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We’t Afford To Forget?Here’s the Record For 1922A few of the mote tmpor'ant service* renSered to citizen* of Grady county by the Grady County Chapter, American Red Croat:Service rendertd to 2.306 people.Rcinatated or converted *70,000 Insurance for former tervlce men.Filed 119 compeniatlon claims for diMhled tol-dlers; 6 applicants report receipt of checks for over *1,000 each, one reported check for *2,1M, r op resenting beck claims adjusted.Filed applications for vocational training for 86 disabled ek-soldlers.Of these 52 hove been approved and 36 are under consideration by the Federal Vocational Training Board.Representatives of the Chapter made 600 visits relative to slckneor. relief, child welfare, etc.Financial assistance rendered ex-service men for relief, hospital, medicine.^etc., *1.026.20.Nutrition classes among school children were established with 225 enrolled.Applications for dental treatment in 60 cases were filed. 51 of these were approved.Medical treatment and hospital icatlon secured for 112 ex-soldiers.200 Workers NeededTwo hundred volunteers ere needed in all parts of the city to make the Intensive drive for membership and funds on November 20-21 a complete success. A worker fo every block Is the plan.If you bolieve In humanity, If you are charitably Inclined, If you believe that we should do our whole duty by our disabled ex-service men as thorrughly as they did theirs by us, your services are needed. Communicate with Mrs. W. L. Melton, personnel chairman, 1327 South Eighth, telephone 1438-R, or E. Brlghtwell, Post Commander, American Legion, telephone 277-R..Do It Now!Jack Miller iva» ready to steal.Mr had been tliwhargcd from the army at Fort Sill-pcnnilcs*. Jfc sought work altout tjic jmu, on the railway, at Lawtuu. Job were scarce.Jack heard t hirkasha bad a new oil fichl and work was plentiful. So In- got bis little family a wife and two children--together AND SET OUT TO WALK TO CM It KASHA.lie refused to forsake bis loved ones, yet lie bad to get where workwas.Per Imps the little carnvnn DID get a lift along the road, but gaunt want stalked beside and starvation hovered in the offing.WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?Jack appealed to the ( hickasba (liaptrl- of the American Red Cross— In- had heard it was friendly to cx-servicc men. This was the burden of his pica:I have been honest and square, lady, all my life but I CANT let my wife and balms starve! And they cnn’V wail till nilt;.ritmg~ ihuy mint Iwve relief now. For God's sake, save me from becoming a thief I”A house was found for Jack Miller and bis little family—that night. A week's rent was paid. The gns meter was fed. Groceries were placed in the kitchen. The family was saved!Hut misfortune had not yet lifted its withering hand. The mother became desperately ill. Operation was necessary to save life.The Red Cross attended to that.Jack Miller took the first job that offered. He is a skilled, industrious workman—and still honest. In barely sixty days lie lias repaid most of this obligation.Hut for the timely interference of the Cbickasha Chapter of the American Red Cross in bis poor affairs, jack Miller might today be doing time b.r preying mi c IIIdsASIIA PROPERTY OWNERS in a last desperate effort tci save loved ones from death.NOT CHARITY-AN INVESTMENT IN CITIZENSHIP.Money paid into the Red Cross Roll Call fund is not charity. The funds—ill most cases—used to relieve individual suffering is not advanced as a gift. BUT AS A LOAN. In a surprising number of eases it is repaid in a short time. Jack Miller began to liquidate his almost at once., Tints the activities of the Red Cross do not stand as a communal iut^l.iiiou to professional beggary.Money donated to the Red Cross is an investment in good citizenship. Tt is used over and over again. Administrative expense is kept at a minimum.THIS IS WHY SO MUCH MAY BE DONE WITH SO LITTLE.Charity becomes rationalized.Its service to former soldiers, disabled or in distress, cannot be duplicated. It stands by in every great public calamity. It has beaten a trail to the door of every bureau in the national capital, and enjoys an official prestige peculiarly its own, based on its wholly unselfish mission.Because of these contacts it is able to function with less expense. Because of this efficiency the Red Cross is able to make one dollar do the work oi two.It is not only humane, it is good business to perpetuate an organiza lion which relieves the most wretchedness and misery for the least outlay and effort, There may be efficiency in philanthropy. This the American Red Cross has achieved.SIXTH ANNUAL ROLL CALLChickasha Chapter American Red Cross
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The Chickasha Daily Express
Chickasha, Oklahoma, US
Sat, Nov 11, 1922
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