In
order to enable the 50,000 Home Service workers in the United States as an
effective force in solving the problem of the disabled soldier, the Red Cross
is issuing a manual of “Home Service and the Disabled Soldier or Sailor,” which
will go out from Headquarters about September 1st and be circulated among
all Red Cross chapters.
Curtis
E. Lakeman, the author of the manual, describes the function of the Red Cross
in the national rehabilitation program as follows:
“Among
the private organizations whose efforts will naturally supplement the program,
the Red Cross created a unique position, the purpose and activity in an
universal degree with public respect and controlled by Government authority. With
its financial resources, its 22,000,000 members, its 3,900 chapters, and their
branches, the Red Cross is better equipped than any other private organization
to give aid to our soldiers and sailors and their families at home. Such an
organization will gladly accept the opportunity to extend a helping hand to any
man deeding friendly aid during the critical period after he ceases to be a
soldier and before he is able to carry the full burden of his duty as a private
citizen and the head of a family.
“Within
the organization of the Red Cross, the Department of Military Relief deals with
the soldier or sailor as a fighting unit, while the Department of Civilian
Relief aids in maintaining his morale by assisting his family. As soon as he is
discharged and becomes a citizen, the responsibility for temporarily continued
care falls upon the Department of Civilian Relief. Such service will begin in
accordance with established policy only when the need and wish for it is
indicated, and will properly end with the former soldier restored to full
self-support, or when the burden of his
care as a civilian has been taken up by appropriate public or private agencies.”
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