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Show VETERA!! RELIEF IS BIG RED GHOSS TASK Service to D;sc,bl3d in Ten Years Since Armistice Has Cost t55.CGO.O0O. In t'ais year of the tenth anniversary of the Armistice, which ended the world war, the American Red Cross still finds a great army of disabled and sick veterans requiring assistance, and whose families also must be aided, according to a statement by James L. Fieser, vice chairman in charge of domestic do-mestic operations of the Red Cross at Washington. In the ten years since November 11. 101S, the Red Cross has expended approximately S6f,SO0,00O in veteran relief work, Mr. Fieser said. There is a daily average of 25.500 disabled and sick world war veterans enrolled in Veterans' Bureau and other government hospitals which care for these men and women. -and about the same annual average of veterans succumbing suc-cumbing to wounds and illness, for whose dependents the Red Cross Is pledged to give required assistance, Mr. Fieser pointed out. In addition, the Red Cross, under its charter granted by Congress, has a definite duly towards service men of the regular establishment of Army, Navy ani. Marine Corps, and follows them to all foreign ports or duty. The expenditure in this work for the year ending June 30, 192S, was $307, 4DS, the annual report states. "Upon the Red Cross rests the sa cred obligation of carrying on relief work for the disabled service and ex-service ex-service men and women and their de-pendeats, de-pendeats, taking up the work where the Government is not able to carry on," Mr. Fieser said. "The Red Cross has 349 trained workers, serving either full or part time in the field, in liaison work, camps and hospitals, who are always in personal contact with the sick and disabled in hospitals, with the men in the regular Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and who stand ever ready to serve veterans back in civil life, who need the help of a friendly agency to aid in establishing their rights and claims. "To maintain this staff and to sup port the practical services they render, ren-der, the Red Cross made expenditure of $1,169,795 for the year ending June 30, 1D28. In addition 2,700 Red Cross Chapters, in that number of communities, communi-ties, who have established special work for the disabled service and ex-service ex-service people, expended during the past year $1,732,000." The annual report states that the number of death claims alone of veterans vet-erans which are handled through the War Service at national headquarters of the Red Cross, has increased from 12,010 in 1923-24 to 24,602 in 1927-28. During the year ending June 30,. 192S, War Service assisted Chapters in adjusting ad-justing Government claims amounting, in benefits to veterans or their dependents, depen-dents, to 5093,203.42 in awards for compensation, insurance, adjusted compensation, burial expenses, etc. In addition to this amount, which represented repre-sented lump sum payments, awards were obtained for $1S3,3S9 in monthly installments of insurance and compen. sation and in quarterly adjusted com-penstion com-penstion payments. Mr. Fieser points out that Red Cross . -" - wii . , uuc tutu jai, aui that it is the only occasion upon which the Red Cross asks for funds with which to carry on Its activities, of which War Service is one. From Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day the American people are asked to support sup-port this work through their Red Cross memberships. |