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Show Election Is Over, Red Cross Next i How the American Red Cross continued con-tinued the discharge of its obligations obliga-tions to the veterans of the world war and undertook, at the request of both the army and the navy, work for peacetime fighting establishments is told in a recent announcement based on the forthcoming annual report. During the fiscal year ending June 30, last, thousands of veterans and their families were assisted In many ways while at more than 200 military and naval stations, including fifty outposts on the Mexican border, Red Cross representatives looked after the welfare of the service men. When the seven allied welfare organizations, organ-izations, by order of the secretaries of war and of the navy, were withdrawn from camps and hospitals, the American Ameri-can Red Cross, under its congressi'on-ial congressi'on-ial charter, was continued alone In its capacity as the official volunteer civil-Ian civil-Ian organization authorized to rend relief service to armed forces. In the executive orders the peace-time duties of the Red Cross were definitely definite-ly set forth: "To act as a connecting dink between the enlisted men and their families as was developed in the recent emergency." From the entrance of the United States into the world war until the close of the last fiscal year, the report re-port discloses, there were 7,000,000 cases in which service was rendered the American soldier or his family at his home, approximately $10,000,-000 $10,000,-000 being expended for this form of relief. In the Mountain division, it is reported re-ported that in the last thirty-six J months 45.770 families have been I hided by the Red Cross, approximately approximate-ly $424,764 being expended for their ; 'relief . In a period of thirty months in the division. 14.247 transient ex-service ex-service men and their families were assisted. Loans to the extent of j $108,471 were made during this I lime, of which $65,000 has been returned. re-turned. ! Despite the provisions made by the j government through the bureau of 1 war risk insurance, the public health service and the federal board for vocational vo-cational education, many thousands of men discharged from the world war army for disability were unable 1. 1 secure compensation, re-training or medical care cr were ignorant of the steps necessary. Through the' Red Cross home service sections ' thousands of those who otherwise would have been "lost men" were placed in touch with the government agencies which could help them. During Dur-ing iiie months of J.ir.e. July and Aliens:. 1020. in the Mountain divi- ' siou a,'Vi' over a.ooo o r i .-.-it-. a l applications appli-cations for teiier. A aid w ere made out for ex-service mn by Red Cross , home service secretaries. |