Show A OTIS 9 r VETERANS STIll NEED RED GROSS GROSS' Aid to Disabled Men Increases as Problems and Legislation Bring Complications x MEN DIE EACH YEAR Many Entitled to Benefits Still Uninformed of Just Claims to Compensation n Eight years after arter the World War finds service to disabled veterans still stilla a I major responsibility of the tho American Amen Ameri can roan Red Cross This situation is duo to the Increasing ing lug problems involved and the complex com coffi plex character of ot veteran legislation There is also an increase in number of ot death cases h handled as COMpared COM COM- pared with claims for Cor living veteran veterans though the work for the tho latter m remains remains re re- mains heavy About service ex men are dying each ench y year ar a considerable considerable consider able percentage o of these having t serf ice-connected ice disabilities In a majority of cases Red Cro Grose Coee e Chapters find their assistance is need neM needed ed In helping dependents preset their claims for death insurance payments bonus burial 8 al allowances and other government b- b ben benefits due them An episode of tbs tiro past year ear mu Illustrates the tho difficultly frequently encountered by the tho Rd Rao Cross experts in rendering such as na- A veteran dying from rom sere een Ice ice connected disease was trying from his bedside to establish at that Jata ate time his claim for tor Government aid to his family Camily and tho the necessary proofs in a physicians physician's records across the tho continent from him To obtain the needed affidavits before It was too late a cross continent airplane flight was necessary then a Red Cross Chapter in Pennsylvania hurried the investigation sending tho papers papers' back to tho the veteran and his Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross helpers In Oregon by air airmail It reached there in time Another discovery dIscover in Red Cross as as- I tanco to veterans and their families families lies is that many de dependents of these thes men unquestionably entitled to Government Gov aid have struggled led alon along alone Ignorant of their rights 2686 Red TIed Cross Chapters Chap Chap- Chapters tel's carry carryon on Home Service work in IB assistance to veterans and their dam dam- mos hies The Chapters also conduct campaign among veterans for reinstatement rein rein- reinstatement statement and conversion of of their term insurance Among Its other duties duties du duo ties the Red Cross assumed at the request of or tho the Canadian Government tho the administration of a fund Cund allotted to 10 the care of Canadian disabled vet et veterans erans crans living In the United States In b the United States the tho n Red d Cross Crosa assisted an average of about disabled veterans and their families ovary every month in the past fiscal year Indicating the size of oC this undertaking undertake in ing National Headquarters of the Red ned Cross expended on i disabled veterans alone and on assistance to men on active duty with the Army Navy and Marina Marins C Corps while Red Cross local Chapters Chap Chap- Chapters expended ed a total of 1 Red Cross assistance to service men overshadowed every other phase of ot its program even its disaster relief until the Florida hurricane Help for veterans covers many demands demands de mands from Crom temporary aid until T. Gov Government Government claims are are adjusted or or r until the soldier ex-soldier is properly hospitalized to extending capital loans to rehabilitated rehabilitated veterans endeavoring to become supporting self in business S Several such capital loans were to blind vet vet- erans Contact with veterans In hospitals Is Is maintained by Red Cross personnel which doctors agree influences the veterans veteran's welfare and Improvement The Veterans' Veterans Bureau Dureau was planned to carry carryon on social work In its hospitals hospitals hospi hospi- tale for Cor mental cases and In many cases the Government and the the RedCross Red RedCross RedCross Cross are co operating co-operating for or the welfare of the men suffering war disabilities I The public is invited to assist this work by joining the Red Cross during the Annual Roll Coll Call November 11 to 25 |