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Show AID FOB VETERANS IS RED GROSS PLEDGE Service and , Ex-Service Men Are Helped in All Problems. Service to World War veterans In hospital, tor able-bodied veterans, and for dependent families of both called tor expenditure! of 1738,000 by the American Red Cross during the yeai lust ended. In addition. Red Cross Chapters spent 11,963.000 In Veteran relief, and also for men still In servlc Although eleven years hare passed Ince the Armistice, there remain 25,500 disabled and sick veterans ot the World War In hospitals, and th peak of the number who will require hospitalization is not expected by Veterans Bureau authorities to be t reached until 1847. For these men. the Red Cross must continue Its serr Ice of providing recreation and comforts, com-forts, according to James L. Fleser. vice chairman of the Red Cross. "Under Its Charter from" Congress, the Red Cross Is required to maintain service tor veterans of wars ,and .tor the men still In the service." Mr. Fleser said. The funds for this work come from the annual roll call mem bership fees. In addition to the sum spent In maintaining contact with the veterans, the Red Cross expended (308,000 In Its service to the men still In the regular Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The society and a majority of Its 3,500 chapters handle claims tot these men for Insurance, compensation and other benefits they are entitled to under the law, and also where neces sary arranges to provide tor dependents depen-dents ot the men. "Red Cross workers are maintained In forty-eight Veterans Bureau Hos pitals, as well as in all regular Army and Navy hospitals, whose duty It Is j to supervise recreational facilities tot the patients, and to provide small com ! forts. In the Army and Navy Hospitals, Hos-pitals, the workers also do social serr tee for the patients. These tasks also are performed at all Army Posts and Navy Ports by Red Cross workers, and In addition Red Cross representatives to handle claims are established at the majority ot Veterans Bureau regional offices." r ' ; Mr. Fieser urged that all citizens enroll in the Roll Call, from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day, November 11 to 28, in order to aid In supporting this work. |