Show VETERANS STILL NEED NED RED CROSS aid to disabled men increases as problems and legislation 6 bring complications 2000 MEN DIE EACH YEAR many entitled to benefits still uninformed of just claims to compensation eight years after the world war finds service to disabled vot veterans erans still major responsibility of 0 tho the amerl ameri can red cross crosa this situation Is duo to tho the In increase ins ing problems involved and the complex character ot of veteran legislation there is also an increase in numbers ot of death cases handled as compared with claims tor for living hying veterans though the work tor for the latter remains heavy about ex service men man aro are dying each year a considerable percentage ot of these having ice connected disabilities in a majority of cases red cross chapters find their assistance Is needed in helping dependents present their claims tor for death compensation insurance payments bonus burial al cwan owan coa cos and other government bon ban ifsits duo due thorn them an episode of 0 the past year illustrates the difficulties frequently encountered by the red cross experts in rendering such as si Bla tance stanco A veteran dying from sery ice connected disease was trying from his bis bedside to establish at that late lata time his claim tur government aid to his bis family aud and the necessary proofs wora in a physicians records across the continent from him to obtain the needed affidavits before it wa was too loo late a chosu airplane night flight was necessary then than a red lied cross chapter in pennsylvania hurried the sending the back to the veteran and his red cross helpers in oregon by aar airmail mall it reached thure lit in time another discovery disco in red cross as si stanco to veterans vei orana and their daml lies Is IB that many dependents ot of cheso non men unquestionably entitled to goy ornament ment aid have struggled ed long along a ignorant of their rights 2686 red lied cross chap tors tore carry on homo service work in assistance assi stanco to veterans and their dam illes too the Cha patra also conduct campaign among veterans vot erana for reinstatement t to and conversion of their term terin insurance among its other du kioa the iho red cross assumed at the ft of the canadian Gov government emment thu tho administration of a fund allotted to tho the care of canadian disabled veterans brails living in the united states in the united states the redcross red cross assisted an average of about disabled veterans vele rann and their families every month in the past fiscal year indicating the size of this under tak ing ine national headquarters Headquarter a of the red cross ez on OB disabled veterans alone and M on assi assistance stanco to men maa on active duty with the tho army navy and nd marine corps aiato rea rad cross croas local chapters expended expanded a total 0 of fl red cross assistance to service moa men overshadowed every other phase af pf its program oven even its ita disaster relief until tho the florida hurricane help for vote vot rara braDA covers many d do mantis from tomp temporary aid until gov GOT ornament claims are adjusted or until tho the ex Is properly hospitalized to extending capital loans to rehabilitated veterans vot erans endeavoring to become self supporting in business several auch capital loans were to blind veterans contact with veterans vet vot prans ernne in hospitals Is maintained by rod cross personnel which doctors agree influences the welfare and improvement the veterans Ve bureau was planned to carry on social work in its ita hospitals for mental cases and in many amny cases tho the government and the red nod cross are co operating for or the welfare ot of the men suffering war disabilities tho the public Is invited to assist this work by joining the red cross during the annual roll coll november 11 to 25 |