The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-29
RATION CASH GOES
TO INCREASE FUND
Soldiers Donate Money Saved
During Jewish Holidays
for Mates Smokes.
THANKS FROM OVERSEAS
Banner Block Party Held in
Sixteenth Street Between
Fifth and Eighth AYES.

Fifth and Eighth AYES.
Thirty-three soldiers OF the Thirteenth
Company. 1874 Depot Brigade. In Camp
Upton have given to THE SUN Tobacco
Fund $3.50. which represents their ra-
ton money during the recent Jewish hol-
idays. Wright Kramer Is the Captain Of
the company and Abraham Soloman its
first sergeant The latter brought in the
donation personally. and said when the
idea Of presenting the money saved by
these soldiers who observe Rosh Ha-
shana and the other festivals Of their re-
lgion the unanimous sentiment was put
In words by one Of them 80:
Give It to the fund that IL nearest
n the soldiers hearts. and that's THE
SrN Tobacco Fund"
This fund Is happy to think that what
these soldiers say is true, and that the
affection existing between 1t and the
brave men who are abroad or going
abroad Is reciprocal. Conceived and
nourished for one purpose only, to carry
comfort and solace to fighting men. not
10 have succeeded in II would have been
tragedy. To SUN donors the gratitude
OF the recipients of smokes Is quickly
and eloQeuntly expressed by means Of
the postcards marked with these donors
names. but THE SUN sends no cards in
its own name. That omission matters
nothing. for the fighting men rarely for
get to add their thanks to THE SUN as
well as the individual donor. A thou
sand thousand proofs have been well
coined by the paper which give It the de-
ecription Of which II must ever be proud /:
The fund that Is nearest to the soldiers
hearts!
On September a card was written
IN France by Sergeant r. r. Gaines ad-
dressed to THE SUN, in which this feel
ing for the work OF the fund found spon-
taneous expression. Gaines Is sergeant
Of Company B. ssoth Machine Gun Bat
talon.
VIII THE SUN kindly accept the
many. many thanks OF myself and my
comrades. I shall smoke away In the
name Of democracy. Thanking you
again for your most hearty coordination.
gratefully. yours to win"
Soldiers Poem to Fund.
Sergeant A. J. Loushran, Company I.
13sth Infantry. has written a poem to
THE Sun Tobacco Fund and sent It over
from. France: he calls It Thanks" and
We print a few stanxas, regretting that
we cannot use It in--fuu-for lack of
space: -.
The day was dark and dreary.
Rain clouds hung overhead
We boys were sad and weary
Beneath the showers of lead.
Lead mixed with steel and water
Fell thick on every side:
II make our task the harder,
But our spirit never died.
The angry thunder overhead
eonr. %,.h the v e cam ,a; roa,;
hah Nal
Somehow this unstrung me.
But what good Is tobacco
That's had q water soakf
Then rose a mighty cheer
From out my comrades throats.
THE SUN fund. II was near
To give US fresh, dry smokesi
Private James I. Green. 36sth r. I.
Z. s., expresses the same thought. but
In prose. He tells how discouraged he
and his company were when out of
smokes. when in the nick Of time oc-
CURED a SUN Tobacco Fund Distribution
Thank you for coming to our rescue"
Private Henry s. Green of Headquar-
tiers Company. Second Pioneer Infantry,
thanks the. ladies OF the Tuesday
Friendly Club on behalf Of himself and
MS mates. The cigarettes were the
best things We have received In France
It's as hard to get American tobacco
where We are as It il for a hen to have
teeth"
Harold A. Walters Of the Rainbow
Division sends thanks to THE SUN and
you. Edward Wiley. donor" His letter is
valuable souvenir of the big fight
Ing so 1t follows in full. ''I received this
tobacco long time ago. Like most SOL
diers. carried this card around in my
pocket through a couple OF battles and
II is little dirty, but It has seen a lot
or action AS we have the Boche on the
run you see the money you spent for
tobacco has not been spent in vain. II
myself am resting up in a hospital at
the present time. / am not wounded.
but Just played out. am helping out a
little. and in going through my pockets
] found this old card, 30 I thought I
would send 1t. Most Of THE SUN to-
bacco IL given to the boys who are on
their way to the trenches and many of
the donor cards are lost but can as
sure you the boys are very grateful to'l
the boys back home for their generosity. |
A Touch of Baseball.
81 am New York boy with the l65th
old Sixty ninth-transferred from
what was the Seventh. suppose you |
have seen the Rainbow Division mem |
toned in the papers. We were all sorry !
that the Giants did not win the pennant1
this year"
Another New York boy, Private James
Joseph Mcnamara of Company +, 3O7th |
Ammunition Train. writes to SUN donor |
Mrs. d. A. Smythe on September 8,
thanking her for tobacco received |
through THE SUN Tobacco Fund "My |
home is at 406 West Forty-eighth |
street, and I would like to see It. III
would like you to write to me. as a let
ter helps US a great deal over here"
Senator Wadsworth, Jr., has a card
~ thanks from Corporal j. Doyle Davis |
OF Company C. $3.50 Engineers. who |
tells him that two things are highly ac-
certaole by American fighters. ito
bacco sent us through THE SUN To- ,
bacco Fund and letters from the donors
10 that fund"
A block party held last night In |
which THE SUN Tobacco Fund figures |
as one Of several beneficaries showed |
several brilliant and unusual features /
Thomas +. Long had the direction OF
u and his plans saw to the splendid |
decoration of the three blocks between
Firth and Eighth avenues on Sixteenth
street The sffair. which had for its
main object the raising OF a service flag, |
started with procession OF the neigh /
Norhood which wound up under a tri-
umphant arch erected at Eighth avenue
and Sixteenth street In this process
sion children took a prominent part,
representing different allied nations and
singing patriotic son-s aaarchiJoh,