Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-12-01
REDCROSS ROLL
CALL FINISHED
Meeting Of Workers TIC Be Held
This Afternoon And Full Re-
ports Published Saturday

The annual Red Cross roll call, I'M
der direction of the Woman's club,
came to a close Wednesday night.
A melting of the committees will
be held this afternoon and full
report will be given in Saturdays
Times Recorder The ladies are
very grateful for results obtained.
When on November II the world
halted to observe the fourth ami
versary of Armistice day, and the
American Red Gross inaugurated its
annual roll call for the enrolment of
/ the 1928 membership, the people of
the United States passed to think of
/ the unparalleled contribution to the
cause of peace made by out army and
navy in the world war. The glory
of it is a common tradition; but the
! wounds OF war remain. They are
not healed in day, in a year, nor
in four years. And on Armistice
day there were under treatment in
government hospitals $4,000 ex-
service men, broken physically by
wounds exposure, nervous STRAIN
and exhaustion incident to their
service in the war
The Government without stint is un-
dertaking 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 cannot handle the cases Of
eX-service men individuality; 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 its 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 over
the difficult periods the friendly touch
Of personal encouragement, helpful
recreation and worry-dispelling amuse-
ment. It is the warm hand Of SYM
pathy and understanding which the
American Red Cross extends to the
majority of these disabled ex-service
men. some of them friendless in the
whirl of life. thousands of them with
wives and ,caildren dependent upon
them, and hundreds of them frequent-
ly helpless in the face Of grim ne
cessity. &. % -
For the current. uScaI year National
Headquarters appropriated 5000
692.90, an increase of $780,, 560S4 over
! the amount spent for the work among
ex-serviee men irthe year ended June
80 last. Since it is estimated that the
Chapters will eXpend close to $1,000
| 900 from their own funds, the grand
total of Red Cross expenditures for
| this single work is expected again to
reach the $10,000,000 mark by June 80,
| 1923.
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 Offices of the U. s.
| 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 81 200 compensation
and insurance claims, 24560 allotment
| and allowance cases, and 900 miscel
| laneous claims. Since February, 1919
| 1t has disposed of GATH allotment
| checks payable to veterans which the
F>ost Office Department reported unde-
| 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, ana June 30,
| 1929, tie Chapters had reported 1865,
| 90 instances Of service to eX-service
men and their dependents, at cost
estimated from reports now at hand of
more than $5,340000.
The basis of this far-reacliing work
Of the Red Cross is the individual
| needs of the disabled veteran TO the
end that he may obtain his rights I'M
der the law, that his especial wants
may be Immediately supplied, that his
| Dwn and his family's situation may be
'endered happy and cheerful, and that
| their outlook for the future may
visualize Incentives for Independent
| md fruitful effort.