The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-24
ALLIED TROOPS JOIN
IN PRAISING FUND
Postcards Bring Words Of
Gratitude From All
Along Front.
NEW Squirt rs NEEDED
Scene All Set for Big Smoke
Party at stauch's on
Wednesday Night.
NEW Squirt rs NEEDED

milestone Of The Sun Tobacco Fund. II
can be seen plainly and the way there is
apparently a smooth macadamized road
But whether It is reached as easily IL a
question. The old story OF the hare and
the tortoise comes into use again as an
example. II THE Sun fund donors play
the role OF the self-confident hare the
goal may still be far of. Wake UP,
donorsi
II any more announcement were
needed for the donors to understand
what q fne work they have done since
the organization OF the smoke fund Il
Is ready for them. From officers as we'll
as the men themselves there has risen
one long pean OF thanks. Over and
over again like q motif in a modern
opera It recurs:
THE boys fully appreciate the smokes
supplied. They do not know what they
would have done without THE SUN
Tohaeco Fund"
Lately q pleasant series of postcards
from French and Australian soldiers has
reached tho fund, In which Il is shown
how the smoke fund helped to lay the
foundations of a wonderful entente be-
tween these fighting men Of different
nationalities. The Americans received
thsir smokes from the fund but they
were not stingy with them. On the
contrary they shared with their fellow
fighters and the latter write over fine
words Of praise like these: THE Yanks
have proved themselves the best OF pals
Never will any OF US forget what we
lave done and suffered and enjoyed to-
hand 81 hrAfhnHa
brUthers for life! -
Words OF praise Of this sort about
our generous whoie-souled youngsters
do not surprise Americans. We know
and have always known that the Ameri-
can soldiers possessed the rare quality
that makes the world their friend. But
Il Is delightful to hear such words.
Provide For the boys.
Now how many men who would like to
get back to the United States, how many
Canadians would like to get back to the
Dominion. how many men would like
10 wind up their four years stay in
France and start back to far or Aus
traiia. cannot yet be computed. Per-
haps the generalissimos themselves do
rot yet know. What we do know is
that In the nature OF things and while
the terms Of peace are being talked
over In the Hall of Mirrors, a great
humber OF these men from far away
countries must remain in a state of ex-'
patriation. We do know that they
must spend those universal holidays of
civilized people. Christmas ana New
Years away from their own. It will be
Just as hard. this separation this Christ
mas as It was last Christmas. In fact
It may be harder. Now they do not
have the concentrated fury Of battle to
make them forget for a time that they
are losing the Joys natural to the lloll-
day season.
During the time that they were actively
lighting the eyes OF the world were upon
them, every nerve of relatives was
stirred to do for them all that was hui
manly possible. II they needed more
clothing needles clicked all over the
world to provide them. II they needed
tobacco to solace them in their short
rest times. the donors Of this fund will
ingly saoriSced wherever they could to
provide the tobacco.
Necessity ruled then. Gifts of any
kind to the fighting men were not to be
credited to the good will merely of
duty
Has this rule been abrogatedY Is
duty no longer active? Does necessity
no longer rule?
II seems to the smoke fund that ne
cessity rules now more than ever. The
soldiers now as much II not more need
me cheer Of the solacing weed they
nave more time to think. more time to
worry, more time to indulge their impa-
ience to be back home IN their chosen
vacations, taking UP their civilian lives
rs nearly as possible where they left
them off,
seasonable Xmas Gifts.
THE SUN Tobacco Fund knows what
ne soldiers who are left In Europe want
or their Christmas. The donors know
iKew1se, for both get their intelligence
N this subject from the soldiers them
ewes. One cannot read a couple mil
lons OF post cards where the fact is
ways stated without getting II.
Expressed as the Tommies OF Eng
ana give 1t this need OF soldier life
= Aas ike this: IF q chap amt got no
ood he's dying of hunger. II he amt
20 no drink he's dying Of thirst. What
ne = Is he dying OF IL he amt got
% tobaccoT'
That's the Tommy expression. What
ne Poilu, the Aussig. the American
you'd say might be cast In very diff
etent language. but It would mean the
ame thing.
THE Sun Tobacco Fund 10 out to get
'nouEh money to send the gallant SOL
ners It 10 so proud of sufficient smokes
or Christmas and New Years. They
leeo II now even more while waiting for
we've to strike for despotism than when
~ began striking that hour at Chateau
rhierry.
And what tho smoke fund wants is
or all the old donors to know II is
eSides
Perhaps the old as we'll as the pros-
ective now givers need a few more
ords from the soldiers. They are forth
rrrng
sergeant James w. Cox wants every
oGy to know that he likes TO smoke
M Is very grateful to THE SUN for
no opportunity to do so-the first in
70 weeks before the 27th OF October.
10 IS counting on coming home soon
" ~ going to stay in Europe as long
. the country-his country-wants him
", ol' In the meantime the cigarettes
> and his comrades received on Oc-
per ~ are most unlikely to last till
"Tscnas. Enough said?
Thanks From Abroad.
Leu W. ]. Eggleston Of the Six
'ehth Battalion. A. l. T., writes this to
o'0r Bert Walton on October %: I'VE
approaching the end. | have been
ere -FOUR years and II start home In
10 nrSt ~ the year shall be glad |
n" 70 smoke. that's sure. as your Yanks
~ Very many thanks for your gift
III. was passed on TO us to-day by
own soldiers We've Just gone
'"'aI an awful period OF shortage Of
Il H. Chapel thanks Mrs. w. A.