Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-25
TOBACCO FUND FOR
SOLDIERS OVERSEAS
TOTALS OVER $500
Hundreds of GeorgianS Join in
Giving Quarters and Dollars
No Individual Has Given
More Than $40

Patriotic Georgians have Embossed
purse strings so freely for their sons
and their neighbors' sons fighting for
Old Glory that last night The Journal
Tobacco Fund for Georgia soldiers
overseas reached the toal of 1902.
That sum represents the individual
contributions of over a thousand men,
women and children. From cities, towns
and homes throughout Georgia, from
other towns outside the state have come
the quarters. the halves and the dol
lars.
No single contribution has been re-
ceived by The Journal of more than
$40 Most of that 1902 came in quar-
tiers. and each quarter meant that some
where in Georgia a loyal heart beat for
a Georgia boy Somewhere in France"
Hundreds have helped the fund. Here
whole town has been canvassed by
some enterprising citizen, who procured
from his fellow townsmen enough quar-
ters to make a substantial sum. AS, for
instance. the check of S22.75 received by
The Journal Saturday from citizens of
Monticello, Ga, or that OF $40 from
he good people OF stephens, Ga
Again, at some village drug store a
collection has been taken from custom
ers who came in. At the Carmichael
Drug company. in Monroe, Ga, SlS was
given in this way and sent TO The Jour
nal Saturday.
CLUBS SET EXAMPLE
Clubs and civic organizations nave
set an example which similar associa-
lions might well follow. The Journal
has acknowledged many Of these gifts
Another check for s10-was receiv-
% Saturday from the 1913 Embroidery
club. OF Atlanta.
One or two firms have sent in large
donations on their own account. or
such was the Vito-ReX company, which
suggested that other large corporations
could well follow suit
But by far the largest number OF
contributions have come from hundreds
and hundreds OF individuals-men.
smokers themselves. who realize what
IL means to go WITHOUT smokes; wom-
en-. mothers with boys "over there"
little children who saved their pennies;
inveterate smokers who denied them
selves their customary allowance and
sent the surplus to the Tobacco Fund.
Not a few of these contributions are
nameless. Among these must be num-
bered those who dropped coins in the
several contribution tobacco boxes at
downtown points. Hotels and cigar
stores kindly consented to place these
boxes on their counters, under the
signs, Your Two Bits Here Will Give
Them Smokes over There"
With the money received so far The
Journal has been able to supply the
Seventeenth regiment of engineers with
tobacco and to get good start on a
fund to supply with smokes the Georgia
boys in the Rainbow division.
A check for $2S4.5O has been sent to
the American Tobacco company, with
an order to forward to Colonel John s.
Sewell, commander of the Seventeenth
engineers, kits Of tobacco for 1,13S
officers and men, the regiments full
quota.
In a few weeks the tobacco will be
in France. Each man will be given a kit
containing two packages Of cigarettes
a tin of smoking tobacco, three sacks
garette papers. Then will come back
postal cards from France postal card
stamped, is enclosed with every kit
thanking the good people of Georgia
for their kindness and generosity In
remembering the lads across the At
lantic.
But there are hundreds, thousands OF
other Georgia boys who will be soon
"over there" and The Journal is anx-
ious to provide these. too. with tobacco
in the war-stricken land where tobacco
can scarcely be had for love or money
A good start has been gained on the
Tobacco Fund. Let's everybody pitch
in and make It such a whaling success
that Georgia boys will find their home
folks the most patriotic and loyal OF
the whole country!