The sun., 1918-12-15
SMOKES AT FRONT
DRIVE AWAY BLUES
Letters From Soldiers Tell
How Tobacco Will Add
to Holidays.
HOTEL SHOW AIDS FUND
Christmas Party Will Take
Place at McAlpin on
Friday Night.

So long as the soldiers have smokes
they say they feel less homesick and
can get through the holidays with q
certain amount OF cheerfulness. They
are counting on the smoke fund to add
this cheerful note to their Christmas
and New Years In a foreign land
Many of the soldiers do not yet know,
or did not the last week of November.
what is in store for them, but they had
made up their minds that a good
many months will have to pass be-
fore they start for home.
The cards in which this information
Is insinuated are far from being dole
full. for tho American is too good a
soldier to repine because his work has
no longer the element of imminent
danger in It, but must be. perforce.
rather monotonous and routine. He
Ia willing to do the solid as we'll as the
brilliant work, and the former is now
his portion Only he feels like insist
ing that there shall be no stint Of
tobacco.
Corporal A p. McQuade Of Company
d, Second A. A. Machine Gun Bat
talon, writes this pleasant letter to the
New York Banks Glee Club, which
gave a concert for THE Sun Tobacco
Fund last winter, and from the pro-
ceeds a lot Of tobacco went over to
the soldiers in France:
GENTLEMEN: Your p. A. tobacco has
been received and distributed to the
members Of this company. All join in
expressing thanks for the gift which
you so kindly sent. Your work and
deeds and the work and deeds OF THE
SUN Tobacco Fund will always be re-
membered by us"
Plenty of Work Ahead.
From Verneuil. France, comes this
card from Sergeant William a. Nc
Ready of Quartermaster's Detachment,
U. S. A, p. o. IA. 1t is addressed to
TIN Sun: Am in receipt OF your
cigarettes gift, and am writing at this
time November 20) to thank you for
your kindness to US while we are IN
this part OF the world. We don't know
how long we shall be here, but Il
won't be short time, for there 10
plenty OF work to be done here yet.
With many thanks and wishing you a
very merry Christmas and q happy
and prosperous New Year"
Capt. John c. Cook OF Field Artil-
lery Battery B sends the following en-
thusiastic card OF thanks: Limited
amount OF space does not allow
me to fully tell OF my appreciation of
your gift OF tobacco. but could you
have heard the EXPLANATIONS OF my
boys as they beheld the smokes you
would have understood much better
than you could from any explanation
OF mine. So with a heartfelt thank
you for the boys allow me TO remain,
gratefully, &C."
William L. Morck gets a card from
Private Victor e. Hugo OF B. s. p D.
Unit I, Machine Train Company. He
says: Your welcome gift received
and appreciated. The good work Of
THE sun and the subscribers 20 its
something like ten months ago while
was a patient at the Base Hospital
at Camp Merritt"
Company D, 342d Machine Gun Bat
talon, by Sergeant w. F. Rice, sends
thanks to another fund friend on No
vember %, saying: I'VE wish to thank
you and express our gratitude for the
two cartons we received from you
through TIE SIN Fund. You are all
doing a good work, as you will realize
when ! tell you that your cigarettes
reached US at a time when the whole
company was out of smokes, with no
money to buy them If there had been
any to buy, and we were also unable
to secure the makin's. Now think that
over and try TO see how joyful II was
TO receive this fine supply. We hope
to be in smokes on Christmas and
through the holidays"
Sends Thousand Thanks,
MY dear Mrs. Jessie F. Barker, 4"
writes Private c. e. Sheppard OF Com
pany G. Thirty-sixth Regiment, r T.
c., II take pleasure in thanking you
for myself and every lad In this regi-
ment for the cigarettes. We send you
a thousand thanks. Every one OF us
received some smokes. 1t was a de-
light to see how the boys ate them up.
I have been in the army for year
and a half and expect TO be IN F'raHce
for some time yet"
An excuse which seems perfectly
reasonable is the one which follows in
a card written November 10 by Ser
geant George G. Bali of Battalion f,
So Artisan, c. A. c., to Mr.. and Mrs.
II. Connolly. 1t should apply generally
INF - ~
donors would explain why some OF
them, despite the million or so cards
Of thanks which have passed through
the funds hands from the soldiers TO
their benefactors, have not yet re.
ceived a personal acknowledgment
This Is what Sergeant Bali says; I'VE
certainly do appreciate what we get
through THE Sun Tobacco Fund and
il we don't always write 1t is because
we either haven't time 20 write or
means to do II, and never because we
are not profoundly grateful. Things
are moving fast here the Hun is
licked and II looks like an early re-
turn homo for the lucky ones"
Sergeant William L. Widmar, who
was in Base Hospital 81 annex on
november So ailu "hose pace Oh pusi-
ness when he Is at home is at 5605
Broadway. Cleveland, Ohio, permits a
truly pathetic note to creep into his
expression of thanks. God knows" he
says, that we were in need of to-
bacco when II came to us from THE
SUN, and was particularly so be-
cause ! am a very heavy smoker The