The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-19
CALLS FUND SMOKES
GOOD AS BULLETS
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Soldier Writes From Trenches
How Tobacco Keeps Men
in Best Spirits.
MANY FORWARD THANKS
"The Boys Only Pleasure" Is
Another Tribute to Those
Who Contribute.
MANY FORWARD THANKS

trenches Your tobacco does about as
much good as bullets. as It keeps the
men in good spirits"
This is the testimony Of Lieut.. r w.
o,usrd OF the Fourth infantry. offered
IN A card addressed to q Sun Tobacco
Fund contributor. We wish It were
,o,sible for everybody to see all the
notes OF thanks which come from the
ether side when the American soldiers
receive the smokes.
Would that It were possible for the
Kaiser also to see them. Possibly he
does know something about them, or
heir effect, after all. Anyway, Private
Harold Newman. Eighty-third Company.
sixth Marines. sends this word home:
The people of the United States don't
know how much good each smoke does
Old Bill is across the way. but We make
his army men told us tboys Of II to
49,. hope to get my pot full"
And Corporal r, ]. Pearson and Pri-
va,e J. W. Murphy, the New York
boys boys .,h have ,o, ,ni, to say card which
we are very glad to get tobacco at
the front. and when Fritz smells the
fumes We will make him put his gas
mask on. as he is not used to good
smoking"
What the cigarettes are doing for our
boys and what they threaten to do to
the other fellows Is variously but nearly
always eloauently expressed by many
Of the soldiers. Listen to a few OF
them:
Joseph valcourt. 32oth Machine Gun
over the top the thoughts of your gen
crosby In sending over tobacco will help
them TO knock old Bill Kaiser opt. May
your purse be always filed, as our to-
bacco pouches now are
Call Is for Smokes,
Corporal A. g. Hockersmith. head
quarters. Sixth Machine Gun Battalion,
Marine Corps; We can't he bothered
BY a bunch OF sauareheads as long as
We have plenty/of smokes
Private Louis C. Briggs, Seventeenth
Company, First Battalion. Fifth 1nfan-
Try: LAS long as we can receive to-
taeco and such from you men there we
will sure take care OF Heinie Over
Here
Private Ralph A. Adams. Company c,
Sixth Regiment Engineers. 'Since re-
eelvng the smoke gift ] feel like can
get an extra Boche. Keep the good
work up and we will try to hold up our
end Also
Earl A. Wright, Supply Company.
Fourth Infantry: Received in time to
give me pep to do my bit toward the
ending OF the kaiser brand OF kultur."
Lieut.. David L. Jones, Company E.
Thirtieth Infantry. Is one fighter who
doesn't object to being called a Sammy.
He says:
Its the little things in life that
count. so keep UP the good work and en-
courage TIE Sammies.
'The Sammies have stopped studying
French and have started 10 study Ger
man, so that we can speak TO the Boche
In Berlin.
The cigarettes are fine, and every
ssmnie Is blowing rings around THE
SrN"
Says Sergeant W. II. Duncan. Eleventh
Engineers trailway): believe me. it's
a fact that these gifts Of tobacco put lots
Of snap In the boys work. and the value
o. them Is great"
Sergeant G. G.. Brundage. Company
B, Sixth Engineers: "A ration OF ciga-
victorious peace will receive in the near
future"
Lieut. Kirby Smith. Company d,
Eignth Machine Gun Battalion: The
smokes raised our morale q great deal
All my boys join me in thanks"
Tobacco Il Essential.
Sergeant Herman Rose. Medical De-
partment: Tobacco Is one Of our main |
fighting essentials"
Private r. r. Prather: Every one
going strong in our lot, but little Bull
along makes the road easier and helps
Tat tired feeling"
Heyman s.. Beakman. Headquarters |
Company, Fourth Infantry: We sure |
are raising hell with tho damned Huns. |
Your kind gift surely makes the boys |
cheerful and they are better fighters
when they realize that the people back |
home think Of them. Your cause is a |
noble one. and we will do our share to |
make the world safe for democracy"
Sergeant Harry r. Havens First
Anti.a!rcratt Battalion: The tobacco |
pleased the men OF my battery more than J
any other thing could have possibly done !
unless 1t might have been the equal |
number Of Germans 10 correspond to tie |
packages OF tobacco
Private Walter Wells, Company d. |
eighth Machine Gun Battalion: LAS |
'ons as We have smokes we won't kick" !
Priyste Stanley S. Harrow. Company |
u Fifth F. b. s. c.: Tobacco Is a |
pretty good nerve sedative when you are |
lodging Dutch shells. DO It again"
corporal A. Ellerhorst, Eighty-fourth /
company. Sixth Regiment "a ciga-
rst,e is sure nerve soother while under
sneil hrs and We sure would be lost
without item"
D. H. Zimmerman, Company l., Fourth |
.ni.htry: When a fellow has got
smoke nothing else bothers at ALL"
sergeant p. II. Ford: American
smokes would be rare thing here II
y. wasn't for THE Sun Tobacco Fund.
we can get English and French tobacco.
time"
r. sergeant y. J. Bloomgren, Medical
D,orps Headquarters Detachment, Third
DNlslon. puts the case in this wise:
your package OF smokes has at last
sompleted its journey and is now in the
n uhas OF very thankful Sammy. You
ave no idea how good the boys feel ]
the battle.
Efforts Not In Vain.
Can assure you that your efforts
IN the dear old Y. &. A. are not In 1
sm' rs case OF IF you'll stick with
20 We u stick with you II only helps
~ orng the day nearer when we will
.nloy world wide democracy.
I'm now very near the lines where
n',e excitement Is witnessed from
,ni, 70 time. but the boys get time to
va PHI OF good old American makin's
~, ana then. With every package
y, ! open you shall be thought Of"
ne latest mails brought several cards