relief,
the total will reach the estimated fig
ure These funds will be used for serv-
ices the federal government is not au-
thoriZed to render and for which it has
neither funds nor facilities.
Care of the ex-service men and their
families is regarded as a primary Red
Cross responsibility, and that II 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.
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-
ual in the standardized mass and his pc
culiar needs.
The Red Cross acquires and distrib-
utes information among the men and
IHtlf IainIlleSs dttiudiuIS the 1HlAt7i
States veterans bureau with the per-
sonal 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 prl-
marily TO the Red Cross chapters, whose
volunteer members are kept acquainted
with the official situation through liaison
Red Gross officers attached to the dis
trict officers of the veterans bureau"
On Armistice day, Nov. IL, when the
American Red Cross opens its annual
roll call for membership, there viii be
under treatment in government hospi-
tails more than $4,000 veterans. In the
opinion of the surgeon general OF the
army the peak of disabled men under re
construction win not be reached until
1926.
During the fiscal year ended last June,
| 2.679 Red Cross chapters in all sections
| of this country were recorded active in
/ the soldier relief work. During that
year they reported 1,66J,O79 individual
/ instances of services to such men and
/ their dependents. at a cost estimated a.
more than $5,340000. More than LOO
persons. paid and volunteer, were en-
| gagged in Red Cross work in government
hospitals and the veterans bureau dis
trict offices. More than $4,000 compen
saIion and insurance claims wer
handled. 24560 allowance and allotmen
cases, and 300 miscellaneous claims
Since February, 1919, when this servic
was established. it has disposed of GILT
allotment checks payable TO veteran
which the postofice reported undeliyer
able.
The basis of this stupendous work i
the individual need, and the Red eros
is concentrated upon it to the end tina
the disabled ex-service man may obtain
all his rights under the law. and tina
his own and his family's situation ma!
be rendered free from care and worry