The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-12
SMOKES CHEER BOYS
IN BASE HOSPITALS
Many Messages Of Thanks
sent to Contributors to
Sun" Tobacco Fund.
SHIPMENTS KEEP GOING
More Theatrical. Folk Offer
Services for the Benefit
Party Tomorrow Night.

Many messages from base hospitals
are coming to THE SUN Tobacco Fund.
and all tell of the pleasure of patients
when they receive smokes from the
folks back home. They will be well
on Christmas and the holidays through
the generosity OF contributors to the
fund. Several large shipments have
been made and more are on the way.
The fund will continue to send
smokes to American soldiers as long
as there are any abroad, and contribu-
tors are asked to help the fund con-
tinue this work.
This is one OF the messages from a
hospital In France:
The wounded soldier who received
YOUR cigarettes was unable to write
and thank you as he had his right
arm shot off. However, he asks me
TO write and thank you from the bot
Tom OF his heart. for you are the
means of providing smokes for him,
and in the condition and place he is in
tobacco is an indispensable article"
Another patient in the same hos
pital writes: Accept my thanks and
appreciation for the tobacco which I
received through THE SUN Tobacco
Fund. I am getting along weH but
am not permitted to think Of getting
away from the hospital, so you will
hardly be able to realize what a pipe
full of American tobacco means TO me.
It keeps me cheerful What with all
the nice things that our friends back
home and Uncle Sam send us We are
we'll supplied with everything We need
THE SuN tobacco. though, Is the boy
that keeps US from getting blue"
Thanks Go TO Woman Donor.
Quartermaster Sergeant Douglas R
Jacobs sends a message to Mrs. Bask-
ervllle, a liberal contributor. in which
he says: "Your gift OF cigarettes
served fifteen men who were dying 10
smoke American goods. We sure were
IN need of smokes then. For myself
and the others, thanks"
Lieut.. Thomas Mcclure OF the 342d
Machine Gun Battalion writes: THE
boys received smokes when they were
out Of everything in the smoking line,
I suppo q every one in the States is
in a great state of excitement hut
not any more so than we who have
been trying to push the end as fast as
possible. I hope the good people are
pleased with u.s.
Chester Z. Davis OF the Medical
Department. 124th Field Artillery. ex-
presses the same thought: II bet the
people sure did celebrate when they
heard OF the peace negotiations. I
know we did. / wish the censor would
let me tell you OF our experiences on
the day the armistice was signed. but
he will not, SO I have to keep It in.
Thanks and good luck"
Everybody is in good spirits"
writes Lieut.. Jack Salter TO Sun fund
donor Anna Sliwka. But the next
few weeks will be pretty hard for us,
as Fritz will have to be escorted back
80 his own country. Personally I am
not sorry to see the war end al
though I have had a pretty good time.
We are all looking forward to the
Gay when we shall start to sail back
home. Accept the thanks Of us all
for the cigarettes and accept also our
best wishes for a joyful Christmas
and the best of luck for 1919"
Benefit Party Tomorrow.
More theatrical folk havc volun-
toered their services for the fund ben
eft party in the Yama Yama room of
tho uo,al Ct Andrau Tomorrow NIGHT