New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 10, 1922, Page 13

O MILLIONS TO BE SPENT FOR®VETS This Is Budget for Year Ending i Next June Washington, Nov, 10——Approximate- Iy $9,000,000 will be expended by the American Red Cross during the fiscal year ending next June, for the rellef |, of former service men disabled dur- ing the world ‘war, §ince the care ot' former soldlers and their depend- ents has the fisst call upon Red Cross services, the national b&y will spend 83,080,602 for such rellef, and with every chapter practically adding o to the rellet, the total will reach the estimated figure. These funds will be uged for services the federal govern- ment s not authorized to render and for which it has neither funds nor facilities. Care of the ex-service men and thelr familles is regarded as a prim- ary Red Cross responsibility, and that nor niggardly requires patient. study of an Intricate problem and continual readjustments to situations as they exist and develop. “The function of the Red Cross,” sald John Barton Payne, national cliairman M this year's annual Teport, “Is not to usurp the government's re- sponsibilities, but to supplement offi- clal actlvity; harmoniously cooperate with official plans and methods and seek out the individual in the stan- dardized mass and his peculiar needs. Distributes Information !The Red Cross acquires and dis- tributes information among the men and their families; acquaints the U. 8. Veterans' bureau with the personal equation in individual cases; prepares and furnishes comforts, recreation and the many necessary services which the sovernment, by its very nature, can procure only from voluntary assist- ance. These obligations and privi- leges fall primarily to the Reli Cross are kept acquainted with the officlal situation through laison Red Cross cers attached to the district offices 'the Veterans’ bureau.” On Armistice Day, November 11, ‘when the American Red Cross opens its_annual roll call for membership, théte will be under treatment in gov- ernment hospitals more than 25,000 veterans. In the opinion of the sur- geon general of the army the peak of disabled men under reconstruction will not be reached until 1926. During the flscal year ended last .Yune 2,679 Red Cross-chapters in all s€ttions of the country were recorded active in the soldier relief work. Dur- ing that year they reported 1,665,079 lndlvtdua.l instances of services to such men and thefr dependents, at a % GoBt estimated at more than ,$5,340,- 000, More than 1,000' persons paid and volunteer, were engaged in Red Crose “work in government ‘hospitals and the Veterans' bureau.district of- flces. More than 37,000 compensation i &nd insurance claimis were handled, 24,560 altowance and allotment cases, and 9,700 miscellgneous claims. Since February 1919, when this service was established, it has disposed of 64,174 allotment checks payable to veterans which the postoffice reported unde- liverable, Thejbasis: of this stupendous *work, s the individual need, »nd the Red Cross is concentrated ur € it 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. ° American Candidate it should be neither indiscriminate/ | . NEW YORK SAMPLE SHOP 327 MAIN STREET Saturday! 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