White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-10
RED CROSS HEALS
WOUNDS OF WAR
rs, 1000 Disabled x-Service Men
in Hospitals After Four
Years of Peace.
CHAPTERS FIELD OF SERVICE
Every Veteran Needing Help Gets
Individual Attention of Sym
pathetic Workers.

When on November IL the world
halts to observe the fourth anniyer-
sary of Armistice Day. and the Ameri.
can Red Cross inaugurates its Annual
Roll Call for the enrolment of the
1929 membership, the people of the
United States may well pause to think
of the unparalleled contribution to the
cause Of peace made by our Army and
Navy in the World War. The glory OF
1t Is a common tradition but the
wounds of war remain. They are not
healed in a day, In a year, nor In four
years. And on Armistice Day there
will be under treatment In Government
hospitals oyer $4,000 e~x-seryice men,
broken physically by wounds, expo
sure, nervous strain and exhaustion
incident to their service in the war.
The Government without stint is un-
dertaklng to furnish these disabled
men with the compensation and med
ical care to which they are entitled,
yet their especial care Is a duty of the
Red Cross. Why? Because the Gov
eminent canno handle the cases of
ex-seryice men individually It must
handle these men In bulk under a
standardized policy. The Government
has neither the authority, the funds
or the equipment for working out the
problem of the individual man. There
Is where the American Red Cross
finds its greatest field for service. aid
ing through It's very active Chapters
in reaching the disabled man with I'M
mediate practical help. assisting his
family while his claim Is emerging from
the process of adjustment, furnishing
articles of comfort, funds to tide owe
the difficult periods, the friendly touch
Of personal encouragement, helpful
recreation and worry-dispelling amuse-
ment. Ii Is the warm hand OF SYM
patty and understanding which the
American Red Cross extends TO the
majority of these disabled ex-seryice
men, some OF them ~friendless in the
whirl OF life. thousands OF them with
wives and children dependent upon
them, and hundreds OF them frequent
ly helpless in the face OF grim ne
cessity.
2,679 Chapters Aiding Veterans
In this work. upon whose accom-
| piishment the American Red Cross Is
urging a mountaineering enrolment In
the Roll Call which opens on ARMS
tice Day and closes with Thanksgiy-
ing Day, a.679 Chapters In all parts OF
the country are engaged. This Is 80
more than were working for ex-serylse
men last year when approximately
S1O,OoO.0O0 was expended by the Ma
tional Organization and the Chapters
working together in harmonious unity.
For the current fiscal year National
Headquarters appropriated 5000
COZ. 80. an increase of S365, 560.Si over
the amount spent for the work among
ex-seryice men in the year ended June
30 last. Since II is estimated that the
Chapters will expend close to 81 .000.-
600 from their own funds, the grand
this single work is expected again to
reach the SO. DOC, 900 mark by June 30.
1922.
Hospital and District Office Work
During the fiscal year a total Of over
1000 persons. paid and volunteer. has
been engaged in Red Cross duty In
hospitals or district fiices of the L. =.
Veterans Bureau. An average OF 5000
new cases requires definite and par
ticular attention each month. The de-
mand for Chapter-made articles for
hospital patients is constant.
During last year Service Claims and
Information Service at National Head
quarters handled 1920 compensation
and insurance claims, 24,560 allotment
and allowance cases, and 900 mlscei.
laneous claims. Since %Februarr, 1919.
II has disposed OF GAIA allotment
checks payable to veterans which the
Post Office Department reported un.le.
liverable.
The Chapter is the unit of the Red
Cross organization which Is accessible
TO every disabled veteran or his fam
lily. Between July |. 1921, and June 30
1922. the Chapters had reported 1.6G5.
O79 instances of service to ex-service
men and their dependents, at a cost
estimated from report now at hand o,
more thar S5.340.000
:, The basis of this far-reaching worl
Of the Red Cross Is the individual
needs Of the disabled veteran 10 tn,
end that he may obtain his rights un
der the law. that his especial want,
: may be Immediately supplied, that hi,
> own and his family's situation may b,
rendered happy and cheerful. and tina
their outlook for the future ma!
visualize incentives for Independent
/, and fruitful effort.